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icedrift··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
I was having trouble wrapping my head around it but this cleared it up.
icedrift··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
The same thing, "buy American" means to an American. I.E. A New Yorker might prefer timber from across the continent in California even though Canada is right there.
icedrift··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
This is hilarious and it's killing me people are taking it literally
icedrift··on You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
"Who decides what information is “accurate?”"

Previously agencies. Now everything bubbles up to the supreme court.

icedrift··on You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
The headline look pretty accurate to me. Under this ruling, being a US citizen does not guarantee you a constitutional right to safe drinking water; that right would depend on state legislation.

I think the bigger deal is that the people of Jackson were lied to and this sets the precedent that there is no recourse. It's not like someone in Flint knowingly drank contaminated water, the city withheld the fact that their water was contaminated with unsafe levels of lead.

icedrift··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
The only reason I'm considering picking one up is I think we're not that far away from compute limitations in consumer hardware.
icedrift··on Taste Is All That's Left
IMO giving "benefit of the doubt" to something beyond doubt is bad, straight up. If someone can't tell this article is AI then they need to go spend an hour a day reading known AI writing vs known human writing until they develop the skill; the voice of this author SCREAMS AI.

I'm a firm believer in not engaging with or promoting the content of misrepresented AI.

icedrift··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
I'm still skeptical of the smaller models after the talent exodus a few months ago.
icedrift··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
If you even broach language related to biology you’ll get rerouted. I was presenting data in a grid and referred to a grid cell, Fable saw the word “cell” and safeguards kicked in
icedrift··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Revenue isn't profit though. Anthropic is already profitable OpenAI financials have looked doomed for the past year
icedrift··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Reuters has been reporting that Chinese government is undergoing similar investigation to the US; blocking the export of domestic frontier models. They boil down to "anonymous sources" but it does seem inevitable as the tech gets stronger and stronger.
icedrift··on Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
Something I've been doing is making an automated hydroponic tent. Temp, humidity, EC sensors and a few servos to control nutrients all feed into an esp32 + servo controller and broadcast data through a local webapp. Just need to add a camera for timelapses and remote viewing.
icedrift··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
The range of these lora nodes is a bit of a myth. It is better than higher frequencies but you shouldn't expect anything more than a km with obstructions, realistically half that.

Not to say they don't fill a niche, but bandwidth and range limit it's viability to small operations; even an optimal network cant handle more than a few hundred tweets per hour.

icedrift··on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
Are you actually seeing demand?
icedrift··on Our commitment to Windows quality
I don't like that default on mac either but in their defense it's super easy to customize. I turned off all but applications and my documents folder for spotlight search.
icedrift··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
No I haven't seen that before. I used to just run the terminfo tic command that's recommended in the top searches and when that started failing I just swapped back to default terminal for SSH
icedrift··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
This is what kills it for me. Half the time I'm using a terminal I'm sshing and the fact that I need to copy over term-info on virtually every machine keeps me from using it more often. Even copying term-info doesn't always fix it. From what I've read it's not entirely ghostty's fault but as a user it's frustrating.
icedrift··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
On the contrary, when I was in high school we had one class dedicated to digital electronics and it revolved around breadboard circuitry. You only had 30 minutes/day to tinker with the physical hardware then it had to be disassembled for the next class. Simulations like this are more approachable then schematics and would have been great for tinkering outside of class.
icedrift··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
I chortled when I choked an input and accidentally clicked that
icedrift··on The next two years of software engineering
And the mistakes AI makes don't carry the same code smells juniors make. There are markers in human code that signals how well they understood the problem, AI code more often looks correct at a glance even if it's horribly problematic.
icedrift··on You can make up HTML tags
Mainly because it isn't semantic and breaks accessibility features. If you find yourself writing layouts like this you're probably ignoring a bunch of useful stuff like <aside> <article> <menu> etc. Unless you manually configure it yourself, screen readers won't know what's important to read, tabindex won't know where to jump around, and form fields won't know what values to offer.
icedrift··on Exe.dev
There's nothing dangerous about SSHing into an untrusted server unless you're using the same keys for everything.
icedrift··on Exe.dev
Super cool. I can't justify investing time in it at the planned pricing but I'll keep an eye on it if they can hack together a more competitive VPS option.
icedrift··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Speaking for my friends in their mid to late 20s, if you have a reasonable plan to get to a point where you can invest in your future as opposed to simply burning every last drop of income on mandatory expenses like food, housing and insurance I agree. When you can't foresee a way to get there you lack economic agency, economic nihilism is a rational response.
icedrift··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Per Atrioc
icedrift··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
If you come from immense privilege (growing up in an 8 figure household), have good health, and rich relationships and that isn't enough to curb your existentialism that's ok, but I find it hard to take this piece seriously as this is written like it's targeting the average financially stable worker. It strikes me as out of touch at best.
icedrift··on Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)
Oh boy another template shipped in a single commit; complete with "For now, do this" and "In production you would do this" comments
icedrift··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
Thing is Kindle hardware is significantly better and cheaper. If you don't mind tinkering get a kindle and jailbreak it to remove ads and add koreader.
icedrift··on Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
Onyx violate GPL with their linux-based OS. I'd go Kobo or remarkable over them for that alone
icedrift··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
I think what they mean is these e-bikes pushing 60mph should be legal but reclassified as something closer to a motorcycle. The problem with keeping them illegal is people tend to treat them like bikes when they should be on the road.
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