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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Websites that send you an email link to login can fuck right off.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A person that writes a prompt to get AI to generate something is not an artist or engineer, they are a micromanaging middle manager.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At a company where they mandate AI coding, I wonder if it's possible to have a second account in the version control system to submit AI generated code under.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here's one interesting event that just happened. Windows has decided to remove OneDrive from the notifications settings panel. OneDrive complains that it cannot send notifications because they are disabled and tells me to change in settings, does not exist in settings, no known fix online.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Let me know when AI understands truth from fiction, facts from falsehoods, and can actually knows what those things are. Until then it is just a sparkling random text generator.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A friend showed me that Slay the Spire 2 has been review bombed on Steam because of a certain consultant. Some men can be so soft these days that they post negative comments on a video game because their feeling got hurt, while they do nothing when governments actually erode their personal freedoms.

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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Albanese telling people to reconsider driving is incredible optics. Mate, you built a country where driving is mandatory. A country where cyclists, pedestrians, and anyone not using a car is treated as a second-class citizen. Car-dependence is baked into every major policy you have architected.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Was there any legal decision made as to if source code licences like the GPL would taint the data set that a LLM would be trained on and therefore taint the generated output of said LLM?

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm genuinely curious about what local NPU processing can accomplish and what it is being used for. Does a 40 TOPS NPU have current use cases more than just playing around with toys and examples? Or is it a waste of silicon because anything useful requires a data centre rack worth of compute.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm all for public transport, bicycles, and walking for modes of transport. The fewer cars we have in the road the fewer idiots there will be behind the wheel.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I posted a small article relating to many peoples' favourite topic: www.dominikgrabiec.com/posts/2026/0... I've had this written for many months but never felt comfortable enough to post it. Don't know if this means it is a good piece of writing or not.

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What AI Really Is

I see a lot of surprised posts on social media and articles in the news about how badly incorrect AI generated text is, how it constantly gets things wrong, how it mixing up information in search, or ...

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Lots of hardware channels on YouTube still using Cyberpunk for benchmarking and comparing hardware. Not gonna lie it feels kinda good to have made* this generation's Crysis.

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Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma @rovarma.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, and finally decided to bite the bullet. The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization. RTs appreciated! rovarma.com/articles/opt...

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Optimizing libdwarf .eh_frame enumeration | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma

For the Linux version of Superluminal we rely on unwind information stored in the .eh_frame section in a binary to perform stack unwinding. We’ll go over optimizations we made to libdwarf that greatly...

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ACCU on Sea @accuconf.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We have just released a new ACCU 2025 Conference Video! Optimising Data Building In Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025 #coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

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Optimising Data Building In Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I noticed that the first of my talks from ACCU2025 has been released to YouTube. It's a short one about mistakes I've seen made with data in game development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5P...

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Mistakes With Data Made During Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

So there's going to be a new version of Visual Studio coming out and if there's no way to completely disable the AI features I'm going to be forced to switch to Sublime Text + some debugger. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

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ACCU on Sea @accuconf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We have just released a new ACCU 2025 Conference Video! Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 - Keith Stockdale - ACCU 2025 #cplusplus #cpp #cpp20 #gamedev #programming

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Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 - Keith Stockdale - ACCU 2025

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool. Makes you wonder…

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Since Google has revealed the new Pixel phones I looked into if it's possible to disable all AI features. Found this article with the headline "I turned off all AI features on my Pixel phone — and instantly regretted it" and in reading through each regret it instead sounded like a blessing to me.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So after quite some time and travelling I've gotten back to writing some articles about things I've been working on. This one is about a neat little technique with enum classes, which I will use in a future article. www.dominikgrabiec.com/posts/2025/0...

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Overloading Unary Operator+ for Enum Classes

The unary plus operator in C++ is one of those lesser known and even less frequently used operators in the language. I have been programming in C++ for many years and only recently started to use it w...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I've always likened LLMs to that one uncle/relative who has an opinion on everything and expresses it confidently as if it were fact. So when people claim they're exploring the frontiers of science with LLMs I picture them having beers/weed on a porch at 3am talking shit incoherently.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Looking at various job ads and seeing "modern C++" with "including templates and object oriented patterns" does not instill me with confidence that it's anything past C++14.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

After visiting Normandy recently and loving the cider and perry made there, any other cider that I've tried since then feels nothing more than weak apple juice with a bit of alcohol in it.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm trying to use exceptions in C++ for some error handling where I think it would make sense, but decades of embedded and game development programming makes me still uneasy about doing this.

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Dominik @dominikgrabiec.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Was watching a video and they mentioned "side-loading". FFS it's not "side" loading, it's just installing. A normal and natural way of installing programs and applications since the dawn of the PC. Using a vendor specific store is the unusual way to install things.

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CppNorth @cppnorth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Save Time, Space & a Little Sanity With std::function_ref - David Ledger Tired of function pointer chaos or std::function issues? Enter std::function_ref: a lightweight, non-allocating, compile-time friendly abstraction that boosts performance and reduces memory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIQ...

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Save Time, Space & a Little Sanity With std::function_ref - David Ledger

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