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pregseahorses··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini CLi now requires antigravity subscription..
pregseahorses··on The Claude Code Leak
They just said this was an April Fools joke.
pregseahorses··on In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
Yes, abundant on Socotra island. I recently explored Socotra on Google Earth and and was surprised I had never heared about this isolated, prestine Island. One of its caves is a treasure trove of writings/drawings by travellers from various parts of the world over the centuries.
pregseahorses··on Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines
I still refuse to use anything but Xara designer, and have made my children play with it.
pregseahorses··on How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
Saw it in Karachi last year: a street containing exclusively gold workshops was blocked for traffic Sunday morning, guarded officially by the police, while the staff hired by the co-op swept every inch. Apparently this is a weekly routine.
pregseahorses··on Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle
Who is the "we"? Israeli lobby influence appears to be steadily increasing.
pregseahorses··on Pixel Tablet
I have been a big fan of Google phones, but am being forced to switch away due to their horrendous parts prices. Their replacement LCD's cost ~$200.
pregseahorses··on Original Prusa MK4
I know it is anecdotal, but I have been tinkering with 3d printers for over a decade, and Bambu Lab to everything else is like ChatGPT to Stack Overflow. It is just unbelievably reliable.
pregseahorses··on Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
Watching criminal interrogations, I always think if I ever get caught wrongfully, my data can be my alibi. Is this incorrect?
pregseahorses··on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
First year emigrating to the US, I started a service to automate the laborious College Algebra online homework with WolframAlpha and $20/job Pakistani teens. Had an AdWords campaign running. Calls kept pouring in - majority from Phoenix university students. If you wanted a perfect score, I’d charge you extra. If you wanted an imperfect score, I’d still charge you extra. Life was good, I was naive. I thought I had cracked it. Then I got served. The CEO of the company (one of the biggest educational publishers) was to fly in personally. They thought I ran a huge operation with many departments, since I would routinely change voices and direct customers around departments. Once my lawyers learned the real scale of the operation, they laughed and managed to get all charges dropped.

Looking back at it, would I have had a chance, had I approached the company in some defensive role against such activity?

pregseahorses··on Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior
Exactly my experience. I can't forget the intensity of the shock when I realized that people around me do not 'normally' dread the day. I am still excited about my hobbies and family, but do not find myself going into fight-or-flight mode for perceived fears. An added bonus that enhances my quality of life: I do not get my weekly migraines while I'm on the pill - they do return to normal as soon as I stop.
pregseahorses··on Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)
I grew up in Karachi, and this "absence of women" is an alien concept to me. It is common for competing stores selling nearly the same product to be next to each other, organically forming a whole street market with hundreds of stores specializing in products of one theme. There's an electronics parts market, an LED bulbs market, a used books market, a glass market, a kitchen-ware market, a used clothing market, the pirated software media market. This makes the markets loosely gender-segregated - auto parts markets don't attract as many Pakistani women as the dresses markets do.

Search on YouTube for "crazy sale Pakistani women". :)

pregseahorses··on War Elephants
According to the Islamic tradition, before the Hijri calendar was established, the Arabs used the "aam-ul-feel" - the "year of the elephant" - marked by the event of Mecca being under attack by an army with war elephants. There's a small chapter in the Quran called "The Elephant" about this.