Paul Vick
@panopticoncentral.net
Language/database/performance geek. Previously of Microsoft and Meta. Mastodon: mstdn.social/@panopticoncen…
I remember all the random places Surface tablets showed up on TV. Worked really well, Surface tablets totally crushed the iPad!
It’s impressive how it’s not in Microsoft’s DNA to build good consumer products. They have access to the same tech as ChatGPT for building Copilot yet while ChatGPT has 1.4B downloads, Copilot has 95M. 😬
A bunch of influencers shilling Copilot isn’t going to get people to suddenly start using it.
A bunch of influencers shilling Copilot isn’t going to get people to suddenly start using it.
Microsoft Bets on Influencers Like Alix Earle to Close the Gap With ChatGPT
Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I remember all the random places Surface tablets showed up on TV. Worked really well, Surface tablets totally crushed the iPad!
Next up... one gazillion dollars!
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Next up... one gazillion dollars!
You've got a nice company here. Be a shame if anything... happened to it.
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
You've got a nice company here. Be a shame if anything... happened to it.
"I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning..."
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning..."
Reposted by Paul Vick
I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off!
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms - Eric Lippert
Author Eric Lippert introduces fabulous solutions using uncommon algorithms and data structures.
There’s a lot more to algorithms than the useful-but-boring recipes you recite for every interview. Th...
hubs.la
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off!
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
Hey, wow, this is cool! Interested to read what @ericlippert.com has to say about this!
Oh look, a new book by @ericlippert.com! Should be a fabulous adventure indeed. www.manning.com/books/fabulo...
Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms - Eric Lippert
Author Eric Lippert introduces fabulous solutions using uncommon algorithms and data structures.
There’s a lot more to algorithms than the useful-but-boring recipes you recite for every interview. Th...
www.manning.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hey, wow, this is cool! Interested to read what @ericlippert.com has to say about this!
I backed this!
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I backed this!
We’re all just looking for the guy who did this.
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We’re all just looking for the guy who did this.
My thoughts are with my friends at Amazon tomorrow. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Amazon may lay off 30,000 corporate employees this week, Reuters reports
Amazon is planning what could be its largest wave of layoffs ever, according to a report from the news service.
www.seattletimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My thoughts are with my friends at Amazon tomorrow. May the odds be ever in your favor.
So sad... I was a TiVo early adopter and sold more than a few to family and friends. Even went so far as to crack them open and replace the internal HDs with higher capacity HDs, I used it so much. All things pass...
You can erect another gravestone in the cemetery of dead media: TiVo is no longer making physical DVRs.
TiVo has sold its last DVR
The company is killing its hardware business, 26 years after becoming synonymous with TV recording.
www.theverge.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So sad... I was a TiVo early adopter and sold more than a few to family and friends. Even went so far as to crack them open and replace the internal HDs with higher capacity HDs, I used it so much. All things pass...
Being a teenager when Watchmen and V for Vendetta had their original run, both had a deep, significant effect on me and I still think about them frequently. But given the ways they’ve been twisted and misused and misunderstood over the years, I find myself wondering if it was really worth it.
October 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Being a teenager when Watchmen and V for Vendetta had their original run, both had a deep, significant effect on me and I still think about them frequently. But given the ways they’ve been twisted and misused and misunderstood over the years, I find myself wondering if it was really worth it.
Up next? Requiring parents to have at least one child named after Charlie Kirk.
Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone
Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Up next? Requiring parents to have at least one child named after Charlie Kirk.
Take copious amounts of ketamine and try and destroy the federal government?
October 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Take copious amounts of ketamine and try and destroy the federal government?
When someone says to you, “I’ve been so good to you, you should be grateful,” the subtext is always “…because I didn’t have to be.” Which says just about everything you need to know about this person.
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
October 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
When someone says to you, “I’ve been so good to you, you should be grateful,” the subtext is always “…because I didn’t have to be.” Which says just about everything you need to know about this person.
And the sad thing is that may be for the best!
Amid the battle to persuade the public that the shutdown is the other party's fault, Chuck Schumer didn't sit down for a single media interview today
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
And the sad thing is that may be for the best!
AI changes things in unexpected ways. One of my personal superpowers has always been writing technical specifications. It's an amazing way to work out the kinks in a design, expose missing cases, and just generally work through lots of problems before ever committing a line of code. The downside...
