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What's with all the birds? Also I like A the best. It's very modern.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Also will be interesting what happens when the SPR runs out.

For my AI Agent it sometimes detects if I manually modified the file contents or git state. And it always assumes it must have made a mistake. It's sort of annoying actually.

I recently made an AI Agent and surprisingly coding with DeepSeek V4 Flash is quite cheap. It probably has to do with the aggressive prompt caching. I'm using OpenRouter with Novit…

Not to be that guy, but the correct term is Open Weight LLM. And I’d argue it already has. Many open models are already very competitive with closed models at a fraction of the cos…

No, the new method of inflation that Kevin Warsh likes is the trimmed mean which is 2.8%.

First of all the May jobs report was mostly in temporary workers possibly due to the World Cup. Second as already noted the jobs are mostly in healthcare. Third job openings does n…

They’d have to keep this up for 12 months which is not guaranteed as you have to factor in hardware depreciation and other costs. Also they’d have to issue more shares to get over …

Good thing they're not dropping the profitability requirements. Ed Zitron would be proud.

They have to be rebalanced every quarter regardless. And I'm not sure how many people would actually sell due to the inclusion of a single company. They're very loud about it, but …

Steve Jobs famously said, "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." Not sure if it is true, but programming definitel…

Oh no, not Rsync. I guess that's one good thing about MacOS shipping with an ancient version of rsync. Oh, wait, they ship openrsync now, but the command is still called rsync.

I had an emoji cut in half problem in Dart. I was a bit surprised because I thought substring operations worked on characters. It only caused an invalid Unicode symbol though so no…

People want to believe this war will end soon.

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page …

Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servic…

If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.

32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.

This is the one I read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032... which says how older participants benefit more from restricting social media use.

I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.

Gemini is also my favourite. It’s very smart and has a backbone. I don’t think the Gemini 3 Pro complaint is very fair as it was listed as ‘preview’. Although I should note Gemini …

This actually makes me more likely to think it’s AI generated and you used a script to try to hide it.

It’s always amusing when the all powerful agents need our help to work properly. Them: Agents will write code 10x faster than a human. Also them: You will have to dumb down your CL…

Ah, file permissions. My old friend. Good thing this happened on a 'local' server and not a remote VPS.

Billing caps? Google? Ha ha ha ha... OK, I'm sad now.