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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · 11d

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

Cautionary tale from 2 decades ago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · 11d

Found it, link goes directly to him talking about it youtu.be/9S6l_RZwuxM?...

Marty Haught — Sustained Open Source | Baltic Ruby 2025

YouTube video by balticruby

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · 11d

Marty himself even mentioned in a conference talk a few months ago that developers were deploying from their laptops.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · 12d

Screenshot from the movie "National Treasure". Nicolas Cage's character says "I'm gonna steal the RubyGems GitHub organization."

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André Arko @indirect.io · 13d

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · Jul 15

With a heavy heart, I have to remind everyone that Kubernetes v1.30 Uwubernetes is now EOL. If you are still running on v1.30, please upgrade your clusters uwu 👉👈😔

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jul 14

I completely forgot ABEC-9 existed. Last time I changed the bearings in anything was over 20 years ago. ABEC-7 was the best I could find and it seemed like I could roll for daaaays. ABEC-9 must feel frictionless in comparison.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jul 10

The randomness means it's stochastic. The fact that it's regurgitating patterns from its training dataset means it's parroting.

Nobody's attacking them by calling them stochastic parrots. It's quite literally how they work.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jul 10

They generate numbers based on statistical probability inferred from the training. The `top_p` parameter in the transformers framework sets the probability threshold. Framework chooses randomly from the numbers with the highest probability up to that threshold. Those numbers map to string tokens.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jul 5

wait, so they took the coca *and* the cola out of coca-cola?

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 20

Crimean war: Lord Cardigan purchased his rank (not General like the other two examples, but Lieutenant Colonel like these tech execs are getting) and lost ~40% of his force in the first 20 minutes of one assault.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 20

WWI: Douglas Haig (UK) launched futile assaults against his advisors' counsel, leading to tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of casualties.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 20

lol I forgot about Dukakis, tbh. But no, actual casualties caused by wealthy elites:

US civil war: a *different* Massachusetts politician, Benjamin Butler, was a Major General with no experience. Lost multiple battles against smaller Confederate forces.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 18

They're being commissioned as Lieutenant Colonels. An LTC is usually a battalion commander, brigade XO, or a staff officer under a General. That's a lot of military authority/influence for people with zero military training.

I'd say this is unprecedented, except there is precedent and it was bad.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · Jun 18

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)

The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.

gizmodo.com

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 18

This is actually really funny to me. Before podcasts, I wanted to build an "internet talk radio" platform. Only reason I didn't was because web multimedia was nightmare tech back then.

Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 9

I would love to chat about this in a longer-form space if you're up for it?

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 7

Haven't explored it, but something I've been wanting was basically embeddings of code. In order to be effective, though, I imagine that that requires embedding models trained specifically on code. An embedding model for natural language doesn't seem like it'd be as effective.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 5

When I was in the army, our running cadence was 180 steps per minute. My lungs *hated* it.

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Jun 5

Me with my 1 cup of coffee for the day

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · May 30

I hear you so much on this. "Put your best practices away" is something I say a lot when talking about coding for fun or exploration.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD0A...

Why the Lucky Stiff & The Thirsty Cups @ RailsConf 2006

YouTube video by Paige Ruten

www.youtube.com

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · May 2

Maximum Jerry

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Apr 30

this shot belongs in the Louvre

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Feb 22

You're telling me that Herb roasted this chicken?

The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 22

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken
theonion.com/heroic-...

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken

TACOMA, WA—Operating on pure natural instinct while leaping into action to protect his beloved owners, heroic dog Snickers saved a local family of five from the threat of an herb-roasted chicken, sources confirmed Wednesday. “It was a close call, but luckily Snickers could sense the golden brown skin of the chicken we’d just roasted for […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Feb 2

Part of the challenge with that is that there needs to be some way to ensure that someone else isn't trying to impersonate you on a new domain by pretending you migrated there.

Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · Feb 2

One challenge is migrating your identity to a new domain (or identity-provider subdomain if you're not hosting your own). You have to convince the services that authenticated you through your old domain that your new domain is your new canonical identity.

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