A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few glasses of wine. Preserving it here, typos and all. I’m drunk and I’ll probably regret this, but here’s a drunken rank of things I’ve learned as an engineer for the past 10 years. pour another glass sip Oops I’m out of wine. Crap I’m out of wine. Oh shit I found beer: let’s keeping going. On programming languages:… Read more: Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer (2021)

by https://x.com/BrivaelFr adapted from French to English using Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Communist ideology breeds ugliness. It’s not a side effect, it’s in its DNA. Let me explain. This ugliness isn’t an accident. It’s not a lack of budget. It’s not incompetence. It’s a weapon. And the Soviet regime deployed it with surgical precision for 70 years. To understand, you have to go back to the 1920s. Right after the revolution, the USSR had brilliant architects. Russian constructivism was one of the most radical avant-gardes of the 20th century. Melnikov, Tatlin, the Vesnin brothers. Visionaries. Stalin silenced them all. Not… Read more: The Weaponization of Ugliness: Why Beauty is the Ultimate Resistance

I can only conclude that Musk’s “Contribution to Consumption Ratio” was a temporary aspiration of his. This is the new motto: People will be absolutely consumption-prone and will forget what work truly meant as a contribution in the past.

I finished re-reading the second book of the Dune Chronicles, Messiah, last night and I have mixed feelings about the coming movie “Dune Part III” later this year. I have seen its trailer on YouTube and some cuts from interviews with Denis Villeneuve claiming with all the words that part 3 is the zenith, the “grand finale”, of the movie trilogy. I personally found this hard to believe, unless Denis is a real genius!, more than we can even imagine. Messiah is a slow paced book that revolves around an assassination plot. Okish. There is no war, no big conflicts… Read more: Dune Part III (expectations)

by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X.com in 20260406 “Two things are important right now in life: deep learning and fertility. Everything else is noise. We are only starting to glimpse what these two forces will do to global life over the next fifty years. And they interact: deep learning will reshape demographics, and demographic collapse will reshape automation. Nearly all my posts on X (except some parochial commentary on Spanish economic policy) revolve around these two facts. So does most of my current research. Even work that does not seem directly connected turns out to be, once you look carefully. My… Read more: Deep Learning and Fertility

I started reading this book by accident after finding about its existence in discussion thread on X. The title itself didn’t ring any bells to me at first look, but I decided to get it and read its introduction to get a better sense of what the book was about. At the moment of this writing I’m ~20% into the book and loving it. It’s the rare kind of book whose the author describes the ins and outs of a particular industry so well that it feels like they were working in the same company as we were, attending the… Read more: The Mythical Man-Month (book)

Since LinkedIn is now a bot parede, I have adjusted the About section of my profile page to be “Agent First” with only binary code. The few humans left in that network who still read anything will find it weird or nonsensical, but Agents will be just fine. 01001000 01101001 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 00101110 00100000 01001001 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100110 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101100 01111001… Read more: My “Agent First” LinkedIn Profile

His secret sauce is people, not money. It’s finding the best talent, attracting it and retaining it. Then, success comes from molding corporate culture to accommodate that talent so it can bring value through inovation.

Se você usa Debian Linux assim como eu, deve estar preocupado com o momento delicado que estamos vivendo no Brasil. Porém, um alívio!, nossos colegas de comunidade já têm histórico em ajudar usuários vivendo em países comandados por governos opressores ao redor do mundo. Se você quer baixar pacotes Debian/Ubuntu via Tor, protegendo sua privacidade e evitando censura, siga estes passos. 1 – Adicione a chave GPG do Tor Project Sem a chave pública, o APT bloqueia o acesso ao repositório Tor por segurança. Instale a chave então. 2 – Instale o transporte apt-transport-tor Depois, instale o pacote que permite ao… Read more: Como Configurar o APT para Usar o Tor

The “On Reading This Book” section of Christopher Alexander’s famous publication from 1979 “The Timeless Way of Building” is probably one of the most visionary pieces of reading guidance I have ever read on a book. It looks and feels like the author is talking to today’s audience which suffers from a limited attention span.

Back in May 2023 I wrote this pensata I named “GPT Wars”, and it has pulled in a lot of views from various sources. This year we are facing a new type of war — and it seems that many are still to come in this arena — an agentic war, a war of agents. source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agent In other words, we are seen the manifestation of power from other entities that act on our behalf. And their power is no small thing. They can do a lot of intelligent stuff FAST, and with almost no mistake (if you ask). This… Read more: Agentic Wars

It’s just statistics. Children with one dedicated teacher evolves faster than children with shared teachers. Answers to children are the success factor. AI is the universal know-it-all teacher. Just ask it.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a great movie. To me, DiCaprio’s best performance by far and kudos to his agent for crafting this opportunity with Scorsese and the producers. If you are a manager or a business person, and if you have watched this movie more than once you might have noticed that some parts of it felt different. You’ve got scenes from different angles. You have formed different opinions about them. You’ve got small details that passed unnoticed before. This movie is so rich in all aspects of modern life that none of us can get its entirety… Read more: This Movie will Change as You Do

Reading dense literature is not an easy task. Some books will point a finger at you. They will talk about you, even if you pretend it’s about someone else. I started this year with a literary project in mind. I would read one chapter per month from Jordan Peterson’s book Beyond Order. If I could read a chapter in less than 30 days, I would read it again and again until the turning of the current month. That was a simple plan to “make things stick” in my mind. Little did I know what the future held for me in… Read more: Some Books Will Point a Finger at You

This is the artificially colorized version of a historical picture of an unemployed American worker during the Great Depression showing his social security number tattooed to his arm. More details about the picture here. The first thing that came to my head when I saw this was Bitcoin, our own modern version of something we cannot forget. I’m talking about the seed phrase that allows one to make Bitcoin transactions from their wallet. There must be somebody in the world who has tattooed their seed phrases somewhere in their body. I’m not sure they’d have asked a tattoo artist to… Read more: Don’t Forget Your Number

Esse tema nunca foi tão atual. Em tempos de trabalho home based, a visibilidade é prejudicada e, com ela, a responsabilidade pela entrega do trabalho. Imagino aqueles que vivem sozinhos sem ter uma viva alma por perto para lhe impor algum tipo de olhar. Nesse contexto, não só a responsabilidade pelo trabalho fica comprometida, mas por todas as áreas da vida também.

I saw this post from Santiago this morning, a topic that I have anticipated in my thinking and essays for at least two years now. If digital intelligence can easily copy our looks and tone of voice, the final step in the process of creating a realistic copy of ourselves that could be expressed in video. This was the missing magic touch for creating clones. Obviously, the final destination is an “intelligent” autonomous clone trained on all our phone calls, emails, social media posts and blogs like this one, to express opinions as we would. One of the cool tasks… Read more: Who am I? (AI)