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Dan Hugo
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mastodon 4.7.3Engineer in Las Vegas, working on cool projects;
Managing Director Innovate for Vegas Foundation;
Maker of Friends, Friend of Makers
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Joined November 26, 2022
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I haven't used it, I just noted that it is built on nostr when I started seeing it show up in the CodeTuber space, and if Jack is involved, it's gotta be trouble.
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Why learn anything anymore?
"I stopped using CAD software and let Claude design my 3D parts instead" https://www.makeuseof.com/stopped-using-cad-claude-design-3d-parts/
I have seen mentions here and there of AI tools used to maybe establish comms with whales and dolphins (Day of The Dolphin but without George C Scott, perhaps), is anyone working on enabling them to vibe code?
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One of my colleagues back in the day was employee 104 at Apple, said Woz was the real deal.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5
It's too bad there isn't some markup that is like a superset of html where a schema could be defined and documents could be validated, with an existing pile of libraries and utilities that are focused on data structure over human readable documents.
Bummer.
"Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | Claude" https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html
Maybe the bubble is made of cardboard 🤔
"Arizona students construct a full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history | TechRadar" https://www.techradar.com/pro/neurodivergent-teacher-uses-dyscalculia-superpower-to-recreate-full-scale-whale-sized-replica-of-worlds-first-programmable-digital-computer-21st-century-eniac-used-almost-3-000-sq-ft-of-cardboard-and-nasas-artemis-ii-may-be-his-next-big-challenge
Well at least they'll increase the supply of consumer DDR5 ram and—oh really?
The bubble needs feeding, the rest go thirsty…
Spotted on LinkedIn.
So do we still need to show up anymore for anything?
Three Day Weekends
"Bosses don’t like the sound of a ‘four-day workweek’. Maybe it’s time to rebrand it | Gene Marks | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/four-day-workweek-employment
Wait until the day GPAs suffer the bubble popping…
"Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% - Ars Technica" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
This may explain JavaScript framework proliferation…
"Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-millennia-ago-humans-may-have-spoken-thousands-more-languages-than-we-have-today-during-a-linguistic-golden-age-180989197/
Ah, I see what you did there Headline Editor…
"Chinese Orbiter Pulverizes Starlink with a 2-Watt Laser Beam Fired from 36,000KM Above Earth" https://indiandefencereview.com/chinese-satellite-laser-downlink-beats-starlink/
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@crazyeddie @nixCraft
Hmm.
Would have accepted
ln -s penis klitoris
or sometimes
ln penis klitoris
unionized or unionized…
I thought this article was about something else entirely.
"Virtual Environments Are Changing the Way We Experience Architecture | ArchDaily" https://www.archdaily.com/1054064/virtual-environments-are-changing-the-way-we-experience-architecture
Guess what's legal in Nye county?
Shouldn't be data centers…
I’ve been saying this the whole time
https://engineering.grab.com/one-click-data-ingestion-platform-with-apache-flink
Prime calls out Microsoft adding the Fourth E to GitHub (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, and the fourth is courtesy of @pluralistic@mamot.fr , if you don’t know go grab the book).
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Your good news for the day:
There are about 2 billion people on the planet who still know what Friend, Like, and Follow mean, and they are the better for it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1131780/stratospheric-internet-take-off/
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Why did it not complete? No idea. There was no indication that there was an error, the transfer just stopped/paused, but there was no restarting it, nor determining where the transfer had stopped (other than checking item by item via Activity).
rsync over diff may have been better, the number of differences is small, google disappoints again.
Probably several reasons…
https://san.com/cc/new-study-suggests-bees-can-count-but-researchers-arent-entirely-sure-why/
Um, isn't software engineering an AI thing now?
"Pentagon launches ‘War Force’ campaign in push for software engineers" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/07/06/pentagon-launches-war-force-campaign-in-push-for-software-engineers/
I think this already exists, doesn't it?
