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I love computers. When people say "Computers were a mistake!" it makes me sad.
But it's had to blame people. The direction computers have gone in, the experience people largely have had, is a loss of agency and empowerment.
How do we bring that back, and do better than ever even?
Very proud of Harvard today. Stand up! ✊
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
I just got a “happy birthday” text from the oral surgery clinic where I got a root canal. In 2011.
Databases were a mistake.
Just to be clear, because a bunch of assholes have hijacked public perception and lifted up some of the worst people on Earth as exemplars of what the “tech world” is supposed to be:
I’ve been in the software world for decades, surrounded by thoughftul, creative, and humane people with whom I’ve formed many wonderful friendships and done meaningful work. That’s possible. It’s normal, even.
You don’t have to become a sociopath to make it in the tech world. Or a malignant narcissist. Or a Nazi.
Your instincts to be a decent person are good instincts. Don’t let anyone talk you into being an antisocial monster. You don’t have to be.
Some of my quantitative quiz questions in a cryptography course appear to be safe from DeepSeek because it refuses to brute-force results or check its work. 😄
Python disagrees with you, hoss:
>>> pow(2, 18393, 164987) == 80662
False
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