Alex Sikora
@alexsikora.bsky.social
iOS engineer/👧👶/🐕🦺🐶 /☕️☕️/📸 Also: @axxl@mastodon.social
The project manager could have saved himself some grief by saying what actually happened, which is that the standard archaeological process was followed: evaluation revealed Bronze Age features so the cable was re-routed slightly to avoid them, as confirmed by a strip, map and record exercise
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 2w agoinsane quote
The library of Alexandria was a time heist set up by frontier labs to get access to untainted training material and then destroy it for copyright reasons.
The world's about to get a lot more cyberpunk when people are smuggling AIs around the world and what not
My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning
I have a weird fascination listening to sequential podcasts that begin before Covid and seeing that perspective as it hits and impacts basically everything.
If I had to summarize myself in a single GIF it would probably be this one
B. Prendergast@renderg.host · last mo.If I had to summarize myself in a single GIF it would probably be this one
I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked with it on a plan, then it made it happen. You can play it here: annals-kingdom.netlify.app
You'll be notified when New Siri is available for your iPhone
Apple Image playgrounds autogenerated some images for me. For the most part that's ok. But it also used pictures of people. It then asked me if I wanted to see them but it should ask before it uses them at all. Under the square is an altered photo of my child
I drove past a car with the license plate "JUNE07" which was a little bit mind bending
"Gemini remove leg" *robot kicks down your door with a chainsaw* "No no no not like this!"
Give a person a game engine and they'll eventually deliver a game. Teach them to make a game engine and they'll never deliver anything ever again
Who called it ram swapping not cache me ousside howbow dah
austin@aparker.io · 4mo agowho decided to call it speculative execution and not cache me if you can
Also AOL literally mailing everyone on the planet free internet CDs
Andrew Turley@aturls.bsky.social · 4mo agoAdam was 15 or 16 in 1999 so with respect I'm not sure I completely trust his recollection on this topic I worked at a teleresearch company in the mid 90s making calls on behalf of Sprint for their soon-to-be launched PCS service and I can tell you that at that time the (US) public was not sold
A previous attempt to release a cheap Apple portable with a keyboard for education and mild computing use cases except that time they shipped it with their touch based operating system... the Newton EMate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 I got to play with one my dad got for cheap and it felt so cool
eMate 300 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I've just published a first version of an Agent Skill for iOS Accessibility. I first learned about Agent Skills from a video by @avanderlee.com and he suggested someone should do one for accessibility. So I did. A few thoughts on what it is, what it isn't, in the thread. github.com/dadederk/iOS...
GitHub - dadederk/iOS-Accessibility-Agent-Skill: Add expert iOS Accessibility Best Practices guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format).
Add expert iOS Accessibility Best Practices guidance to your AI coding tool (Agent Skills open format). - dadederk/iOS-Accessibility-Agent-Skill
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It's an odd feeling when I go to look for an email by search and it arrives in between when I'm looking at my inbox and when the search completes.
Petition to ban the members of congress from using nannies, spouses, or any other method of childcare on the days after daylight savings switch so they can feel the full pain of what they could easily resolve.
Idle thought: Current LLM agents are the closest construct we have to a memetic organism.
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The new crew member asked if I needed anything. I said yes, a stick, specifically one that has never existed. They looked confused. I looked at the infinite void of space. We are both working through it.
