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If this post was interesting to you check my architectural models blog[0]. It’s in zombie mode now but I posted regularly for a decade. [0] https://archimodels.tumblr.com/

This. And also a lack of respect for people commenting about it. I used to randomly evaluate and give honest feedback on invisible projects when I had the time. Most times I was co…

https://www.slowernews.com/ - https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews A personal blog disguised as a newspaper where I try to keep up/make sense of the world - 100% hand made and …

Ask HN: Underrated music, books, movies? I asked this years ago, and it’s time to ask again: what underrated music, books, and movies should we discover? Biased or not, I’m sure th…

LLMs themselves are not a fad or overhyped. Even my mum (almost 70) is using an LLM nowadays, and she hates computers. Adapt or die and I don’t say this happily. I hate that I have…

When I see these examples I miss Autolisp…

I have the feeling that most people haven’t fully realized it yet. All the languages or skills they half-learned will soon be worth nothing, and all the time they spent learning th…

Nowadays, almost anyone «armed» with an LLM can beat you if you’re going in with just your bare mind. That’s what I mean by losing my edge. And it’s not just at work, I mean in eve…

They didn’t kill me but they wounded me. The edge I carried all my life? Now it feels cheap. I still think. I still write. But they do it faster, cleaner. There’s still a spark in …

I'd happily pay for the traditional physical IKEA yearly catalog. I suspect that if they sold it in-store for a few euros (€2?) just to cover printing costs, many people would buy …

So what "axiom" do you propose instead?

> I will be kind to people. If you look at it as "producing goodwill" (an intangible asset) it still fits his axiom.

What counts as a disability depends on the rules society uses to decide who is "normal" and who is "disabled." For example, decades ago, many Irish gipsies faked diabetes to receiv…

When there's gold but the easy gold is gone, some people rush to sell shovels - it’s easier than digging yourself. Soon, there are more shovels than places to dig, and some buyers …

TIL: pentominoes - tetrodominoes - trominoes - DOMINOES!

Some countries build walls to keep people out. Some countries build walls to keep people in...

A nation has the sovereign right to implement tariffs. In response, other countries may exercise their right to apply retaliatory tariffs. Fairness and unfairness are subjective.