Mike walks a fine line where he's almost a superhero. In terms of just how good he is. Then again, maybe understandable, since he's a veteran ex cop in the midst of tweakers, junkies, madmen, and generally people not…
Stewart's 2010 Macbeth is one of my favorites ever put to the big screen, for "The Scottish Play" anyway. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, touches McKellan's 1995 Richard III in my eyes, for Shakespeare in cinema.…
We become what we pretend to be.
There's been a resurgence of that in contemporary big budget SF. The Martian. Project Hail Mary. For All Mankind and The Expanse on TV.
Because then daddy can make the scary people go away.
Fifteen years ago, yes, maybe your movie ingestion would have given you unrealistic expectations. However, today, every segment in the pipeline of judice -- LEO to PA/DA[1] to judiciary to BoPs -- is utterly subverted…
"Hubris: Redux" is a pretty good description of my entire career. The high points, anyway. The parts worth remembering. Something I am taking away from this, is every optimization he makes here, takes away from the…
One very very useful but underused application of graph theory (and its application of network theory): configuration management. In a hardware manufacturing setting, particularly a new or "garage" sort of shop doing…
I've mentioned this before, but . . . these systems were ALL originally conceived by the security state as tools for surveillance and propaganda, and for control. With a hitherto-unknown-and-probably-unknowable amount…
Flock's value proposition is essentially Uber's, except instead of evading taxi regs Flock lets your LEOs evade the need to get warrants.
In the immortal words of Achewood's Cornelius T. Bear: "Welcome to the only Game in Town"
Even if the fruits aren't quite ripe yet! Eh? Eh? honks clown nose
Yeah Paged is my go-to for CSS PMM at the moment. When PMM does hit browsers - if it ever does - it'll probably be some sort of transpile of Paged. Plus the stuff you can't really do just from JS/TS.
Go talk to the browser vendors and have them roll in the CSS L3 PMM[1] specs, which have been in draft for . . . let's see here . . . oh, huh, two decades. I guarantee the instant - the millisecond - that CSS PMM goes…
"Art from Adversity" is the idiom that comes to mind. You can poke around and watch the principle in action, particularly in the art of cinema. Many lesser directors often end up with "lightning in a bottle" -- aka a…
Individual humans are - on average - empathic, brave, and rather surprisingly clever. Large groups of social primates, on the other hand, are capable of cruelties so depraved the contemplation of which threatens to…
Seen through this lens the AI bubble make more sense - even if not very much. I suspect it is at least partially a ploy to exchange USD-denominated securities for control of land, of electrical power, of clean water -…
"Corruption" isn't quite the right scale to use for this. Far deeper, more systemic. Much more equivalent to phenomenon surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union: liquidation of an entire state's infrastructure via…
These systems were ALL originally conceived as surveillance and propaganda tools, with a hitherto-unknown-and-probably-unknowable amount of Cold War Leftover/GWoT black money poured into them to get them scaled before…
It took me a little while to recover from the name. I'm not an in-the-know cyber kind of guy, so maybe those guys are like the U.N. of hackers. But it's really hard to think about this story without at least cracking a…
Is that a direct quote? Reading it feels like a training simulator for blunt force head trauma. A car company is just like a . . low earth orbiter . . which is just like a server farm. I mean, ok, I get what he's saying…
Been waiting a long time for CSS inherit() . . . although I freely admit that (and CSS Functions) open a respectable-sized can of worms. Sort of like what transclusion and conditionals do for document markup. Anchor…
Now you know how much testing happens in defense systems. Or, more accurately, the quality of the testing regime, in defense systems. That said, totally agree. There's no way this was fueled from actual concern. They're…
A theoretical scenario: I am a company in the united states making missile seekers. My software guys say, hey, the imaging infrared seeker is like a zillion percent harder to fool if it has this tiny LLM brain that we…
This is also the word inside Defense sector contractors as well. No PRC origin anything - no code, OSS or no, no open weight models, no assistance from them. No regs set in stone yet, but DoD doesn't need regs - they…
Mike walks a fine line where he's almost a superhero. In terms of just how good he is. Then again, maybe understandable, since he's a veteran ex cop in the midst of tweakers, junkies, madmen, and generally people not…
Stewart's 2010 Macbeth is one of my favorites ever put to the big screen, for "The Scottish Play" anyway. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, touches McKellan's 1995 Richard III in my eyes, for Shakespeare in cinema.…
We become what we pretend to be.
