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the people cannot be a valid check on the executive if the majority of the people hold false beliefs about what the executive is doing

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mfs2nwtfbc2i

Heh heh heh

Kate Riga makes an important point here about the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and their interaction with Trump: "That is what you're scared of as a woman all the time. That men who are nice to your face, and who take photos with you, and nominally support you, the second you're out of the room are making fun of you and undermining you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UplloDhjOWY

#USPol

Many, many years ago, at school for CS and before that interning at NASA Ames, I learned to take programming seriously as engineering work, and also the level of rigor that engineering work requires. In the intervening thirty years, I have had to come to terms with the degree to which this attitude is rare in theory and vanishingly rare in practice again and again. Tooling has gotten better, but the rigor applied to the average line of code has gotten worse.

I would hope that safety-critical systems would be different, and in some cases they really are. However, the number of people who want to build secure communications systems that they want to be safety critical and who expect thousands of people to literally use in a case where a breach of the threat model means the users will die and who as developers cannot bother to meet the basic design rigor requirement of 2006 — have a fucking threat model that is accurate and up to date — will never cease to shock me.

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Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their #AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/few_firms_investing_in_the/

Silly PR person. Unicorns are imaginary illusions created to scam investors and enrich billionaire-wannabes.

Also, it's unfathomable to me that anyone overseas would risk their privacy and security to increasingly authoritarian US borders crossing goons.

普天間基地の代わりに関空を差し出せ【菅野完切抜】 https://youtu.be/H2cYqHzd41g?si=z0tiC-zVlHGb2RtW

Silly PR person. Unicorns are imaginary illusions created to scam investors and enrich billionaire-wannabes.

Also, it's unfathomable to me that anyone overseas would risk their privacy and security to increasingly authoritarian US borders crossing goons.

Hi, yes, welcome to Mozilla Burger. It's true our burgers come with asbestos but the good news is you can pick it off yourself. Look how easy that is. No we can't make a burger without it and let you add it yourself later. Why would we do that?

I have a thought I've been stewing on. For most of the history of computing, the ability to support or operate software was pretty well correlated with having the ability to produce it in the first place. And thus you could start with a reasonable assumption that software was more-or-less fit for purpose by the simple fact of its existence. You could assume that whatever faults it had could be and would be remediated, and you'd be right so often that the remainder didn't make a difference. This is complicated a little by the existence of spam, or viruses, or app store shovel ware, but you could control for those things.

마지막에 문장이 뭉개졌는데 "기존 모델이 못하는 일을 할수 있는 사람이 아니고" 라는 말임다... ㅠㅠ 수면부족 ㅠㅠ

** Speaker announcement ** At RustWeek 2026, Alice Cecile makes the case for open code review: distributing responsibility and nurturing growth.
Info & tickets: https://2026.rustweek.org/talks/alice-cecile/

See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026!

@alice_i_cecile

#rustweek2026 #rustlang

ooh there's a Web MIDI API. this opens up some fun opportunities.

"2026년 이후 시장은 더 많은 코드를 쓰는 사람보다, 지저분하고 복잡한 환경에서 결과를 끝까지 책임질 수 있는 엔지니어에게 프리미엄을 지불하고 있다." 읍내의 글인데 아마 AI가 어떻게 산업을 재편하는가를 보려면 개발자 시장이 어떻게 되는지 보면 되는것 같은데 정말 기존 모델이 못하고 전문 지식 레벨이 깊지 않으면 쓸려나가는것이 확정적인것 같음; x.com/SergioRocks/...

"“범용 개발자” 업무 상당수가 압박을 받고 있다: 반복적인 CRUD, 단순 API, 기본 대시보드 등. Opus 4.6과 GPT 5.3은 이미 그런 것들을 해낼 수 있다. "성장은 다음을 할 수 있는 전문가에게서 나온다: - LLM을 프로덕션 기능으로 전환하기 - 실제로 확장되는 데이터 파이프라인 설계하기 - 실질적인 위협으로부터 프로덕션 환경을 보안으로 지키기 - 티켓이 아니라 성과(결과) 중심으로 사고하기. 핵심은 “코딩을 더 빡세게 배워라”가 아니다. “스택 위로 올라가라”다."

"소프트웨어 엔지니어링은 죽어가는 게 아니다. 가격이 다시 매겨지고 있다. 2025년에 크게 들린 이야기는 해고였다. 2026년에 조용히 진행되는 이야기는 수요 증가다. Indeed의 2026년 2월 수치에 따르면 소프트웨어 엔지니어 채용 공고는 2025년 중반 바닥 이후 약 15% 상승했다. Citadel도 같은 신호를 요약했다: 소프트웨어 엔지니어 채용 공고가 전년 대비 11% 증가했다. 그렇다면 실제로 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는 걸까? 업계는 줄어드는 게 아니라 전문화되고 있다."

