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Chris Palmer

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Music for life, software safety engineering for a living, for now. noncombatant.org

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 27/09/2026

AI-themed cocktails

Derek from The Good Place having one of his delicious cocktails. In this case, a martini glass filled with olives but no booze. He looks at it appreciatively, in his tuxedo. That is *so* Derek

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 26/09/2026

Victoria Beckham: It escaped containment!
David Beckham: Was the containment just a sentence in the prompt?
Victoria: No! We engineered a frontier security mechanism
David: Was the containment just a sentence in the prompt?
Victoria: Well, we told it it was air gapped and to make no mistakes in the prompt
David: Thank you

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 22/09/2026

NeXT Color Turbo slab. 33 MHz of Unix + GUI glory. The one pictured is not mine, but is just like mine.

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 19/09/2026

When you consider the full difficulty of meeting even the most basic software requirements — in this case, internationalization that isn't laughably broken — intense simplicity quickly becomes obvious as the only way to have any chance for success at all.