Not-so-noble Savage

Code Mechanic. Data plumber. Purveyor of fine APIs.
Engineering @nuoninc | Former eng. @thedivestudios, @EmCollective, #streetwide, @buzzfeed

[Ryan McGuffey @RyanMcGuffey]

There she is, all in her glory.

Just drove by the site of the Hammond, Indiana #Bears

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

“What happened to some days”

[Hot Take Appreciator @IHateNYT]

4chan has its turn. We need a bodybuilding forum movie about how trying to determine how many days are in a week

[Forrest Cardamenis @FCardamenis]

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

@leothrix @rubdos idk if you’re doing a bit or not but try this. https://t.co/V99HyiiBhR

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

“nothing out there”

pans to mountains
smfh

[Joe McGrath @joe__touring]

Driving through the Nazca lines rn and it’s just ridiculous, there’s absolutely nothing out here. Makes zero sense how // why they did it.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

AI slop is good, actually. Slop is what enables fast parallel experimentation. The etiquette and skill is understanding the boundaries of where slop exists and the extent to which it should be cleaned up and how.

A few examples:

I’m working on the internals of some system right now. The API and GUI of this thing is fully zero shame slop. It’s horrible. But it lets me focus on the core quality while shipping a usable piece of alpha quality software to testers (transparent about the slop frontend).

Similarly, this system has plugins. We sent agents in Ralph loops overnight to generate dozens of plugins. The plugins are slop. The quality is bad. The plugin API/SDK is absolutely not done.

But we can test a full GUI with a full plugin ecosystem. When we change the API, we can regenerate them all. The cost of change is just tokens, the velocity is incomparable to before.

I built Terraform. We tested and shipped TF 0.1 with about 3 very weak providers. Because we ran out of time. Building was slow. And when we changed our SDK the cost was immense. Totally different today, 10 years later. Today, I would’ve slop generated 100 providers (again, with transparency and cleanup later, but just to prove it out).

As an anti example, I would not PR this (without prior warning) to another project. I would not throw this onto customers without full review or transparency (as I’m already doing). I would not accept first pass slop. It’s almost never right.

Slop is a tool. And like anything else it’s not blanket bad or good. The context is everything.

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

Beer’s cybernetic visions of the future come true, just not quite how he thought it would.

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

CHILE | Anthropic selects Chile as the first Latin American host for its Claude Impact Lab to build AI tools for financial regulation.

(Diario Financiero)

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

always have been

[Comdost 🍀📍 コミー @comdost_vtuber]

@_SatanWatch Goblins are real

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

“Quarantine” by Greg Egan has some elements of this.

[quetzal_rainbow @quetzal_rainbow]

xkcd comic about what if crazy phenomena actually existed and crazy phenomena is "quantum coherence in brain" making a killing in "cheap quantum computers"

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

Yeah, we're building a tool that transfers the pain from the customer to the software vendor. Once the vendor undergoes the work of meticulously enumerating and implementing deployment options, the customer can use it as easily as they would a saas.

[Josh @dynemetis]

Unless you have different app definitions for different infra shapes.

One group of customers wants a public facing domain, another wants only private connectivity. These are just different IaC stacks that can evolve independently. Application code is a module deployed within.

Like different rockets with different strengths that can all deliver the payload.

One of the best parts of byoc is that it decouples outcomes from infra. In SaaS, infra is product; but customers are buying the outcome. Byoc makes it easier to deliver the outcome, not the tool.

[𑁍 @luuucas1k]

in the eyes of the Lord we are all his Mexicans

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

if you’ve ever had to make an appointment on the Mexican consulate, their website makes it a abundantly clear that this is not only possible but likely.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Chat, I've changed my mind. We have some problems in the AI department.

It turns out someone compromised the Mexican government to an unbelievable extent using nothing but Claude and ChatGPT. I'll link the full paper in the subsequent post. However, here is the highlights of how an unknown Threat Actor "vibe hacked" the Mexico government.

Data stolen from...
1. SAT (Servicio de Administracion Tributaria) - Federal tax authority:
- 195 million taxpayer records
- 52 million directory records

2. Estado de Mexico - State government:
- 15.5M vehicle registry records
- 3.6M property owner records

3. Registro Civil de CDMX - Mexico City civil registry:
- 220M civil records

4. Jalisco state government:
- 50K patient records
- 17K domestic violence victim records
- 36K healthcare employee records
- 180K digital government records

5. INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) - National electoral institute:
- 13.8K voter card records

6. Michoacan state government:
- 2.28M property records
- 2K user accounts with plaintext passwords

7. SADM Monterrey (Agua y Drenaje) Municipal water utility:
- 3.5K procurement and vendor records
- 5K procurement bid records

[Louise 🔸 @LeRoyDesCimes]

The Epic of Gilgamesh is remarkable in that it's a 4,000-year-old text but it gets new content faster than ASOIAF

[Dan Collins @DanCollins2011]

Good Lord. Watch the video below.

Assuming Iran has a nuclear deterrent already, how it’s gonna look after the war.

(1) Iran becomes a recognized nuclear state

(2) Iran keep control and the SoH toll both (That’s the reparations)

(3) Turkey leads a Sunni coalition. (Already in progress (Pak/Saud/ Egypt) This group expands a nuclear umbrella or Saudi’s makes their own. Bahrain goes back to Iran.

(4) Israel forced to drop the Greater Israel project and live in peace inside their own borders. Recognize a two-state solution for Palestinians.

(5) U.S leaves the region outside of intelligence activities

[rain @__ghostfail]

this new claude update is crazy

[shadcn @shadcn]

git worktree is a great feature for people smarter than me

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

the panopticown

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

wtf did i just read LMAO

ai-powered cows worth $2 billion are using an algorithm called the “cowgorithm” to boost farming productivity (i’m not fucking joking)

- Halter makes ai-powered cow collars that virtually monitor health, location and herd cows

- farmers literally tap a button on the app and the cows gather for milking

- 600,000 cow collars already live

- peter thiel is backing their latest round worth $2 billion

every fucking time i think ive seen the most ridiculous (but cool) application of ai i am proven wrong.

[Not-so-noble Savage @olmecaThrowback]

No mamen. Hasta me da escalofrios. El güey le cayo mal a alguien en Ciudad Juarez.

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

A statue of Cesar Chavez in the city of San Fernando has been removed. https://t.co/znK495lx2z

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.