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condour75··on CVE Tracker
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre"
condour75··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
It probably got Copenhagen syndrome
condour75··on The Haunted Toys R Us
Maybe it was the ghost of Toys R Us Future (venture capital)
condour75··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
I guess the question is, does the Dunning Krueger effect apply to models? The dumb ones might think they're up to the task.
condour75··on Ember-1
Hamlet's soliloquy but it's about the number of b's in strawberry
condour75··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
is this why i increase in mass and volume every year?
condour75··on The Universe as a Minified Bundle
Some how I knew this was all a big FU.
condour75··on AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That?
I’ve settled on a practice of having the agent write a lesson plan with quizzes for me, for any PR or feature of sufficient size to warrant it. It works pretty well and forces me into a back and forth with the model where I otherwise might be tempted to let it do whatever it wants.

I published a skill and short article on the technique I settled on: https://condour.github.io/lesson-plan-quiz/

condour75··on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Are these even meant to be used though? It seems more like performance art.
condour75··on Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
One good timesaver: debug in the easiest environment that you can reproduce the bug in. For instance, if it’s an issue with a website on an iPad, first see if you reproduce in chrome using the responsive tools in web developer. If that doesn’t work, see if it reproduces in desktop safari. Then the iPad simulator, and only then the real hardware. Saves a lot of frustration and time, and each step towards the actual hardware eliminates a whole category of bugs.
condour75··on The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise
But it’s based on a misunderstanding. Xenomorph just means “alien”— it wouldn’t make any sense for that to be the term for that specific alien, because their existence isn’t common knowledge.
condour75··on Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
According to a quick googling, this would be enough density for for short range commuter aircraft to become viable.

https://theicct.org/aviation-global-expecting-electric-jul22...

condour75··on PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
Also, not the point, but plumbing is very lucrative.
condour75··on 2000-Watt Society
Solar is getting cheaper by the day, batteries are getting cheaper and more efficient by the day, and there's a ton of money pouring into research. Maybe I'm crazy, but I can see a future, maybe a few decades from now, when power is "too cheap to meter" because of renewables.
condour75··on Are we going back to the cable days?
The cable subscription has commercials. The experience of time shifting and fast forwarding through commercials is inferior to streaming.

Also, a cable bundle forces you to pay for Fox News, which is primarily funded by carriage fees. They wouldn’t last long on robot insurance ads.

condour75··on When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face
Hell, you could look at it as carbon sequestration.
condour75··on Phenomenological Introduction to PID Controllers
In case anyone else needs it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
condour75··on What will enter the public domain in 2022
The movie was okay but I never pictured $$ as looking like Chris Pratt
condour75··on First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
Martinizr
condour75··on Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
Another factor: office space is expensive. In a past job I remember seeing that the cost for our midtown office was 3000 per month per employee. A company might drastically reduce their costs by having an office that only accommodates some fraction of the staff
condour75··on Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
I anticipate a hybrid model where most deep work is from home, but certain weeks have employees gather, like for project kickoffs or critical junctures later in the process. Only problem with that is the lack of a stable routine.
condour75··on We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production
I'm very sympathetic to this argument, but it's really hard not to imagine this article being monologued by a supervillain while Bond is being lowered into a lava pit.
condour75··on Oumuamua continues to perplex astronomers a year after it vanished
I think what they're saying is that we saw the flyby but it was in data from a few days ago.
condour75··on How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution
I'm still feeling guilty about how they shaped my weekend.
condour75··on Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
that's the endgame of government surveillance requests: it's increasingly in a company's best interest to have the best security possible so they can't be compelled to hack their own devices.