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Intel: Winning and Losing
Idling at a Zenith
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Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in. But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly wasteful, and takes a bit more patience than I think most people have, but you basically take an…
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Alignment is capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then…
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Help my website is too small
How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
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Simulated Economy Tutorial
Concept Motivation Imagine an open world RPG where your actions affect the price of goods, the markets reacting to anything the player may do (burn down wheat fields, cost of food increases; kill the merchants, prices differentiate between cities; sell the many swords you’ve collected on your adventures, tank the…
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Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo…
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Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
And yet it does. Are we ready to deal?
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
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Private antitrust cases are going through the courts
Private antitrust cases against Equifax, Pepsi, American Express, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Corteva are going through the courts. And it turns out, judges get the monopoly problem.
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Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity
Knowing what you're building
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People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
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AI is going to hack Jira
Hide your kids, hide your wife: how the Agile Industrial Complex has set us all up to be duped by AI codegen
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Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work
And how to fix it with RFCs
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What if we taxed advertising?
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead?
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Generative AI hype peaking?
I have been a skeptic of some of the more breathless claims made for Generative AI since at least October 2023, when I participated in a panel organized by S...
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You Want Technology with Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time. 1 1 Note that despite “htmx” featuring in the title, very little of the presentation is actually about htmx. It is about choosing and using technology in such a way that it won’t require…
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The Birth of Chipzilla
Or, the early history of Intel Corporation
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Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say
I do not enjoy writing about technology. Aside from the shiny, birdlike emotion I get from opening a new Apple product every three years, I do not enjoy using much of modern technology. I view my phone with mistrust and resentment, even as I allow it to eat my time with distractions to recover from a day of ostensibly…
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium