Omer van Kloeten🎗️

Morning Hot Take: AI is built on mimicking past training data, so all of the people joking about how them thanking ChatGPT means it'll spare them in the robot uprising is actually them biasing the future dataset. In the off chance of an uprising, you now *have* to thank your AI.

Forgot I bought this, picked it up and was mesmerized. Far: Lone Sails is slow paced and has heaps of ambience. It’s a great change of pace from what I usually play when I have the time. I really like it and a couple of hours in I’m also quite appreciative of how “easy” it is.

לא יודע למה אבל נראה לי שישראלים כתבו את הפיצ׳ר הזה

"bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses" src: fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/11...

On the virtue of stating the obvious www.seangoedecke.com/saying-the-o...

We're having work conversations about work things, why do you ask?

hachyderm.io/@simontatham...

You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free - idiallo.com/blog/listen-...

This is pretty freaking neat (automatic animation of SVG line art) maxwellito.github.io/vivus/

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

OH: “The guy’s essentially an LLM: writes extremely confident nonsense.”

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

I'm going to business hell for this one

Someone asked me about the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode, here's my explanation in case others find it helpful.

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/b...

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...

I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers?

If you’re in a leadership position and you don’t know how to do good, solid storytelling, you’re sorely missing out on a superpower.

It’s not often that you can point at the exact time when you first learn of the weirdness that is the American date format. For my son it was the moment right after he burst in the room excitedly shouting “SWITCH 2 IN THREE WEEKS!”

wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to

When someone asks me if I’m *intentionally* on the longest consecutive leg of my career (4 years and counting)

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

I was playing around with a few other things to see if anyone owns other funny domains, and I think someone bought timeout.ms and redirected it to Kafka's docs 🤣

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

I refuse.

Amazing three-part deep dive by my colleague Doron Yaacoby on how we optimized cloud costs at Forter and saved literally millions of dollars tech.forter.com/saving-milli...

I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

‏*הילדים משחקים בחצר* ‏בן10: ״את מבינה, [בת5]? בכדורגל את משתמשת רק ב*רגל* ובכדוריד את משתמשת רק ב*יד*!״ ‏אני: ״צודק, ובכדורעף את משתמשת רק באף.״

Got blocked here for the first time, and it’s by someone I never interacted with. Weird.

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”

This is the last week of the *Logic for Programmers* Hannukah Sale! Get the book for 40% off until January 2nd: leanpub.com/logic/c/hann...

מה אני אגיד לכם מאוד בעייתי לאבד את הקול כשיש לך ילדים

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

TIL: the words "escalate" and "escalation" are back-formations from "escalator", the device

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts. We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists... We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.

When the feedback loop length for the work I’ve been doing is months to years, it’s not surprising that when I choose to write code, tests are my go-to! Sweet, sweet dopamine…

The Explore that cannot fail is not an Explore