Ivan Sagalaev 

@isagalaev
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Programmer, software architect, mentor.

Sammamish, WA

Flag: https://whitebluewhite.info/

Web sitehttps://softwaremaniacs.org/
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603,628 reasons to fight for that's the total area of #Ukraine in square kilometres.

Every single one matters.

Discover #WhatWeAreFightingFor through 26 powerful stories

https://ukraine.ua/regions-of-ukraine/

I (and several other people I know) have observed that autism-spectrum people are more averse to LLMs than NT people.

It was pointed out to me that for NT programmers, LLMs turn a necessary intermediate step – structuring your thinking so it's suitable for writing code – into something that has "productive output". I can see how if you need to do that extra thinking, a tool that "helps" with it can be useful.

Likewise, it's hard to see the value in something that does work I don't need to do.

As a home #cook, it is a great validation to hear from your teenager, after being back home from a week of vacation, "Finally we can eat normal food again!" You don't hear a lot of nice things from them at this age.
"It has SOME jalapeños, but it's not spicy!" - how you know you're at an Indian festival.

"If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed."

Yes. That's the point.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Ars Technica
@tomf oh, they removed the flag… Come to think of it, may be its purpose there was exactly to cover the unsightly rust spot :-)
@kevinbowen TIL about Point Roberts.
It's funny to hear managers saying that coders need to embrace AI to survive, because in my experience every actually useful new technology has gotten into the organization either by coders smuggling it in under managers' noses, or forcing it in over managers' loud and direct opposition
@NosirrahSec @Jeanniewarner @rrb @pluralistic I believe most managers know that. Which is why they want to replace us with AI: in their minds we are workers who jump way above our station.
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A little webpage thing: shader animation with sliders to play with
https://bleuje.com/js_sketches/impossible-split-scan/