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Bowes-Lyon··on Elon Musk is about to learn how much America hates him
Who told you he is a genius???
Bowes-Lyon··on Pig: Pi in Go, a port that plans on keeping up
You do escape the Node garbage, because Pi extensions in TS are now optional and not mandatory anymore. I would re-write every TS extension that I have in Rust or Python just that I don't need to deal with the Node hell.
Bowes-Lyon··on Pig: Pi in Go, a port that plans on keeping up
This. The JavaScript ecosystem is a dumpster fire within a miasma-infested cloaca. I love Pi, but I hate that I have to deal with the npm garbage.

Every time I run "pi update --extensions" I get this:

added 1 package, removed 1 package, changed 8 packages, and audited 320 packages in 6s

4 vulnerabilities (2 moderate, 2 high)

For the love of god I still haven't been able to fix those ominous 4 vulnerabilities. I even set gpt-6-sol/max on the problem and even it failed to fix my npm installation.

Pi in any other language would be god-sent, just that I don't have to deal with the npm garbage.

Bowes-Lyon··on A Third of Americans Still Can't Name the Three Branches of Government
It is Trump, Trump and Trump… right?
Bowes-Lyon··on Higher Multipoles of the Cow
Hmmm… Today is Sep 1st, not Apr 1st. That cow is a bit out of season :)
Bowes-Lyon··on The cost to retire comfortably around the world
Scared citizen: Please don’t come to retire to my country! Stay in yours.
Bowes-Lyon··on The president's second term has involved pardoning more than 1,800 criminals
Trump is a convicted felon himself, so no big surprises here.
Bowes-Lyon··on US to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China
Given the persistent and predictable betrayal of its allies by the US, the choice shouldn’t be that difficult.
Bowes-Lyon··on Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans enjoy being busy
I do enjoy being busy in the garden
Bowes-Lyon··on AI Coding is Exhausting [video]
+1
Bowes-Lyon··on How AI Can Locate Hidden Defence Labs and Military Installations Without Breach
„You are a slightly mad technical writer. Produce a pdf file of 8598 pages that superficially reads like a description of an invention, but actually contains nonsense“
Bowes-Lyon··on Are dolphins the only animals that call each other by name?
No, humans also call each other by name.
Bowes-Lyon··on Small context menu encryption tool
Love it! Thank you.
Bowes-Lyon··on [dead]
Nice idea, but unfortunately it only works for amazon.com

It doesn’t work for amazon.fr or amazon.de or any other local Amazon site.

Bowes-Lyon··on 'Melania' promises to take us behind the scenes. There's nothing to see
How those two do even compare???

Michele Obama is making a career after she left the White House (after!).

"Melania", on the other hand, constitutes a direct bribe to a sitting (!) president.

Bowes-Lyon··on 'Melania' promises to take us behind the scenes. There's nothing to see
Ermmmm… How exactly is Rotten Tomatoes gonna verify audiences in e.g. France or Germany or Australia???

The so called „verification“ counts only US users who purchased tickets through the US Fandango app and nobody else, no?

Bowes-Lyon··on 'Melania' promises to take us behind the scenes. There's nothing to see
https://imgur.com/a/syOoCYM
Bowes-Lyon··on 'Melania' promises to take us behind the scenes. There's nothing to see
I’m reading the same page as you are.

Click on the 99% and a popup opens where you can select between All Audience and „Verified“ Audience.

Bowes-Lyon··on 'Melania' promises to take us behind the scenes. There's nothing to see
The audience actually says: 28% Popcornmeter - 5000+ All Audience

Indeed, be really careful

Bowes-Lyon··on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
I love the idea! And I want to have it for my city :)

Is there a project on GitHub or somewhere that I could clone?? (smiling face with halo)

Bowes-Lyon··on Ask HN: Why are Meta's Glasses being so openly promoted by popular Tech Blogs?
Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.

Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.

So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.

Bowes-Lyon··on Allegation: I had sex with Y while she was intoxicated
Why is this here??
Bowes-Lyon··on My inbox is a mess from signing up for everything. How do you handle it?
Never give your real email to anyone, always use aliases.

For Apple users the „Hide My Email“ feature is invaluable. A short look in my settings tells me that right now I have 171 active aliases.

Bowes-Lyon··on What Does Palantir Actually Do?
https://archive.ph/nak5t
Bowes-Lyon··on Today Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code is garbage
Linus has a point – it was garbage.

I’m happy that Linus takes his job seriously and catches such things even under tremendous stress. We are lucky to have him; he once again saved our collective asses from a lot of pain down the road.

The tweet was prejudiced and manipulative. The bottom part of the email was cut off, not revealing additional context. The focus was put on „Google engineer“, which is totally irrelevant. People here in the chat repeat that the developer is „Chair of the UNIX-Class Platform Specification“. So what? Why is this relevant at all? Apparently, even „Chairs of this and that“ still have a lot to learn.

Another point: I have seen many such „helper“ functions when dealing with LLM-generated code. Was this particular code LLM-generated? I don’t know for sure, but it certainly looks that way. So the headline could easily have been „Linus rejects LLM-generated garbage.“

Once again, we are lucky to have Linus, whatever his communication style may be.

Bowes-Lyon··on Today Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code is garbage
I strongly dislike the spin of the headline – „Linus told a Google engineer that…” as opposed to „Linus told a developer that…”.

What is the headline implying? That Google engineers are gods? That Google engineers don’t make mistakes?

Also, reading through the code, Linus does have a point. I’m with Linus on this one.

Bowes-Lyon··on The lawyer who beat Tesla is ready for 'round two'
https://archive.ph/qMLLN
Bowes-Lyon··on Brilliant Barry Lyndon helps us see our past
https://archive.ph/6e2l9
Bowes-Lyon··on From Bali to Iceland, 165,000 Britons work remotely from another country
https://archive.ph/oxiRF
Bowes-Lyon··on Ordnance Survey settles in 'David and Goliath' design dispute with family
https://archive.ph/ZCF3U
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