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TIL I learned about Janus words that have two opposite meanings depending on context, also known as contronyms or auto-antonyms: Cleave : To split apart ('cleave the wood') or to a…

Funny how 'drug' in English is a homonym for at the same time bad recreational substance and good one to cure illness. In German it's Droge and Medikament

We hear a lot about LLMs lately, they solve reasoning, mimic empathy, and awaken consciousness miraculously. As long as we do not understand the workings of the mind and brain, it …

Sure, and one product is the browser, the other is search :-/ @BrendanEich

Zarelli - Falling Light ft. Leonard Nimoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ekjpJWSvY

More books and stories are listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_holocaust_fict... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-a... The Beast o…

> "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr.…

The name collision with the browser is a bit unfortunate. If you set it to default search engine in Chrome on mobile, 'Search with Brave' is very ambiguous!

What does JaneStreet do besides sponsoring nerdy Youtube channels and writing UI libraries?

What's with Fil-C is unsafe? https://archive.ph/ysqbm TIL about 4chan clanker clone moltshit.com

Why the stigma? Does it come from the same direction as US American prudence?

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Cool that the low-level configuration system and settings management tool of GNOME 3 gets its own conference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dconf

Living fossils, like Ginkos And Equisetum/Horsetail/Schachtelhalm

To the Book Mark Index

Ok boomer. SCNR 2016 is a while ago. Flew by me

Sad cause its true

I love random associations between different concepts! And that the page title becomes 'Michaelsoft Teams' when inactive <3

Why Fly?

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Windows Sandbox is not for persistent apps

Went over the cliff. Straight to the ambulance down there.

And Windows?

In each recent case?

Why even serve TLS here?