“The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe”: this article is not only very good, it also has at least one extremely quotable line in every fucking paragraph. Amazing work.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
We have so many internal codenames for various projects at work that, for fun, I invented two new semi-fake codenames and started using them in status updates. Now waiting to see if anybody asks what these are…
It’s time… the house renovation is done for the living room and dining room, so I get to bring all the TTRPG boxes back and have a Christmas Day of opening the best gifts to myself!
🪐 Cosmic horror: when you’re faced with the irrelevance of the human race in the scale of the cosmos, and the uncaring forces and entities that rule it.
😱 Lovecraftian horror: when you realize one of your favourite authors is actually super problematic.
Know the difference!
One of my kids is joining the D&D club at his high-school after I thought he was rather uninterested in TTRPGs…. Yay! 🤞🏽🎉
We’ve had a house renovation going on for more than a month, and my motivation for anything creative has been zero during that time, but in the past couple days I managed to gather up enough energy to do some sketching…
“Canada eliminated measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27”
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You know that cautionary tale about an artificial intelligence meant to make paperclips that destroys the world in order to maximize paperclips? Well apparently it was actually about humans like Sam Altman and half a dozen other CEOs.
That awkward moment when your dog disappears in the bushes, you call him, and he comes back with a brown tongue and an absolutely horrible breath… 😬
“A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents.”
Oh noooo, how could anyone have seen this coming? Maybe the UK government is actually full of morons?