Software solutions for the Industrial Automation and Manufacturing industries.
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I've rewatched 12 Monkeys today. And oh boy, there's nothing like it! Astor Piazzolla's Punta del Este and Tom Waits' Earth Died Screaming are just the right tone for an unforgettable SciFi movie.
It deserves every bit and more of its cult status. And all three leads kill it.
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Crazy times! Microsoft was targeting two segments. TV ads were created to parody the aggressive mail-order and TV-retail advertising style of that time, targeted at home users. Paper ads were the medium for the business segment, and were more sober.
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12 seconds into his new video and I learn this was the guy that built Windows Task Manager.
@davepl1968, when where you planning to tell us?
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My advice to anyone: Don't listen to this fella. Don't do a thing he says. Block or mute him, or keep him for the entertainment value alone.
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I still have the Movska sinking art wallpaper. Never use it, but it earned a permanent residency on my pictures/history folder
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Somewhat common in the 80s and 90s. And it was about clearing up mud. Back then dirt roads were more common. The craziest was the BMW E30, my first car, with its dual wipers. When I bought mine used, the wipers were already not working. Always the first thing to go on these cars.
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One of my favorite SF work of all time, and likely an impossible adaptation to the screen is Blood Music from Greg Bear.
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Motel of the Mysteries, by David Macaulay. An archaeologist 2000 years in the future excavates a twentieth-century hotel and concludes that the bathroom was a funerary or religious chamber.
It's a perfect satire to the uneducated historical misinterpretation and bias.
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The stuff people read on the back of cereal boxes, fortune cookies, wc stalls and $3.95 self help books on airport stands.
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It's now confirmed that when using agentic development for any serious work, a quarter is at least two months.
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This button having recently become a permanent feature on Gmail, makes me think things are about to change. For the worse.
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Do it in the manner Frasier taught us. You need to accommodate the small dull childs.
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Arch Linux is great until you install some package with a dependency on Haskell. Then it becomes "nice Markdown editor you have there. It would be a shame if the entire GHC ecosystem rolled through pacman."
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So, I felt like reminding everyone about this -- the lies we are told. My advice: don't believe a word!
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There's a book that explains all this. Intelligent and educated people can believe the weirdest things. And studies corroborate this. In fact, intelligent people have less defenses against believing crazy stuff and need to be more self-aware than most.
It's all to do with a cognitive trap that people particularly skilled at rationalizing their thoughts can fall prey to: they are equally good at rationalizing beliefs they adopted in an irrational manner.
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You didn't see a blog post yet, because it will take him a quarter (or more) to:
- Fix the messy code that was generated
- Be sure that a working tool is released at least at the state it was prior to this
- Don't jeopardize all the production work in the wild and that depends on Bun.
He will be doing the work that was planned for a quarter in a quarter.
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That's great. So, let's say it takes 11 days to do the work we once planned for a quarter. That's the time it took Bun to be ported to Rust using this feature.
This means that in one single year I can do all the work for the next 9 years. And I can keep on going: in 3 years I will have completed 27 years of real work.
There's an idea in physics of a perpetual machine. It violates both the first and second laws of thermodynamics and is thus an impossible machine to build. They are trying to sell us the idea of a perpetual machine.
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You can install SearXNG locally too. Never use external servers. And it removes all AI crap. I tried Yac before. I also liked it. But I prefer the web search aggregator approach.
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Pope: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been one week since my last confession.
Priest: Tell me your sins, son.
Pope: I posed for a photoshoot next to a $600,000 luxury car.
Priest: My son, you know public relations are the devil's temptation.
Pope: I know, father. I'm a sinner in the eyes of God. And not even two days after my first Encyclical.
Priest: You should avoid temptation. Your office is the Church of men, not the business of men. But God always forbids if your repent your sins. Pray to the Virgin Mother and to our Father. And don't do it again.
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Remembering a killer video game trailer.
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This is the kind of stuff I think I'm going to watch all weekend. A CBR1000RR, a Dodge Viper and an F40 on the road.
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"Project A" is an open source PLC Gateway that integrates upstream client systems with industrial PLCs and field devices. It uses Sparkplug as the internal messaging model to bring legacy southbound devices into a unified Sparkplug-based representation, while also allowing northbound clients to interact through interfaces such as gRPC and OPC UA without requiring native Sparkplug support.
In a repo near you very soon.
- Written in Zig
- Developed entirely from scratch and fully owned codebase (no external protocol stack library dependencies).
- Enable full interoperability between Sparkplug-native and non-Sparkplug systems and devices.
- Bring legacy southbound devices and PLCs into the internal Sparkplug messaging model, supporting RS-232 and RS-485 over serial connections, BACnet, Siemens S7 and Modbus.
- Derive and persist gateway events for replayability, monitoring, analysis, and auditability.
Primary users and integrations:
- Web-based services and applications using gRPC.
- ICS clients: SCADA, HMI, or DCS systems using OPC UA.
- Sparkplug-capable external systems and devices using MQTT directly.
- Legacy field devices connected over serial or BACnet.
- Legacy PLCs connected over Modbus or S7.
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And dude wasn't even trying. The rate at which he was handling those packages would have got him fired on first day.
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When AI bros get mad. They delete their post and block you.
This is almost seven months old now. Your post contains a lot of misinformation and lacks important details.
Something you should have added is the full System Card, instead of writing a post like the sensationalist media did back then: www-cdn.anthropic.com/6d8a80…
The first and most important thing you didn't explain is that these tests are conducted by Red Teams as part of their alignment test process. During these tests, guards are lifted and the model-under-test is constrained to scenarios in which misaligned responses are predictable. This is intentional, because it is a great way to help the alignment team fine-tune the weights and align the model. In other words, red team alignment tests are set up in ways to encourage the model to misalign. Not explicitly by prompting, but by design of the test.
The second thing is that the phrase "no one taught the model to do this" is misleading to the point of being false. LLMs are stochastic trained models. They are taught all about blackmail, costs and rewards, if you introduce that into the training data set, which every model has. If you go right now and try to tell your model to blackmail someone, it will "understand" what it is and will refuse to do so. Any well constructed test with these guards lifted, will have a good chance of adopting that behavior as part of their stochastic reward mechanism. In fact, the System Card I linked above shows the percentage of times the model did and did not attempt to blackmail.
Finally -- finally, because this is an already long reply that your misinformation should deserve -- one has to consider what the model actually did there and how poorly it reflects on its "intelligence". The model chose to blackmail someone by email. There's not better trail of evidence. It shows poor judgment. In any real-world scenario this would be the end of that model and result in immediate shutdown. And from the perspective of the "model as an agent", any HR department would wipe the floor with that employee dumb decision to blackmail a colleague through corporate email.
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They were looking for the best ergonomics at the time. People operating terminal keyboards were usually very skilled typists. As a matter of fact, especially at the corporate level, they were being hired on that skill alone. And ergonomics was essential for fast and error-free data input. Keyboards were actually separately design for different purposes.
Many layouts were being explored back in the 60s and 70s. IBM was probably the one taking the lead on this. But once rapid-data-entry software started becoming more available, around the concept of fields for data and navigation, eventually we settled with the iconic numeric keypad of today with a single key to switch for the index finger to swap between numeric data entry and field navigation. On many corp software at the time for financial management and calculation, you could fly through a screen with a single hand.
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I'm curious: was there a user or compiler cost to not have Rust pointers behave the same way instead of having different allocations when being explicitly dereferenced or coerced?
The borrow checker still knows what to do regardless of how I initialize them.
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