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There were cryptic billboards in the last 2 tech booms too (dotcom, web 2.0) - the one that comes to mind is the Google ones that were a puzzle that led to a recruiting funnel (200…

Trash AI article with a useless map. It looks to be a screenshot from an interactive version in the linked Newsweek article[^1] that was mangled by the slop grinder. The source map…

n8n pipeline that scrapes industry sources daily, uses an LLM to score each story according to how relevant it is to my particular focus of interest, and sends me a weekly digest o…

2014-15 was when the news feed switched from static, human-written code to machine learning models optimized to maximize ad revenue[1], the models discovering "user attention time"…

Same - at the end of the day I'd leave my last turn running with something like "I am going to bed so keep going until you are done" and be surprised that in the morning it'd kept …

This latest crop of frontier models (Fable, Sol) are very good at broad exploratory directions like "audit for bugs" or "find places in this codebase that I custom-implemented func…

Many harnesses include a current date and time in their system prompt, and if there is a way for the model to call for an updated time (either a dedicated time tool or calling the …

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons <- these also fit the IBM ones (still using the Model M I pulled out of a telco dumpster in the rain when I was a teenager, it's a …

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Good essay. In my own readings on art and artists, one overlap with substance abuse is that artists tend to be highly sensitive people - the type of people who are drawn to both cr…

Using OpenCode + OhMyOpenCode + Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q_4_KM on an Ada 4000 (20GB VRAM) at 55 tok/sec for generation (slower than it sounds as OpenCode has a bunch of context it adds). …

One part of ADHD is hyperfocus. ADHD is a dopamine deficiency issue, so when something highly stimulating (like a good book, or writing code) causes a release of dopamine the brain…

https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt - contemporary account that is still a pretty good overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary has an episode entirely…

You are, I see, a member of the "reality-based community" as Karl Rove presciently put it back in 2004. You live in a mental space where you critically evaluate facts and make deci…

It's hard to calculate the number of people who don't subscribe at all, but you can calculate the number of recovered subscriptions from a retention process. FWIW, as a subscriber …

The book "The Paradox of Choice" led me to using Wirecutter and Consumer Reports in recent years - if it's not something I care that much about, I will just buy whatever their top …

Watch the ageism there, older devs can be lazy and ignorant of security too! (And are responsible for building a dev process that catches such things in review - which points to la…

Hah thanks. I also feel this way rage-spotting AI-generated text everywhere these days. I have been looking into the speech patterns of LLMs lately ("unslopping" my own AI outputs)…

Yes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not even about coding agen…

From the article: > The brains are already almost devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness, says Brendan Parent, a bioethicist at New York U…

Had a peek at Morland's book on Amazon and the headlines he pulls at the top of Chapter 1 for the impact of falling fertility on society: 'Russia running out of "single-use" soldie…

Another perspective from the posters saying "rich people"; in most advertising, it is aimed at aspiration and not reality - so "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or …

One use of design is signaling, but not all - successful design is that which fulfills its purpose. Many designed things do not need to be differentiated and will benefit from a ho…