There's been a resurgence of that in contemporary big budget SF. The Martian. Project Hail Mary. For All Mankind and The Expanse on TV.
Because then daddy can make the scary people go away.
Fifteen years ago, yes, maybe your movie ingestion would have given you unrealistic expectations. However, today, every segment in the pipeline of judice -- LEO to PA/DA[1] to judiciary to BoPs -- is utterly subverted…
"Hubris: Redux" is a pretty good description of my entire career. The high points, anyway. The parts worth remembering. Something I am taking away from this, is every optimization he makes here, takes away from the…
One very very useful but underused application of graph theory (and its application of network theory): configuration management. In a hardware manufacturing setting, particularly a new or "garage" sort of shop doing…
I've mentioned this before, but . . . these systems were ALL originally conceived by the security state as tools for surveillance and propaganda, and for control. With a hitherto-unknown-and-probably-unknowable amount…
Flock's value proposition is essentially Uber's, except instead of evading taxi regs Flock lets your LEOs evade the need to get warrants.
In the immortal words of Achewood's Cornelius T. Bear: "Welcome to the only Game in Town"
Even if the fruits aren't quite ripe yet! Eh? Eh? honks clown nose
Yeah Paged is my go-to for CSS PMM at the moment. When PMM does hit browsers - if it ever does - it'll probably be some sort of transpile of Paged. Plus the stuff you can't really do just from JS/TS.
Go talk to the browser vendors and have them roll in the CSS L3 PMM[1] specs, which have been in draft for . . . let's see here . . . oh, huh, two decades. I guarantee the instant - the millisecond - that CSS PMM goes…
"Art from Adversity" is the idiom that comes to mind. You can poke around and watch the principle in action, particularly in the art of cinema. Many lesser directors often end up with "lightning in a bottle" -- aka a…
Individual humans are - on average - empathic, brave, and rather surprisingly clever. Large groups of social primates, on the other hand, are capable of cruelties so depraved the contemplation of which threatens to…
Seen through this lens the AI bubble make more sense - even if not very much. I suspect it is at least partially a ploy to exchange USD-denominated securities for control of land, of electrical power, of clean water -…
"Corruption" isn't quite the right scale to use for this. Far deeper, more systemic. Much more equivalent to phenomenon surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union: liquidation of an entire state's infrastructure via…
These systems were ALL originally conceived as surveillance and propaganda tools, with a hitherto-unknown-and-probably-unknowable amount of Cold War Leftover/GWoT black money poured into them to get them scaled before…
It took me a little while to recover from the name. I'm not an in-the-know cyber kind of guy, so maybe those guys are like the U.N. of hackers. But it's really hard to think about this story without at least cracking a…
Is that a direct quote? Reading it feels like a training simulator for blunt force head trauma. A car company is just like a . . low earth orbiter . . which is just like a server farm. I mean, ok, I get what he's saying…
Been waiting a long time for CSS inherit() . . . although I freely admit that (and CSS Functions) open a respectable-sized can of worms. Sort of like what transclusion and conditionals do for document markup. Anchor…
Now you know how much testing happens in defense systems. Or, more accurately, the quality of the testing regime, in defense systems. That said, totally agree. There's no way this was fueled from actual concern. They're…
A theoretical scenario: I am a company in the united states making missile seekers. My software guys say, hey, the imaging infrared seeker is like a zillion percent harder to fool if it has this tiny LLM brain that we…
This is also the word inside Defense sector contractors as well. No PRC origin anything - no code, OSS or no, no open weight models, no assistance from them. No regs set in stone yet, but DoD doesn't need regs - they…