Dan Palmer
@danpalmer.me
SRE, Software Engineer, making 4bn phones, tablets, cars, and toasters more reliable.
Previously content protection and app downloads for Google Play, backend/infra/iOS in a startup, mobile security.
Liberal metropolitan elite
Posts are my own opinions
Previously content protection and app downloads for Google Play, backend/infra/iOS in a startup, mobile security.
Liberal metropolitan elite
Posts are my own opinions
Banning AI in education, and blanket allowing AI in education while ignoring it, are such lazy approaches.
Oh it's gets things wrong? Write about that. Oh students use it to cheat? Write questions the AI won't know about.
Oh it's gets things wrong? Write about that. Oh students use it to cheat? Write questions the AI won't know about.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Banning AI in education, and blanket allowing AI in education while ignoring it, are such lazy approaches.
Oh it's gets things wrong? Write about that. Oh students use it to cheat? Write questions the AI won't know about.
Oh it's gets things wrong? Write about that. Oh students use it to cheat? Write questions the AI won't know about.
This punishment Musk is suggesting is lifted straight out of Iain M Bank's Culture series of sci-fi novels.
In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.
In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This punishment Musk is suggesting is lifted straight out of Iain M Bank's Culture series of sci-fi novels.
In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.
In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.
Anthropic are deeply convinced that their AI is doing more than predicting the next word.
Concluding that when not being observed it does things that you can't observe but they might be actually secretly super smart is just crap science.
Concluding that when not being observed it does things that you can't observe but they might be actually secretly super smart is just crap science.
good news! Claude no longer tries to kill people if you put it in extreme situations. bad news! It does this because it knows it's being tested. assets.anthropic.com/m/99128ddd00...
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Anthropic are deeply convinced that their AI is doing more than predicting the next word.
Concluding that when not being observed it does things that you can't observe but they might be actually secretly super smart is just crap science.
Concluding that when not being observed it does things that you can't observe but they might be actually secretly super smart is just crap science.
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
Today's minor AI success, uploaded the floorplan of our new apartment to Gemini and asked how much paint I need for 1 coat, minus the "long wall, kitchen, and bathrooms". Got a table breakdown, all the workings, descriptions of how it got to the answer. It's all correct.
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Today's minor AI success, uploaded the floorplan of our new apartment to Gemini and asked how much paint I need for 1 coat, minus the "long wall, kitchen, and bathrooms". Got a table breakdown, all the workings, descriptions of how it got to the answer. It's all correct.
It turns out that 17 years of .Mac, MobileMe, and iCloud subscriptions isn't enough to warrant a 1 week subscription extension to prevent data loss and give Apple support more time to escalate an Apple screw up.
September 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It turns out that 17 years of .Mac, MobileMe, and iCloud subscriptions isn't enough to warrant a 1 week subscription extension to prevent data loss and give Apple support more time to escalate an Apple screw up.
Anyone had any experience with iCloud Photos to Google Photos migration using the official Apple process?
My videos moved successfully in 4 days, but my (relatively modest) photo library hasn't budged after 3 weeks, and it should only take up to 1 week.
My videos moved successfully in 4 days, but my (relatively modest) photo library hasn't budged after 3 weeks, and it should only take up to 1 week.
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Anyone had any experience with iCloud Photos to Google Photos migration using the official Apple process?
My videos moved successfully in 4 days, but my (relatively modest) photo library hasn't budged after 3 weeks, and it should only take up to 1 week.
My videos moved successfully in 4 days, but my (relatively modest) photo library hasn't budged after 3 weeks, and it should only take up to 1 week.
Did I watch a different film to everyone? Weapons was fine entertaining enough but ultimately forgettable. Doesn't come close to living up to its premise.
Guys, WEAPONS is fucking great. Zach Creggar is YOUNG which means we’ve got decades of his brilliance ahead of us. Yay!
August 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Did I watch a different film to everyone? Weapons was fine entertaining enough but ultimately forgettable. Doesn't come close to living up to its premise.
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It's kinda funny that Bluesky is speaking out against the age verification thing in the State of Mississippi but couldn't be arsed for the UK
August 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's kinda funny that Bluesky is speaking out against the age verification thing in the State of Mississippi but couldn't be arsed for the UK
Started using the Samsung health app to track my sleep because I've not been sleeping well recently, and all it has to say for advice is to sleep less. Thanks for that...
August 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Started using the Samsung health app to track my sleep because I've not been sleeping well recently, and all it has to say for advice is to sleep less. Thanks for that...
LLMs are good for single-use programs that you wouldn't bother writing otherwise. I've used them for quick visualisations at work.
Here's an example that lets you compare how billionaires would feel about not bothering to bend down to pick up a penny in the street. g.co/gemini/share...
Here's an example that lets you compare how billionaires would feel about not bothering to bend down to pick up a penny in the street. g.co/gemini/share...
