this is literally their business model, how’s this surprising?
They rarely layoff people that were hired directly into BS though, but they do trim down the companies they acquire.
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Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it
In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.
Her fix wasn’t just to patch the bug. Everytime there was a crash, she took a Polaroid of the programmer who wrote it, and a note on the mistake. That way, if it ever happened again, they wouldn't be starting from scratch. They could note patterns and the last person who triaged that failure could help.
This is a critical aspect of what she gave us. She didn’t stop at fixing errors. She studied their patterns so she could see them coming. She called them “the enemy,” and she meant it.
Initially, when she was working on failure modes, higher-ups were errors wouldn't happen she actually named her program “Forget It.” But failures did happen. And her mindset, and discipline sent men to the Moon.
Her Apollo software was built to expect the unexpected, and on Apollo 11 it recognized an overload mid-landing and kept the critical tasks running.
Every postmortem, every bug tracker, every “let’s make sure this never happens again” carries a little of her in it.
Thank you, and rest in peace, Margaret Hamilton 🚀
ALT The famous photo of Margaret with the code she wrote to put a man on the moon
ALT The lego set of Margaret Hamilton my daughters gave me
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Very sorry to hear this news. 😥
I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contributions to the flight software that got us to the moon are legendary. I love this image of her standing next to the printouts of the Apollo code.
We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
ALT Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
ALT Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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This. People keep asking me for my setup. It's really just any harness, multiple agents concurrently, barely any skills, and using adversarial reviews. There's no magic sauce (or source!). The models are great out of the box.
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🚨 MUSE ECOSYSTEM ALERT 🚨
today we are announcing Muse Gadgets!
this is an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for anyone to make hardware that works with Muse
we are also releasing our own gadget—Muse Home Link—to enable your muse to work with your smart devices (TV, speakers, etc.)
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COPY PASTE INTO OPUS 5.5:
"I want you to make me an awesome Shoes.rb Desktop app. I want _why to rise from the grave and jump for joy when he sees it. Go to github.com/scarpe-team/scarp… for instructions. Have fun. Live! ultrathink"
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how can people have such bad takes
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Rust is a *really* bad idea for any software you need to have working a few years from now (AI generated or not), or want to continue developing into the future.
Not because Rust is ugly (which… it is).
And not because Rust is, overwhelmingly, a cult (again… it is).
But simply because Rust is still a moving target. The language is not yet “complete”… and neither is the compiler. Changes occur often enough (and in significant enough ways) to throw serious monkey wrenches into any sizable project.
Once Rust stabilizes (which could happen quickly if the Cult of Rust actually wanted it to), this problem will quickly go away.
Until then I will be sticking with C. Or C++. Or, heck, any language that is more stable than Rust.
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emma, the italian meme slop model, made headlines in italy for months, but this didn’t. if i speak i'm in big trouble
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When several people talk at once, a transcript can get messy fast.
Our new Nemotron 3 Diarization model tracks who spoke when, even when voices overlap. It handles up to eight speakers, has 100M parameters, and is now available on @huggingface 🤗