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python developer know a bit about network stuff
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pwarner··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
I think they mean the parents. I got 5 emails from the kids school today, and have regular calendar events related to the kids. So yeah this is for parents
pwarner··on Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
why build one when you can build two for twice the price?
pwarner··on Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
Yeah this disposable prototype model is common I suspect. I see it used regularly
pwarner··on How far can you push the range of Wi-Fi connectivity in an ideal environment?
Latency seems higher, much higher sometimes, and variable. I need to complete the LAN cable runs I started long ago :-)
pwarner··on Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
Perhaps we'll be great again soon.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-how-quickly...

pwarner··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
When I first saw Claude generating PPT decks by writing Python code instead of making the XML directly, it was sort of an "aha moment" for me. This seems to be the path for many things. It also feels slightly limiting, and like a hack LONG term, but 100% correct approach for a while.
pwarner··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
This sounds like specialized analog components. Not the modem.
pwarner··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
I sat under and in front of the pilots once. Also highly recommended.
pwarner··on FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
The suffering is the point.
pwarner··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
You got it. Yeah some older SACDs are simply not available at any price it seems.
pwarner··on Nothing CEO: Phone Prices Will Rise, RAM Accounts for over 50% of Phone Costs
This isn't sustainable. Arguably margins were too low is some parts of semiconductor space, but we still need lower cost per transistor over time or were in trouble.
pwarner··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
I've taken to buying SACDs when possible. The format supports higher dynamic range, but that barely matters. The mix is the bigger issue and SACD mixes are often better. Note you need an SACD player. And also note this only applies for playing on a proper HiFi or with good headphones at least. In your car, etc you probably want the compressed mix.
pwarner··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
SharePoint/ OneDrive suck, but this policy change seems sane. What's crazy if anything is that they didn't have this policy before.
pwarner··on Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Teams is an 8 year old product and well. Something to think about.
pwarner··on Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
MS rushed this to production, sure they call it a beta feature but it's clear it was super rushed. They're desperate to be relevant.
pwarner··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Copilot Cowork seems to be the best part of M365 Copilot by a huge margin.
pwarner··on Claude for Small Business
I doubt an LLM is calculating withholding. I presume 99.9% of the actual logic will still execute in QuickBooks or Paychex etc. Lots of this sounds like cross system orchestration against well defined APIs. Yes, there's still danger, it could use the APIs wrong, but humans can use the GUI wrong too
pwarner··on Googlebook
What if you live on the equator?
pwarner··on AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
IDK your S3 data may be fine, they're still incurring the cost to store it on those drives - even if they're buried in rubble /s
pwarner··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
Did we forget how to make things? I mean we stopped making some things, but US manufacturing output is higher than ever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...

pwarner··on Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
I work at a less innovative place, and I see out product managers coming with prototypes, at least solid mock ups rather than just a jira. They socialize it with potential users, they iterate, they find missing requirements, it's pretty powerful. The net result is we're building better features faster.
pwarner··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
I hope the aviators are OK, and also hope whoever they were bombing are also OK.

I do wonder if Iran finds them first, will they treat them better than the US treated survivors of the ship sunk by a US torpedo in the Indiana Ocean?

pwarner··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
My comment history here is full of complaints about MS Teams, the chat app. It suffers from the "re-use every existing MS tech" problem. Building it on top of SharePoint I'm pretty sure resulted in it's top problems over the years (some fixed): - search sucked - can't scroll back to old messages - couldn't do private channels - the very concept of 1:1 teams to SharePoint site, resulting in a millions teams when all you really wanted was a channel - can't rename teams or channels - couldn't do private channels

I'm sure many more I didn't catch. These are all observations from outside, I've never worked at MS

pwarner··on Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only
M365 Copilot is neither useful nor entertaining then.
pwarner··on Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing
Missing in discussion is that the loss of mideastern oil is being offset by releases from strategic reserves. But those will end, creating even more shortages.
pwarner··on DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked
Only the best people
pwarner··on Anthropic Subprocessor Changes
Microsoft 365 Copilot has enabled Claude models, and I imagine they want that running on Azure?
pwarner··on The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
A cascade is a steep, small waterfall or a series of such falls, often describing anything falling in stages.
pwarner··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Big self own here
pwarner··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
I think old people who liked to interact with bank tellers passing on is a possible factor too?
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