lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

Had to work around the "SmartDetect" feature that Vitamix has to make it work again.

Quoting Daniel Stenberg I decided that instead of trying to do this the best and optimal way – I shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good – I would start out by doing the things I know how to do and take it as far as I can one step at a time.

Interesting quote from a John Carmack tweet (xcancel link) When failure is not an option, success can stay very expensive.

In a recent interview, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, signaled a shift in tone.

From the Bloomberg opinion piece: America Is Depleting a More Powerful Weapon Than Its Missiles (the answer is: belief in the truth of what the leader of the US tells the world about the war, peace and everything else.) an interesting tit-bit: Contrary to…

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-tags-wasps An ultralightweight radio-frequency tag designed to be worn by a paper wasp may help scientists get a glimpse at some basic behavioral information that’s long been missing: where do the animals go when they leave the

Interesting reflection from , John Palfrey after attending the AI summit in Delhi: In Delhi, the big sessions had thousands.

Sage advice from scripting.com A bit of general advice about using ChatGPT et al, never let it rush you.

From The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis: A Thought Exercise In Financial History, From The Future What follows is a scenario, not a prediction. [...]

Mind blown by this sneakiness Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious web…

From AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it Here's the thing that broke my brain for a while: AI genuinely makes individual tasks faster.

From https://charity.wtf/2026/01/19/bring-back-ops-pride-xpost/ What’s wrong with operations?

From Martin Fowler : One attendee is an SRE for a Very (Very) Large Code Base.

Photo by Lukas Kienzler on Unsplash I spent years losing time I'll never get back.