@andrybak

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I like interesting facts and podcasts.

I'm most interested in software development and cosmology.

he/him

Sitehttps://andrybak.dev/
GitHubhttps://github.com/rybak/

"I have a really good ~/.XCompose file" -- thcipriani

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Tony Hoare (1934-2026)

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

I've been going to conferences for 20 years. Not one person I've spoken to enjoyed the loud music during socials. In fact, almost everyone tells me that they'd rather have no music at all. They just want to have conversations with other people.
One of the more overlooked (but no less insidious) aspects of AI is its purpose to deskill the workforce. Workers are much easier to exploit if they no longer know how to code, design, engineer, write, or even think. Labor has much less power without skill.
@s0 Getting the metajoke out of the way now.

"I wish I had a good project to work on"

*Stares at pile of unfinished projects*

"No not like that"

I've finally put together a dedicated web page about the Village Building Game I'm working on! It

🟩 Reflects on the origins of this idea ✨
🟧 Touches on my gamedev history πŸ—’οΈ
🟦 Describes my vision of this project πŸ’‘
πŸŸ₯ Hints at the expected timeline πŸ•—

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/projects/village-builder.html

Village Builder Game

lisyarus blog
I really have to wonder what it says about the world that so many people in middle management and the world more generally have a clear revealed preference for slop.
Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.