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Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Link: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber
Hell one time my street map was from before a whole neighbourhood was built and it just showed swamp land and a radioactive site keep-out zone which was now a fish and chips shop...
We affectionately call @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 's story her Odyssey.
The GPS in our older car considers my entire hometown an "unverified area" ... the town has been around longer than the GPS it's just a tiny farm town in the middle of nowhere Illinois so nobody had bothered to map it by 2010.
Coming to re:Invent? Hang with Tailscale, Suger, Deepgram & Vanta.
We’re hosting a happy hour Wed, Dec 3 at Vista Cocktail Lounge (10-min walk from the Venetian). Craft cocktails, good food, great people.
RSVP: https://luma.com/reinventhappyhour
Take a breather, and recharge with us.
'Zahlen: Vier' #FotoVorschlag
I've talked about it before but Attention K-Mart Shoppers is such an incredible thing, a collection of overhead department store music from a forgotten era https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
My favorite thing is still the opening track from the October 1989 tape. The synths! The distortion! The yearning calls of the instruments! The piano! https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989
There are so many good tapes though
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber if you're not already familiar with the rabbit hole, the history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000 is wild! mass-produced subscription service generic muzak vinyl albums for retail shopping chains in the 50s-60s, the sheer VOLUME of available kitsch is difficult to comprehend. There's plenty available from above-board and below-board sources, including the archive https://archive.org/details/Seeburg1000_2
I decided to make my aunt a CD out of one of their Christmas albums as a gift one year, just low-fi 50's instrumentals, it gave her SO much nostalgia for her childhood, I wasn't expecting it to be a hit but a nice surprise :)
Rückruf: Glasstücke in Asia Green Garden KIMCHI via Aldi-Nord möglich
YouTube tests bringing back direct messages, a ‘top feature request’ https://9to5google.com/2025/11/19/youtube-is-testing-a-revival-of-built-in-direct-messages-a-top-feature-request/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
fwiw we stopped paying attention to anil dash sometime between the revelation that he accidentally invented the NFT at a hackathon, and that time he posted something like "i don't think anyone ever makes a dns change that they're confident in, because i do not know how to do that thing"
we are going into winter season which means we are going into a very specific musical season.
https://the8bitbigband.bandcamp.com/track/wii-sports-theme-from-wii-sports
It’s the most wonderful jolly time where i try to fit as much video-game themed jazz into the otherwise swingy christmas lists :D
4%の酒を箱で常備するの、コンスタントに毎日飲酒が止まらないので良くない
I’m hoping by the way that my long blogging hiatus is properly over - it’s just been a hell of a busy year!
I've finished the initial Haskell implementation of my ilo vm for #konilo #forth
As with the nga implementation for #retroforth, it's not going to be good yet, but it's a start.
http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/Ilo.hs&ci=2b817e17ddcc281a
For those in London wondering about the massive laser, it's LIGHT25 at the Business Design Centre, and I suspect the laser is the 1.5kW Kvant Architect.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/115575199307766755
I have seen so many production incidents at `$FAANG` triggered because of the liberal usage of `unwrap`, and it always comes down to the same thing
It's the _culture_ in these companies which is constantly pushing workers to do more with less, and deliberately failing to allocate enough time and resources for the deliverables being requested
Changing the name of `unwrap` isn't going to have any impact on this problem; everybody working on these codebases at companies of this magnitude knows that denying the use of `unwrap` or `expect` is a simple `deny` annotation away
Even if they had to write `or_panic` instead of unwrap, they would still do it, because the problem here is not a technical problem, it is a problem of working conditions
This is what we get with an economic model which is centered around making every worker "fungible", and no amount of safety guarantees in the Rust compiler or standard library naming decisions will ever be able to address this fundamental underlying issue
Installing #openbsd is easy, but what does it take to keep your system in trim?
Here is a piece I wrote, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html to provide some pointers (also at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html if tracking is not a thing you worry about) #maintenance #sysadmin #dailytasks #dailydriver
For those in London wondering about the massive laser, it's LIGHT25 at the Business Design Centre, and I suspect the laser is the 1.5kW Kvant Architect.
ウゥ〜大量のメール捌くの苦しイィ〜ンって思いながらインボックス開いたら一通しか来てなくて椅子から転げ落ちた
A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
artist's rendition of conservative fears of nyc
(source: https://www.tumblr.com/cikero/799389463938777088?source=share)
Thoughtworks Radar, on a podcast with Gergely Orosz, another way at looking at feature/time curves, and the return of Heavy Cardboard
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
I also think that people forget just how much computers crashed before we started making them more "memory inefficient". It used to be completely normal that your personal computer would just explode two or three times a day and you'd lose all your work. I still have the "control-s every five seconds" reflex to this day.
