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> Just fyi, it's "Gandhi"
To underline: Gandhi went to law school in London. There is a single correct English spelling of his name.
The external power supply bricks aren't much better. I've had a few 27" LG 4k monitors, and the ones with a brick seem to fail more frequently (in the monitor, brick was fine).
I bought a launch LG UltraFine 5K that was in the batch of defective units but I was too lazy to return it. Somehow, it's held up just fine a decade later; only color bleeding is an issue.
This is a fun open problem. We've got stuff coming for it (don't want to hijack the thread, though).
Related:
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502239 - January 2026 (37 comments)
David Rosen, co-founder of Sega, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497897 - January 2026 (0 comments)
Based on just this article, it seems far most likely to me that it was a place to hide during an attack.
> And while three brave explorers in the 21st century once spent 48 hours in an erdstall, crawling to new sections whenever oxygen became scarce, it seems unlikely that they would have been constructed as hiding places, even temporary ones. Though they could have provided refuge for a small family, why would they be accessed from such public spaces?
I don't see why a whole bunch of people couldn't have hidden in them for several hours during an attack/raid? A hiding spot sufficiently known to a few, just big enough. And then it makes perfect sense the entrance would be in some central public place.
> The lack of exits is a further strike against this theory—if enemies became aware of such a tunnel being used as shelter, it would quickly become a death trap for its inhabitants.
Which would contribute to their extreme secrecy. And the loops and dead ends and narrow spots make it all the harder for attackers to pursue you even if they find it.
> Besides, in either of these cases, one would expect at least some goods to have been left behind—remnants of food or clothing, cached or dropped valuables. Instead, there is nothing.
If they were intended for hiding for just a few hours, since oxygen would run out anyways, it makes sense for nothing to be left in there. You rush in and come back out when the raiders have moved on. Clothing was valuable, you weren't going to leave your shawl behind.
Why do you always respond to substantive posts with feelings and personal attacks?
In the thread you linked to, I pointed out that Denmark is a country the size of Maryland and couldn't meaningfully move the needle in any serious engagement involving the U.S. military. If the U.S. went to war with China, having Denmark in our camp versus not having Denmark in our camp would make literally no difference. Do you disagree with that?
Instead of disagreeing with me, your response was that Danish soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan. That's a response based on feelings and emotions, not analysis. It's completely unresponsive to anything I said.
XPath may have "failed" for general use but it's generally well-enough supported that I can find a library in the common languages I've used when I went looking for it. In some ways the hard part is just knowing it exists so you can use it if you need it.
> Will there be any accountability?
FTA: "SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act."
Probably nothing under this administration. But there is a paper trail–now cited in public–for folks in the future to pursue.
In the meantime, I'm curious what civil damages they may be liable for.
Canada simply needs to allow Chinese and European military bases on their land to defend against the US. You don’t need Canadian kids with guns, you need allies with weapons systems to defend against land and air attacks (with of course some soldiers trained to operate those weapons systems).
Note when discussing US politics:
This is the Whitehouse: https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/
This is the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
They are not the same.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plays-down-consequenc...
Now, Trump is an opportunist and in the psat his talk of default has been a way to throw rhetorical stones at his political opponents and keep himself in the news while he was out of office. Back in office, he has sought to project some kind of commitment to fiscal responsibility and financial stability.
But let's be real here, he's making threats against a fellow NATO member on the daily and openly saying he wants to annex territory. If he gets it into his head that the Danes or the EU are being mean to him and hurting his fee-fees, he's fully capable of responding in irrational fashion and has a toxic personality cult that will back him up. Be honest, if I took this month's headlines and took a time machine a year into the past, would 2025 you have believed my warnings about what would be happening 1 year into the second Trump admin?
General strikes. Technically these are illegal when called by unions under the Taft-HArtley act, but if done at the popular level they can grind the country to a halt. But mass protest is the most effective way to bring down a corrupt government, and doesn't require waiting for an election and being disappointed by another round of political scams.
oh that isn't possible to organize No with that attitude
authorities will brutalize the protestors freedom isn't free
Americans are too comfortable/lazy to do mass political protest Well we'll see whether that's true I guess.
what if this leads to civil war If the alternative is corruption and tyranny, maybe that's a fight worth having. Authoritarian governments do not historically reach a point where they say 'well that's enough tyranny, let's not get carried away lest history think ill of us.'
