Mastodawn

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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felixlinker 4d ago

occult 4d ago

Watching the livestream of the Artemis II launch, I just witnessed one of the astronauts type in the password on their tablet while sitting in the capsule on camera.

#ArtemisII #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #InfoSec #cybersecurity #OpSec #Privacy #SpaceExploration

felixlinker 6d ago

ML-DSA standard contains the word "bit" 256 times. Coincidence? I think not!

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.204.pdf

felixlinker Mar 30

Dan Luu Mar 30

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

felixlinker Mar 9

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Frédéric Jacobs Mar 9

What a great set of awardees for the #Levchin prize 2026

🏆 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for the invention (and publication 🤭) of Public Key Cryptography 🔐

🏆 The Tamarin team for the developement of the Tamarin prover and its use in verifying security protocols

Well-deserved 👏

#RealWorldCrypto

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felixlinker Feb 12

@sophieschmieg One wonders whether 59% of executives estimating something about the quantum AI teaches us more about the likelihood of quantum AI or more about 59% of executives.

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felixlinker Feb 10

@bmaxv @stf I also use "[] is primary"/"() is secondary" as a mental model. Never occurred to me this might be unintuitive for some.

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Jeff Atwood Jan 28

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felixlinker Jan 26

@filippo Using AI to generate test cases for my current project, and it's just so valuable. Would have never done that on my own. Especially because the cost of setting up the entire testing pipeline is often quite high for me (remembering or learning a testing framework).

I use QuickCheck for Haskell, i.e., I test invariants on my code with random inputs. It's so nice to describe the expected invariants in natural language and have them almost ready to test.

felixlinker Jan 12

Nikolas Papaioannou - n0k0 Jan 12

Honey wake up, new windows activation key just dropped

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00002467.pdf

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