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jjk7··on Northflank Breached
Official statement: https://www.sentry.help/en/articles/17824780-was-sentry-cust...

Seems it's not used in production and doesn't contain customer data.

jjk7··on We won't "just hang out"
Hunger games vs. MeowMeowBeenz
jjk7··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
Consciousness is the greatest illusion of them all.
jjk7··on Let's make quality the norm again
Luxury is another dimension than price <-> quality.
jjk7··on Parque Arqueológico do Solstício
> Amazon Stonehenge: Diskless, Kafka Compatible Data Streaming on top of Amazon Glacier.
jjk7··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
No, but accessing and searching the database is.
jjk7··on The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
If you read the article, he admits he used AI for this.
jjk7··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
No, unfortunately P2P's glory days are behind us. Shame, because it was a really cool technology.
jjk7··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
Nobody has time anymore to read a textbook.
jjk7··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
(in recent memory). Surely the industrial revolution was a much larger disruption.
jjk7··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
Yes, they taught that too.
jjk7··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
It's interesting how distrust for big pharma used to be left wing, but is now right wing. How did that happen?
jjk7··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
usgov
jjk7··on Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
It probably had a snake in it's belly, and they thought it was it's neck
jjk7··on Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
It went beyond duping, you could construct your own completely unique weapon stats with gameshark codes at the bank.

Prototypal item crafting

jjk7··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
Assuming you're serious? Store passwords with salted one-way hashes.
jjk7··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
Before SYSCALL there was INT
jjk7··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
I had a similar experience but with MSSQL, was invited to join some meetings with MS Sales folks. I quickly learned the project was never meant to succeed, but was simply leverage to negotiate a better contract.
jjk7··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
A tool so good, the workers need to be forced to use it.
jjk7··on How Monero's proof of work works
Once you buy gold, you don't have to rely on other people continuing to burn resources indefinitely. You pay upfront for the cost of mining, and that's it.
jjk7··on Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
They'll resent you insofar as it was confrontational vs. collaborative. If you can incept your conclusion into others they will not resent you. It's the whole raison d'etre of the Socratic method.

I had someone tell me, earnestly, that they hated me because it turned out that I was alright right. Not in the stubborn sense either.

jjk7··on U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers
>Reporting Mechanism: In countries with Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs), such as Canada, financial institutions report to local tax authorities, which then share the information with the IRS.
jjk7··on Codex for almost everything
Probably accessibility APIs
jjk7··on Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure
Allbirds ran on Shopify... was the CTO a shoe engineer?
jjk7··on The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
At least tokens are equivalent to measuring 'thinking'... I wouldn't mind if it burned 100k tokens to output a one line change to fix a bug.

The problem is maximizing code generated per token spent. This model of "efficiency" is fundamentally broken.

jjk7··on The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
Why worry?
jjk7··on I quit. The clankers won
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too." - Abe Simpson
jjk7··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Use the atmosphere itself as propellant gas.
jjk7··on Google unkills JPEG XL?
Tiled at different zoom levels
jjk7··on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Worked at a place that used to do a kind of arbitrage between adclicks and traditional print. A large percent of traffic, especially mobile, was obviously either toddlers or bad bots; yet we were billing our customers for the 'engagement'.
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