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Reginald

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It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book like "JavaScript Allongé," a talk like “Optimism,” or from my work at […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Back in the 90s Seinfeld did a whole skit about bullshit circus stunt vapourware, only they called it “levels.” Oh yes, Tesla *could* have shipped a Roadster at any time in the last decade. They just didn’t want to. And they could ship a so-called flying car in 2028. But they won’t […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
@oscherler Those were early days. If I knew then what I know now, I’d have been ok with just three bits of entropy: 1, 0, and 0 respectively.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
A society is strong when its elders plant trees, knowing they will not live to enjoy the shade. A society is weak when its elders eat its seed corn, knowing that they will not live to see the coming famine.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/10/2026
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@ketanjoshi.co They act like Kyle's the only person on the planet to have heard of Copilot, shocking his various bosses. But in actual fact, companies buy Copilot and tell everyone to use it. So how exactly does Kyle stand out just by using Copilot in some mediocre way? Everyone in his office […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
What's the OEIS number for the integer sequence { 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237 }?
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@0xabad1dea I'm with you! The literal phrase means that a poor craftsperson blames their tools *for the craftperson's poor results.* The saying doesn't mean don't complain about tools, it means a craftsperson is accountable for the outcome and therefore takes responsibility for choosing and/or […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
“My name is Raganwald, hacker of hackers: Look on my Newton works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away. raganwald.com/2023/01/10/ncrypt-lit…
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Cryptographic techniques used by nCrypt Light in 1994
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
LLMs optimize for verisimilitude, not veracity: “The model learned what confidence scores look like in text. It did not learn to make its scores match its accuracy.” rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/as…
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Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
“State Corruption via Bailout” has being going on in Western Economies for my entire lifetime. Private profits, public losses. —— p.s. I get that people are hurting, but black humour is the fifth stage of handling grief. Sending HugOps!
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
AI written text feels—to me—like Jazz without any dissonance. Jerry Coker explained why I find that unsatisfying as a human: Coker’s theory was that as we listen to music, we can’t help but try to play along in our head. We get the most satisfaction when there is a balance between our finding […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Four! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1HQ1zpPi4A
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Alan: "The only numbers that matter in a software design are zero, one, and infinity." Georg Cantor: "א—?" Alan: "Don't start with me, Georg!"
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Blue skies, Joe. www.arbormemorial.ca/en/scott-bramp…
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
No regrets, Coyote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaO5UZ5OcI
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Charlie is taking my partner along the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail to one of his favourite beaches. Brilliant sunshine! #dogs #dogsOfFedi #dogsofmastodon
A paved path winds through a field of green and yellow grasses toward a large body of water under a clear blue sky. The asphalt path features a single blue line painted along one side, and a dark-colored dog is walking on the path. The sun is high in the sky, creating a bright reflection on the surface of the water. The horizon line separates the water from the expansive blue sky.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
At some point in the 80s I encountered the concept that the only three numbers that should be applied to constraints are "zero, one, and infinity." The argument being, for example, that a program that could open up to four windows was a poor design: It should open as many as hardware and […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
In 1987, Stewart Brand wrote “The Media Lab:” annas-archive.gd/md5/fd36a2ea8f1d20… It predicted that media would become hyper-personalized via either: 1. Broadcatch, where user tooling aggregates and filters content to generate a […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
Front cover of a book. The title is "The Media Lab, Inventing the Future at MIT" The author is Stewart Brand.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Fanfare for the Common Man, twenty years earlier... www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Fanfare for the Common Man www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0aPWjs9M0
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Trilogy!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNxoIDPoURY
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
@quixoticgeek I think they're right! Cycle jousting is best performed on tall bikes. Let’s get serious.
Two people on tall bikes joust with each other
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
@atax1a @davidgerard This hat? social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/1172135…
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
@atax1a @davidgerard I also have strong opinions about firing up terrestrial jet engines for the purpose of automating the kinds of engineers we used to avoid hiring: Those that copied and pasted code they found on the Internet. But I choose for personal reasons to focus on the business model […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
@atax1a @davidgerard When I entered the industry, I had to buy Apple's developer docs for big money. Compilers were sold in stores. I made Tableau with a 4GL that charged me for every copy I sold. We almost entirely escaped having to pay-to-play. But capitalism is burning the planet down to […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
ℹ️ The quote at the top of the article is from a now-dead wordpress site. Here’s the Wayback link: web.archive.org/web/20080127103715/… The author laments CS education dumbing down towards Java. Oh boy are things different now. Oh boy.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Ten years later, Fobazi Ettarh named the phenomenon I was trying to disrupt: “Vocational Awe.” www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org… So many of us thought we were inventing the future. And some of us were, some of the time. But the incessant propagandizing of tech […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
“No Disrespect” (2008) My opinion about the quality of the vast, vast majority of jobs working on business programming in 2008—and how the industry treated those who did that work—feels somehow even more relevant in 2026 with people trying their hardest to process more and more and more […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
