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"First longitudinal empirical study of the post-merge lifecycle of agentic and human code in real-world open source projects."

I'm not saying that the conspiracy theory is true, but I do want to note that Greg Brockman, co-founder and President of OpenAI, is an angel investor in HuggingFace. As companies, …

In the last 5 seconds or so of the film, you can overhear one of them saying "because we were remoting in to these Mac minis..." So I suspect they would say all the work was still …

The article makes it sound as if the benefit of handwriting vs. typing is a settled matter. But a recent metaanalysis finds no overall benefit of handwriting over typing: https://w…

Should crypto-positive and crypto-negative op-eds be required to disclose whether the author has a financial stake in crypto’s future? This author is a “fintech entrepreneur”. To w…

Vieb does actually support some extensions, though it is currently limited. See here: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/130

I'm a long-time user of Firefox Vim add-ons, but I agree that they just don't cut it any more. The best Vim-based browsing experience is currently offered by Vieb, IMO. It even has…

There are lots of ways to contribute to open source projects like OpenBSD, though there's always a risk that helpful but tedious work is neglected. This seems both helpful and tedi…

In science, we cannot cite our intuition or anecdotal experience as firm and reliable evidence for any phenomenon. One outgrowth of this is that good science is not just about inve…

Consider EteSync as a solution. FOSS, can be self-hosted, available on multiple platforms, etc: https://www.etesync.com/

It's important to note that mindset theory has recently come under question: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761989758... For a twitter summary of the above pape…

A cool chording device designed for single-handed use (and thus ideal for mobile devices) is the Twiddler 3: https://twiddler.tekgear.com/

Their study of adolescents[1] did not use a control group. This is an issue, as adolescent executive performance is likely naturally improving over time, and said improvement may b…