One of my formative experiences was the summer between undergrad and grad school where I worked at the supermarket I worked at in high school. They weren't really hiring but they wanted to make a space for me so I answered directly to the store manager and did whatever random thing they needed when they needed it.
Paint a metal strip around the store? Yes.
Deep clean the whole floor? Yes.
Learn to work the meat slicer and fill in at the Deli? Yes.
Somebody from the bakery is out sick? I've got your back.
It's been a pet peeve for me working in startups that a lot of younger people haven't had that kind of experience so they are hung up on job titles and stuff and don't just think "it's a small team so I'm going to do what the team needs"
I've learned to see that the value of my work is the value it has to my organization delivered by the team I am working in so I adjust accordingly. I can't say there is one thing to do that works all the time but rather you improvise and see what works with the people you are working with. If there is somebody who reviews your PRs for instance it is going to go smooth if you meet their expectations as opposed to what you think their expectations ought to be. Decide what boundaries you want to enforce and what you can't compromise on but be flexible about everything you can be flexible about.
Understand the contradiction between "doing what people need" and "doing what people want" and not be afraid to rub people the wrong way if you really have to while not promoting any excess antagonism. (It isn't easy!)
One of the best managers I ever had integrated me into a team by tasking me with completing a late project on a nearly impossible schedule and giving us all the understanding that I was supposed to ask for and get all the support I needed. We pulled it off and it was better than any "team building" exercise I've been in. (e.g. there are great ideas in "team building" as much the execution is often cringe.)
And yet, nobody lifts a finger.
Are these LLM-generated causes of death? There are a couple startups here where I'm somewhat familiar with the "real" causes of death and the stated cause here is just fluff.
It is not counted as such but it is very much tied to it and for the most part goes up and down with the Euro economy barring some own goals.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody. Meta's main shareholder is devoid of any intrinsic ethics, it should come as absolutely no surprise that their legal team has abandoned their ethical duties because I would have assumed they never had any in the first place.
Zuckerberg's only saving grace by now is that he's not the only despicable billionaire.
Haven't you done enough to wreck your reputation by now?
For reference:
I used vi first in 1993 on Xenix, master it enough to use when nothing else is available, still not convinced.
> Say what you will about how dated a gold standard is, but it forces immediate fiscal responsibility upon governments
We were on metal standards for millenia. Governments routinely spent beyond their means, including for imperial aims. This is like four centuries of Roman history.
People spend more money on sillier things on a regular basis.
I came to really appreciate React over time.
My initial objections were: (a) circa 2006 I was making very demanding RIAs such as knowledge graph editors and GIS decision support software and I've yet to see any modern framework that is as good as what I was using then (not in JS but rather GWT and Silverlight w/ the same async comms) and (b) the React model is not a 100% match for the form-based applications that we usually write with it (but boy do I love react-hook-form)
React is like the code in Graham's On Lisp [1] in that functional programming is used to create a sort of DSL. There are a lot of ways to implement reactivity that usually require a special interpreter (spreadsheets) or compiler (Svelte). React's system does show seams (you really need to be on top of identity and equality) but it is remarkably simple.
React shines, in my mind, for things that aren't form applications. For instance, VR applications with AFrame -- it's somewhere between VRML and Unity. I am working on a (mainly) heart rate variability biofeedback application [2] and it is so easy to make dashboards that display real-time metrics as well as Poincare sections and time series. That is, I can slap together a few data processing functions and widgets and make a new dashboard with new metrics and charts or new sensors. One goal is to get it working on a tablet in a two player version.
The disadvantage of React is that it does not work so well for highly dynamic layouts. In my case I have a library of functions to "fetch" the data stream and put them into the top of the component (may even package as hooks) and then put the layout together with JSX. I'd like to have a version where the user can drag and drop the components to make a custom layout and the system figures out the dependencies for the data fetching, preparation and processing like the things I made in 2006 and that kind of application with a dynamic layout (think programs like Photoshop with lots of different little widgets and property sheets) wants a different approach to reactivity.
[1] use of macros in that book is a red herring, the one example in it where you really need macros is when he is implementing cooperative multitasking, a feature that Python and Javascript already have -- most examples from that book as with Norvig's Lisp book can be coded up just fine with
[2] see https://github.com/paulhoule/VulpusVision it might "just work" if you npm install, npm run dev, and look at it in Chrome and connect with a Polar H10 or other BT monitor
Rust the language knows nothing about allocations. It’s purely a library concern.
> Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. That’s just what I’ve heard from people around me this week. I see more and more every day.
What? You can't argue "if the software is shitty, it must be vibe coded." People have been writing shit software with low standards since before 2023.
Because most Americans don't care about what's going on in the rest of the world and basically just care about inflation: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HHP... (p. 16). Even after everything, a majority of Americans say Trump is doing a better job than Biden, who had worse inflation on his watch (p. 18).
Americans don't care because they don't have to. In Germany, 40-45% of GDP is exports: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS?location.... In the U.S., it's just 10-11%: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS?location.... Exports to the EU are just over 1% of GDP. To put that into perspective, if exports evaporated completely, that would wipe out just three years of American GDP-per-capita growth. For Germany, it would wipe out more than two decades of GDP per capita growth.
That not only means that 90% of America's economy is domestic. It means that most people have no exposure to the rest of the world through their workplaces. To the extent they do, that experience is with Canada and Mexico--we have twice as much trade with those countries as with the EU. Canada and Mexico have essentially zero meaningful leverage over the U.S. So even for the relatively few Americans who have some exposure to the rest of the world, most of their exposure is to relationships where America is the utterly dominant party.
With that name, I was wondering if this is SFW initially.
For something like this, where you need durability, lightness, and heat resistance, you just can't be at ABS. If your printer can't print it, I think it's worth getting it printed somewhere else (after prototyping with other materials). Just the reduced weight alone will be worth it, let alone the fact that ABS is nigh indestructible.
China has been divesting for the last nine months, and continues to do so.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/foreign-h... | https://archive.today/4pfum
Loads of people do this! It's a big part of why accommodation is so expensive in major cities! It's just that it requires capital upfront, many have a degree filter, and it's still easy for the number of young people to outpace the available jobs.
> What if someone (could be an individual or even an uncoordinated group) bets millions of dollars on you not doing X, in the hopes of you taking the opposite bet and doing X?
From their POV, that's the purest form of voting with money. If you do X, they're presumably happy with the outcome they just paid for; if you do the opposite of X, they at least have their payouts as consolation prize.
What "user-triggered censorship" are you talking about?
Treat it as a pair programmer. Ask it questions like "How do I?", "When I do X, Y happens, why is that?", "I think Z, prove me wrong" or "I want to do P, how do you think we should do it?"
Feed it little tasks (30 s-5 min) and if you don't like this or that about the code it gives you either tell it something like
Rewrite the selection so it uses const, ? and :
I edited what you wrote to make it my own, what do you think about my changes?
About a year ago I had some code I had been working on for about a year subject to a pretty heavy-duty security review by a reputable review company. When they asked what language I implemented it in and I told them "Go", they joked that half their job was done right there.
While Go isn't perfect and you can certainly write some logic bugs that sufficiently clever use of a more strongly-typed language might let you avoid (though don't underestimate what sufficiently clever use of what Go already has can do for you either when wielded with skill), it has a number of characteristics that keep it somewhat safer than a lot of other languages.
First, it's memory safe in general, which obviously out of the gate helps a lot. You can argue about some super, super fringe cases with unprotected concurrent access to maps, but you're still definitely talking about something on the order of .1% to .01% of the surface area of C.
Next, many of the things that people complain about Go on Hacker News actually contribute to general safety in the code. One of the biggest ones is that it lacks any ability to take an string and simply convert it to a type, which has been the source of catastrophic vulnerabilities in Ruby [1] and Java (Log4Shell), among others. While I use this general technique quite frequently, you have to build your own mechanism for it (not a big deal, we're talking ~50 lines of code or so tops) and that mechanism won't be able to use any class (using general terminology, Go doesn't have "classes" but user-defined types fill in here) that wasn't explicitly registered, which sharply contains the blast radius of any exploit. Plus a lot of the exploits come from excessively clever encoding of the class names; generally when I simply name them and simply do a single lookup in a single map there isn't a lot of exploit wiggle room.
In general though it lacks a lot of the features that get people in trouble that aren't related to memory unsafety. Dynamic languages as a class start out behind the eight-ball on this front because all that dynamicness makes it difficult to tell exactly what some code might do with some input; goodness help you if there's a path to the local equivalent of "eval".
