Rob Lang
@brainwipe.bsky.social
Lead healthcare web dev, PhD in AI, amateur game dev, aspiring gravel cyclist, ex-RAFAC gliding instructor and drone racer.
Oh and they always started with a database! They only had a dozen vans, they'd not drive round the country 😂 they'd go to a place where there were lots of people not paying and scan. Usually council estates filled with people who could barely afford the Rumbelows rental, let alone license.
February 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Oh and they always started with a database! They only had a dozen vans, they'd not drive round the country 😂 they'd go to a place where there were lots of people not paying and scan. Usually council estates filled with people who could barely afford the Rumbelows rental, let alone license.
Nah, you can do it with any CRT, which was a powerful electron beam. That's why TVs in the 70s/80s used to explode!
It became less useful in the mid 90s when you had better screens, higher lines (freq was dependent on lines drawn) so the CRT didn't need high voltages anymore.
It became less useful in the mid 90s when you had better screens, higher lines (freq was dependent on lines drawn) so the CRT didn't need high voltages anymore.
February 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Nah, you can do it with any CRT, which was a powerful electron beam. That's why TVs in the 70s/80s used to explode!
It became less useful in the mid 90s when you had better screens, higher lines (freq was dependent on lines drawn) so the CRT didn't need high voltages anymore.
It became less useful in the mid 90s when you had better screens, higher lines (freq was dependent on lines drawn) so the CRT didn't need high voltages anymore.
Upon my demise, I'm going to ask my family to refer to the funeral as my "final flourish"!
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Upon my demise, I'm going to ask my family to refer to the funeral as my "final flourish"!
I got the same letter! I'm going to walk into the Broad Street shop (I'm in Reading, I know you know the area!) and demand a better deal for both the SIM only numbers.
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I got the same letter! I'm going to walk into the Broad Street shop (I'm in Reading, I know you know the area!) and demand a better deal for both the SIM only numbers.
I'm of the mind that it's better to teach them rather than banning. Technology moves far too fast and the law makers don't understand it (I saw one MP suggesting banning VPNs!).
January 24, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I'm of the mind that it's better to teach them rather than banning. Technology moves far too fast and the law makers don't understand it (I saw one MP suggesting banning VPNs!).
2 years ago my son (then 14) explained how his classmates were using VPN and DNS proxies to evade the school firewalls. When I asked how he learnt how to do that, he shrugged and said YT of course. When the age restrictions came out for porn, they just laughed.
January 24, 2026 at 11:23 PM
2 years ago my son (then 14) explained how his classmates were using VPN and DNS proxies to evade the school firewalls. When I asked how he learnt how to do that, he shrugged and said YT of course. When the age restrictions came out for porn, they just laughed.
The elders (Wiener, McCulloch, Pitts, Turing) specified the kill switch but the corporations didn't feel the need.
December 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The elders (Wiener, McCulloch, Pitts, Turing) specified the kill switch but the corporations didn't feel the need.
All the models shit the bed in the same way. They focus on McCarthy and Turing but if you press them on their origins, it's Wiener, McCulloch and Pitts more than a decade before.
December 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
All the models shit the bed in the same way. They focus on McCarthy and Turing but if you press them on their origins, it's Wiener, McCulloch and Pitts more than a decade before.
Rules additionally add a meta puzzle for the players to manipulate in imaginative or unexpected ways. Does the manipulation of systems feel right for the genre? GURPS always felt more present day than Sci Fi or Swords N Shit cos combinations of the rules didn't feel specific enough.
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rules additionally add a meta puzzle for the players to manipulate in imaginative or unexpected ways. Does the manipulation of systems feel right for the genre? GURPS always felt more present day than Sci Fi or Swords N Shit cos combinations of the rules didn't feel specific enough.
All statistical techniques depend on the input set. To reduce misogyny and racism bias from that data, you need an expert on the data who admits the bias is there. In medicine, it's very hard to get experts to admit bias that's existed in humans medics for a hundred years or more.
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
All statistical techniques depend on the input set. To reduce misogyny and racism bias from that data, you need an expert on the data who admits the bias is there. In medicine, it's very hard to get experts to admit bias that's existed in humans medics for a hundred years or more.
I use Google sync and OneDrive sync for moving my notes and knowledge base files but I also use Obsidian for writing blog markdown that I generate with Gatsby. I hope that helps!
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I use Google sync and OneDrive sync for moving my notes and knowledge base files but I also use Obsidian for writing blog markdown that I generate with Gatsby. I hope that helps!
Obsidian is worth a look for just this kind of thing. I used VSCode like you do and found Obsidian lighter and better at capturing knowledge. Especially for markdown. It keeps everything as markdown, so you can side-by-side them. It has lots of other features I don't use yet but worth a look!
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Obsidian is worth a look for just this kind of thing. I used VSCode like you do and found Obsidian lighter and better at capturing knowledge. Especially for markdown. It keeps everything as markdown, so you can side-by-side them. It has lots of other features I don't use yet but worth a look!
Is that VS Code? Have you tried Obsidian?
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Is that VS Code? Have you tried Obsidian?
Modern image generation isn't that awful anymore. One wonders what the prompt was!
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Modern image generation isn't that awful anymore. One wonders what the prompt was!
I can understand that person; creators as large and successful as you rarely interact because there's a tipping point where it takes so much time - perhaps more than the time it takes to do the hunt, write script, choose Star Wars tee, teach Chad his lines, shine the dome, film, edit and upload!
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I can understand that person; creators as large and successful as you rarely interact because there's a tipping point where it takes so much time - perhaps more than the time it takes to do the hunt, write script, choose Star Wars tee, teach Chad his lines, shine the dome, film, edit and upload!
Not novel but in 2000, it was a requirement that I reproduced the results of papers were similar to mine. I discovered properties/limitations not listed in the original papers. I had to reproduce the data and code. I would not have been allowed to submit my thesis without it.
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Not novel but in 2000, it was a requirement that I reproduced the results of papers were similar to mine. I discovered properties/limitations not listed in the original papers. I had to reproduce the data and code. I would not have been allowed to submit my thesis without it.
I didn't - and won't - use the AI auto comments. It means that I'm now having to think of very "me" replies to make it obvious that I'm not using the auto comments. Saying thank you to the simple comments no longer meets the bar for me!
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I didn't - and won't - use the AI auto comments. It means that I'm now having to think of very "me" replies to make it obvious that I'm not using the auto comments. Saying thank you to the simple comments no longer meets the bar for me!
I've always tried to write odd/quirky comments in an attempt to build a secondary discord community for my game. If a commenter thinks "that's interesting, let's check the discord", I've succeeded.
That said, simple comments such as "great job" don't help reply eccentricity.
That said, simple comments such as "great job" don't help reply eccentricity.
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I've always tried to write odd/quirky comments in an attempt to build a secondary discord community for my game. If a commenter thinks "that's interesting, let's check the discord", I've succeeded.
That said, simple comments such as "great job" don't help reply eccentricity.
That said, simple comments such as "great job" don't help reply eccentricity.
The web was the <font> of all knowledge and it was Comic Sans.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The web was the <font> of all knowledge and it was Comic Sans.
What makes me uneasy about this approach is that it assumes that the existing monolith is clean and you have domain experts on hand that understand the existing system and the new direction. Plenty of places I've worked the existing monolith *was* the domain expert. You can't set it aside.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
What makes me uneasy about this approach is that it assumes that the existing monolith is clean and you have domain experts on hand that understand the existing system and the new direction. Plenty of places I've worked the existing monolith *was* the domain expert. You can't set it aside.