Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮 / is on Nostr

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Last Notes

2024-08-30 09:43:38

#t1d #diabetes sucks but open-source artificial pancreases (and hard work) make it suck less. I’ve been diabetic over 30 years and will die of old age, not this. Thank you @ps2 and @danamlewis and the #wearenotwaiting community
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2024-05-03 16:14:17

Showing a young person my arcade cabinet and they said 'ohh, I like the bathroom buttons.' Sigh
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2024-05-01 04:13:26

This is my regular announcement that you need Tailscale in your life. I’m here in Korea on my iPhone but I’m watching Netflix using my Synology NAS back in Oregon as an exit node. Absolutely rock solid personal free VPN *and* amazing for teams and developers as well. Magical.

2024-04-26 07:38:06

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lol budget. We have none! But we keep pushing. Glad you appreciate the work!

2024-04-26 07:27:55

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it’s more of a “get someone to find the backup tapes and someone else to take the time to check copyrights and wait this isn’t my job why are we bothering we have work to do” thing. And in the case of DOS, I had time call friends at IBM and convince them of the same thing. It’s VERY complex and 40 year old legal documents and finding the ONE PERSON who cares as much as me and I have no Wikipedia page but I’m not bitter

2024-04-26 07:20:34

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yes that’s me. I’m working on it.

2024-04-25 20:50:43

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

2023-03-22 07:48:09

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It’s fun to say “AI” but it’s not fun to say “Generative pre-trained transformer family of very large language models.” So we mislabel stuff and assume it’s thinking.

2023-03-22 07:47:58

Odd take from a professor. You asked a predictive text VLLM to pretend it wanted to escape and it’s telling the statistically most likely story as to how a fictional escape might happen. It’s a sock puppet on your own hand, and you’re afraid of it?
Problem with AI hype right now is anthropomorphizing these things. They are statistical models of us - often the worst of us - but they aren’t thinking. The focus should be on ethical use to improve the lives of folks who are suffering. AI for good.
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