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tempmacon Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it

most languages are now copying from each other, so we might get a language-convergence one day?

tempmacon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

gemini is a bad name in korea...

"잼민이" (Gem-min-ee) is a derogative term for rude elementary kids online

"smart gemini" sounds really weird

tempmacon New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros

extra laptops/servers...? meh

tempmacon Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day

dang I can hear the youtube channel voice

tempmacon Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse

> This is one of the reasons for the whole "just put ~ at the end of the search" comes from.

shushhhh!!!!! you're giving spammers ideas!!!!!

next thing we know, we'll have spammers creating fake subs with bots for this spam

tempmacon The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps

long-press power button

tempmacon Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year

sorry I'm not being sarcastic to you, but those bitcoin/blockchainers...

I just noticed you were listing vital features of a financial system, and yet wasn't using them as your foremost argument.

tempmacon Hyundai Uni Wheel electric drive system could revolutionize EV design

> Electric hub motors produce a wine from the EMF

the sound is not coming from EMF, but rather from speakers due to safety regulations for pedestrians

tempmacon Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year

> People that forget a password, lose their wallet, encounter fraud, need to walk into banks occasionally

hmm these seem to be usecases that are almost impossible for bitcoin/blockchains that say "cheap transaction fees / trust in the system" due to no-person-in-the-loop...

tempmacon Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?

ditto this... "100 years ago" just seem to imply a lot of missing data points (and/or anecdata with lots of mislabeled data)

tempmacon Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]

for windows 10 pro+: you can get full alphanumeric+special_chars ONLY if you do some gpedit stuff

(for win home users: regedit?)

tempmacon Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS

hmm it might be possible with enough tooling:

- read from webpack's output

- read from css-in-js: emotion / vanilla-extract / etc

tempmacon Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"

> didn't indulge in fake cures.

maybe he WAS afraid of death, but didn't trust the modern stat-based medical methods?

tempmacon Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS

hmm maybe IDE plugins can solve this? (eg. add a 'hover to show css' or 'expand css if I press ctrl+alt')

as for tailwild, I just can't bare its wide-ness - too many className attribute string going over 150~300 char widths, with some ternary operators mixed on top...

(seems vanilla-extract / ete have better DX, with occasional inlining for immediate deadlines)

tempmacon Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS

hmm maybe it's more related to marketing and who got the vc money first?

tempmacon Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS

ditto this most tailwind projects have very wiiidddeee classnames in one line... which means I can't have split tabs on my vscode

tempmacon Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto

what happens if wallet from satoshi is stolen and poured into the market for quick bucks?

what happens if "satoshi" gets desperate for quick cash?

idk this seems to be a major financial risk for bitcoiners, not altruism...