Hi @theguardian.com. Very disappointed to see that the passing of one of the most influential people in computing history, Prof Sir Tony Hoare, doesn't seem to have been reported.
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In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:
1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.
2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.
3. Energy Secretary deletes post.
4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.
Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.
More dates being added - but this is April/May/June book tour so far
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The Trump White House is gaslighting us again, this time over the massacre of scores of Iranian children by the U.S. military. Despite clear evidence of this, they are insisting that Iran bombed its own school. That’s a lie. My write-up in the replies.
A chat with a senior engineering leader this morning. Many thoughts about where their 1000+ team could improve things for the business.
"AI" not mentioned once. It hasn't come up in a single conversation with at that level recently.
This is quite possibly the most absurd moderation I've ever seen on social media.
At this point, why is anybody still thinking he's playing 4D chess? He doesn't even know what day of the week it is.
Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...
Looks like I've managed to get "blast radius" into the software engineering lexicon :-)
Compiling a list of frontier LLMs created in functioning democracies by companies not aligned to dictators.
It's quite a short list.
New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
I'm not sure. It seems to be coming from sources like Hacker News and Lobster. Nothing in mainstream tech news yet.
I'm seeing posts saying Tony Hoare has passed away. If that's true, that's sad news.
I've had the privelege of meeting him twice.
A country mile ahead of many of the "thought leaders" in computing and software engineering in the proceeding decades.
Feeling better today. Was unsure about going out, but very glad I did. Met with a good friend, had good food, and a good negroni.
Interested parties may wish to know that I can't access DMs on my mobile, and might have better luck with email :-)
So, today would have been my Mum's 80th birthday. It's been 12 years since she passed, and I'm normally pretty level-headed. But the wheels definitely came off this weekend.
Taking a time-out.
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
Always read Will's columns
Here's a gift link
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Dónal Finn completely steals every scene in Young Sherlock.
Back To Basics Sunday - The Traffic Lights of Continuous Integration
Green Light: Safe to push & pull
Amber Light: Wait to push or pull
Red Light: Stop the line!
SAFE, WAIT, STOP!
This is why I keep all by best dice throws in a safe
LinkedIn's this fictional land where "AI" is "completely transforming" software engineering, while everywhere I actually look, I see business as usual, only with a bit of autocomplete and the occasional "Claude, how do I...?"
But sure, they're doing the "agentic" stuff in secret bunkers.
"and you were below the waves"
I'm expected to believe now that businesses who are using "AI" extensively in their software development processes are keeping it a secret?
Visible/audible build status signals were all the rage in the early noughties.
I appreciate this is very basic stuff that you're all totally doing ;-)