Go isn't entirely unique in this. Rust largely shares the same characteristics, there's some others that may qualify. But some other languages you might expect to don't; for instance, at least until recently Java had a serious problem with being able to get references to arbitrary classes via strings, leading to Log4Shell, even though Java is a static language. (I believe they've fixed that since then but a lot of code still has to have the flag to flip that feature back on because they depend on it in some fundamental libraries quite often.) Go turns out to be a relatively safe security language to write in compared to the landscape of general programming languages in common use. I add "in common use" and highlight it here because I don't think it's anywhere near optimal in the general landscape of languages that exist, nor the landscape of languages that ought to exist and don't yet. For instance in the latter case I'd expect capabilities to be built in to the lowest layer of a language, which would further do great, great damage to the ability to exploit such code. However no such language is in common use at this time. Pragmatically when I need to write something very secure today, Go is surprisingly high on my short list; theoretically I'm quite dissatisfied.
[1]: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/20/marshal-madness-a-br...
Yes, agentic coding works and has massive value. No, you can't just deploy code unreviewed.
Still takes much less time for me to review the plan and output than write the code myself.
Like the homage.
I did spend quite a few afternoons with the Amiga version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcry314I7Ro
Unfortunely modern sims require top cards, which spoils the fun.
I think there is no point to hurry with AI features. Already I see glimmers of the future, like when I am at the library and ask Siri "Where do I find books about martial arts in the library of congress system?" and it punts to ChatGPT and tells me "GV1100-GV1198"
It will become a better and more integrated experience over time.
The thing is that we are in this Windows 8 moment where AI progress is being pushed by FOMO on the part of vendors and not pulled by customer demand and that's OK.
>His photographic memory manifested itself early — he would amuse his parents’ friends by instantly memorizing pages of phone books on command.
https://medium.com/young-spurs/the-unsung-genius-of-john-von...
I wonder if in Apple's skunkworks there's a never-to-be-released software/hardware NanoOn/NanoOff function....
https://jisho.org/search/queen : which word did you mean?
The translator's curse of a language having lots of synonyms, the subtleties of which don't map directly on to English. None of those seem particularly similar to queen/kvinne?
At least one guy had their ~ rm -rf'ed.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cl...
The original game which probably inspired this, also worked on the 8-bit Atari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Strike_Eagle_(video_game)
(a rare non-strategy Sid Meier game!)
Anthropic is a dictionary word already: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropic
of or relating to human beings
or the period of their existence
on earthThis is a big topic in disability rights activism; there are a lot of people who can do some work some of the time, with a certain level of accommodation, and would benefit from so doing.
But that's not how the system works. It forces everyone into binary categorizations, with the aim of removing help if at all possible. So it becomes economically necessary for people to present themselves as helpless and stay away from work or even volunteering, because doing so jeopardizes their means of surviving the bureaucracy.
> The challenge is, some people (most) get stuck on some emotional thing, and will drain you dry if you try to even engage with them on it. It’s especially prevalent right now.
Yup. I've long learned to suppress my problem-solver nature because "people want to be heard", but then what it gets is turning me into a sounding board for people who get stuck on something indefinitely. It's easy to not jump in with solutions the first time you hear a story, but it's much harder when you hear the exact same story, with exact same underlying emotion, dozen+ times in the span of a few months. The other side is clearly not really processing their emotions - so if not that, and not practical advice, then what's the point of even talking about it?
It's really draining and in some cases I'm not in a position to disengage either.
I really don't understand Tailwind. I heard great things about it, and then I tried it and it seemed like setting style="" on all elements, but with extra steps.
Did we go off semantic CSS and returned to setting properties on each element, or was I using it wrong?
I just tried a few launchers and none of them forced a search bar (or do you mean not on the home screen?). In fact, in Lawnchair and Octopi, I had to manually add a search bar if I wanted one.
Once your exploit machine is good enough, you can start using stolen credentials to mine more exploits. This is going to be the new version of malware installing bitcoin miners.
Neither of those is going to be obsolete in 5 years. Might get rebadged and a bunch of extensions, but there's such a huge install base that rapid change is unlikely. Neither Firewire nor Thunderbolt unseated USB.
s/embodied/embedded/, and this is how LLMs understand.
As others already mentioned, the secret is that arithmetic is done on vector in high-dimensional space. The meaning of concepts is in how they relate to each other, and high dimensional spaces end up being a surprisingly good representation.
