Dariusz Baciński

Just published second article about testing with #Kotlin. Now it is time for testing state/interactions and #Mockito stubs/mocks. github.com/dbacinski/Andr…

I used Nero to burn CDs as a kid and only later got the joke: Nero burned Rome, and "Burning ROM" is such a perfect reference.

Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: "AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research." And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it: "So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation." A corporation that already knows everything about you: "An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data." From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think: "Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism." And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house. He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power: "They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash." The sarcasm is the point. Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one: "That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction."

your db query is slow? just add this! boom, now you are ai-native instead of lazy!

I was very excited until I saw the pricing 🥶 $0.03/GB of reads and $0.06/GB of writes.

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@andrzejdragan Wróżbita Maciej będzie prodziekanem.

W związku z rozszerzeniem przez Ministerstwo Pracy, Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej listy zawodów o nowe pozycje: 516101 i 516102, Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii UW otwiera nowy kierunek — astrologię. Szczegółowe warunki naboru na stronie Wydziału.

AI is making CEOs delusional

Pure evil.

Your Java heap dumps contain plain-text secrets. Passwords. Tokens. PII. In this guide, I show how to detect and redact sensitive data from .hprof files using hprof-redact. Before you upload a heap dump, read this. buff.ly/Aivpo8s #java #quarkus

90% of stand-up meetings look exactly like this.

This AI ad is wild 😂 twitter.com/brahma_4u/stat…

OUT OF SHADOWS (OFFICIAL) W/ INTO THE LIGHT TRAILER

🚨 Before it gets deleted: The full Jeffrey Epstein Interview by Steve Bannon. A lot of information surrounding the Epstein files has been taken down and redacted. Make sure to bookmark and repost this so more people can see it before it's also taken down. unedited (by me) 1hr 57mins.

@JorgeCastilloPr 1.5 HTC Magic

What is the oldest Android version you built apps for? I started quite late I think, Eclair (2.1) on an HTC Wildfire.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Physics professor discloses in 1 minute the full insight of Quantum Mechanics.

This is a good read: Software development in the times of strange new angles open.substack.com/pub/davegriffi…