Eh, it's always been a mixed bag over there. Like spaghetti but also rat poison.

There's an important lesson you have to learn at a certain point in your career: how and when to say no.

In your early years, it makes sense to be the guy who scoops up the side quests. It's basically the best way to learn new skills and figure out what interests you.

When you reach a certain level of seniority, you'll need to be much more selective about what you take on. You should be focusing on the highest value work that your skills allow.

So what do you do when these requests come up? Ideally you delegate them to a junior team member, but you can also just say no. Obviously you should be professional about this, but it's perfectly reasonable to say that what you're doing is higher priority and you can't be distracted from it. If it's important, they'll ask someone else, and if it turns out you really are the only person who can do it, then you can pick it up when you, the expert, think it's appropriate.

I absolutely love some of Lynch's work but will openly confess that I have no idea what he was trying to tell me.

Uh, why the fuck would such a device ever be allowed on school property?

Thank you for creating creating content content!

Oh, so this is a "new generation bad" post. Great content, thanks for posting.

What? :(

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you're on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.

My company has been trying a new model when product folks cut through the red tape of "engineering" and just describe what they want to a powerful LLM pipeline and review the app in a beta env. Sounds perfect, right?

Dear reader, in the couple months this has been going on, these people have caused a dozen high profile SEVs due to extremely poor app performance, networking / kubernetes configuration bugs, bad scaling, observability oversights, supply chain attacks, leaking sensitive information, and cost overruns (on practically every resource they provision).

Some very well-paid people are scrambling to figure out the value that was generated by this pilot program; I'm heating up popcorn rather than holding my breath.

Holy hell, the fact that those slack messages and that chatbot history ended up in court is mind blowing. I guess we should be grateful that this time, the bad guy and his hamfisted "Project X" got put in the spotlight.

If a complete stranger reaches out for help, do it. Your future self will thank you.

Google's behavior in this debacle has been utterly shameful. They got caught with their dick in the pie and have spent 8 fucking years arguing that it was for the good of society.

Wait, so the DNA found near the rifle they found in the woods was inconclusive until they added someone else's DNA, and there were previously rumors that the rifle they found in the woods was not a match for the ballistic evidence recovered from the scene?

I'm not saying one way or another about the defendant, but the FBI and state are fucking the dog on this investigation.

Every place I've ever worked has tried to play cute with security researchers. I've never understood it. I've always called it out. But I keep fucking running into it!

Isn't it weird how when billionaires make more money "a rising tide raises all boats", but when the poorest make more money, suddenly there's extreme resource scarcity?

This is also ripe for a "so far" meme given the enormous number of omissions and redactions.

Truly a "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" moment.

We live in an unprecedented time where American technological hegemony is being rejected globally, but especially in Europe. People want performant, durable, respectful software offerings, and are increasingly looking away from the Valley and the Street for answers.

So let's jump on board with becoming part of the extended American surveillance state! Yee fucking haw.

The US attorney general is openly acting in contempt of federal courts. Wild.

As someone with previous defense connections, I'd been wondering when we'd see this.

ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having "visual" cues was further out because AI at the time wasn't up to the task.

The answer is the same, though. Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena'd by the ICC. At a minimum, they should be immediately sanctioned by foundry specialists (like ASML) until they are prepared to account for how, exactly, this tech ended up in a Russian missile.