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Whyalla, South Australia
Joined December 2016
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I love that modern wifi 6 routers from fritzbox still look like dsl modems from the 90s. Massive respect for brand that don’t change their branding for decades . It’s extremely goated.
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“Forward-deployed engineer” just sounds like what every programmer‘s job description was pre-SaaS
Engineering is changing: FDE is ascendant while mobile and front-end roles are disappearing. Open mobile and front-end engineers jobs have been nearly halved in the past year!
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DOOM now finally running on a Power Bank😅 Specifically the Anker Prime 27650mAh one. Since we got only one button the control is a bit tricky but surprisingly well working. Find a full video: youtu.be/Qb_BR02aldo Source Code: github.com/atc1441/Anker_Pri…
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The Nvidia scandal makes no sense.
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‼️BREAKING: Grok Build has left 35,000+ of its users' apps open to anyone, including apps from SpaceXSI. The open apps held 3,784 medical exams of workers and a Tesla technician scorecard, plus a Navy contractor's roster and SpaceXSI's own sales plans. The "secret" words in each app's link sit in its web address, which DNS logs record, security firm Claroc found. Cursor, which SpaceXSI bought, says apps are private by default. Claroc's tests show otherwise. SpaceXSI pulled its 24 apps after Ars asked. Most other data was still exposed when Ars published.
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Pasting stack traces into Google PageRank to look up snippets to copy from StackOverflow is AI vibe coding.
Modern “software engineers” probably don’t want to hear this but yes, using IntelliSense counts as vibe coding.
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Decided to finally see what this AI thing is all about
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Big Walk developers disclosed the use of AI to meet the final stretch of production. The outcome shows two things: 1) A studio as big as House House required AI to survive the market. 2) A smaller studio would have not survived the very people demanding disclosure.
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gamers when game developers use ai in an industry notorious for - long hours, - intense crunch - lower pay than adjacent software jobs - frequent layoffs - harsh criticism
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we literally invented a cure for dev crunch and gamers are demanding it be outlawed lmao
Big Walk devs should've disclosed the AI usage but also I straight up can not bring myself to care about using it for like 10 lines of debugging
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Um, strictly speaking, yes 🙄
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this was a surprisingly tuff 😤 line from Tony Burke on updating Australian criminal law around AI: "It should never be the case that there's an argument that someone didn't know that the computer was loaded"
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It's revolutionary, but it's like any other technology, we can't let China have it, but it shouldn't be regulated like that, there should be guardrails, but you shouldn't restrict it, it's just autocomplete, but it’s the inevitable future, so it urgently needs your support.
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Since August, a team within METR has worked with internal Anthropic information to assess whether AI itself is accelerating AI development. We are now publishing a report summarizing the results of this risk assessment.
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Linus Torvalds says one Linux team may be fixing bugs faster than AI can report them. In the Linux 7.4-rc2 update, Linus shared what eBPF maintainer Alexei Starovoitov told him. Fixes are now coming in faster than new bug reports. Linus thinks most of the kernel is still catching up, but he sees eBPF as a sign that things might be turning around. As Linus put it, “that sounds lovely if true.” Source: phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-…
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はじめてDOOMで遊びます、自作のi486 PCで
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So we published last night thinking this was surely Craig Scroggie hanging out with Jensen’s suspected Chinese spy. Someone has sent us better vision showing yep it’s NextDC’s ceo being very chummy.
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i turn down life changing amounts of money from (trustworthy) VPN companies multiple times a year to not compromise my reporting, i didn't realize i could shill predatory investment products just fine
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Fable 5.2 animation test I don't think it's a significant upgrade from opus, it has all the usual claudisms but it seems smoother.
Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges. They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.
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the clowns will never ever know the beauty and power of true knowledge and skill, which is still relevant in 2026, despite what the clowns want to make you think. don't be a clown. eat some humble pie while you're at it.
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