Justin Ridings
@justinridings.bsky.social
Hobby Chef 👨🏻🍳, Aspiring Green Thumb👨🏻🌾, US Army Veteran 🪖, Huge Nerd 🤓
Engineer for Windows Reliability @ Microsoft and [probably] the only guy you know that cares about dumps.
Responsible AI Lead @ SOMOS.TECH
Engineer for Windows Reliability @ Microsoft and [probably] the only guy you know that cares about dumps.
Responsible AI Lead @ SOMOS.TECH
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
Great video @steplyakov.bsky.social! TIL about WeakTimer ⏲️
Some of the hardest bugs to diagnose/fix can be memory leaks, so taking a proactive approach that eliminates the risk before deploying your code is crucial.
Some of the hardest bugs to diagnose/fix can be memory leaks, so taking a proactive approach that eliminates the risk before deploying your code is crucial.
Hey #dotnet people:)
Just published another episode on Dissecting the Code YouTube channel - "Dissecting Memory Leaks in .NET".
How global events, hidden static collection and timers can cause memory leaks and the ways to avoid it.
Link in the comment below.
Just published another episode on Dissecting the Code YouTube channel - "Dissecting Memory Leaks in .NET".
How global events, hidden static collection and timers can cause memory leaks and the ways to avoid it.
Link in the comment below.
May 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Great video @steplyakov.bsky.social! TIL about WeakTimer ⏲️
Some of the hardest bugs to diagnose/fix can be memory leaks, so taking a proactive approach that eliminates the risk before deploying your code is crucial.
Some of the hardest bugs to diagnose/fix can be memory leaks, so taking a proactive approach that eliminates the risk before deploying your code is crucial.
POV: you get back from vacation and your bernedoodle turns into a velcro-doodle while watching TV
May 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
POV: you get back from vacation and your bernedoodle turns into a velcro-doodle while watching TV
While I'm still in awe we can generate videos like this, I also strongly believe there is no good that can come from this.
It's pretty lame to think that in the near future we'll soon be unable to trust what we see or hear anymore. George Orwell 1984 vibes 🤖
It's pretty lame to think that in the near future we'll soon be unable to trust what we see or hear anymore. George Orwell 1984 vibes 🤖
There is no safe and valid business reason for AI video generation with sound other than for misinformation. Similar to when they cloned Dolly the Sheep and the world decided that human cloning wasn't cool. Folks need to decide this isn't cool.
May 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
While I'm still in awe we can generate videos like this, I also strongly believe there is no good that can come from this.
It's pretty lame to think that in the near future we'll soon be unable to trust what we see or hear anymore. George Orwell 1984 vibes 🤖
It's pretty lame to think that in the near future we'll soon be unable to trust what we see or hear anymore. George Orwell 1984 vibes 🤖
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Fun fact: telling a university to cancel visas because you don’t like what they teach is fascism
May 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fun fact: telling a university to cancel visas because you don’t like what they teach is fascism
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May 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀
Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
May 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀
Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
I spoke with some mentees in Microsoft's Africa Development Center yesterday regarding Soft Skills and Career Growth.
I chose to share about Resilience as a Soft Skill from my time on Active Duty that's been helpful for me. Microsoft lays off 6k people hours later.
Be Resilient. Life's tough dude
I chose to share about Resilience as a Soft Skill from my time on Active Duty that's been helpful for me. Microsoft lays off 6k people hours later.
Be Resilient. Life's tough dude
May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I spoke with some mentees in Microsoft's Africa Development Center yesterday regarding Soft Skills and Career Growth.
I chose to share about Resilience as a Soft Skill from my time on Active Duty that's been helpful for me. Microsoft lays off 6k people hours later.
Be Resilient. Life's tough dude
I chose to share about Resilience as a Soft Skill from my time on Active Duty that's been helpful for me. Microsoft lays off 6k people hours later.
Be Resilient. Life's tough dude
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For those who need it, we're starting to roll out a new option for voice typing (WIN + H) so you can choose if you want profanity filtering enabled or not
Thanks, as always, for those who shared feedback about this 🙏
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
#WindowsInsiders
Thanks, as always, for those who shared feedback about this 🙏
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
#WindowsInsiders
April 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For those who need it, we're starting to roll out a new option for voice typing (WIN + H) so you can choose if you want profanity filtering enabled or not
Thanks, as always, for those who shared feedback about this 🙏
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
#WindowsInsiders
Thanks, as always, for those who shared feedback about this 🙏
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
#WindowsInsiders
Explain how this is anything other than a favour for a Monday Night RAW appearance?
Linda McMahon made millions off staged fights, but now she’s part of a real one—gutting the Department of Education to leave vulnerable kids without the resources they need. She’s ready to dismantle it, starving it of staff & funding. Our children’s future isn’t a game.
Don’t Defund Public Schools
Don’t Defund Public Schools
March 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Explain how this is anything other than a favour for a Monday Night RAW appearance?
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Here come a bunch of links on super interesting things! Thing 1: Quantum!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Here come a bunch of links on super interesting things! Thing 1: Quantum!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
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What does a fortune 500 company do to a mainframe in which a bad actor has literally plugged shit into with root access?
February 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What does a fortune 500 company do to a mainframe in which a bad actor has literally plugged shit into with root access?
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If Biden did any one of these things they’d impeach him. This is f-ing mental. Why is everyone so silent? But her emails? Elmo is running around with some kid and a laptop deleting stuff and there’s no pushback. Overwhelming
“Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is ‘dangerously’ undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin.”
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan
Elon Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
www.forbes.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If Biden did any one of these things they’d impeach him. This is f-ing mental. Why is everyone so silent? But her emails? Elmo is running around with some kid and a laptop deleting stuff and there’s no pushback. Overwhelming
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lot going on up here in redmond.
Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
lot going on up here in redmond.
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The era of AI mix tapes begins, asking the DJ to play your song and then hanging out by the radio recording to cassette
DeepSeek made orders-of-magnitude leaps in all of these areas. (That means it was 10x to 100x more efficient.) Instead of gathering all that costly data, it _generated_ much of the necessary data — often using prior LLMs like Llama (Meta’s open source tool) and Qwen (an open source Chinese tool).
January 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The era of AI mix tapes begins, asking the DJ to play your song and then hanging out by the radio recording to cassette
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GitHub Copilot is now free for @visualstudio.bsky.social - 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages a month, plus access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. No $ devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
January 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
GitHub Copilot is now free for @visualstudio.bsky.social - 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages a month, plus access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. No $ devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
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I'm not sure my first impression on this is positive. What is keeping the joycon locked in, magnets? Sure it looks cool, but my Switch 1 still plays Mario Kart well
The Nintendo Switch 2 has finally been revealed and will launch in 2025. Nintendo also announced a Nintendo Direct focused on the new system for April 2! www.ign.com/articles/nin...
January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm not sure my first impression on this is positive. What is keeping the joycon locked in, magnets? Sure it looks cool, but my Switch 1 still plays Mario Kart well
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Positive news of 2025: Medical Debt no longer impacts your credit score in the US
January 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Positive news of 2025: Medical Debt no longer impacts your credit score in the US
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Elon really did say that to them.
December 31, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Elon really did say that to them.
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Big C# conference hosted on Discord all week long this week! Check it out at discord.gg/csharp #dotnet
November 19, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Big C# conference hosted on Discord all week long this week! Check it out at discord.gg/csharp #dotnet