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t23414321on How I use AI (Oct 2026)

> My most successful work this year was hand-writing a tool, replacing ~4,000 lines of vibe-code with a few hundred. My system has proven more flexible, easier to test, and more generalizable than what it replaced.

That's would be fine for me saving time to get some sample code case - but I have more of relevant codes and docs on my hard drive already - and the best cases, some solutions I like, seem to not have obvious or known connections to the problem I'm solving elsewhere, yet (what I know after research).

But I'm 100% pro AI since I get that reward £160 for £6 spent - and I think, I know how AI makes up that.

t23414321on Death Comes for XSLT

Eat the dogfood then.

t23414321on Death Comes for XSLT

That's mark of Google hand - no one/G will say one day "XQuery death" as it's not in browsers.

t23414321on Death Comes for XSLT

.. race to the bottom. "more competition" for.. ONE thing Google can do, nothing else (ads engine - not document browser).

Want to make browsers easier ? - removing JavaSript and *fixing browser bugs instead* ('outsourced' to the user) will do that better.

BTW JavaSript it's not W3 standard, XSLT is.

("Live and let live", "Don't break the Web" - "breaking web pages that were made 20 years ago is unlikely to result in bug reports")

t23414321on Death Comes for XSLT

No, * it will not work transparently at the same level *.

What you repeat, it's Google marketing bullshit of the only thing with which they could compete - JS engine.

t23414321on Death Comes for XSLT

XML and XSLT are great, poor is execution and understanding by the "industry",

"failed experiment" mean used wrong, not for it's purpose.

Used well (it's another dimension), it's very useful.

It's killed only, because what Ads need is JavaScript and nothing else. Flat world.

t23414321on Humans accidentally canceled the next Ice Age, scientists say – CNN

"the planet has moved in and out of ice ages, driven by shifts in Earth’s orbit"

"Roughly 2,000 years ago .. start of a new period of glaciation, commonly called an ice age"

"But around 1960, as human-driven climate change pushed up summer temperatures"

How far would be temperatures pushed up - cumulative with global warning then, when the Earth shift again to the warmer orbit ?

https://futuretimeline.net/data-trends/global-warming-future...

t23414321on YousefAbdulHusain – The Dune Movies Erase Islam [video]

I had similar moment while watching "The Rings of Power" when I heard "But that is something only the gods can do", "I will not second-guess the gods" - no gods, no religion in Tolkien's world (except worship of Morgoth) - only the creator and offsprings of his thoughts (as harmonic and disharmonic music).

t23414321on AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

Maybe let someone write it - if such article shall exist ?

t23414321on Reforming English Spelling

The first I can hear and I understand as a voice, the later I just read - no synesthesia ?? (non-native reader later speaker)

t23414321on Show HN: Sill for Android – control your Mac's windows from an Android phone

That's client. There is Linux server:

https://github.com/NateHag/Sill-Viewer/tree/main/linux-host - how it works.

t23414321on Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas?

That's unique connection of certain ideas that someone discovered - which LLM had access to - let it then repeat it and freely cross the bridge whose existence it had previously been unaware of. Inevitable (it's not Memex). Big steal on multiple levels including credits - it is how it works.

t23414321on Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

Is it similar to magnetic fields on the Sun ?

t23414321on Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – we still have no idea why

Because of small asymmetries of how the left and right leg is used the dominant one (which make first step) is stronger.

As a result, being lost in a forest you will not progress forward, but make a few km circle.

t23414321on UN General Assembly: Trump renames AI to Super Intelligence

For someone it's super intelligence, for someone else it's bullshit.

t23414321on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

Happened to me, induced chemically when I experimented with lucid dreaming. It was to scary so I stopped it.

t23414321on Everything you do is being recorded

For me, for someone or against me ? Can you give it back to me: the records of the records and the records too ? If me is not for me - I don't pay for that but you steal, parasities. (same with LLMs)

t23414321on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

Thanks. I think it still could be fine ? I don't use Facebook - but I was able to download any video from Youtube, see no ads till adblockers and youtube-dl - and that's the race making things harder and unaccessible (yes, custom - but excesive DIY URL filtering rules only, same since ~2 years, are still enough to see no ads on YT, hope, that on Facebook too, and I can live with that).

t23414321on Falco: Tiny browser engine written from scratch in Rust

Handy tiny browser that works actually: https://github.com/ovsky/Ultralight-WebBrowser

t23414321on Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

[ the only 1 comment here actually about the drive :) ]

t23414321on Falco: Tiny browser engine written from scratch in Rust

I like the level of details on the README.

t23414321on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Then it is known that if you play to someone with small delay what he says he will be lost on both - so he can't think about and listen to what he is saying if it's not one stream.

t23414321on US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bgMl3NQwS4

Germany plays Russian anthem like you've never heard it before (Dec 12, 2021)

(did he cry ?)

t23414321on Wall-run (4k:c64,v20,c16,zx,PC)

That's Tron Light Cycles! ;)

t23414321on President warns of 100% tariff on countries implementing digital services tax

Which president ? - let me guess..

(there is a paywall)

t23414321on SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses

Can't find what's the resolution ?

Found that: The analyst noted the device lacks disclosed specifications for resolution, pixels per degree, brightness, and refresh rate. ( https://m.uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/benchmark-... )

And that: Sixth Generation 2026 - 46 degree diagonal field of view display with a 37 pixel-per-degree resolution (Wikipedia)

- is it 1702px diagonally = 1200 x 1200 px ??

t23414321on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

Dimensions of monitor are: 315 x 254 x 16 mm - but what are dimensions of visible screen ? - is it enough to match A4 format 297 x 210 mm ?

t23414321on Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

If forms could evolve (self or own factors), multiply it by infinity to find 1 at least (as we are) ?

(aside of a a joke that the universe (with us as a part of it) is not evolving but computing a number (42 exactly) - which eventually may become real thanks LLM) [Lem:Dick .. (Adams)]

t23414321on Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

..dead by translation.

Solaris ? Do stars dream of being a Sun and what they can do about it ? (master SF)

- but is he talking about.. _frozen_ mass imagination (or snapshot hallucination) ??

- consciousness? - yes, lots of it is there, as of many other beings caught by _Language Models_