-NaN
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Book reader, coffee-appreciater, eldritch machine whisperer, producer of 5+ abandoned side projects.
Opinions are my own etc etc.
Opinions are my own etc etc.
Eagerly looking forward to sending this to the next LLM-obsessed person who breathlessly asserts ai is the only future, despite having no notable skills of their own.
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Eagerly looking forward to sending this to the next LLM-obsessed person who breathlessly asserts ai is the only future, despite having no notable skills of their own.
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
If you designed the new “liquid glass” iOS UI, I need you to step away from the computer, and then never return.
June 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If you designed the new “liquid glass” iOS UI, I need you to step away from the computer, and then never return.
Saw a quote from one of the designers talking about how they’d spent months on liquid glass to make apps feel “fluid and organic”
My dude, I would settle for apps that work properly!
Shiny ui isn’t preventing apps feeling “fluid and organic”, it’s that most have all perf and speed of wet cement.
My dude, I would settle for apps that work properly!
Shiny ui isn’t preventing apps feeling “fluid and organic”, it’s that most have all perf and speed of wet cement.
June 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Saw a quote from one of the designers talking about how they’d spent months on liquid glass to make apps feel “fluid and organic”
My dude, I would settle for apps that work properly!
Shiny ui isn’t preventing apps feeling “fluid and organic”, it’s that most have all perf and speed of wet cement.
My dude, I would settle for apps that work properly!
Shiny ui isn’t preventing apps feeling “fluid and organic”, it’s that most have all perf and speed of wet cement.
Apples design team has a great opportunity to pull a late-season April Fools trick with this new “liquid glass” UX.
Any minute now…
Any minute now…
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Apples design team has a great opportunity to pull a late-season April Fools trick with this new “liquid glass” UX.
Any minute now…
Any minute now…
Abstraction is catnip for the average-developer.
June 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Abstraction is catnip for the average-developer.
“What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched the 15th new ai code editor I made you!
What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched your agentic credits honey! The ai code editor honey! Think of the productivity! Why don’t you use my ai code editor honey!”
What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched your agentic credits honey! The ai code editor honey! Think of the productivity! Why don’t you use my ai code editor honey!”
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched the 15th new ai code editor I made you!
What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched your agentic credits honey! The ai code editor honey! Think of the productivity! Why don’t you use my ai code editor honey!”
What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched your agentic credits honey! The ai code editor honey! Think of the productivity! Why don’t you use my ai code editor honey!”
“ai” coding editor launches will continue until morale improves.
May 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“ai” coding editor launches will continue until morale improves.
Someone who works on the title sequences at Apple TV really likes miniature things.
May 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Someone who works on the title sequences at Apple TV really likes miniature things.
Imagine coming up with a world and aesthetic as stunning as the new #Marathon game.
And then absolutely wasting it by making a boring extraction shooter. How disappointing Bungie.
youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s
And then absolutely wasting it by making a boring extraction shooter. How disappointing Bungie.
youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s
Marathon | Reveal Cinematic Short
YouTube video by Marathon
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Imagine coming up with a world and aesthetic as stunning as the new #Marathon game.
And then absolutely wasting it by making a boring extraction shooter. How disappointing Bungie.
youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s
And then absolutely wasting it by making a boring extraction shooter. How disappointing Bungie.
youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s
LLM’s are the modern microwave.
April 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
LLM’s are the modern microwave.
I’m going to put seaORM in the bin.
What is the point of an ORM, if every single interaction takes more code, is less expressive, and offers fewer guarantees than the straight-sql library it builds on (Sqlx).
What is the point of an ORM, if every single interaction takes more code, is less expressive, and offers fewer guarantees than the straight-sql library it builds on (Sqlx).
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I’m going to put seaORM in the bin.
What is the point of an ORM, if every single interaction takes more code, is less expressive, and offers fewer guarantees than the straight-sql library it builds on (Sqlx).
What is the point of an ORM, if every single interaction takes more code, is less expressive, and offers fewer guarantees than the straight-sql library it builds on (Sqlx).
AWS Cloudwatch metrics is such a deficient and clunky experience I’m somewhat surprised they even bother with it as a product.
April 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
AWS Cloudwatch metrics is such a deficient and clunky experience I’m somewhat surprised they even bother with it as a product.
Can someone explain the new Trait upcasting in Rust to me please? I’m too dense to get it from reading the release notes, but there seems to be quite a lot of excitement around it.
April 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Can someone explain the new Trait upcasting in Rust to me please? I’m too dense to get it from reading the release notes, but there seems to be quite a lot of excitement around it.
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Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
March 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
We had a game where this happened, it was called “BioShock”. I encourage anyone who thinks this a good idea to go play it and see how it turned out for everyone.
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
March 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We had a game where this happened, it was called “BioShock”. I encourage anyone who thinks this a good idea to go play it and see how it turned out for everyone.
> lobbies for ai “safety” regulation.
