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New comment by dejj in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

dejj — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:01:00 +0000

RFC 3514 “evil bit” header flag to the rescue: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3514/

New comment by dejj in "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing red or blue"

dejj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:46:50 +0000

It seems like a simplified prisoners’ dilemma: it’s missing the negative weight if everybody presses red.

New comment by dejj in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

dejj — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:21:35 +0000

“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.”

The Aenid, Virgil, Dryden translation.

New comment by dejj in "Overlapping Markup"

dejj — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:48:32 +0000

Multi-paragraph quotation repeats the opening quote in every paragraph, but closes the quote only once.[0]

Traffic signs repeat after every intersection, similarly.

It's a great help in recovering the "parser state" in my mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English#Quo...

New comment by dejj in "Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49"

dejj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:43:07 +0000

"I think this was a powerful lesson on the dangers of AI. Which by the way means 'love' in Chinese."

Elon Tusk, Rick and Morty, S4E4: https://youtu.be/xQHCz9ZZorA?t=129

New comment by dejj in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

dejj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:09:40 +0000

I was curious, and you’re right. It would be Cargo Culting then, if we believed the ritual actually had an effect on Pratchett in the afterlife.

New comment by dejj in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

dejj — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:28:01 +0000

Does “saying the name lest he be forgotten” classify as Cargo Cult?

New comment by dejj in "An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools"

dejj — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:05:25 +0000

Urbit, is this you?

New comment by dejj in "When compilers surprise you"

dejj — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:53:39 +0000

It’s neat. I wonder if someone attempted detecting a graph coloring problem to replace it with a constant.

New comment by dejj in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

dejj — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:22:59 +0000

Plot twist: this universe (planet) was created in order to reverse engineer what the prompt of the previous one was.

New comment by dejj in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

dejj — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:20:10 +0000

Agree.

> cargo-culting Stack Overflow

What do you mean by this? I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to attract airplanes that never come.

New comment by dejj in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

dejj — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:13:56 +0000

Valid. Maybe something can be learned from using them more frequently, either by the maker or by the user.

New comment by dejj in "How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose"

dejj — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:07:14 +0000

“The office according to The Office” by Venkatesh Rao has the “clueless” act as gatekeepers between “sociopaths” and “losers”:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

New comment by dejj in "Anscombe's Quartet"

dejj — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:16:46 +0000

“The Datasaurus Dozen”:

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-...

New comment by dejj in "Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity"

dejj — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:13:30 +0000

Would the license help to prevent an AI training on the example code?

New comment by dejj in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

dejj — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:54:27 +0000

Your blog reminded me of “Linear RPG”: you run along a line to collect XP. It’s a flash game.

https://sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/

New comment by dejj in "Progressive JSON"

dejj — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:26:35 +0000

Reminds me of Aftertext, which uses backward references to apply markup to earlier parts of the data.

Think about how this could be done recursively, and how scoping could work to avoid spaghetti markup.

Aftertext: https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html

New comment by dejj in "Root for your friends"

dejj — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:03:54 +0000

I do the same. Doing HR’s job is not my job. And yet, some how I do. If I rated any satisfaction metric below 80% my manager’s manager would have him talk to me; there would be flogging until morale improves. It seems all a game of Emperor’s New Clothes.

New comment by dejj in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

dejj — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:15:35 +0000

If your mitochondria have bird DNA and your nucleus has bird DNA, then you’re a bird.

There’s an easier way. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that only and rarely is observed in Japanese can extend human lifespan greatly. Flip a single base pair. This seems the most promising first step for genetically engineering humans.

New comment by dejj in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"

dejj — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:32:57 +0000

Yes. Afaik from Nick Lane’s “Oxygen” the Cytochrome Oxidase made from the mitochondrial DNA have to match the Cytochrome C made from nuclear DNA. Even slight mismatch seems to lower mitochondrial performance and is a problem why heteroplasmy (mixing of mitochondria from father and mother) seems to be selected-out.