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New comment by rossjudson in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

rossjudson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:56:28 +0000

I recommend "How to measure anything in cybersecurity risk". Really interesting read about putting actual value on security.

New comment by rossjudson in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

rossjudson — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:34:03 +0000

I'm truly hopeful that AI will open a new of prototyping. Back in the day, prototyping was how you figured out what to build, you'd very deliberately toss the entire first (or second!) version, and you'd plan to do that.

High quality ensued. Usually ;)

New comment by rossjudson in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

rossjudson — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:32:00 +0000

I think that subscribing to another person's life prevents you from living your own. Also, "Everything is Lies, I Guess".

New comment by rossjudson in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

rossjudson — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:38:37 +0000

For me it's been useful as an idea categorizer: "oh well, that turned out to be a crap idea."

It's allowed me to clear out some long-standing brush on the forest floor. And burn it down once or twice.

New comment by rossjudson in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

rossjudson — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:33:26 +0000

Quoting:

"Because the effort was removed, so was the commitment, and with the commitment the focus, and with the focus any meaningful product at all."

This is the truth. Otherwise known as "easy come, easy go".

New comment by rossjudson in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

rossjudson — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:05:46 +0000

This is an excellent pattern; do as much as you can in the database.

External Spanner provides changes streams. Internal spanner is different, mostly because of the extreme scaling requirements in some cases (and a healthy dose of "because it already works" mixed with "arbitrary change streams are scary").

Internal Spanner allows any transaction to write queue entries, where queues are (more or less) tables with some special time awareness. You can schedule delivery. Entries get pushed from queues to a handler which can also do writes to the DB within the dequeue transaction. And all of the same scaling is there.

New comment by rossjudson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rossjudson — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:33:33 +0000

Yes, you are reading too much into things. The ultrawealthy are supporting the current MAGA nonsense because they wish to permanently lock up the massive wealth transfer they've engineered over the past two decades, and the only way to do that is through a combination of nationalism, populism, and fascism.

Every part of the MAGA platform is a smokescreen of outrage, intended as cover for policies that favor the ultrawealthy.

An aware and motivated population legislates and taxes their way out of the establishment and perpetuation of dynasties; this has been done in the past.

New comment by rossjudson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rossjudson — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:28:45 +0000

If you live in a Red State, it is highly like that my Blue State money pays for your health care, highways, narcan, and a myriad of other transfers.

Like, I feel for you and your situation, but I just don't think it's sustainable for Blue States to keep being patsies by letting the Red States control what happens with Blue State money.

New comment by rossjudson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rossjudson — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:25:54 +0000

I have a habit of upvoting attempts at civilized argument, so I upvote once again.

For the "people who understand supply/demand", why use "want a limit" language? What you actually mean is "want a lower limit, from Y to X".

It's flat-out amazing to me that you blame immigrants for the problems of the American medical system -- which are entirely political in cause and financial in nature.

New comment by rossjudson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rossjudson — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:21:33 +0000

Stop with your logic, please. Obviously they must complete American Nationalism training, readily available in whatever country they come from, which they can learn from Voice of America.

New comment by rossjudson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rossjudson — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:19:34 +0000

I cannot understand why people downvote otherwise civilized posts they disagree with, so I'll upvote.

That said, you are impressively wrong. If someone doesn't agree with me because they choose to believe obviously false or made-up data, that is being irrational.

Is it rational to suppress large-scale studies of vaccination? If someone says "I am against vaccination because there are no large-scale studies", is that rational?

New comment by rossjudson in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

rossjudson — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:38:39 +0000

Well, the first thing the "new" antigravity did was f^&* up all of my existing projects by replicating them (with one replica per conversation within each project). That's really bad.

I now have 45+ projects pointing at a the same 5-7 folders (the actual projects). Can I delete those extra projects? The warnings are sure telling me not to.

New comment by rossjudson in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel"

rossjudson — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:26:05 +0000

Like aphyr?

New comment by rossjudson in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

rossjudson — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:02:31 +0000

Gun deaths in the US are just the cost of doing business, and business is booming (for some).

Sad.

New comment by rossjudson in "The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention"

rossjudson — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:20:36 +0000

One person who spent 15 years learning and building in the domain. He very much knows what he's doing, what questions to ask, and what machines do.

New comment by rossjudson in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

rossjudson — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:57:38 +0000

Every child reads a book about solving problems, assumes they can now solve problems, and is disappointed when that is not true.

New comment by rossjudson in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

rossjudson — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:53:52 +0000

If you write your own paper (mostly) and choose your own references (because you've actually read the papers) you won't have a problem.

New comment by rossjudson in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

rossjudson — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:51:23 +0000

This puts the burden to make sure it's right on the submitter, where it should be. Verification can come at any time after that; the submitter understands the consequences of hallucinated references. Verification can be crowd-sourced (and likely will be).

Nothing stops someone from putting a PDF on the internet. I'm fine with ArXiv holding a high standard.

New comment by rossjudson in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

rossjudson — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:21:28 +0000

Not sure where the nefarious is in that. That's how PKI works.

New comment by rossjudson in "A History of IDEs at Google"

rossjudson — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:16:50 +0000

100% up-to-date VSCode is still pretty trashy, IMO. It's a mixed bag of plugins without cohesion, no awareness of code other than what that mixed bag attempts to provide (poorly). It is and always has been little more than a progressively more complicated mobius loop of autocompletion-oriented UI experimentation.

Ah, I feel so much better now. ;)

VSCode never made it past the first 10% of what Eclipse did (does). VSCode did succeed at being something for everybody, available everywhere.