Dan Slimmon

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your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

They seem kinda mad about how much of their work was discarded in building Clippy 😅 Lumière put a lot of effort into trying to guess *whether* a user needed help at the current moment… Clippy not so much

Just finished reading this fascinating Microsoft Research paper from 1998 about "Lumière," a project which directly informed Clippy. It presages many modern difficulties with automated help agents and AI systems arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7385

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

1. Find an important problem that you're passionate about solving
2. Get money from investors to solve that problem
3. Slowly realize that AI can't solve that problem
4. Now you better come up with some spin, because you're $30M in debt to Mark Andreesen

www.clcd.com/media/filer_...

Fantastic news: the tech industry has reinvented "quietly succumbing to censorship," with the modern twist that now you get to pay a fee to them

Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

In the last 30 years, digital technology ran out of ways to make people's lives substantively better. Now it's just a market where we can trade our old problems for newer problems at a terrible exchange rate

Is the world ready for an Internet-connected mattress that roasts you whenever AWS goes down, and also sometimes pisses itself? WE DECIDE!

On this ep, learn about:

- The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs
- What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside
- The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE

Dog got my 5-year-old's toy. Had to tell her, "It's okay, the giraffe is just shedding its neck"

Energizer: We have an incredible new feature that's going to change the way you use batteries!
Duracell: No, WE have an incredible new feature!
The public: (visibly not listening)

love to pay $16.51 for two waters in disposable cans. love this hell world

I am one with the ever shifting lineup of dudes waiting for their girlfriends and wives to come out of the concert venue ladies' room

😳

Hot off the podcast presses! Part 2 of the wireless headphones episode is OUT: techblows.net/2 Learn about:

- Ether landlords
- The demise of the iPhone aux jack
- Why wireless headphones will never sync right

This broken tech industry can give us unlimited things we don't want, but not the 1 thing that we DO want: a pill that makes your farts smell like gingerbread and its called "Toot Sweet"

are we… married to "quishing" #qrcodes #security

what in the Mandela effect is this?? #microsoft #msoffice #productivity

TIL the first translatlantic radio transmission was just, "Ssssssssss".

"The good news is: our invention works. The bad news is, the snakes have finally taken Britain"

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Problems due to wireless headphones:
- You have to charge their batteries
- The right and left channels can desync
- They break and get lost sooner
- They can't be repaired
- Sometimes Bluetooth connects to the wrong thing

Problems due to wired headphones:
- haha cable go yoink

that's what i don't get about the llm bros

you don't buy bread at the store and say "it makes me feel like a baker."

it can't.

and how do you even know what a baker or tiktok creator feels like? you don't, bc you've never made anything.

the feeling they're feeling is pretend play

Introducing a new weekly podcast: TECHNOLOGY BLOWS. techblows.net/1 <= Listen to the first episode here!

In Part 1, we talk about: Mark Zuckerberg's dumb glasses; the theoretical polygamist who invented headphones; the 1/8" audio jack; the birth of the Sony Walkman… and so much more

war, war never changes.

Everyone loves Saint Vincent, obviously, but nobody ever talks about her backing band, the Grenadines

This was a blast, thanks!

This week's episode of the #BugBash podcast features @danslimmon.bsky.social on the relationship between quality and reliability, or, as he puts it, "when bugs aren't real." Some engineering philosophy for your evening commute.

Links in thread.

*furiously checks math* #amazonaws #s3