KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 9hThe pain you need to go through now to make something much easier for yourself in the future. "Its a convenience sore now, but it will help us a lot later if we set it up this way now." 010
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A former coworker of mine who brough a lot of life to The Cognitoys Dino is working on an animated show for young children. If you are a parent of a young child, check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fj...youtube.comPup Pup Go! BALLOONYouTube video by MoonShoes Productions 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I like that "meant to be understood" call out. I always hated when the "[speaking foreign language]" caption appeared and covered existing subtitles. 040
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026How could it be in the mail when he's already totally fucked up USPS? 040
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Those tanks sitting in the desert aren't going to build and maintain themselves. 010
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I played through Psychonauts again because I realized I never actually played the PS4 version with trophy support. Every time I play this game I feel like I randomly stumble upon some interaction that I'd never seen before. I'm thinking maybe Brutal Legend next for Rocktober? 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know how people listen to music. Special devices called "speakers" vibrate the air around them producing patterns of motion in the air called "sound waves". Those sound waves propagate to the person's ear drum which then sends a signal to the brain that is interpreted as "music". 001
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In fairness, the sycophantic talking point regurgitation machine would appear to be super intelligent to Republicans these days. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You are right to push back on this. I was incorrect in that I didn't use any salt, a popular seasoning. I have added 60% of the LD50 amount to give proper flavoring while remaining in safe bounds. 020
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don't need AI to predict that this person has a future of massive fines and possibly jail time. 010
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is exactly the plan, they are relying on the fact that it is harder to build than destroy and the hope that Democrats are too cowardly to rebuild aggressively. 010
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure Sony themselves might try to do this, but we weren't buying the PS6 anyway thanks to this "no physical games" crap... so let them make stuff more difficult for everyone else while they are at it. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Valve wants to add a contactless payment system to the next Steamdeck? Now they have to factor in "negotiation with Sony lawyers" into the budget and may decide it isn't worth it. 100
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Everyone is getting on Sony for this obviously anti-consumer patent, but it is actually a really good thing they filed for this. Just think, if Sony owns this idea then it will be more expensive and more difficult for other companies to do something like this. 220
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In grad school I had an advisor/collaborator who refused to use gmail because he thought Google would steal his ideas and that his research in cryptography would lead him to having problems traveling to Russia if those emails got leaked. Oh, how he must be laughing right now. 001
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo... Oh look at that. I "may reconsider" buying playstation games again.en.gamegpu.comSony may reconsider plans to phase out physical discs for PlayStation.The management of Japanese company Nippon Ichi Software and its Western publishing division NIS America announced that they are holding direct consultations... 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Honestly though, I don't blame them. If I had anything to do with making the original Myst I would be talking about it for the rest of my natural life and then be tracing it out on Ouija boards for a few years after that. 080
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hell of a reference that I will not allow to go unappreciated. 001
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also advice I gave to my summer internship pod for the AI work we were doing. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We all had a good time with "Despite negative press covfefe" back in the day. 160
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Infecting a foreign country's politics with these people should be a warcrime. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sure, but your entire chain of reasoning relies on a lot of humans carrying out the commands they get from the AI a very high percentage of the time. These are not just humans rubber stamping code, these would need to be seriously strenuous tasks. 100
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Your argument relies on a single super intelligence that does all of these things to become despotic. I am saying that history tells us we will end up with many different varieties from many different sources, not a single king AI. 100
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The history of software engineering is increasingly distributed specialists in terms of the engineers that we are (frontend, backend, data science, security), the tools we use (different languages, different measures) and the things we create (microservice architecture). 100
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's a lot of other problems that all boil down to an assumption of standardization (the history of software engineering is rife with examples of diverging use cases, not converging), but the reality of LLMs being unable to physically do much without human cooperation is a huge flaw. 110
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Here's a big one via practical example. Ask your favorite LLM to refute this. Either you accept the reasoning or you reject it. If you reject it, then you've shown that people will reject ideas from AI that they disagree with. Radical human cooperation with AI decisions is a fundamental pillar. 200
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Happy Natalie Portman: So more investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure? US Energy Sec: ........ Concerned Natalie Portman: More investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure, right? 0125
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Reduce your toxic points penalty by rephasing to be a little more polite. "Greetings. Please fuck off with that. Thank you." 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Blaming her maid? I already dislike this soulless creature who is so utterly dependent on the life blood of others but is, at once, deeply resentful of them because she believes herself a higher form of life. Also she's a vampire. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Spider-Man Playstation games had the same joke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbKh...youtube.comSpider-Man Ps4 - Vintage Comicbook Suit Gameplay ShowcaseYouTube video by Blitzwinger 030
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026thehill.com/homenews/sen... Remember being told to "vote blue, no matter who"?thehill.comManchin endorses Collins in Maine Senate raceFormer Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), a prominent centrist who left the Democratic Party at the end of his Senate career, has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), praising her as the “soul of the Se… 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026People are really hesitant to confront their own unconscious bias until it is time to get out of jury duty. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I love this. It puts words to so much stuff I've had to deal with at my work recently. Lots of misplaced effort (and yes panic) about what recent developments in cybersecurity actually mean for us. 010
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Is it because of the LGBTQ+ tag? The LGBTQ+ population, of course, has been the actual target of an awful lot of moral panics and the recent obsession with Steam and itch (with attacks via payment processor) is no exception. 020
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Truly creative people can use the output from genAI as part of their process to produce great works of art. 000
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Damn, this looks like a video game graphical glitch. That's crazy. 001
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026OpenAI stole the results (and not just in a typical "GenAI is a plagiarism machine" way), so there is an actual human behind the big titty furry in this case (and not just for the typical reasons someone is behind a big titty furry). 100
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well RIP my Google search history... but apparently that's historically accurate. 3412
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The trick is to realize that this ONLY works BECAUSE of those processes and that those processes really don't exist outside of the very narrow scope of software engineering. Just because it is good at accelerating code delivery, that doesn't mean it does anything else worth a damn. 160
KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I mean, that's not entirely true. GenAI gets used a lot at most tech companies these days. The big difference is very specific guardrails and a ton of existing software delivery practice that very quickly gutters the slop into the garbage. 150
