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RobLach··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
This is gonna make things messy re: fiduciary duty and liability.
RobLach··on Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones
That's totally wrong.

For one, caffeine is a known adenosine antagonist. The effects of adenosine is described as "drowsiness" or "relaxed".

RobLach··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Only gotten worse.
RobLach··on Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers
This is about buying hardware, not renting it.
RobLach··on Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
Concise. Nice.
RobLach··on Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
Useful and interesting but it is not the primary purpose of a translation to read the most pleasantly.
RobLach··on Our position on open-weights models
Yikes
RobLach··on After five failed products, this founder quit his job and hit $7.5k/mo
People praising reddit spam bots these days. Sign of the times I suppose.
RobLach··on What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US
It’s typically sourced from natural/artificial surface bodies or pumped out of the ground.
RobLach··on Right to Local Intelligence
Agreed.
RobLach··on Right to Local Intelligence
Sure, but...

Visibly praying in public would be symbolic. Prayer is not symbolic; it's thought.

I'm talking about external signaling.

RobLach··on [dead]
fyi work history link on your front page leads to nowhere
RobLach··on Right to Local Intelligence
Voting is always effective.

In the worst case it communicates the magnitude of dismsissiveness while demonstrating your intention to claim agency.

RobLach··on Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Box2D was a foundation for a lot of interesting physics oriented indie games in my day.

I wonder if the landscape is empty enough for a resurgence.

RobLach··on Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM
MoS2 lattice construction?
RobLach··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Neat
RobLach··on AMD Mini PCs for AI Applications: A Comprehensive 2026 Review
Awful slop
RobLach··on The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]
This seems like a lot of work looking at mostly housing prices during peak covid which is hardly a generalizable situation.
RobLach··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
That makes sense.
RobLach··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
Smashing cameras is enjoyable whereas building movement for legislation is laborious.

It will be easier to negotiate for legislation as well if the economic risk of installation increases because of vandalism.

RobLach··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Rust needs to remove the unsafe keyword to finally fulfill it's destiny as a practical LLM generation target.
RobLach··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
US AI models would not survive a free market re: this metric.
RobLach··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Excellent
RobLach··on Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
Hell yah.
RobLach··on We Will Not Be Divided
So all these OpenAI signers are resigning, or...?
RobLach··on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
Sarah Taber for the lowdown all things US Farming https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
RobLach··on Statement from Jerome Powell
People do nothing because they believe others are doing nothing and it's a suppressive feedback loop that's exploited. Repeating that people know and do nothing reinforces it and falls into the broad category of criticism for the the sake of social flagging and not towards actual growth.
RobLach··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
The ole' turning around a failing effort with a rebrand.
RobLach··on An Update on TinyKVM
This is great in how simple it seems. Cool.
RobLach··on iPhone Air
Bigger, less featured, and more expensive than the iPhone 17… I don’t get it
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