@davidgerard “let's face it: you can't be a productive, _competitive_ developer today without AI.” Capitalism always reduces to a hunger games where the proles fight each other in mortal combat for the right to still have their job tomorrow. Why haven't I embraced this stepping stone towards a […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
From time to time someone will comment on a blog post of mine, saying, "It took forever to describe I already understand, and isn't very deep. Can I have my time back?" The TOS are clear: raganwald.com is not a product that promised to teach without side-quests, meandering anecdotes, or […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
...Which forms a pretext for retelling this old, old, joke I git from Michael Lewis: An American and a Canadian meet up at a cattle ranching convention. The America brags, “Ma’ ranch is so big, I can git in ma’ truck ’n’ drive a whole day in any direction without leavin’ ma’ property!” The […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Seems to me there are two ways for this to come true. One is for robot and robotaxi revenues to greatly outgrow automobile revenues. The other…
Elon Musk Says Optimus, Cybercab Will Be ‘the Vast Majority’ of Tesla’s Value - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
[Death Penalty] @futurebird > "What about a monster like John Wayne Gacy?" This question is only asked by people who are more concerned with "Guilty people must suffer" than they are with, "Innocent people must never suffer." Because the answer is, "Keeping Gacy alive and allowing people to […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
[Death Penalty] @futurebird My experience is from Canada. I don't follow American justice news, but I certainly remember the Central Park Five and how America's president campaigned to have them murdered by the state. They were innocent and he has never apologized.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
[Death Penalty] @futurebird I'n my own lifetime, three men have been exonerated of murder convictions that landed them in prison for life. In two of those cases, the right-leaning press called for the death penalty to be reintroduced just to execute the wrong man. No nation can rest easy that […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@RonJeffries File drawers were a luxury my parents decried as a threat to soften up Western Civilization. My grandfather bragged that he went to a proctologist, who sent a camera up to have a look. That didn’t sound so bad until he informed me this happened in 1942 and it was one of those wooden […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
What is #progrock ??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnzDy2tSk0
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I did not have “MapQuest joins the resistance, first by sticking with Lake Ontario, now by identifying Flock cameras" on my Anti-Fascism bingo card.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
DNT www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOacmHqv8NA
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The latest Musk publicity stunt with his “”””flying”””” car illustrates the broader issue with a lot of the tech industry these days (particularly AI, but related to enshittification in general) in that: What pressing problem is this supposed to solve, and does it do so efficiently and effectively?
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Reddit: “Why can’t you libtards just enjoy how awesome this is.” Seriously? That demo did not have a real car or a real driver/pilot. That’s not “cool,” that’s what we used to denigrate as VAPOURWARE back when the Internet was full of people who actually shipped […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Napkin math says it can hover for seconds, not minutes or hours. Speaking as one of the lowest and most junior kinds of pilots, I will say that the "invite-only" version with vertical lift will never drive on public roads or fly in public airspaces. But that isn't the […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Musk needs his trillion dollar pay day. Tesla is evaporating in front of our eyes. A merger with SpaceX will put him firmly in control and allow him to do whatever he likes with his human centipede of companies. That is the problem this car-shaped movie practical […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
One day rather too soon, all systems will be locked down and side-loading will be illegal. In fact, writing software without an LLM to snitch on you and prevent you from competing with the oligarchy will be illegal. I will protest by sitting down in public […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
Gandhi collecting salt at Dandi Beach in defiance of British salt laws, a simple act that became a powerful symbol of resistance
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@JessTheUnstill One thing I learned in the 90s while consulting for an investment banking boutique... Capital likes to invest in businesses where capital is the real moat. Canadian businessman Peter Munk was once asked why he invested in resource businesses. He replied, “Because two guys in a […]
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raganwald.com @raganwald.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
The M combinator (aka “Mockingbird”) in action: The Mockingbird and Sage Bird (Y Combinator) are Computer Science’s primordial implementations of recursion. tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html Here we are implementing Euclidean Division in concatenative […] [Original post on functional.cafe]
// n.b. returns quoted numbers, not applicable numbers,
// as it is necessary to select whether one wants the quotient, remainder, or both.
const euclideanDividedBy = construction([ [B], [A] ], [
  [zero], bury, // [quotient] [dividend] [divisor]
  [
    bury3,       // [callback] [quotient] [dividend] [divisor]
    dup,         // [callback] [quotient] [dividend] [divisor]  [divisor]
    [swap], dip, // [callback] [quotient] [divisor]  [dividend] [divisor]
    [dup], dip,  // [callback] [quotient] [divisor]  [dividend] [dividend] [divisor]
    isLessThan,  // [callback] [quotient] [divisor]  [dividend] [T/F: dividend < divisor]
    [
      // [callback] [quotient] [divisor] [dividend] 
      [[minus], cons, cons], sip, // [callback] [quotient] [dividend - divisor] [divisor]
      dig2, // [callback] [dividend - divisor] [divisor] [quotient]
      [succ], cons, // [callback] [dividend - divisor] [divisor] [quotient++]
      bury2, // [callback] [quotient++] [dividend - divisor] [divisor] 
      dig3, // [quotient++] [dividend - divisor] [divisor] [callback]
      m
    ],
    [
      // [callback] [quotient] [divisor] [dividend]
      nip, // [callback] [quotient] [dividend]
      dig2, zap // [quotient] [dividend]
    ],
    cond // [quotient] [remainder]
  ],
  m, // [quotient] [remainder]
]);
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
For when I forget who I am.
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
This exact thing happened to me with a bedside lamp last weekend. The "switch" to turn it on and off is a touch-sensitive icon on the lamp. That icon is one of several icons in a row that do other lamp things. But if the light is off and I want to turn it on, I can't find the power icon by feel […]
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Another Ian Fleming factoid: During the war he was with Naval Intelligence and met Alan Turing. Captured codebooks were critical to continuing the code-braking at Bletchley Park: Fleming devised “Operation Ruthless,” a plan to have a team dress up as […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]
A two-engined captured Heinkel He 111, painted in RAF markings
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