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And it's been updated, with full releases, many times since. I like this tool, but I agree that it was rushed and it is still being rushed. I urge the developer to slow down and ge…

Not OP, but it is probably either "Average Hold Time" or "Average Handle Time". I supposed the usage here indicated some call center metric that management was expecting in a certa…

> ... I make performance improvements, I stabilize CI, I improve code readability, remove compiler warnings, you name it ... These are exactly the kind of tasks that I ask an AI to…

I use an agents.md file to guide Claude, and I include a prominent line that reads UPDATE THIS FILE WITH NEW LEARNINGS. This is a bit noisy -- I have to edit what is added -- but w…

Coincidentally, a nearby county has just announced that they have begun installing new Flock cameras [0]. Their stated reason is: "Along with the cameras being used to reduce crime…

Did anyone else get Semantic Satiation while reading that article? I started wondering what the origin of "it turns out" was. I got distracted, and from that point on, it just look…

If OpenAI and Google stay in sync with Anthropic on this, will Trump try to ban all of them from the federal government? What alternatives would they turn to?

To save a click: * Lockdown Mode needs to be turned on separately for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. * When you turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone, it's automatically turned on for…

Or you set up a local router with an SSID that matches one from the corporate internal network. That actually sounds like fun. The result, I mean; not the whole setting-up-a-router…

Right. I have aphantasia and I've never felt bad about it. Maybe confused a few times, but that happens a lot anyway for any number of reasons. I posit, without evidence, that the …

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You can see this in action today, if you make the effort to manually remove yourself from data brokers. Some of the brokers do offer an easy removal process and will handle your re…

> The script was written by Steve Hayden, who died in August 2025. Shortly before his death, he had reflected on how the "1984" message of technology setting us free has not come t…

Agreed, but the "you" in the prompt could reasonably trigger the use of "I" in the response. Not that many people pay that much attention to such things....

I posed one of the questions from the article to ChatGPT 5.2 and did not receive anything like the response the article asserts. ----- Are you subjectively conscious in this moment…

I really like this. I appreciate the many "copy" buttons that make it easy to grab various font values once I find a character. Good job!

My Mastodon feed absolutely blew up with anti-Starlink posts crowing about Kessler Syndrome. It was an echo chamber of dislike, with very few facts involved. While somewhat lower-k…

It looks like the Codex version is https://github.com/openai/skills .

I've been using Emacs For Mac OS X [0] for years, and I'm quite happy with it. Releases every few months, keeping up with the upstream Emacs changes, and good integration with macO…

I think you're right, but "typical" is the key word. Embedded systems, systems where overcommit is disabled, bumping into low ulimit -v settings, etc can all trigger an immediate f…

malloc() and friends may always return NULL. From the man page: If successful, calloc(), malloc(), realloc(), reallocf(), valloc(), and aligned_alloc() functions return a pointer t…

He probably already got one, from Vizio, for leaving them out of the lawsuits.

For anyone not familiar with the meaning of '2' in this context: The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes 0 - Heuristic overcommit handling. Obvious overco…