Microservices

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Stop calling them data centres, start calling them zones of thought

Real. Not to mention the writing: “Stones, attached to sticks (or spears), are how Stone Age people fought wars” “roughly half that diameter area” “Power plants require electricity to function” “Ohio-class submariners […] only an insane person would want to be on the receiving end of its wrath”

Caz@timberwind.bsky.social · 3d ago

I read Nuclear War: A Scenario shortly after it came out and found myself totally baffled by what people saw in it. The scenario is like Call Of Duty game level fantastical - NK has magic SOSUS evading subs and uses them to launch Exactly Two missiles, one at a random power plant in CA.

open.substack.com/pub/stoates/... I spent some time walking around Sydney and wrote about how its social contract is exposed to SK Hynix and why its architecture might be underrated despite the Opera House.

Review: Sydney

The lizard sunning itself at the end of history

open.substack.com

everyone loves the scramblers from famous novel blindsight, but in these days of nascent cognitive augmentation, I think we should also be thoughtfully contemplating the bicamerals from famous sequel echopraxia

So what’s next after math? More bio?

I think Jasmine Sun is right that SV struggles to sell the upside of AI to the rest of society because the SV utopia (no work, immortality, etc) is actually very unpopular.

Kylee Peña@kyl33t.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m an AI optimist but Meta’s new ad looks like one of the fake ads from Silicon Valley youtu.be/JlRgRmAqoAc?...

The fact that there’s enough of a market for travelators that they exist, but you only encounter them in very specific places like airports, is interesting

brennan@brennan.computer · 2w ago

I've been walking this hallway for close to three hours now no end in sight

Consider the impact you could have by doing this to JUST Microsoft outlook. Straight to utilitarian giga heaven.

brennan@brennan.computer · 2w ago

also, this is true for most software we could live in a world that simply does not have loading bars or wait times for most actions, and yet we're still here

Obsession but it’s a guy getting turned into an influencer overnight by GPT-6

ver 🗿@ver.ooo · 2w ago

you type "I want girls to pay more attention to me" and your agent hacks into instagram to change the algorithm

Red teaming the nas with fable just to feel something

There should be a term for words like “nourishment” that get used a lot in eg food packaging because they lack legal specificity

"Saccades, they’re called. Blurs the image. The movement’s way too fast for the brain to integrate, so your eye just—shuts down between pauses. [...]” He turned to face me. “And you know what’s really amazing? If something only moves during the gaps, your brain just—ignores it. It’s invisible.”"

IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 3w ago

This drone hides in plain sight. Phantom Twist, from Northwestern, spins at up to 25 Hz so human eyes smear it into a transparent blur. An optimizer searched ~20,000 configurations to find the stealthiest layout—one no human designer would have landed on. #robotics

Just found out that Stanford offers an interactive tool telling you how long and costly a particular trip would have been during the Roman Empire and I am positively devastated that it appears @andreamatranga.bsky.social had nothing to do with it orbis.stanford.edu

impt q for ai diffusion: what gets the biggest gains from always bothering to do the last 20% of effort

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 4w ago

maybe rust & typescript being more popular in the LLM era spells final victory for strongly-typed languages & indicates that many people just didn't like them because type-safe code "felt" more onerous to write (bc of time horizons). now that we have machines that write code for us, type safety wins

maybe rust & typescript being more popular in the LLM era spells final victory for strongly-typed languages & indicates that many people just didn't like them because type-safe code "felt" more onerous to write (bc of time horizons). now that we have machines that write code for us, type safety wins

underrepresented in SF: early space economies driven by distribution economics. Ceres, close asteroids, Phobos, Deimos, Luna, L points. Mars ignored because bootstrapping the surface economy is too hard. Eg today, much iron comes from western Aus despite its isolation because shipping is cheap.

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm talking about moon steel. steel made on the moon. why would you want to build steel on the moon? shipping costs. it's closer to a lot of places than earth by rocket, so, you know, it *is* like a gravel pit

Sydney ferry seat pattern See also: leaf cells, deed maps