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exegete··on The weekend is 100 years old
Depends on what you mean by “end of slavery”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

exegete··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
> The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is :

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> from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37s

This means the atomic clock is behind the solar clock by 37 seconds? I also don’t understand the reference to 2017.

exegete··on Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
How does this work with registration? Like what would they put for make and model for the car? I imagine there has to be a way to add custom cars to it.
exegete··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
That's nice, but there's more to it:

> However, the S&P Dow Jones Indices did “carve out one concession” by changing the investable weight factor rules for “lower-profile benchmarks” such as the S&P Total Market Index and Dow Jones US Total Stock Market Index, according to Quartz. That could allow an IPO faster entry into those indexes.

I think these total market indexes are used as benchmarks for US total market ETF's and funds?

exegete··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
The trend is somewhat new if we look long term. The gap between PhD’s and number of openings in academia has gotten a lot worse.
exegete··on OpenTrafficMap
I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?
exegete··on Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
So if we’re being technical I think they did achieve escape velocity? But the moon’s gravity and some timed burns will slingshot them back.
exegete··on Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
The article says Walmart is not abandoning ChatGPT but is going to use their own app in Chat’s ecosystem
exegete··on Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you)
Nice work. One piece of feedback - the two shades of green are hard to distinguish and mean very different things
exegete··on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
Slopple
exegete··on Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
“Accidentally” is not accurate. He used AI to inspect the source and found credentials that work in all devices. He also never gained control of anyone else’s devices. He never used the exploit.
exegete··on macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken
This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?
exegete··on Privilege is bad grammar
You have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones
exegete··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
Live camera of runway https://app.truelook.cloud/dashboard/581/980/live

Linked from airport website: https://elpasointernationalairport.com/live-cameras/

exegete··on .Beat Swatch Internet Time
Most definitely marketing. It’s got the company name in it. I’m surprised other watch makers didn’t come up with their own time standards as gimmicks.
exegete··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
Of course there’s always been that pressure but now with AI tooling the sheer volume of code that can be generated is massive.
exegete··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
Yes but now there is so much more volume of code created in the same amount of time.
exegete··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
To me the biggest benefit has been getting AI to write scripts that automate some things for me that are tedious but not needed to be deployed. Those scripts don’t have to be production-grade and just have to work.
exegete··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
I think the points about code ownership and responsibility are spot on. Management wants you to increase velocity with these agents so inevitably there is pressure to ship crappy code. You then will be responsible for the code, not the AI. It’s the idea of being a reverse centaur.

I also like the comments on how developers should be frequently reading the entire code and not just the diffs. But again there is probably pressure to speed up and then that practice gets sacrificed.

exegete··on CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod
AFAIK DMCA is such a strong law that you just have to circumvent any kind of access mechanism to violate it. I’m not a lawyer.

“No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.”

“to "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;”

I’m not sure how modding works in the case but usually this is why companies can come after folks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

exegete··on CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod
DMCA wasn’t law during the lawsuits with CodeGenie and Nintendo.
exegete··on Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
That might be why the first customers are utilities themselves.
exegete··on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
We do this at my work and guess what - meetings tend to run 5 minutes late because everyone knows the next meeting doesn’t start until 5 past.
exegete··on How will the miracle happen today?
Seems like a good way to rationalize receiving and not giving anything.
exegete··on Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
Or just delete the app and log in once a year or whenever you’re job seeking?

I will say I agree that the platform is mostly spam and has definitely gotten worse sense 2021 when the article was written. But you can just not log in everyday and still have a profile. Also no reason to put your birthday on a social network IMO and you can reject requests for connections if you don’t know someone.

exegete··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Apple Intelligence is going to be Gemini https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/05/apple-siri-google-gemin...
exegete··on Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
Ok I have been watching this and came back to it. The predicted date keeps getting moved up so much so it is now predicted for Dec 17, 2025! olol
exegete··on McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
If AI is at the point then the consumer wouldn’t know or care if it was AI generated.
exegete··on Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
Yeah it would be better to have that it is AI generated at the top of the page. I also think comparisons would be hilarious
exegete··on Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
And now we’ll be able to say Gemini was right
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