> applies for an exemption from the burdensome regulation they lobbied for.
finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
> applies for an exemption from the burdensome regulation they lobbied for.
finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
OpenAI Asks White House for Relief From State AI Rules
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to help shield artificial intelligence companies from a growing number of proposed state regulations if they voluntarily share their models wit...
finance.yahoo.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
> lobbies for ai “safety” regulation.
> applies for an exemption from the burdensome regulation they lobbied for.
finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
> applies for an exemption from the burdensome regulation they lobbied for.
finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
Oh look a Phoronix article about Rust!
I’m sure the comments on this will be ✨normal ✨and ✨sane✨!
www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Dr...
I’m sure the comments on this will be ✨normal ✨and ✨sane✨!
www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Dr...
The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively ...
www.phoronix.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Oh look a Phoronix article about Rust!
I’m sure the comments on this will be ✨normal ✨and ✨sane✨!
www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Dr...
I’m sure the comments on this will be ✨normal ✨and ✨sane✨!
www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Dr...
I just read this, and I cannot agree more!
> would give my kingdom for an engineering culture in which people figured out how to build good primitives and protocols
🔥🔥 100% yes.
It also links Frank McSherry’s COST paper, which might be my fav paper.
> would give my kingdom for an engineering culture in which people figured out how to build good primitives and protocols
🔥🔥 100% yes.
It also links Frank McSherry’s COST paper, which might be my fav paper.
Relevant:
“If your service can’t be run on a laptop, your service doesn’t deserve to be ran in a cluster” - Marilyn Monroe
hazelweakly.me/blog/scale-d...
“If your service can’t be run on a laptop, your service doesn’t deserve to be ran in a cluster” - Marilyn Monroe
hazelweakly.me/blog/scale-d...
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I just read this, and I cannot agree more!
> would give my kingdom for an engineering culture in which people figured out how to build good primitives and protocols
🔥🔥 100% yes.
It also links Frank McSherry’s COST paper, which might be my fav paper.
> would give my kingdom for an engineering culture in which people figured out how to build good primitives and protocols
🔥🔥 100% yes.
It also links Frank McSherry’s COST paper, which might be my fav paper.
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Q: How are you sure this solves real problems?
"We'll ask customers":
- boring
- requires talking to people (scary)
- less time to do mushrooms
"It came to me in a vision":
- ✨️✨️✨️
- more believable than whatever Sam Altman is pedalling this week
- precognition helps anticipate shareholder whims
"We'll ask customers":
- boring
- requires talking to people (scary)
- less time to do mushrooms
"It came to me in a vision":
- ✨️✨️✨️
- more believable than whatever Sam Altman is pedalling this week
- precognition helps anticipate shareholder whims
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Q: How are you sure this solves real problems?
"We'll ask customers":
- boring
- requires talking to people (scary)
- less time to do mushrooms
"It came to me in a vision":
- ✨️✨️✨️
- more believable than whatever Sam Altman is pedalling this week
- precognition helps anticipate shareholder whims
"We'll ask customers":
- boring
- requires talking to people (scary)
- less time to do mushrooms
"It came to me in a vision":
- ✨️✨️✨️
- more believable than whatever Sam Altman is pedalling this week
- precognition helps anticipate shareholder whims
There are few kinds of tension like watching a Terraform Apply run and having “Still Modifying….” slowly tick by, unsure of whether it’s just AWS taking a while, or something has gone silently wrong.
March 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
There are few kinds of tension like watching a Terraform Apply run and having “Still Modifying….” slowly tick by, unsure of whether it’s just AWS taking a while, or something has gone silently wrong.
Just found that @kagi.com can automatically provide associated HackerNews and Reddit on search results. I’ve always wanted something like that.
This is so, so handy.
This is so, so handy.
February 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just found that @kagi.com can automatically provide associated HackerNews and Reddit on search results. I’ve always wanted something like that.
This is so, so handy.
This is so, so handy.
Another day, another ORM-induced curse.
February 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Another day, another ORM-induced curse.
> SWE-Bench tainted by answer leakage; real pass rates significantly lower
The grift continues.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992
The grift continues.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992
SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) in Software Engineering (SE) can offer assistance for coding. To facilitate a rigorous evaluation of LLMs in practical coding contexts, Carlos et al. introduced the SWE-be...
arxiv.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
> SWE-Bench tainted by answer leakage; real pass rates significantly lower
The grift continues.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992
The grift continues.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992
I love the wireless shifters on my bike, I absolutely wouldn’t go back to cables, but I’d be lying if I didn’t occasionally get annoyed because I want to go for a ride and I’ve forgotten to charge them up.
February 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I love the wireless shifters on my bike, I absolutely wouldn’t go back to cables, but I’d be lying if I didn’t occasionally get annoyed because I want to go for a ride and I’ve forgotten to charge them up.
Reading the comments on a phoronix article is like eating junk food.
You regret it later but it’s an amusing distraction at the time.
You regret it later but it’s an amusing distraction at the time.
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Karol-Herbst-Nouveau-No
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community...
www.phoronix.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reading the comments on a phoronix article is like eating junk food.
You regret it later but it’s an amusing distraction at the time.
You regret it later but it’s an amusing distraction at the time.