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blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
How much water usually cost in dryer regions of USA?
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Trees don’t grow otherwise in that area? Like if you would stop watering, will they die? Future proof solution could be selling and buying somewhere where climate change won’t hit as hard, eg north, but I guess not everyone can afford that, and cooler regions may not offer sufficient sustenance or infrastructure like schools and jobs.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Better solution would be migration and building and expanding cities. I have huge doubts current systems will be able to or even consider to tackle catastrophic problems that are 10-20-30 years ahead, huge public investments, forcing capital to share too, drain dry all the oil biz. Instead it will be free for all
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Especially when he hires too little people, makes them work 80hrs a week and expect big and fast results
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
How exactly other websites “gave it all away”? Also examples you list are websites putting some explicit rule eg in their robots.txt or filtering web crawlers. This is all a reaction to existing situation, so Reddit for sure has been scrapped before Reddit realised what was happening.
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Accessing the site may already mean that you agree to TOS. Also if you don’t see an explicit copyright terms on some text on the internet it doesn’t mean that it’s public domain. Same as checking a checkbox. Text being small and somewhere is not an excuse for a corporation to steal and sell other people’s work.
blks··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Somehow it still lead to two deaths. Maybe GPs didn’t ask/didn’t know about airport malaria, or airport workers were some subcontractors and never gotten instructed.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Just checked my phone, and yea there is an option to do it via Wallet, even easier. I’ll show this to my colleagues if I go there again someday.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
And here I was all this time double pressing power button to open wallet like a fool. The more you know.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Some googling revealed that apparently all iphones starting from version 8 support nfc-f/felica.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Not sure about android, but first time I went to Japan I managed to install Suica app on my iPhone, that added Suica card to the wallet. So now I can pay with Suica and also top it up using apple pay. Only downside is that Suica app is all in Japanese, but there are guides online that explain what to press.
blks··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
In my experience it’s quite uncommon for immigration visas/residence permits to require to leave
blks··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Are these rules actually that destructive, or are we witnessing astroturfing campaign?
blks··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
Even two minutes is crazy long. Does it really takes this long to make small edits with agentic LLMs?
blks··on Bun 1.4
The author didn’t care to himself, just merging enormous PRs with “lol” tweets about how github doesn’t display all the changes because there are too many.

This is unmaintable mess, and the author himself is struggling already, given how he pushed the release date ten times.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
That too, I’m sure that all big players constantly adjust their offerings: change token limits, system prompts, various filters/other auxiliary systems.
blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
> I spent a day's worth of tokens (5x) rephrasing and eliminating comments.

Surely it would be trivial to do it yourself, and it would have a side effect of making you more familiar with your project.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Nth post about another model suddenly feeling “worse” or “off”. Seems like active users of these models can only judge it based on a vibe and a feel.
blks··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
If said staff engineer would then claim junior’s work as his own, then yes. But for an entirely different reason, as well as this whole analogy doesn’t work here.
blks··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Unknowingly taking psychedelic substances is nothing positive, however positive outlook you may have on them.
blks··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
Tbf, author didn’t really read or write it, why anyone else should
blks··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
The notion “he read all the leftists books” is so childish.
blks··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
My guy, I think you got hooked by a grifter’s sales funnel.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
Funnily enough he removed hand written part also by Claude. Just wow.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
I think writing asm can be pretty straightforward and fun, with experience, strict developing principles and lots of macros.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
It’s also a dead on arrival project that won’t exist for long, and will not be maintained and expanded by the author.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
You haven’t even wrote readme yourself?
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
One thing is where you learn through llm and then apply this knowledge, write asm the way humans do, another is letting Claude generate everything.
blks··on Stop Feeding the Machine: Time to Go Closed Source
Linus is not GNU/Linux. Nor is he a sole dictator in the project
blks··on Don't use your phone while you poop
I think the biggest issue with phone (as well as book) is that it lets you sit on the bog for a prolonged time which is terrible for anal health.
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