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New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

plaguuuuuu — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:45:21 +0000

or sticky-tape it to the window.

d5 has an actual shutter yeah? not mirrorless? I think the shutter moving will spin the camera.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

plaguuuuuu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:38:51 +0000

guarantee one of them caught an OpenAI guy murdering a prostitute or something

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

plaguuuuuu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:37:15 +0000

what do you even do on X, you basically just subscribe to a bunch of blowhards to get insider sloppy seconds, then occasionally yell into the void and hope someone (anyone) finally responds?

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

plaguuuuuu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:33:55 +0000

too labor intensive - each launch already costs like $1bn, how bad can it be

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Six Math Essentials"

plaguuuuuu — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:58:03 +0000

I don't think a popular audience is buying a book on mathematics.

But, the world is huge. Even if this is kind of niche (people who didn't really get into maths in school or college, but now have a strange impulse to pick it up for shits and giggles) the audience is still thousands of people. Or just, people who want to see how Tao connects everything up, because the way he sees and explains stuff is amazing.

There are levels to what's worth publishing or working on in general. Hardly anyone is going to be the next Steven Hawking but this obsession with the most popular or successful celebrity creators ultimately leads to this highly homogenised global media landscape. The most exciting thing about the internet for me was always accessing the long tail of truly unusual shit that you wouldn't find in book/record stores, tv, etc.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Music Discovery"

plaguuuuuu — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:24:38 +0000

the "you might also like" for a given artist is usually the most generic related artists - for anything remotely related you'll get basically the same list which is the middle of the venn diagram of everyone who listens to them

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

plaguuuuuu — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:07:15 +0000

even if you limit to 2/3 I think any sort of persistence that can be picked up by agents with the other 1 can lead to compromise, like a stored XSS.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Beyond agentic coding"

plaguuuuuu — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:52:04 +0000

At work we use Clean Architecture which is incredibly hard to browse, even though I've been there for 6+ months now and know where everything is, I have to use so much working memory to gather together the files for a feature slice (endpoint, command, command handler, etc).

I've thought for a while of building this exact thing as a vscode extension because of how utterly shit it is :D

I really want the source code!

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs"

plaguuuuuu — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:24:14 +0000

Think of the lengthy prompt as being like a safe combination, if you turn all the dials in juuust the right way, then the model's context reaches an internal state that biases it towards different outputs.

I don't know how well this specific prompt works - I don't see benchmarks - but prompting is a black art, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if it excels more than a blank slate in some specific category of tasks.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

plaguuuuuu — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:19:14 +0000

good luck doing anything if kafka is down though

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

plaguuuuuu — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:44:34 +0000

Could one put the DLQ messages on a queue and have a consumer ingest into pg?

(The queue probably isnt down if you've just pulled a message off it)

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

plaguuuuuu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:57:43 +0000

teams works fine in website form for me because it IS a website (that uses an extra ~1gb of ram running as a desktop app because its also a separate browser)

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

plaguuuuuu — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:20:11 +0000

I've had that exact phrase pop up from an LLM when I asked it for a more negative code review

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

plaguuuuuu — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:31:34 +0000

I think about this way, would you stick a five year old in a prison?

What about an intellectually disabled adult?

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

plaguuuuuu — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:04:38 +0000

whole lotta companies moving from ruby monoliths to ts distributed systems

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing"

plaguuuuuu — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:42:47 +0000

and when one is a third party service that doesn't?

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

plaguuuuuu — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:21:37 +0000

but then you wind up with an entire repo, or an entire engineering team utterly hobbled by a lack of expressive typing (or advanced concepts generally) and debased by the inelegance of basic bitch programming.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

plaguuuuuu — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:13:14 +0000

As a C# dev, backend typescript is fantastic and the type system is light years ahead of C# in expressivity.

But the learning curve... no shit.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

plaguuuuuu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:57:53 +0000

presumably anyone tokenizing chinese characters, which are basically entire words.

New comment by plaguuuuuu in "Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation"

plaguuuuuu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:42:49 +0000

I'm partial to this music video by Car Bomb, which is AI generated, but somehow manages to be fantastic.

(loud music warning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohaFZllmUE