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That sounds more like stenography than anything else

Oh big time. I can't do wooden anything culinary unless it has a really thick coating that mostly bring us back to square one.

Wet wood is just SO viscerally unpleasant to me!

This is about flame retardants, some of which are outright supposed to be banned. They're not pleasant compounds

Agreed, but just a nit: cars that charge at 150kW peak tend to 10-80 in about 30 minutes, not an hour.

Source: my ID.4

Hyundai and Kia use an 800V high voltage electrical system. The upshot is their vehicles charge scary fast, peaking in the mid 200kW's

The rapid transit system in Minneapolis, MN is called the Metro. Technically that includes the bus rapid transit system, but I'm just talking about the light rail since I do prefer it over the buses.

All I can say is I've never seen any issues on the LRT. I'm genuinely sorry you have.

I haven't seen these problems on the Minneapolis Metro even riding at night, but if it is actually a problem, it seems like the solution is build out actual infrastructure to support the homeless community.

Which Minneapolis very much does not have right now despite the best efforts of one or two plucky underfunded nonprofits.

If your light rail cars are the best option people have, that's not an issue with the transit design, that's an issue with the rest of the infrastructure

While you can opt out, not every document check station has signage to that effect in my experience; the TSA individual only tells you to put your head in the camera frame; and most people have had An Experience with TSA officials becoming belligerent and even aggressive over small things.

Frankly, it's intimidating, and I don't blame people for not opting out even assuming they know that's possible

So I actually bought a Palm Classic device to test the hypothesis that my memories are nostelgia.

They're not! It's actually a great UX!

If there's any good to come out of this sadness, selfishly, I think it'll be more people I used to follow who had been solely on Cohost coming to either Bluesky or (less likely, I think) back to Mastodon.

I never got into Cohost despite making an account -- it just wasn't what I wanted as a social network.

But this really is a bummer -- they had admirable goals, and I know lots of people who ended up there and who enjoyed it a lot.

There appear to be two recent papers on this phenomenon:

2021: low frequency pulsed charging: https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/451327786/C5.pdf

2024: high frequency pulsed charging https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202400190

Not up to really reading them right now, but this is a pretty neat area of research!

I've seen it cite sources, and then say the opposite of what the citations say

If you're going to use this feature, always check the citations.

I for one cancelled my Kagi subscription over this nonsense. I like paying for my search, but the AI "quick answer" integration is dangerously prone to incorrectly cited hallucinations, and I don't want to encourage this kind of irresponsible use of technology

For sites that use a resident webauthn token like GitHub, you can list the known sites on the key. The UX for all this is not where it should be, however.

My favorite part is they're funding making home directory encryption a first-tier integrated feature of GNOME[1]

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/STF/homed/-/issues/42

I had to dig into this, because I also felt Python is green.

The Python logo has been blue/yellow in the modern era and monochromatic prior, but the Python IDLE icon DID used to be green[1]. Which in practice probably cemented into my brain very early on, since I learned Python with IDLE!

[1]: https://github.com/certik/python-2.7/blob/master/Lib/idlelib...

Tell me about it. Reliable 45 minute bus headways would be a dream where I live

It's up to the implementation to determine what running a tool actually means: "tool-use" means you can tell the LLM "you have these functions which take these options", and then it can output a magic stanza asking the code conversing with the LLM to invoke one of those functions with the given parameters.

You COULD do dangerous things, but it's not like the LLM is constructing code it runs on its own.

Pedantically: MEGA runs today as a Dropbox-alike, and has very little to do with Kim Dotcom beyond his being involved at the very beginning and then departing quickly.

You're referring to Megaupload, which is entirely different despite the name similarity.

It sounds like what you want is Coreboot?

Which it seems like AMD is interested in from the slides in [1]

[1]: https://community.amd.com/t5/business/empowering-the-industr...

Obviously astrology does no better than random guessing, that's no surprise. But the fact that astrology had such low levels of agreement is a little interesting to me -- I guess I assumed there was some kind of underlying system to astrology, but I guess not!

> Much to my surprise, astrologers had very low agreement with each other on the chart for each person. If astrologers picked charts at random, they would agree with each other 20% of the time. In our study, even the most experienced astrologers only agreed 28% of the time.

The TigerBeetle database is built this way, and I kind of love the concept https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/a-database-without-dynamic-memo...

If that's all it took for Dark Sky on the backend to do what it did, then there's even less excuse for the lack of a good replacement in 2024.

Dark Sky was genuinely the most irreplaceable app I've ever used. I don't think I'll ever forgive Apple's butchering it for spare parts.

At least on the US platinum card, the various complimentary credits mostly cover the annual fee. If you're already paying for streaming services, the occasional Uber, etc. then the annual fee disappears.

Very different technologies. The PyPy JIT is a tracing JIT where hot paths of execution are identified, then that specific path is compiled and optimized. Same as LuaJIT.

The CPython JIT is a newer and less invasive technique called copy-and-patch[1]. It's a lot less powerful, but a lot easier to plug into an existing language implementation: known sequences of python bytecode are mapped to templates of machine code

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch

Yeah, that's totally fair. I just think about all the people to whom I've had to explain LLM hallucinations, and the surprise in their faces, and this feature gives me some heebie-jeebies

Be VERY careful using Kagi this way -- I ended up turning off Kagi's AI features after it gave me some comically false information based on it misunderstanding the search results it based its answer on. It was almost funny -- I looked at its citations, and the citations said the opposite of what Kagi said, when the citations were even at all relevant.

It's a very "not ready for primetime" feature

It's severely off-putting to me, and gives all the technical blogs which do this a real sense of homogeneity.