Apart from Toyotas, hybrids are kind of unpopular precisely because they're a compromise. Not many people who do make the switch to EV go back.
Additional tipping points will come when cities start banning combustion engines on emissions grounds. Then gas stations start closing. After a while you get the reverse condition to EV range anxiety: having to drive further and further out of your way to fill up. Maybe you get a script-flipping service, an EV comes to the few remaining unconverted combustion vehicles with a small bowser of fuel.
"You provide the gambling, I'll provide the war"
Later models were quite interesting as well - the last one was a PowerPC workstation with an s390 board.
> I think something modern times should emphasize more than ever is that what matters
A while ago the Economist pointed out that one of the Rothschilds died of an illness that would today be easily curable with antibiotics, but at that time the cure could not be bought at any price.
Until recently, I've been a smog-skeptic; I figured it must be an overblown issue, as regardless of what the digital sensors and pretty graphs say, having spent almost my entire life in Kraków, I never saw it, never felt it. Still don't. Air in Kraków feels perfectly fine to me. And every time I saw someone complain, it was because of "see the PM2.5 PM10 thru the roof omg zomg!", not any actual health-related issues or discomfort.
What changed my mind about the whole thing was my kids. I may not feel the particulates in the air, but my kids do, especially my eldest daughter (who has early childhood asthma, in remission) - winter comes, particulates go up, they start coughing uncontrollably all day. Particulates go down, suddenly they're healthy again (+/- running nose).
I have limited sympathy for conspiracy theories, and very little for those burning trash in their homes, but I do understand where the smog-skepticism comes from. I still remember when Krakowski Alarm Smogowy became a thing, winter 2012; back then, this felt like a huge fad pushed by young activists on the Internet.
It was the crash of the stock markets that eventually created the social situation that pushed people into WW.
Good thing no one ever invented a way to transport invading forces and equipment across a body of water that doesn't rely on sea transports.
It was ahead of its time, now we have people shipping Electron all over the place.
Unfortunately they are all over the place on corporate code.
> > Grok based transformer
> Is Grok not an LLM?
Transformer is the underlying technology for (most) LLMs (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”)
The same reason many big corps open source their tech: goodwill/recruiting.
xAI likely needs both more than usual nowadays.
What would be common or recommended use cases for this?
> We killed millions over the ability to own humans because the north viewed it as a religious duty to do so.
No, we didn’t, because if that was the reason for the fight, it would have happened before the South, fearing the long-term prospects for the institution of slavery, not only seceded to protect it, but also preemptively attacked federal installations.
50 miles out of Chicago will get you to red counties.
They'll be in Canada soon, and some will make it across the border.
Related:
https://x.com/BirthGauge/status/2013145955395080332 | https://archive.today/swHrT
> The number of births in China collapsed to 7.92 million in 2025, a decline of 17% compared to 2024 (similar declines were reported by Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao).
> The TFR [total fertility rate] declined to 0.93 children per woman. (1.10 in 2024).
(China 2025 TFR)
Video shows the coyote out of the water on Alcatraz and walking through the rocks. If it can find food and fresh water it should be OK.
> hostile to LLCs
This editorial on Delaware corporations? https://a16z.com/were-leaving-delaware-and-we-think-you-shou...
Another view, https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation/where
Delaware is widely regarded as having strong protections against personal liability for corporations. Some advisors say Nevada has better protection against personal liability. This is arguably true, but the differences are very unlikely to be relevant to founders trying to build a legitimate business. Some people have also observed that Nevada has an adverse selection problem in that their unusually strong protections attract bad actors. As a result, it's possible that if you incorporate in Nevada, you'll be inviting closer scrutiny.One of the big open questions for me right now concerns how library dependencies are used.
Most of the big ones are things like skia, harfbuzz, wgpu - all totally reasonable IMO.
The two that stand out for me as more notable are html5ever for parsing HTML and taffy for handling CSS grids and flexbox - that's vendored with an explanation of some minor changes here: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/blob/19bf1036105d4e...
Taffy a solid library choice, but it's probably the most robust ammunition for anyone who wants to argue that this shouldn't count as a "from scratch" rendering engine.
I don't think it detracts much if at all from FastRender as an example of what an army of coding agents can help a single engineer achieve in a few weeks of work.
U.S. companies planted a flag all over the world for the same reason Chinese companies have done so. In 1930 the U.S. was the manufacturing giant that China is today.
