Tobin Baker
tobinbaker@discuss.systems
<p>database, concurrency nerd</p><p>I barely speak for myself, let alone my employer</p><p>that said, fuck authoritarians</p>
Posts
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Post #2378640
Wife is trying to use ChatGPT for a painting project and it turns out to be very good at hallucinating paint colors.
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Post #2116783
Having read this guy&#39;s blog (on systems programming in C) for years, I literally cannot believe it is the same person. The proximity of the post date to April 1 gave me a little hope, but the post does seem serious. https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/03/29/
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Post #2116782
Best advice I got in therapy: “It’s not your fault, but you still own it.”
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Post #2116781
Sergey Brin is a case study in why billionaires should not exist. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.XBQK.cK_uqxxUcSTy&amp;smid=url-share
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Post #2116780
Tired: TACO Wired: NACHO https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-logic-of-nacho?r=4tjsy&amp;utm_medium=ios
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Post #2116779
And the Nazis unfortunately had to dynamite Warsaw because it was infrastructure used by resistance fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/03/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-destruction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.l7Zj.9SdzM-ShJzOU&amp;smid=url-share
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Post #2116777
seems too good to be true https://www.capyhourcafe.com/
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Post #293217
Yet another reason to go with the “open-source, closed-contribution” model https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
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Post #184054
I really love designing tabulation machines here at IBM. Such cool technology. I'm not really exposed to the sales side but hear there's a lot of demand from Europe, Germany maybe? Anyway, super-fun technology to work on.