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
AI changes things in unexpected ways. One of my personal superpowers has always been writing technical specifications. It's an amazing way to work out the kinks in a design, expose missing cases, and just generally work through lots of problems before ever committing a line of code. The downside...
I miss the key so much! Lots of key paraphernalia from those early days in the team.
October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I miss the key so much! Lots of key paraphernalia from those early days in the team.
I'm shocked that Trump doesn't personally get a cut of all sales for use of his name. Or is that just in the fine print?
Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"
looks like state capitalism to me
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
looks like state capitalism to me
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs
Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm shocked that Trump doesn't personally get a cut of all sales for use of his name. Or is that just in the fine print?
Let me fill that in:
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a [ludicrous] tariff on [basically everybody], unless a company is [paying him personally a lot of money], sparked confusion.
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a [ludicrous] tariff on [basically everybody], unless a company is [paying him personally a lot of money], sparked confusion.
Evergreen:
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a ______ tariff on ______, unless a company is _______, sparked confusion.
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a ______ tariff on ______, unless a company is _______, sparked confusion.
President Trump’s announcement that his administration will impose a 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceutical products, unless a company is building a manufacturing plant in the United States, sparked confusion early Friday.
Here’s what to know.
Here’s what to know.
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Let me fill that in:
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a [ludicrous] tariff on [basically everybody], unless a company is [paying him personally a lot of money], sparked confusion.
President Trump's announcement that his administration will impose a [ludicrous] tariff on [basically everybody], unless a company is [paying him personally a lot of money], sparked confusion.
100% this, it’s the same kind of broad-based bubble we saw in the early Internet era. The question is not whether it’s going to be painful, the question is *how* painful will it be?
This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles:
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three
Here's how to capitalize on them.
www.fastcompany.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
100% this, it’s the same kind of broad-based bubble we saw in the early Internet era. The question is not whether it’s going to be painful, the question is *how* painful will it be?
Reposted by Paul Vick
I don't watch it much myself but I feel like "Trump take SNL" is a message that would get through to the normies
SNL next. Mark it. He fucking hates SNL more than all the rest.
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I don't watch it much myself but I feel like "Trump take SNL" is a message that would get through to the normies
I think the whole point is that, relative to the past, his show *isn't* that popular. So many people have abandoned broadcast / cable television that I imagine affiliates are in a bad place as it is and are particularly vulnerable, and the corporate parent is, in turn, vulnerable to the affiliates.
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I think the whole point is that, relative to the past, his show *isn't* that popular. So many people have abandoned broadcast / cable television that I imagine affiliates are in a bad place as it is and are particularly vulnerable, and the corporate parent is, in turn, vulnerable to the affiliates.
Whatever may have happened in this interaction, there is no question that Jesse Helms absolutely was a racist, insensitive bully and ascribing ill intent to his motives was never unreasonable. (In college, I specifically kept my residency in NC to vote against Helms, for all the good it did...)
The "you're taking Charlie Kirk's racist quotes out of context" complaints reminds me of how the Jesse Helms Center tried to spin the senator's racist treatment of Carol Moseley Braun (the first Black woman in the Senate).
September 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Whatever may have happened in this interaction, there is no question that Jesse Helms absolutely was a racist, insensitive bully and ascribing ill intent to his motives was never unreasonable. (In college, I specifically kept my residency in NC to vote against Helms, for all the good it did...)
All the bloviating about "political debates" right now puts me in mind of a treatise I read on three-card monte in the pre-web Usenet days. Three-card monte is ostensibly a game that is played on street corners where the player tries to guess which of the three cards is the queen. But in truth...
September 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
All the bloviating about "political debates" right now puts me in mind of a treatise I read on three-card monte in the pre-web Usenet days. Three-card monte is ostensibly a game that is played on street corners where the player tries to guess which of the three cards is the queen. But in truth...
When Reddit nuked their third party API it was the impetus to get me off of wasting time on Reddit. Now it looks like I'm going to have help getting off of waiting time on TikTok.
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
$ORCL
$ORCL
September 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When Reddit nuked their third party API it was the impetus to get me off of wasting time on Reddit. Now it looks like I'm going to have help getting off of waiting time on TikTok.