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niallm.bsky.social
CEO Stanza Systems. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
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Go to european-alternatives.eu to find European Alternatives for all your critical online services including server hosting.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Cool lookin game from a cool team. Would wishlisting it make YOU cool? There's only one way to know for sure.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The @alanbeattie.bsky.social Banter Heuristic predicts that White House won't admit this mistake, and instead start pushing Act of Union 2.0 as official US policy.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Your annual reminder that because February is 9% shorter than January was, your monthly metrics will be down nearly 10% this month, and not to freak out about this.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

No privacy shield will either require the reconstitution of the disbanded court, a new agreement (I expect difficult to enact), (more) EU clouds, or some extreme ignoring skills

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Sadly, the EU cloud efforts that I'm aware of have not been an unqualified success.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

There really is nowhere as gorgeous as Ireland when the sun is out

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

ChatGPT output that makes me think I woke it up in the middle of a dream: "The description provided matches Drummer,” 3 by John le Carr.Set against the the Israeli-Pinian conflict, the story Charlie a actress recruited by Israeli to a group.The novel into themes deception, and theities inherent..."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Getting redpilled into the "Socrates deserved what he got" camp as a result of this podcast - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I bet this "trust in AI" would start to look complicated if this were a larger survey that did disaggregation of this, because we found very big group differences here. For instance in my research, 56% of Racially Minoritized developers had a negative perception of AI Quality vs 28% across all devs

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 26 days ago • 97 comments

A new SWE at Hubspot told a connection of mine that they are no longer allowed to write code - just to prompt an LLM to write it. My connection was told this isn't going well, but I'd be curious if any Hubspot folks can verify that this is in fact happening?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

thebulletin.org/2025/02/why-... @lizthegrey.com puts the case in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that the recent intervention in the US treasury violates every best practice of risk management in crucial systems. (I helped to review this and stand by it.)

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition They discover numbers are represented in these LLMs as a generalized helix, which is strongly causally implicated for the tasks of addition and subtraction, and is also causally relevant for integer division, multiplication, and modular arithmetic.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

A bad start to 2025: "The damage being reported from Ireland and the U.K. is indeed characteristic of a hurricane, and Storm Èowyn may well end up being Earth’s second billion-dollar weather disaster of 2025, along with the Los Angeles fires." yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/stor...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

"Your training pipeline is your core IP."

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

If 2016 was the result of one load-bearing Bowie, then Christ knows what the planet is now vulnerable to after losing David Lynch.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

www.catchpoint.com/asset/2025-s... there's not one main takeaway, but toil is rising faster than AI can automate it because layoffs, or something

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

“It has come to my attention that the engineer working on the Dock is in FUCKING IRELAND”. tla.systems/blog/2025/01... (h/t DF)

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

books

submitted 54 days ago • 28 comments