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bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

4d ago

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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John Lyle@johnlyle.com

Oct 2

Today I was reading one of my friends technical accomplishments and I thought “I couldn’t do that in theory, but I bet I could do that in practice”. That’s what AI gives you now - the ability to mask your fundamental skillset inadequacies with a magical automaton that lets you fake it.

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John Lyle@johnlyle.com

Oct 2

Is it possible for a millennial man to sing “Goldfinger” without thinking of (and thus sounding like) Alan Partridge? youtu.be/9ured0oVW10?...

Alan Partridge singing Goldfinger

YouTube video by Tom Hughes

John Lyle@johnlyle.com

Oct 1

Fun test - 12axes.vercel.app

My political ideology test results, showing I am aligned with being in a “Nordic Social Democracy “

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Sean Jones KC@seanjones.org

Sep 29

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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