VoIP engineer, Kamailio consultant, SIP systems developer, semi-serious road cyclist.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Joined April 2009
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"Alcohol, weed, and shrooms can all produce versions of the same experience: feeling much more capable than you actually are."
thomasjiralerspong.substack.…
"It linked 2.3 million new cancer cases to an infection. Among these, most were caused by just five pathogens: Helicobacter pylori (4%...), human papillomavirus, or HPV (4%), hepatitis B (2%), Epstein-Barr virus (1%) and hepatitis C (under 1%)."
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"The stunning video does not resemble any sort of normal law enforcement."
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"Washington loves the national security frame because it doesn’t stir up much interest among ordinary people..."
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(1/6) It may be that the future of "coding" is LLM-augmented, but I'm quite convinced that once the dust settles, the basic paradigm won't change too much, and competence in it will still require a more or less traditional line-by-line depth of understanding.
(5/6) doing the latter, because the configuration required to do the former starts to resemble the difficulty of just writing the latter outright.
This is a lesson one had to learn. LLMs are not exactly like Arbitrary Data Schema Definition Visual XML Flowcharts...
Why yes, yes I have. People who use Warp (terminal with natural language / LLM support) definitely operate this way, as I have witnessed in various startups.
Don't bother learning to string two old-school UNIX commands together with a pipe, just prompt over and over ...
"US district court judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in Oakland found the government’s effort was relying on data that is full of errors and that it was leading to intimidation of groups performing voter assistance efforts."
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For more than a year, President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has acted as one of the nation’s top diplomats, without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing a single financial disclosure.
If you’re asking how that’s legal, it’s not. We sued. ms.now/opinion/jared-kushner…
Alex Balashov retweeted
My strongest “vibes not evidence” belief is that remote work is a cancer that’s making (most) people miserable even though it seems better in the short term.
"CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss personally pushed the network to devote 'serious resources' to investigating whether Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a new Semafor report."
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"The president is leaning in to talk to the two Ivanka knockoffs, who look like sorority-sister clones, four eyes glued on the man they adore, two fervent smiles glazed with pink lip gloss."
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"In doing so, Langley positioned Flock as an advance in technology that was somewhat inevitable. He stressed that if people wanted to live in a better society — that is, one with reduced crime — they would have to offer up their privacy in return."
Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’ techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/fl…
Next, you'll tell me elections have consequences.
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Alex Balashov retweeted
Totally insane levels of corruption and abuse of power are swirling all around us and my sense is that as angry as voters are about the cost of living they mostly are so awash in cynicism about politics that they don’t understand how egregious Trump is.
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
