Bob Widlar's Middle Finger

Putting this on the fridge

Stop the nonsense. Don't build an AI Agent unless there's no other alternative. For most applications, you'll be better off: 1. With a simple rule-based system 2. Upgrade to static models when complexity increases 3. Implement simple, well-prompted LLM calls 4. Build an…

Using Atlanta as an example— 10% of Georgia’s population resides within its top 3 cities. There are ~540 cell towers between them. Somehow, only 2 pings are within those 3 areas but there tons in a straight line just off unpopulated highways.

A friend asked me to look at their code, and *Holy Mother of God!* He works for a medium-sized company. They are building some sort of internal CRM. They've been vibe-coding some of the new features. They are professional developers. Most, I assume, know what they are doing,…

The Bible reports that early on, the Philistines had somewhat of a monopoly on iron production technology, and indeed, the distribution of 12th-century iron objects in the Levant is concentrated in Philistine regions. "Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the…

In case no-one remembers: The Original Crew of Star Trek got paid in promises and peanuts; What we saw Alex Kurtzman destroy in the firelight of $Billions was decades of built value, DECADES. Remember folks: Money follows success, not the other way around!

On the slide with your luggage? Automatic Do-Not-Fly list.

Hard to believe this isn’t a Harkonnen submarine...

The 2019 crash of an Aeroflot Superjet is the best reminder to follow cabin crew instructions. The botched evacuation (you can see people running WITH luggage) was a factor in the large number of casualties: 41 of the 78 aboard died.

I used to hate React because I couldn't understand how it worked Now I hate React because I understand how it works

not many people know about Obamoshchastvya Prison in Russia’s far east. it was a decades-long Soviet experiment in mind control through starvation, sleep deprivation, indoctrination and the practice of forcing prisoners to punish each other for tiny infractions. truly horrifying

Imagine being a GPU manufacturer and being told that you're *not allowed* to integrate support for a certain hdmi version in your gpu driver just because the driver is Free Software The amdgpu module doesn't support hdmi 2.1 because of this. Fuck HDMI

Self taught developers are a security risk

Trust issues? Nah! Happen to open up to find a much smaller capacity battery within the original case🤔

US Army Air Force bomber crews – who bombed Germany’s industrial base, destroying their ability to wage war – had about a 75% chance of being killed, injured or taken prisoner before completing their mandatory 25 missions. Soviets walked in after playing a brutal attrition game…

A more appropriate translation of 'Zersetzung' is 'attrition', not 'decomposition' (I'm German).

How about this one? There are more women using Tea in the desolation of Nevada where everyone knows everyone in the town than there were in... San Francisco and Oakland combined? That doesn't pass a sniff test. Something's off.

To have this little security you would have to actually fight the default platform behavior. By default Firebase buckets are "locked." You'd have to very intentionally set it to public. And it will scream at you and warn endlessly when you try to do so.

A TikTok 'micro influencer' got a top San Francisco chef fired after saying she was left in tears by the restauranteur's refusal to give her free food because she wasn't famous. Food influencer itskarlabb said she was left 'shaking' after being invited to a collaboration with…

Look at all these idiots with their carry-on’s.

I picked up a KayPro 4 that still has the original Microsoft BASIC floppies!