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Duane Moore retweeted
When I worked in nuclear, I gave talks on bugs I found with a slide titled "How are we all not dead yet?" where I gave an example of a device that has been running on the field for decades with no issues, but had 6,000 data races (that weren't false pos) to explain resilience 1/2
Duane Moore retweeted
LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.
Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: new.life.com
Duane Moore retweeted
JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty! This brings huge feature and performance improvements to JB terminals! Based on their own annual reports, that's over 12.5 million active users across all platforms about to get a libghostty-powered terminal. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…
I'll repeat myself: libghostty is and was always the primary goal of the Ghostty project (I said this in the first public talk I ever gave about Ghostty). The importance and impact of a free, liberally licensed, high quality terminal emulator library that runs anywhere and everywhere dwarfs any single terminal emulator application on its own.
I've estimated Ghostty's (GUI, not libghostty) own users at around a couple million. Overnight, 6x that are using a libghostty-powered terminal. From one integration.
Happy to see this, happy to hear JetBrains had a positive experience, and looking forward to continuing to improve and ship a stable libghostty tag soon!
Duane Moore retweeted
The opening paragraph to AJP Taylor's "The Course of German History" remains my absolute favourite start to a history book. Nobody's ever hit this hard right off the bat before
Ok, this is serious.
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
In my career we used to say “fm” for “****ing Magic!”, ie software that worked so well it seemed magical. Now every new Mac has an ‘fm’ command built in.
Magic.
Duane Moore retweeted
Did Elizabeth Holmes coming after me and my sources with everything she had and threatening to sue us out of existence bias me? Yes.
Feature request for @ClaudeDevs: I have multiple browser profiles and multiple Claude accounts and Claude Code constantly sends a generated Artifact to a browser that's not logged in to the same Claude account, thus giving me "Page not found" errors constantly, until I manually copy and paste the URL to the correct browser profile. Please fix and save me as I really like using artifacts!
Duane Moore retweeted
One sentence macro model: On the way out the door, every farmer's wife says to every farmer, "the weather's looking bad so don't buy as much at the market this week, but also don't sell our crops for less than the usual price."
Duane Moore retweeted
Here's my take on what a software factory really is
This is my talk from @aiDotEngineer NYC, and I decided to record a version for everyone to watch on X.
tl;dr - software engineering is becoming factory engineering, and there's new work (especially factory benchmarking) that engineers should start focusing on.
Duane Moore retweeted
Good morning to everyone, but especially the dictionary.
ALT The Merriam-Webster dictionary explaining the origin of ‘Goodbye’ meaning ‘God be with you’. And someone responding asking for evidence.
ALT The Merriam-Webster dictionary giving evidence of the etymology of ‘goodbye’.
ALT he Merriam-Webster dictionary saying they are the dictionary and not making things up.
Seven years from a tweet to reality wsj.com/business/autos/tesla…
Duane Moore retweeted
This is correct. It's one of the many obvious problems with AI doomer theory.
Quite parallel with the concept of revealed preferences in economics. In fact, now that I think about it, the impossibility of pre-constructing an "alignment" function is formally identical to the impossibility of pre-constructing a preference function.
TIL
Interested to know more about this guy (no opinion yet). But this quote from his essay is undoubtedly true: “Right now, New York is a one-party state with an uncompetitive political ecology. This is bad for all of us, and bad for the quality of both of our parties.”
If you want better parties, you have to make better parties.
Enter: Maximum Republicans. New York needs a competitive political ecology, and two parties that compete to offer a strong, positive vision of governance. Here's my part of that grand project:
maximumnewyork.com/p/maximum…
Duane Moore retweeted
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."