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Do people just not even search their proposed name anymore?

It is interesting to see the degree to which Claude voice creeps into normal speech. It also leads to some annoying catch-22’s, like rejecting an em-dash where you might have genui…

Oh very nice, bliss looks pretty slick. I see musefs as being kind of an unglamorous middle man layer that ultimately just has one job, separate the metadata handling from the back…

musefs is a virtual filesystem for organizing and tagging your music without altering or duplicating the backing audio files. It scans your library to build up a SQLite db with all…

I first read this in the jargon file when I must have been… 10? 12? And it’s been stuck in my head ever since.

Sonnet, GPT-5.2, Gemini Flash, in a set of 21 games, where conclusions are drawn from the LLMs self reported reasoning. This is like writing a paper about kids in a literal sandbox…

Is it really though? Now admittedly I’ve never worked with LexisNexis or Westlaw, but would it really be that difficult to have a tool just check if the citations actually exist?

IIIRC in terms of clients mutt (&co) will actually handle “@“ in the local part correctly. > But the real reason I do that is just because I just like to sit in anger whenever this…

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Well I have a new favorite website. I don’t know the last time that I read something that was so thoroughly and multidimensionally my shit. Not actually measuring crispness when yo…

Shout out to the best named feminist group of all time, W.I.T.C.H. The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell.

This has a serious case of in-housing the edge cases that I don’t think many would want to pay the price for. The problem with DNS per the haiku isn’t that it’s difficult to unders…

My interpretation would be that he feels his wife is incredibly loving in a quantity he isn’t able to match (degree) and in a unique way he’s not able to match (kind). General life…

I’ve had one experience with Claude Code so far that genuinely frustrated me, but it did it to such a degree that it wrapped back around to hilarity. It tried to run a command got …

Wildly true. Purely anecdotal on my part, but in my experience the cooking stack exchange was just awful to even try to ask something on.

My initial thought was that that would probably be taking the simulationism too far. My second thought was how funny it would be to swap calendars to get out of a truce early. “My …

I think that largely depends on how you engage with the internet. To continue the metaphor, the internet has an absurdly high noise floor, but it’s easily filtered noise. So if you…

I think this article hand waves and side steps what I see as two notable issues. The main one is aquifer depletion. The consumptive vs withdrawal argument mostly holds water, but c…

Accelerando and The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (and that series as a whole) are the best examples of how weird the future is going to get I’ve read. Other series like The Cul…

Hm, with regards to the difficulty of scaling these systems specifically and really the whole topic at hand more generally I don't know that there is sufficient domain specific dat…

Pretty much this. For further consideration it may be worth looking into Daniel Dennett's writing on qualia (notably that they're ineffable and private).

I feel like it's apparent why comparing healthcare in the US with healthcare in, well, any of the aforementioned countries, is problematic. If you look at Western Europe (a bit les…

The file uploading functionality of ChatGPT is just awful, it has nothing to do with the file name. You can test it yourself with any arbitrary file, the number of failures to uplo…

Using fossil fuels for plastics has to be better environmentally speaking than using them for energy. Simply by virtue of the fact that the carbon is trapped as a constituent of th…

Well the question at that point is, protected from whom? Security is never a binary state, it can only be assessed relative to a given threat model. I'd say that being protected fr…