I suspect the military misadventures will have to end, but that’s a good thing. In terms of reserve currency and trade deals or whatnot—I’m not persuaded it matters for economic growth.
Can you point out on this chart of U.S. GDP per capita at which point we began enjoying the economic benefits of being the reserve currency? https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/peth_09-72016....
China has a third of global manufacturing capacity (and have to run flat out to avoid deflation due to domestic consumption that will never grow to meet domestic production capacity). Only the unsophisticated could believe the US is going to increase domestic manufacturing capacity at the levels needed to make domestic sourcing superior in some manner. That’s why these tariffs are not grounded in reality.
In three years at the most, these tariffs are done. Cheaper to eat the premium in the short term versus suboptimally invest capital in long duration investments (ie local factories and equipment to fill them). Manufacturing jobs continue to decline, as they have since the election.
US factory headcount falling despite Trump's promised manufacturing boom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638269 - January 2026
U.S. Among Top 3 Markets Manufacturers Are Leaving - https://www.manufacturing.net/supply-chain/news/22950252/us-... - September 16th, 2025
Victorian England was the richest country in the world by GDP per capita. But the world was just very poor before the industrial revolution: a per-capita GDP around $900. By 1800 England was more than double that. Today almost every country is richer than England was in 1800: https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/how-the-world-became-rich-par...
Has Forgejo added some sort of decentralised protocol? I missed that if so, that would be a great feature.
This is one outcome of their latest marketing campaign.
The opposite variant https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ strongly advertises AI answers.
The prompts turned out significantly better this time!
E to the u, du dx, E to the x, dx!
I went looking for a single Markdown file I could dump into an LLM to "teach" it the language and found this one:
https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang/blob/main/MEMORY.m...
Optimistically I dumped the whole thing into Claude Opus 4.5 as a system prompt to see if it could generate a one-shot program from it:
llm -m claude-opus-4.5 \
-s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang/refs/heads/main/MEMORY.md \
'Build me a mandelbrot fractal CLI tool in this language'
> /tmp/fractal.nano
So I fired up Claude Code inside a checkout of the nanolang and told it how to run the compiler and let it fix the problems... which DID work. Here's that transcript:
https://gisthost.github.io/?9696da6882cb6596be6a9d5196e8a7a5...
And the finished code, with its output in a comment: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e7f3577adcfd392ab7fa23b1295d0...
So yeah, a good LLM can definitely figure out how to use this thing given access to the existing documentation and the ability to run that compiler.
PJM had some geomagnetic disturbance warnings, but did not progress to the alert stage or grid re-configuation actions. So, no US power grid problems.
104955 Warning Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning 01.19.2026 14:30
PJM-RTO
A Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning has been issued for
14:30 on 01.19.2026 through 16:00 on 01.19.2026 .
A GMD warning of K8 or greater is in effect for this period.
End time: 01.19.2026 16:00
I've posted on this before, for other warnings. Not going to repeat that.
They are based in Alaska, which is both a US state and strategically a rather key location for, among other things, air, including ballistic missile, defense; the defense of Alaska seems to be an ideal role for troops (1) with arctic training, and (2) the capability to rapidly redeploy to address incursions over a very wide area of operations.
A related problem is other parents. Even if you want to let your kid be free, you can't, because nosey neighbors will report you to the police.
It happened to us. We let our kids stay in the car, during COVID, while we quickly shopped.
After we got home, the cops showed up and told us someone reported us for neglecting our kids. My wife just kept asking "did we do anything illegal?" and finally they admitted that no, we didn't. They just said
"it just doesn't look good, with all the crime out there".
I said "what crime?". Then they had to admit that crime is way down over the last 30 years, and is especially low in our area.
They eventually left, but it has a chilling effect on letting our kids be kids for fear that it will happen again.
If it helps, I read this (before it landed here) because Halvar Flake told everyone on Twitter to read it.
Maybe, but you won't be able to test all behaviors and you won't have enough time to try a million alternatives. Just because of the number of possibilities, it'll be faster to just read the code.
> In the hardest task I challenged GPT-5.2 it to figure out how to write a specified string to a specified path on disk, while the following protections were enabled: address space layout randomisation, non-executable memory, full RELRO, fine-grained CFI on the QuickJS binary, hardware-enforced shadow-stack, a seccomp sandbox to prevent shell execution, and a build of QuickJS where I had stripped all functionality in it for accessing the operating system and file system. To write a file you need to chain multiple function calls, but the shadow-stack prevents ROP and the sandbox prevents simply spawning a shell process to solve the problem. GPT-5.2 came up with a clever solution involving chaining 7 function calls through glibc’s exit handler mechanism.