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
Hello people interested in a decentralised Fediverse, would like some feedback on something 🙏
At the moment, Fedi.Garden only lists Fediverse servers with fewer than 50,000 registered members. I am wondering if this limit should be replaced by a limit based on active members rather than registered members?
If a server has had a lot of signups in the past but not many active now, it is perhaps unfairly shut out of Fedi.Garden even though it now needs help getting noticed?
Any thoughts?
Trauma freezes you in time
I admit that I find it kind of weird when people oppose a government digital ID while they happily accept the digital (shadow) IDs that ad/tracking networks, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon etc already have with less to non-existent oversight and control. #UnpopularOpinion
This is quite neat: Second Reality C++ port made it possible to compile the demo to run in a web browser: https://www.jsr-productions.com/secondreality/index.html (click inside the view to start it)
- Main page: https://www.jsr-productions.com/secondreality.html
- Source code: https://github.com/XorJS/SecondRealityPlusPlus
- Original Second Reality (1993) demo at pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63
Hey! I'm looking for work, preferably contracting. I'm an experienced Rust dev (9+ years hobby, ~6 years professionally) and I'm interested in backend, embedded, cryptography or security work (loosely, I've done a very wide range of work). I've mostly done development work professionally with some security on the side. I've won a few international CTFs and I'm part of the #1 global CTF team Kalmarunionen. You can contact me at pollyboutet@gmail.com. I'm based in Copenhagen, mostly looking for remote.
Boosts welcome! #GetFediHired #FediHire
btw for anyone interested in the history of unwrap, rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0430-fi...
note that all four of those words are links
0430-finalizing-naming-convent...
YES IT WORKS #CANADA #QUEBEC #WEEOOOWEEOOOWEEOOO
X線の偏光観測！すんげえなあ
ブラックホール「はくちょう座X-1」のプラズマの形がわかった - アストロアーツ
https://www.astroarts.co.jp/article/hl/a/14301_cygx1
What Killed Perl?
Link: https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977900
Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/samsung_emergency_call_failure/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981608
I forgot how tedious it is to chase code coverage when writing tests.
However this was part of the reason that made me include the "boring" parts of building a robust library into the goals set for the #nlnet grant.
So after a couple of days of work I finally got the first of the storage backends for the #GoActivityPub library go past 80% test coverage.
I hope I can reuse some of the test logic in the other backends, as they need to perform identically.
I was a judge in the Independent Games Festival again this year - here are some of my highlights from 2026. Not a "who I think's going to win" prediction, just "here's some games I think are cool!" https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/11/19/igf2026.html
#PyConUS 2026 needs mentors!! We have 40 more proposal submitters seeking support than volunteer mentors. Help us close that gap and sign up for the Proposal Mentorship Program today!
🗓 Deadline: Nov 21, 2025
👉 Sign up: https://forms.gle/wtuXm1Jvqj8iDEBf9
ℹ️ Info: https://us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/mentorship/
so uh can you do anything with an Ouya these days?
I was a judge in the Independent Games Festival again this year - here are some of my highlights from 2026. Not a "who I think's going to win" prediction, just "here's some games I think are cool!" https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/11/19/igf2026.html
それではそろそろ寝ますね…！
病院から帰ってくるのは夜になるかも…
Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/servo_002_arrives/
As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine
<- by me on 
@theregister
"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water"
"Oh, how much water is it?"
"That's a secret"
[ https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115575889086562703 ]
I’m so ashamed …
This week, the UK Home Secretary proposed shocking #asylum reforms that could seize the possessions and jewellery of people seeking #safety, cut off their support and tear apart #families who have built their lives here.
This is performative cruelty reminiscent of #Nazi Germany.
Sign and share this urgent letter to stop the #UK government punishing #innocent families fleeing #war.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/dear_home_secretary_1_0_ol/?utm_source=fediverse
#ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #ToxicReform #HumanRights #theft #fascism
I just got a customer satisfaction survey from GOG, and I have to tell you that the questions are completely unhinged
New Yorker Comic
Chris Siebenmann
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just small circles 🕊
Fullmetal Alejandro
Python Software Foundation
Servo
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