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ah the good old C-x M-c M-smelting

> The house called 3 of your 27 scored numbers: 11%.

> Blind guessing would average about 3.0 of them (11%).

Admittedly I gave up before the 30 threshold but I think I did well enough at "beating the house"

Edit: tried again, 14/118, which is 12%. Maybe it's because I'm typing, and that's easier to do that speaking up.

depends on the bath, but they're generally understanding of foreigners with tattoos.

There was a brief period where everyone and their dog implemented mustache[0] as a template system, but it died quickly because cross-language templating is not that useful in the end, you seldom need to switch host language but keep the templates.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)

This is awesome and I hope it catches on, but the idea of "may be useful to people who want to conceal tattoos in some situations" seems far fetched, some make-up layer would probably be a simpler solution, wouldn't it?

I did, but I also saw this, you can scroll down to the video if it's too long to read

https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vib...

US seems unlikely given Trump just made a deal to give money to Russia in exchange for diesel and blamed Ukraine for gas prices.

I mean, sure, maybe some random person at the Pentagon could have done it but the US has not acted as a Ukraine ally for years now.

You can have agents make a plan and then other agents spec tickets and yet more agents do implementation and yet more do reviews and QA and whatever. It's possible.

Is it effective? I'm not sure, cause if it was I don't see why OpenAI & co are not releasing such a project instead of demos.

Because if they can, why haven't they?

LLMs are great and will get better but we have not seen an open source office suite built by LLMs come online yet, and even if there was one I'm pretty sure few would adopt it, cause that's not the only moat, LibreOffice has been around for decades.

We had this in the 80s/90s in Italy within a show called "mai dire banzai", they mixed up clips of Takeshi's Castle and Za Gaman[0], and the commentary was three guys of which two acted as faux Japanese experts and the third acted surprised at the completely made up bits of Japanese culture.

It was incredibly popular back then.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za_Gaman

EU regulation for ingredients requires that some ingredients do have their percentage displayed in the ingredient lists.

E.g. "strawberry yogurt" must list the amount of strawberries because that is displayed in the name/label.

Still important to look at the nutritional label too.

Mildly worried.

But I think most of what is useful today to teach children (to be independent, persistent, empathetic, thoughtful, etc) will still be useful in whatever future we end up in. I think even skills that may be obsolete will probably be good for training their brain, like, perhaps speaking more languages won't help because we'll all have star-trek-like communicators, but the mental flexibility won't be wasted.

I'm not sure what will happen with higher studies, my kids are small. Maybe they'll study something and by the end of university there won't be a job market for it. But that could always happen, and some paths always had more career opportunities or less.

Beyond education, I try to save some money (invest in some global index fund) and hopefully that will help. I was always going to do that anyway, it just feels a bit more necessary now.

Crypto mining was often mentioned too, but I seldom hear of icelandic Bitcoin miners these days.

I mean, sure, people misuse terms, but what does that have to do with self-imposed censorship to please algorithmic feeds?

AFAIR the shaman of the tribes have some psy/spiritual abilities, which actually connect with the rape bit, during some shamanic meetup (?) the religious leaders ee into the future... and the neanderthal/sapiens offspring is the only one who has one. I liked that bit.

> In the 1990s hair-dragging rape scenes in the Clan of the Cave Bear novels (20 million copies sold by 1990) caused the books to be banned from American public libraries.

I think I read this book in the 90s and yes, there's a rape (maybe more?) but it's an exception as the neanderthals are generally shown as relatively "civilized", not as brutes. : the raped sapiens was actually saved as a child by the neanderthals. And there's no hair dragging scene I remember.

But it's been so long ago, I may misremember.

Natural gas& co need infrastructure to be carried around, stored, processed etc.. you have just traded a single target power plant for a single target gas pipeline.

Why would it be a consequence of being publicly traded? Apple has less concentrated ownership than Facebook or Google and has been far better at developing novel products.

> "encroached on the monopoly" long held by European and US producers.

How is it a monopoly if there are multiple producers in different countries?

This appears to be a statement of intent to harmonize some yet non-existing system.

It's good and I'm happy about it, but doesn't really mean much.

It seems plausible Canada could join the existing unification effort of the European Payment Network[0] which plans to merge Bancomat, Wero, Vipps, Bizum etc but that system does not even cover the totality of the EU yet.

Maybe Canada just joins SEPA [1]?

0: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/european-payments-g...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

I would argue the height of light gaming was the height of Kongregate, which was a little past newgrounds' own.

The games were more polished by the time, but still quite wild.

Some time ago Bessent bet against the bond market and ironically declared “I have asymmetric information. I am the house now, you can bet against me if you want.”

It seems Bessent's bet against the market has failed?

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/bond-yields-stocks-...

A personal anecdote: I got married in Church and you must take a short pre-marital class, which is of course religious-centered but the dude who ran it was lay. I don't think it's particularly useful in general and I'm not very religious but I think mine was.

Among various things they made us fill out a "values wheel", a kind of spider web diagram with various dimensions like family, status, career, friendship, education, money, kids, religion, etc..

And then the guy pointed out if the wheels didn't look mostly similar it would be better to have a discussion nowz before getting married, rather than after.

One couple found out they had vastly different values, ignored it, and broke up within one year of marriage. Clearly problems pre-existed and counseling might have helped avoiding the mess.

Isn't that always been the case for people you met at a bar/club/cafe?

I'm sure a lot of couples met through friends of friends but the date with someone you barely know has always been a thing, I believe.

The cybertruck was a disaster but I think the main issue is they didn't do any new model after that for almost a decade.

Also, Musk getting into politics and alienating most of its consumer base, of course.

What did MariaDB Inc do?

Forgive my ignorance, I don't follow MySQL or its forks but I'm curious.

That's the reason I use LinkedIn, and I have zero complaints about it in that form. Tho for me is more about keeping the connection rather than see what they work on.

OTOH I do see the performative posting "I bumped my pinky toe on the cupboard and here's what it taught me about leading teams" and I genuinely don't understand who they're writing for. Isn't it obviously bullshit for everyone? Who cares about that?

Ah yes, the "Accelerando"[0] dead galaxy where all life's dead and only automated corporations remain.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

If a company openly acts as an enemy of the democratic process, I'm not sure it's the same as censoring a random porn site.

Cue the adage "we don't want your electric car, we want your car, electric".