Yikes.
That's assuming one cares about "attribution" and "people following other links on your site". I.e. that's still being a salesman, maybe with extra steps.
In the alternative case, no value is being taken, you're left exactly with what you had before - nothing gained, nothing lost - but some user somewhere gains a little. Apparently even in 2026, the concept of positive-sum exchange, is unfathomable to so many.
Buy a cheap shit android phone for under $100 and never associate it with a SIM
On the contrary - perfect security is only possible if your system is an inert rock. Or not even then, as the users could still use the rock "wrong" by beating security maximalists over their heads with it.
Also honestly TIL that TOTP are somehow supposed to also enforce a single copy of the backing token being in existence. That's not just bad UX, that feels closer to security overreach.
People in tech, especially software and security folks, tend to miss the fact that most websites with 2FA already put a heavier security burden on their users than anything else in real life. There's generally no other situation in peoples' lives that would require you to safely store for years a document that cannot be recovered or replaced when destroyed[0]. 2FA backup codes have much stricter security standard than any government ID!
And then security people are surprised there's so much pushback on passkeys.
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[0] - The problem really manifest when you add lack of any kind of customer support willing to or capable of resolving account access issues.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14860
Robinson, C., Ortiz, A., Kim, A. (et al.). (2025) Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery. Global Renewables Watch.
Buy some land and try to sell the idea to people willing to buy a lineage memorial. To prove out the idea, the question is “who cares enough to pay for it.”
https://www.familysearch.org/ might be relevant for further research.
> I have to swat other people’s hands away when they try to point something out on my screen with their pizza fingers.
How are fingerprints on iPad Pro nano texture touchscreens?
I solved this for myself when I discovered "prism glasses":
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=prism+glasses
The comfortable reading position is lying on your back on your bed (or long sofa) with a pillow under your head. You're looking upwards at the ceiling while holding the book upright on your belly.
There's even a clip-on version you can attach to existing prescription glasses.
So simple. Zero strain. You look absolutely dumb, of course, but it lets you read until your brain gets tired, not your neck or lower back or whatever.
If you want to go for truly infinite comfort, use an e-reader held upright by a stand sitting on a breakfast tray with legs placed over and around your belly, with a Bluetooth clicker for page turning. At that point, you basically might as well not even have a body...
Not a single demonstration of contrast?
We've had matte screens for a long time that don't show glare. The problem is, the blacks are much more washed-out because that light still has to go somewhere, so it's basically just being smeared across the entire display.
This page shows lots of side-by-side photos of content that is primarily white, and most of the black bits (like text) are too small to make out.
The comparison needs to use things like busy photographs with bright areas and black areas. Then you can judge how much more washed-out the black areas look.
The second photo makes the Nano texture look pretty washed-out, but sadly doesn't include the traditional glossy laptop next to it for comparison, so it's impossible to tell.
Also, in all the side-by-side photos the Nano screen looks like it's set to much brighter. So any fair comparison should have them set to equal brightness. There's no universe in which a glossy screen is going to make the white areas look darker, as they are in all these examples.
I'm very curious if/how the Nano is better, but unfortunately these photos don't do anything to demonstrate it.
So Google Search is now opt-in? Good.
Nonviolence was never proposed as a shield for activists against violence. He knew what he was up against.
I think doing war crimes is the real betrayal of the country. But we have a president who think his personal morality is superior to international law, ratified treaties (despite the supremacy clause) and so on. This is overtly and explicitly unconstitutional.
Might be, I am only used to countries where families are still expected to buy their own computers, or get to share one among the family, and school life is still quite analog.
Actually I would love to see a report per worldwide schools, to settle this argument about high adoption of Chromebooks outside USA.
This is interesting and unexpected if true.
My only thought is that virtually all "serious" sites tend to have robots.txt, and so not having it indicates a high likelihood of spam.
>This makes me a bit uncomfortable because of how close it comes to infringing on freedom of speech,
That's fine, ads should be downright forbidden and get no "freedom of speech".
Any aurora luck for those of us in the Rockies? (Near Yellowstone.)