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That was incredible! The Sikh seem to have the proudest warriors.

It is a new nature of abstraction, not a new level.

UP: It lets us state intent in plain language, specs, or examples. We can ask the model to invent code, tests, docs, diagrams—tasks that previously needed human translation from intention to syntax.

BUT SIDEWAYS: Generation is a probability distribution over tokens. Outputs vary with sampling temperature, seed, context length, and even with identical prompts.

That time coincided with humanity living near the lowest standards of life.

Ads are a brute force approach to the challenge of having useful information (company X offers Y) reach their target (people who needs Y presently or in the future).

If you say no ads should exist, then what alternatives would you have for that challenge?

The tagline was below or at the end of the signature.

They were stored separately in a list and there was software that would pick one of them randomly to add to the signature when posting.

There are 3 primary undesirability aspects of ads:

1) ads as irrelevant intrusions (in spite of all data Google collects, ads are mostly irrelevant for any person)

2) ads as ugly or blockers of beauty

3) ads as thieves of attention or downright theft (scam ads, illegal products)

Then, should we pay to get rid of ads or not? Two opposite opinions:

1) paying YouTube support creators

2) paying YouTube rewards the "shitification" of the platform

But even for those who pay there are issues: the content creator's own sponsorships, shorts, the risk of account banning by Google.

Then how about compensating creators directly? (Patreon or PayPal for example)

What I don't get is the questioning on the morality of ad blocking. No one should be obligated to watch an ad in one's own device, regardless of whatever "Terms of Service" (which is not a contract). It may be unfair to the content creator who relies on that revenue though.

I appreciate the effort that went into writing the article but it conflates different concepts missing some historical context and technical distinctions.

For example, TUI (text user interface) and CLI (command-line interface) are quite different. "CLI Text Editor" sounds more like someone editing a file using ECHO commands.

This new editor is actually a reimplementation of the classic MS-DOS 5 EDIT program from 1991. At that time, VIM was still very new, so "VIM memes" weren't yet part of the tech landscape.

Before VIM, there was vi. In Usenet posts - about 15 years before Google - people used to add a pithy humorous sentence at the bottom called "tagline" - here is one: "How do you exit vi? Reboot the system."

And Notepad was not the only option for Windows devs. We've had EDIT, DR-DOS EDITOR, Brief, WordPad, EditPad, Notepad++, and more.

I thought of printing some of those in a t-shirt but someone would probably see it as branding for an extra-terrestrial donut shop.

The kind that would serve coffee in a Klein bottle.

Yes, it is not possible. We can't predict but can follow the trends. Governments tend to want to be seen as a god-like entity protector/judge of all. So they hate satire or anything that means they're not being taken seriously. Just recently Brazil decided to jail a comedian, for instance.

I will spend this weekend creating burner social media accounts for my kids as a precaution. Each one will be crafted to look like they've never had a controversial thought in their lives.

Just lasagna pics, birthday cakes, kittens, golden retrievers, baby goats, maybe an artsy photo of a leaf with #blessed.

Everything I can do so that an AI running immigration background checks might match my kids to the profile of a low threat, emotionally well-regulated, consumer-minded citizen material.

Absolutely no pictures of Winnie the Pooh to keep China travel option open too.

I welcome any tips. Someone here must have cracked the code to be completely unremarkable and "wholesome" to governments.

No paywall: https://archive.ph/Xi1bJ

I honestly expected the article to start like

Smalltalk, Haskell, and Lisp

...walk into a bar.

Smalltalk: “Bartender, please send an instance of Martini to me - selector withOlive: set to true.”

Haskell: “I’ll take beer >>= chill, but only if it’s defined for all inputs and returns IO ().”

Lisp: “(drink ’(ale (temperature cold))) .”

The bartender mutters, “Great ... an object, a functor, and a list.”

Then a janitor walks by sweeping the closures that they left.

Not to confuse with builder.IO - poor founder was posting these days "FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS THIS IS A DIFFERENT COMPANY".

Please tell me if I understood it correctly:

It implements voxels via <input type="radio" />.

Each of the faces of each voxel is configured via <label>s, one for each face having a different CSS class.

There is a voxel for each type of block (dirt, grass, stone, etc) and only one is activated at a time.

The <input>s are arranged in a 9x9 grid 10 blocks tall times the number of different types of blocks (about 6500 total).

All that is enclosed with <div>s with CSS classes that respond to the camera navigation (look up/down, move up/down, forward/back, clockwise/counter)

That is brilliant!

With mentorship from Caltech and access to data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission, Matteo created a machine learning algorithm and compiled a groundbreaking database called VarWISE.

https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student...

Ryan Williams lecture (how he started): https://www.youtube.com/live/0DrFB2Cp7tg

And paper: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-space.pdf

Made me find out I don't dislike the media enough.

About a year ago the Ford CEO (who is also Chris Farley's cousin) explained why legacy car manufacturers could not make good software: each of their cars have 150+ modules, each of them from several suppliers, each of them writing their own software.

For every software change on each module, they have to go to a supplier to ask because of IP rights.

That is why Ford is/was trying to build a new generation of modules with in-house software which they never wrote before.

Also pertinent: "Why Ford decided to merge its next-gen architecture with its current platform" https://archive.ph/CR2Pv

YC should benefit most from an ecosystem where distribution channels (search, ads, etc) are not monopolized.

Startups ideally should compete on merit, not on whether they are eventually allowed access to Google’s platforms or get acquired. Startups can still exit via IPO, PE acquisition, cross-industry buyers or M&A.

From this POV, Google’s control over the adtech stack may be seen as gatekeeping digital advertising, which many YC companies rely on.

Eye saw must be related to eye poke.

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/ngJc9

Archived, no paywall: https://archive.ph/kXh6Y

From the article: "While refactoring it, I forgot to add the code to stop the 5-minute interval after the new version file was available and downloaded. It meant the app was downloading the same 250MB file, over and over again, every 5 minutes."

You post interesting stuff, @speckx

Sometimes posting my problem/question in Slack causes me to figure out the solution by myself not too long after.

It feels like God wants me to expose my ignorance/inability in public first and only then reward my "humility" with a solution directly in my brain.

Good to know.

I ended up buying an Acer because I had an Acer tablet that stopped working after the warranty expired and they fixed it free of charge.