douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
15.02.2026 22:10
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
On every code base I've ever worked on professionally a significant part of the context is stories at lunch
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Error: entity released
...horrifying message without context, thank you
A post from r/boston showing a Cybertruck stuck in the snow
Death, taxes, Cybertrucks getting stuck in adverse weather
single stair plan w/ 3 and 4 bedroom home on one level
floor w/ 3- and 4-bedroom homes
this is how you get family-sized homes in urban environments
This is one of those stories where the headline is perfect, any more detail would probably ruin it for me.
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
Red Alfa Romeo hood with the stylized white snake-eating-a-dude logo.
1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design.
Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.
Here's a teaser.
I'm starting my next book which is set to be released in 2030.
"How to write and deploy software without prompts"
There may be valid use cases for having a mindless plagiarism machine shitting out dubious code, but even this has been known for generations.
Go to a forum and say "damn __ sucks at doing __" and you'll get a ton of helpfully smug explanations of exactly how to do it.
Debugging existing code is harder than writing new code, precisely because you need to have a mental model of what that code is doing and what you want it to do.
This is even more difficult if you don't already know the language you're using.
As the only user of my Notion account, I can’t tell you how inspiring it is to get emails from Notion about enterprise users finding success with Notion. 😉😆 I’ll just store that thought in my brain until I hire 500 more people to work with me.
Due to current events:
I suppose it's time to read the classics...
"we taught a horse how to code" is an unexpectedly good way to describe the current moment in software development
Is there a book on the management practices of Bell Labs in its heyday, from the 50's to the 70's ? Things like project management, career ladders, promotions, etc...
cc @apenwarr.ca
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
― Frank Herbert, Dune
cassidoo.co/post/good-br...
New blog post, with a perhaps mildly unpopular opinion: jayconrod.com/posts/133/in...
This video about why elevators are so much more expensive to install and maintain in North America than the rest of the developed world is fantastic. (Hint: it's a solvable policy problem!)
youtu.be/Or1_qVdekYM?...
This sounds like a problem of labeling and filtering, or working around Reddit's lack thereof.
The silent watcher's fireplace videos (and other videos) are good. youtube.com/@thesilentwa...
Out of family experience. External surfaces like flooring, stairs, rails, door and windows frames are made to order to millimeter tolerance, not off the shelf; but in general, nothing gets cut or fabricated on site.
Yet in Europe they're never field measured. Always prefabricated.
Consumer Reports reliability ranking by brand, with Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda taking the top three spots, and Ram, Jeep, and Tesla taking the bottom three spots. Tesla's bottom-ranked score of 31 is less than half of Lexus's 77.
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
It's in many ways cognitively lesser.
Nope, not at all.
