Substrate is in the process of being donated to the CNCF as a vendor-neutral common ground (similar to K8s). (The agent-substrate org is currently Google's, but that will change).

Last time I worked corporate the card even allowed cash withdrawals, and would automatically mark them as personal expenses so I could pay them back.

Very handy when I don’t want to use my money for whatever reason but also don’t want the company to know everywhere I’ve been

while i agree with the reason, if you have to pay it back, how does withdrawing cash from a company card make any difference?

sometimes you don't pay the whole amount back, say I went for food and drinks I might expense the food but pay the drinks out of pocket

plus, it was a neat way of having a company supplied line of credit and defer payment for a couple months with no interest

I recognised Kenton from his profile pic, he’s definitely doing well but also is a terrific principal engineer, and still somehow finds the time to answer questions on discord, I’ve had chats with him about DOs even though my spend on the cf platform is ridiculously low

Announcing that the SSR memory leak is gone as part of a product launch is wild.

If it was one memory leak, it would be meh in the fix list, but the fact they've announced that they've eliminated all memory leaks because of Rust in about eleven days that's what's wild to me.

We are living in a new world when it comes in how software is prompted into existence.

I think the reason it feels that way (I agree) is that forums had real community; I met irl friends in forums, people I stayed close with for many years

The modern day equivalent is probably discord, there are servers with really close communities where everyone knows each other

I remember in the early 2010s we used to get so much food off deliverance to the office

We found out you could add a negative tip and it would discount it off the price, but no one exploited it too scared that if they banned our address we’d be eating Tesco meal deals instead.

Now please do one to replace the MBA executive that gets hired to restructure the engineering team, asking for a friend.

Spanish is certainly an easy language to learn, but it’s a very hard language to master.

I’m a native Spanish speaker and I find English poetry much easier to understand, English is more rigid and while technically it might have a larger vocabulary you can do less with it, while the flexibility of Spanish in terms of word order and suffixes makes it possible to craft some really labyrinthine verses

to be fair, the title is very misleading, it took me a minute to understand what they meant

The title is a bit confusing, they're not using ciphertext for inference – they're passing ciphertext around in cases where an agent calls into another agent without exposing the plaintext to the end-user

Inference is still done in plaintext after this multi-agent message gets decrypted in the server side