@luisc @EU_Commission A small trick I've learned: it all starts to make sense if you replace democracy with buerocracy
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Denis Darkin
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Denis Darkin
@dvdarkin
SW engineer, science and tech enthusiast. Building tools I'd use, helping founders solve problems I care about
Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Şubat 2011
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The battle of narratives is going strong.
Our countries are a recurring target.
It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story!
Protect what matters - our democracy.
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Hey founders! Anyone building in digital image/photography space? Interested to learn what you're working on. I was amazed how much is now possible in image understanding/analysis domain. Writeup on my dev experience if you're keen: finescenery.com/news/how-this-…
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I've rebuilt my portfolio site (again): 20 years of photo journey, 1500+ images, all in one place. Heavy use of LLMs (both frontier and local) for coding and image analysis finescenery.com
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@Bluntz_Capital Which means enrichment plays are getting repriced e.g. LEU was trading at something like 46x P/E pre correction
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@Bluntz_Capital It seems that uranium has the same structural chokepoint as rare earths: processing e.g. Russia controls > 40% of refining capacity meaning that you're betting on political outcomes not only supply/demand dynamics.
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wholeheartedly agree, except theres a structural supply deficit forecast all the way out into the 2040s and even if every current greenfield project comes online and on time (which they wont) theres still a deficit.
legitimately believe we could be in for a decade long bull run in #uranium
Mando@rektmando
Uranium trade feels like one of the most obvious for the next 1-2 years
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@unclebobmartin @unclebobmartin the idea has been sitting with me for a few months so I've done some knowledge distillation to figure out what is durable vs. flavor of the day: github.com/dvdarkin/softw… Having read your work years ago, keen to see what you think and what you'd change.
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Very true. Tools have changed in revolutionary ways; but software engineering has gradually evolved in discipline without revolution. The principles of software design and software architecture remain the same, regardless of era, platform, application, and hardware. And that’s because, when it comes down to it, software is nothing more than sequence, selection, and iteration.
John Crickett@johncrickett
The biggest lie in software engineering is that it changes fast. I've watched it stay the same for 30 years. - We still use languages and algorithms from decades ago. - We still haven't adopted practices we knew were good in the 90s. - We still use ideas from the 80s to build AI. "Everything changes every six months" isn't harmless. It pushes engineers to chase frameworks instead of fundamentals. It makes teams rewrite instead of refactor. It undermines the claim that what we do is engineering at all. Real engineering compounds. It builds on what came before. What's actually changed in 30 years, and what have we just rebranded?
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@NVIDIAGeForce FYI GPU-poor peeps: win probability is near 0. Solid engagement farming though. DLSS 4 tech looks interesting too. PRAGMATA RTX
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PRAGMATA has launched with #RTXON, featuring path tracing and DLSS 4!
To celebrate, we are giving away this custom wrapped GeForce RTX 5090 featuring Hugh and Diana, perfect for the adventure that awaits on the moon.
Want it? Comment "PRAGMATA RTX" to enter!
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@GergelyOrosz agreed. I'm experimenting with creating skills for agentic AI to be able to achieve some of UX-pilledness, Benji Taylor one is done more to go x.com/dvdarkin/statu…
Denis Darkin@dvdarkin
Hello builders! Elon hired Benji Taylor as X's new Design Lead. I researched his UX philosophy and built a Claude Skill that evals your designs against his 6 core principles: github.com/dvdarkin/claud… Look for benji-taylor-design-eval skill
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Prediction:
The next 12-24 months, "UX-pilled" builders will be in massive demand.
Who can create intuitive interfaces, web+mobile+desktop apps that "feel good," natural, fast, and far better than the competition.
THIS will be the difference vs those building "just" with AI.
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Point it at your product and get a structured critique per dimension: what works, what tension it reveals, and one concrete fix.
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The 6 principles:
-Progressive Disclosure - complexity when needed
-Fluidity - motion communicates state
-implicity/Fluidity/Delight — all present
-Craft - edge cases get equal care
-Trust - high-stakes actions unambiguous
-Accessibility - novices & experts coexist
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Hello builders! Elon hired Benji Taylor as X's new Design Lead. I researched his UX philosophy and built a Claude Skill that evals your designs against his 6 core principles: github.com/dvdarkin/claud…
Look for benji-taylor-design-eval skill
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The tool is available as CLI to scan, mask, and vault files from the command line or CI pipelines, as well as library that can be wired directly in your application to shroud data on the fly - show original values in a UI while persisting only masked content to disk.
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Masking the original values retain metadata, e.g. instead of an IP, crypto addr or a value AI agent would see [IP:18a4d818], [ADDR:a3f1b2c4] or [AMT:c59a58a0] which means reasoning is still possible but actual values are hidden and only exist as references to encrypted data.
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GM startup people! Just wanted to share an opensource tool I've built which you may find useful if you expose sensitive data to AI tools: github.com/dvdarkin/shroud - Scans markdown files for sensitive patterns and masks them, while storing originals as encrypted file
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@TripleNetInvest cc @PeteWargent I wonder what the avg could be for capital city hotels in AU
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JUST IN: The owner of the Four Seasons in San Francisco has defaulted on a loan backed by the hotel
The owner was served a notice of default for a $72M loan backed by the 155 key hotel
The owner acquired the hotel in 2019 for $127M, or $816k per room, and spent millions in renovations
This is one of many hotels in the area that are in trouble and the situation does not look to be turning around any time soon
For the latest updates on the commercial real estate just like this, make sure to follow @TripleNetInvest
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@PeteWargent that makes sense, thanks. given there is a construction bust and not too many cuts planned, it's probably not going to happen again, although demand from population growth may factor in
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@dvdarkin big cuts in interest rates after the peak of the resources construction boom. APRA eventually got a hold of it with new legislation to curb investment lending
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Investor credit growth slowed to 0.22pc in January; down from 0.29pc in October, still pretty slow on a net basis
Owner-occupier credit growth was stronger at 0.44pc, 15-month high
(RBA)
#ausbiz
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Housing chart of the day. 🏡📊
The blue bar = % of mortgages that could soon see their interest rate rise in 2023.
The % is so low in the U.S. that I had to circle it.
By and large, U.S. borrowers are blessed with fixed mortgage rates. via @GoldmanSachs
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