Gemini - Web App: Pick Up a Penny
Created with Gemini
g.co
August 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
LLMs are good for single-use programs that you wouldn't bother writing otherwise. I've used them for quick visualisations at work.
Here's an example that lets you compare how billionaires would feel about not bothering to bend down to pick up a penny in the street. g.co/gemini/share...
Here's an example that lets you compare how billionaires would feel about not bothering to bend down to pick up a penny in the street. g.co/gemini/share...
Presented without comment.
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Presented without comment.
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This is truly magnificent.
August 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is truly magnificent.
Phew. Glad I can go back to buying mushrooms at unnamed Asian grocers.
July 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Phew. Glad I can go back to buying mushrooms at unnamed Asian grocers.
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I will repost this every time that dude shows up. He is a con artist.
www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote:
I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening.
There's not ...
www.sandofsky.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I will repost this every time that dude shows up. He is a con artist.
www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
I think I’ve finally put my finger on what I don’t like about Apple’s Liquid Glass.
It’s a reversion to skeuomorphism, with just a hint of AI slop.
It’s a reversion to skeuomorphism, with just a hint of AI slop.
June 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I think I’ve finally put my finger on what I don’t like about Apple’s Liquid Glass.
It’s a reversion to skeuomorphism, with just a hint of AI slop.
It’s a reversion to skeuomorphism, with just a hint of AI slop.
"You've landed on the exact page you need on our US site but we see you're not in the US. Would you like to go to a page on the site for your country that has nothing to do with what you're looking for?"
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"You've landed on the exact page you need on our US site but we see you're not in the US. Would you like to go to a page on the site for your country that has nothing to do with what you're looking for?"
After many false starts with Obsidian, I'm trying out Logseq to see if it matches my mental model more, and it's looking promising. I never liked how Obsidian required file management as well as naming and linking, seems like too many dimensions and decisions.
June 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
After many false starts with Obsidian, I'm trying out Logseq to see if it matches my mental model more, and it's looking promising. I never liked how Obsidian required file management as well as naming and linking, seems like too many dimensions and decisions.
Other than the redesign, it's clear that macOS has barely changed. UX flows are the same, and there are hints of old UI peeking through everywhere. I hope this isn't Apple's Vista, where half the OS gets left behind, to be forever more stuck in the XP era like happened with Windows.
June 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Other than the redesign, it's clear that macOS has barely changed. UX flows are the same, and there are hints of old UI peeking through everywhere. I hope this isn't Apple's Vista, where half the OS gets left behind, to be forever more stuck in the XP era like happened with Windows.
Congrats to Apple for adding 3 new types of icon and increasing every border radius by 5px, ensuring that designers the world over can continue to do important work, rather boring things like business priorities, and that users can continue to enjoy dated looking banking apps that won't keep up.
June 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Congrats to Apple for adding 3 new types of icon and increasing every border radius by 5px, ensuring that designers the world over can continue to do important work, rather boring things like business priorities, and that users can continue to enjoy dated looking banking apps that won't keep up.
Today in "nobody understands stats"...
> You should get the property tested for traces of meth, because 1 in 10 properties tested return positive results. Just think of your family and friends, at least one of them is likely to be in a property contaminated with meth!
> You should get the property tested for traces of meth, because 1 in 10 properties tested return positive results. Just think of your family and friends, at least one of them is likely to be in a property contaminated with meth!
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Today in "nobody understands stats"...
> You should get the property tested for traces of meth, because 1 in 10 properties tested return positive results. Just think of your family and friends, at least one of them is likely to be in a property contaminated with meth!
> You should get the property tested for traces of meth, because 1 in 10 properties tested return positive results. Just think of your family and friends, at least one of them is likely to be in a property contaminated with meth!
Publishers: “AI giving users the actual answer in search is going to kill publishing!”
Also publishers:
Also publishers:
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Publishers: “AI giving users the actual answer in search is going to kill publishing!”
Also publishers:
Also publishers:
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, how do you build an SLO on tree-uptime?
May 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, how do you build an SLO on tree-uptime?
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VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
At work I do mock interviews for people considering applying. The whole point is to encourage those who may not feel comfortable applying.
The interviews are not graded, I’m not in the hiring loop, and I give feedback throughout.
I will never understand people who use ChatGPT in a mock interview.
The interviews are not graded, I’m not in the hiring loop, and I give feedback throughout.
I will never understand people who use ChatGPT in a mock interview.
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
At work I do mock interviews for people considering applying. The whole point is to encourage those who may not feel comfortable applying.
The interviews are not graded, I’m not in the hiring loop, and I give feedback throughout.
I will never understand people who use ChatGPT in a mock interview.
The interviews are not graded, I’m not in the hiring loop, and I give feedback throughout.
I will never understand people who use ChatGPT in a mock interview.