Customers…
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/new-device-could-help-spot-problems-power-grid.amp
It looks like somebody was delayed getting this April 1 article published…
"Amazon targets mass hiring with agentic software, goal to humanize AI | Reuters" https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-targets-mass-hiring-with-agentic-software-goal-humanize-ai-2026-04-28/
This was also true with the FPU bug, wasn't it?
"Intel reportedly says it boosted yields by selling what would normally be 'scrap' or 'low-expectation' CPUs — customers more willing to accept lesser chips due to overwhelming CPU demand | Tom's Hardware" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-reportedly-says-it-boosted-yields-by-selling-what-would-normally-be-scrap-or-low-expectation-cpus-customers-more-willing-to-accept-lesser-chips-due-to-overwhelming-cpu-demand
Give them time around you, marca
https://www.aol.com/articles/marc-andreessen-says-ai-coding-085901000.html
Hmm, will the PostgreSQL logo be an elephant from the other end, responding in kind to Gemini Slop PRs?
"Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work" https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/05/18/google-tells-database-devs-to-lean-hard-on-ai-for-postgresql-work/5238070
Hopefully it was really good pasta…
"Target LEGO Scam: Jarrelle Augustine Arrested Swapping Pasta for LEGOs" https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/target-lego-scam-jarrelle-augustine-arrested-swapping-pasta-for-legos
As long as a human has done it previously and made that work accessible to model training…
"Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code? | Hackaday" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/19/can-claude-write-z80-assembly-code/
We can accelerate the forgetting with AI!
"NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s" https://spacedaily.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-voyager-spacecraft-code-in-a-1970s-era-programming-language-that-almost-nobody-on-earth-fully-understands-anymore-and-the-handful-of-engineers-who-do-are-now-in-their/
Ah yes, people who know what they’re doing are finally in charge…
"The Trump administration is now dictating access to frontier AI models" https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/17/white-house-ai-access-anthropic-openai.html
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@mistersql@mastodon.social
Buzz is built on/with nostr, so it will get a little bump in the near term as Buzz appears to be generating a lot of, uh, you know.
Could I get funding to create a physical space for private and semi-private social networking workout algorithms, but with coffee and snacks?
I'm going to need about $10M
"Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/yope-raises-12-3m-to-build-a-private-social-network-without-algorithms-or-ads/
Will they treat open source models as non-threatening, or is this a move back toward technology as munitions… Whitehouse PDF Link.
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NSTM-4.pdf
So they're going to block everybody from Nevada after their attempts to block everybody from Nevada from using the platform failed.
Is there some way we can wager on this?
I assume fishduck is completely legit.
https://fishduck.com/2026/07/kalshi-agrees-to-fully-exit-nevada-after-geoblocking-failures-exposed/
Is this really something that is tracked as a record to break? We have no properties.
"A Lego 'Project Hail Mary' set just soared into the stratosphere, breaking the Guinness World Record for highest flight | Space" https://www.space.com/entertainment/a-lego-project-hail-mary-set-just-soared-into-the-stratosphere-breaking-the-guinness-world-record-for-highest-flight
Not In My Backyard, but how about in the side yard, next to my extra catalytic converters?
Which parts are NOT stolen?
"‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/03/this-is-fine-creator-says-ai-startup-stole-his-art/
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"Amazon Introduces New Alexa+ Feature for Producing AI-Generated Podcast Episodes"
https://people.com/amazon-new-feature-on-alexa-ai-generated-podcast-episodes-11978244
This is actually interesting and a little weird, but questions are raised, to be sure.
"Mammals cannot be cloned infinitely, Japanese mouse study shows - The Japan Times" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/15/japan/science-health/mammals-cannot-be-cloned-infinitely/
Will your LLM of choice advise you if its advice or suggestions or business plan or whatever is the result of this training data?
“That's a great question, you're so awesome! Here is a suggestion, which comes from a source less awesome, so consider doing the opposite!”
The best time was a hundred years ago.
Second best time is now…
"There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/computer-science-major-coding-ai/687279/
I asked [insert your favorite AI chat tool] whether these various AI Prognosticators are providing real insight, the response:
“That is a great question! You will find out soon enough…”