Dmitry Mazin

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Happy to be on year two of my ethics and background policy subscription!

All my friends are joking about how much our brains are rotting. And yet I am working more than ever. This is way too real: simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...

I've been trying this thing today where I actually use my terminal instead of asking Claude to do it. I even looked at the help text for a utility! It was neat.

of course there’s the other fun interpretation of this: if an ai has all the right ways to observe and use something, it’ll necessarily beat us. it’s very clear why CLI are easy for LLMs to parse and use

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

real sickos (me) like the muni smell

brendan gregg is not only a man, he’s THE man (and I think Bryan Cantrill is in this video too!)

What’s the conversation??

wait so do you run like VMs on it?

aw hell yeah zfs. are you running Ubuntu? I went with ubuntu and zfs/luks for even the boot partition. amazingly it all works, though setup was complex

you must have read 0 of the hype because all the hype was about the cosmic/gothic horror of this season lol

as mandated by law, super is spelled “supa”. someone’s been reading Dav Pilkey!

best hot dog i ever ate was on a norwegian ferry. the scandinavians are just good at hot dogs

iOS 4.0: 8d ff ff ff 91 ff ff ff 95 ff ff ff 99 ff ff ff 9d ff ff ff iOS 4.0.1: 86 ff ff ff 98 ff ff ff 9e ff ff ff a7 ff ff ff b0 ff ff ff

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

isn’t it? I figure it’s like 1 http request usually.

Screenshot: Write capacity unit (WCU): Each API call to write data to your table is a write request. For items up to 1 KB in size, one WCU can perform one standard write request per second. Items larger than 1 KB require additional WCUs. Transactional write requests require two WCUs to perform one write per second for items up to 1 KB. For example, a standard write request of a 1 KB item would require one WCU, a standard write request of a 3 KB item would require three WCUs, and a transactional write request of a 3 KB item would require six WCUs. Replicated write capacity unit (rWCU): When using DynamoDB global tables, your data is written automatically to multiple AWS Regions of your choice. Each write occurs in the local Region as well as the replicated Regions.

show me someone who claims to understand DynamoDB pricing and I’ll show you a liar

pokémon stands for "pocket monsters"

PSA: If you are thinking of giving Claude Code permission to run `find` thinking it's read-only, remember that it has a `-delete` flag.

oooh awesome, really wanted something like this (advertisers get to collect some of this data about me, why shouldn't I get to?). i'm actually pleasantly surprised that apple even allows exporting so much data

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.

Always curious to see who gets to be an anonymous source!

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

That restaurant is incredible!

Charlie Byrne’s in Galway is one of the best bookshops I’ve ever been to

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

oh can't wait! the 0/1/2 file descriptor illustration is brilliant

sounds like your five year old makes you their “find my Lego pieces for me” chump just like mine

wait how does Wang report to Zuck if Meta owns a minority stake? Is it an investment or a merger?