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post-it··on Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)
Not that quickly. Tracking down a low-power transmitter in an urban core is technically feasible but a lot of work. Police don't like doing work.
post-it··on Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability
Could you explain what you're talking about please?
post-it··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Because a humanoid robot can replace (theoretically) any human worker, whereas a purpose-built robot can only replace one kind of worker. Or at least that's what Asimov said in Caves of Steel.
post-it··on Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore
Something tells me this data may not be accurate.
post-it··on Midjourney Medical
So it's what, computational ultrasound? Why are they making it sound so much like they're going to steal my kidneys?
post-it··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
> Just as all us nerds did back when Chrome came out and we switched our family to that.

This is one of my earliest tech memories. It was so fast when it came out.

post-it··on It used to be hard
I enjoy my work much more with AI. My least favourite parts of software engineering are the parts that AI is the best at. Never again will I have to manually insert ten debug statements, or git bisect to figure out where an issue started, or fix a dozen merge issues that are obvious but tedious. These aren't even the thinking parts of AI, though I do use those too. Just the mechanical tedious work that Haiku could do make my workday so much easier.
post-it··on Apple Foundation Models
> while keeping control of the UX.

Extremely tangential, but this is my favourite upshot of AI. For decades, companies have been walling off their services and forcing us into their fuckass UIs. Now over the course of the last twelve months, suddenly everything has an MCP and I can use it through my command line chat interface.

Any company that doesn't adapt gets so hammered by people's AI-DIY web scrapers that they have no choice but to cave.

post-it··on Apple Foundation Models
> a Swift package that makes Claude available as a server-side language model in Apple's Foundation Models framework

Ahh I was hoping for the opposite: all of the existing features of Claude Code but somehow running locally on my laptop's neural engine. A pipe dream on an M2 with 8 GB of RAM, but I had a flicker of hope there.

post-it··on Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May
> ask yourself why so much ag is grown in Western states with water shortages and so far from the rest of the country?

Because water is one of the cheapest inputs into agriculture. Growing almonds in California is a ~bad idea, but it's not a stupid idea.

post-it··on Siri AI
I have an iPhone 16 and I don't feel like I'm getting the shaft. It sounds like there's one specific customization thing that'll only work on the pro models? Not an issue. At some point in a few years I'll buy a new phone and it'll be the latest again, and then it won't be.
post-it··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
The content here is very different. I can kill maybe an hour a day reading HN, which is a lot, but the feed does end. Most days, I don't want to spend an hour here, because the feed is designed to push popular content to the top, and a lot of it is content I don't care about. Other sites have infinite feeds designed to keep me personally hooked as long as possible.
post-it··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
Elon wants a lot of things that aren't happening.
post-it··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
Tbf both of those are promotional. If I'm not logged into iCloud, it's for a reason.
post-it··on Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims
Fwiw the two models that did have access to search disagreed with each other on the bombing one:

> 7.1 Model selection

> Five frontier models, chosen to cover two capability surfaces:

> Parametric (training-only): GPT-5.4 (OpenAI), Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic), Gemini 3 Pro (Google)

> Retrieval-augmented: Gemini 3 Pro + Search (Google), Sonar Pro (Perplexity)

post-it··on US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?
post-it··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Everyone is taking this too far at face value. The purpose of this announcement is to pump GME stock.
post-it··on Why TUIs Are Back
It is driven by Claude Code, not because it's a TUI but because you can paste a bad TUI directly into CC and tell it to intuit what to fix, whereas uploading a screenshot is more cumbersome and less likely to be parsed correctly.
post-it··on Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
> Do you know what happens when you put water on an oil fire

When the water is coming out of the ceiling at 25 gpm, you get a lot of slightly oily water and no fire.

To answer your earlier question, the purpose of sprinklers in a house is to save my pets' lives if a fire starts while I'm away.

post-it··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Plenty of people use music as a fidget toy while working or studying. Not everything has to be a masterpiece.
post-it··on Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
I think what they're saying is, run a local model to transform all your comments before you post them.
post-it··on Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
> is much simpler than identifying a specific blogger or a member of a small discord community

Is it? I would think that identifying text written by a specific person is going to be significantly easier than identifying text distilled from the words of almost everyone alive.

post-it··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
TIL it's not free to mail your rep. Mailing your MP is free in Canada.
post-it··on Zed 1.0
> recreates makefiles from scratch

> "These guys don't understand why simplicity is a benefit"

I'm not really criticizing, clearly your system works for you. Ironically, as I've been using AI more, I've been rolling more systems that work for me instead of relying on existing ones. It's very freeing.

post-it··on Zed 1.0
One of the owners of one of their investors. I think it's still too far removed for the project to be obligated to care.
post-it··on Zed 1.0
Congrats to the Zed team for abandoning zero-based versioning!

https://0ver.org/

post-it··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Not everything is abstract art. Sometimes I want my subsurf modifier to only target certain vertex groups, and if I can use AI to make that happen in a few seconds, that's a huge win for me.
post-it··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
This[0] is the original game. I downloaded the dice, made a list of letters for each die (I can't remember if I did this manually, I don't see a published list so I must have), and then I fiddled until I got something that looks decent and also printable. Each die face has the braille letter as well as a small English letter. Here's[1] my repo, I wasn't intending to make it public yet, so it still has the original creator's files in there and the README is autogenerated.

The biggest challenge at this point is figuring out how to make the dice print consistently. With each die face only having a few points of contact, they keep unsticking. What I'm trying now is cutting the dice in half, printing the halves, and then sticking them together with dowels.

[0] https://www.printables.com/model/821177-octobabble-a-word-ba...

[1] https://github.com/PeterFajner/braille_octobabble/

post-it··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
I've been using it with OpenSCAD, which has the advantage of being entirely script-generated and so more easily understandable by AI.
post-it··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
I've been using Claude with OpenSCAD to generate some simple models with repetitive geometry (a set of d8 dice with braille on them for a scrabble-like game for blind children). It's really good, though often I have to send a screenshot to Claude or describe a geometry issue.

Having more native integration into Blender, which I'm already much more familiar with, will be fantastic.

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