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tek’s weekend warriors: 3.3.26

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“..it only took a weekend..” Suddenly, since December, a hashtag turns to a meme — meme-coding… vibe code an app, or a library over your weekend. the hack is back. ez enough for your ceo.

it seems folks are, again, trying to make something with less effort, offering proof of the improvement by publishing the cost to code. the gavel has fallen .. when the cost is zero, what comes next ?

do you take extra big gulps of air; why not, it’s free .

“… Tenzai found that applications built by five major AI coding agents — including Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Replit, and Devin — all contained significant vulnerabilities. The agents performed well on well-known vulnerability classes like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, but poorly on authorization logic and business logic..”

“– Silicon Valley is reporting for duty. No longer do we regard the military complex as destructive. It isn’t even complex. Just do it, quickly. Toss out the mistakes, or, perhaps leave it to the next round to cleanup. The Valley Brain is the new brain. The new MAN wears green. A willing warrior class of millionaires.

ooh, teach me how. let me play. when do I get my tattoo.

The initial cohort of this program will include the CTOs of Meta and Palantir, Andrew Bosworth and Shyam Sankar, respectively, as originally reported by The Wall Street Journal. It will also include OpenAI executives Kevin Weil, chief product officer, and Bob McGrew, chief research officer. This evening I will become an officer in US Army Reserve as part of Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps,”

When the Nerd Reich marches into battle, it will be in a bunker behind a paywall. Say hello to the new fortunate son.

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Dr. Dobbs era, Hackers were coders without a license .. saw a need so built something to reveal a gap; to start the Pearl . Hackers also began with internal commitment . Dobb’s was a small mimeo publication in the days of smaller than small publications. A time of mail art. A time of flux among the commons. Intermixing of Snow’s culture.

Snow’s cultures

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society – the sciences and the humanities – was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. 

Have we seen this before? Everyone a programmer. Problem with your business, with your life… do something fast, before your competitor does.

just in, Knuth paper re Claude successful solution

big bother and

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his guilt’d age… tariff is the big word for tax . and the import tax the tariff big Trump and his hold-up company levied was against American business . it was paid for by Americans ,by American taxpayers , by the Republik guns party.

let the real fun begin .

still, not understanding the way of reality: “As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great burden off the people that I love,” he said.

presumably ,the people he loves means the folks who stay at Mar-a-Lago .

note1: “Customs is setting up a process for importers to collect refunds. Those refunds will be processed over time, so there won’t be a sudden, overnight windfall to importers,” said Nazak Nikakhtar, who worked on trade issues at the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration and is now a partner at the law firm Wiley Rein. “Their customers, however, who hadn’t independently negotiated tariff refunds might be left without any recourse.”

note2: U.S. importers of record who directly paid the tariffs or the person who takes ownership of the goods once they have cleared customs (the “consignee”) may be eligible for a refund.

Businesses that did not directly pay the tariffs are not eligible for a refund.

Refunds are only available for tariffs applied under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA). This includes tariffs commonly known as “fentanyl,” “trafficking,” “reciprocal,” or “baseline” tariffs, as well as some other tariffs applied to goods from Brazil and India.

Refunds are not available for so-called Section 232, Section 301, Section 201, anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVDs), or most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs.

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first they cancel culture, then they cancel knowledge, finally they cancel know-how..

so the show goes… life showing off … anyone for golf ?

The mafia had Cuba …mar-a-Lago has Gaza, exit strategy of the nerd Reich  

upd– have a mitzvah’day :

He said the detainee underwent surgery for a perforated rectum and was released back to Sde Teiman days later. The arrest of the soldiers prompted fury from hard-line ultranationalists who violently overran the prison in protest. Members of Israel’s far-right government called the investigation into their conduct an affront to their service. … The military’s top legal official acknowledged authorizing the leak of the video to the TV station, and she resigned.