1/ We won. Elon is going to step down. Worth thinking through the next big lie Elon is going to tell. That Twitter was going to go bankrupt before he bought it. This is another lie. Let’s look at the numbers. My sourcing is The Wall Street Journal.

cnbc.com/video/2023/01/…

"As geeks we now seem to be stuck in a perpetual anti-hype cycle, where Silicon Valley ... sell[s] the world on a new 'disruptive' thing and all of the sane people have to point out why that thing does not and can never do what is promised of it." dznz.substack.com/p/not-making-a…

Every company has tech debt, but Twitter 1.0 had extensively invested (pioneered even) many mechanisms to safely test and deploy changes (including many types of config changes) in prod. Guess all those thousands of engineers were actually doing something worthwhile, after all.

Ok Silicon Valley bros just got bailed out. Now come the lies about how this is not actually a bailout and no taxpayer money was used. Wheeee!

Now that I have my tooling and workflows in place, I'm having the most fun creating images and animations for Creative Scala. Check it out!: creativescala.org/creative-scala…

Bicycle – ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

An absolutely brilliant critique of longtermism by Dr. Alice Crary. I highly recommend it! So nice to see other philosophers sounding the alarm about how dangerous and deeply flawed the longtermist ideology is. Again, very highly recommended: radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/the…

All of this would be appalling but essentially not worth commenting on if it wasn't gaining influential ground in the real world. The best person by far on all of this is Dr. Émile P. Torres 🛑. Their work to understand and untangle longtermism has been brilliant salon.com/2022/08/20/und…

Scala's immutable HashMap implementation is based on the CHAMP data structure, developed by Michael J. Steindorfer in his OOPSLA paper michael.steindorfer.name/publications/o… 🧵(1/7)

Transparent inlines are fully supported in Metals so let's take a look at a small library Paweł Marks, the S3 compiler team lead, is working on in spare time: github.com/Kordyjan/pytan… Here's an interpolated graphql query that generates types as it's parsed. 2/

I am very sad to inform this place, which he pretty much hated, that official parody of David Golumbia died this morning. Any of his friends can contact me for further information. The love he shared with his friends and his brilliant research and writing are his legacy.

"YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND BE HAPPY." - World Economic Forum. Comment by Yann LeCun, head of AI (Meta). This is the end game right here. Its a war for the human soul.

How AI is changing gymnastics judging technologyreview.com/2024/01/16/108…

For digital microscopes, the "magnification rate" is an illusion. If you have a home projector, you can easily get >600x.

Haniebna decyzja o umorzeniu śledztwa ws. śmierci Jolanty Brzeskiej. Uzasadnienie, które nie wyklucza samobójstwa jeszcze bardziej bulwersuje. Ukręcenie śledztwa na oczach całego państwa to dowód na to, że elity dla pieniędzy mogą w Polsce zrobić wszystko i pozostać bezkarne.

"Self driving car is essentially solved (...)" - Marc Andreessen in a discussion with Peter Thiel in 2013.

I don't know, that "we can also" seems pretty incriminating.

Mili Państwo, od jutra do 8 maja nie będzie działał reaktor MARIA. Powód? Wygasa licencja Państwowej Agencji Atomistyki, a proces wydania nowej nie został ukończony. Oznacza to, że przez ponad miesiąc jedyny działający w Polsce reaktor jądrowy nie będzie produkował molibdenu-99

“If our civilization is destroyed, . . . it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. Our great moneymakers have sprung in one generation into seats of power kings do not know. . . . Without restraints of culture or experience, the pride or even the