Perhaps there are other factors at play?

#graphicdesign #typography #humor #humour

This time is different

Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/this-time-is-different/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165792

Quantum simulators mimic systems, directly encoding problems into the structure of the system. Unlike more flexible quantum computers, we can make and use them right now. Startup Silicon Quantum Computing has created a silicon quantum simulator that simulates how a material can change from an insulator to a metal. https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-twins?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116133363873801664

To make matters worse derivative markets were created from those shitposts and they in turn were repackaged as top tier shitposts but were in reality even worse than the original sub-prime toots. Many people following the market had no idea that they were not genuine and not backed by actual shitposts. As if this weren't bad enough others retained options to recieve future shitposts.

Kate Riga makes an important point here about the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and their interaction with Trump: "That is what you're scared of as a woman all the time. That men who are nice to your face, and who take photos with you, and nominally support you, the second you're out of the room are making fun of you and undermining you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UplloDhjOWY

#USPol

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#mutualaid

Here's a bit of good news for you, an important one too IMHO. Both Glovo and Deliveroo are now under judicial control in Italy, as both companies have been found brutally exploiting their gig workers and paying wages well below the poverty line. Under judicial administration the companies will be likely forced to hire their workers with regular contracts and working hours.

https://www.lastampa.it/economia/2026/02/26/news/rider_pagati_4_euro_a_consegna_commissariata_deliveroo_caporalato_e_sfruttamento-15522986/

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What now?

"[Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu's] greatest work came later, when she devised a mind-blowing experiment that showed the world we see in the mirror doesn't obey the same laws of physics."

https://spore.social/@minouette/114602418316375119

Via https://mastodon.coffee/@vacapinta/116091219793674502

#physics #science #mirrors

The Eternal View https://youtu.be/gHGup-x1WpM?si=J7oqOuQlvzNrg9jY

> This design probably hits the record of simultaneous use of TI parts in a single device.
*looks inside*
> Figure 2-1. 100-kV Reference Voltage
It said high-voltage reference on the tin. I expected high-voltage, just not 100kV.

For those reading along from a safe distance: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/sbaa203b/sbaa203b.pdf

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116133363873801664

To make matters worse derivative markets were created from those shitposts and they in turn were repackaged as top tier shitposts but were in reality even worse than the original sub-prime toots. Many people following the market had no idea that they were not genuine and not backed by actual shitposts. As if this weren't bad enough others retained options to recieve future shitposts.

Time for the States to Gear Up for Trump’s Fake Elections Exec Order
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/time-for-the-states-to-gear-up-for-trumps-fake-elections-exec-order/sharetoken/f175f7bb-e9d7-4028-a225-e82ed8368352

First pass of stickers added! ​​

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun!

I'm in a lot of debt from my illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

and my patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/c/foone , if you'd like to set up a monthly donation. Thanks!

#mutualaid

beautiful ​​

A tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.

#c #programming

Background Jobs Without the Baggage https://lobste.rs/s/kskzrw #devops #gleam
https://curling.io/blog/background-jobs-without-the-baggage

Introducing PgBeam, a globally distributed PostgreSQL proxy https://lobste.rs/s/sxozst #databases
https://pgbeam.com/launch

Kagi Translate can be used to generate McKinsey consultant speak:

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=McKinsey+consultant

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885

I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-life
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128645

二度寝するには微妙😆

またこんな時間に目が覚めてしまった…

Back in December, we had a large outage at work. The internal investigation took a while and the internal report was roughly 40 pages long. For the public, we managed to try and condense it to a much shorter format that we think can still offer useful insights to other organizations:

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/incident-report-exercises-cleanups-and-evacuations

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i feel like the short video clip infinite scroll format that erases your mind surely falls under the "torment nexus" meme. like its better not to try to make tiktok but federated, which is what loops is?

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ this update was great, really

A practical question that's come up in Arcalibre development: how should we handle AI-vulnerable dependencies?

https://forums.rereading.space/post/16

Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

Link: https://hackersmacker.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141119

Time for the States to Gear Up for Trump’s Fake Elections Exec Order
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/time-for-the-states-to-gear-up-for-trumps-fake-elections-exec-order/sharetoken/f175f7bb-e9d7-4028-a225-e82ed8368352