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Now that we’re home, we were able to dig up a provisional leash that surely will last a few days until we can get a heavy-duty one. And I think I’ll institute a policy of replacing it every year for Christmas, because “it’ll last your dog’s whole life” wasn’t measured against Odins
The two days of not being able to use his halter were difficult because he wasn’t getting his usual sensory feedback and wasn’t aware of how much harder he was pulling me around.
Finally, my project goal proposal got approved! Thanks Jack for championing it.
"Incremental Systems Rethought" is now officially supported by the Rust project and isn't just a imaginary concept!
@Luminex I think this question is for you 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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@webhat @Luminex @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) accounts georg (aka catsalad) is an outlier adn shouldn't have been counted 😁
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
Link: https://sakana.ai/drq/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542761
State of the art game dev tools in 1989:
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Some time ago I asked my Taiwanese friends to give me a Mandarin name. They chose 必勝 (Bìshèng in pinyin, Pi-sheng in Wade–Giles).
It means “to be bound to win”, “cannot fail”. It is also the name of Pizza Hut in Taiwan (必勝客). This is because I’m famous for the time I ate a large Pizza Hut pizza on my own and was unwell for a whole night.
I'm extremely proud of this name.
@zkatkat Looking forward to reading the "Why not LLMs?" list since these instances seem to vary a lot in degrees of concerning. For example, the Calibre changlog makes it sound like it's simply adding functionality to call local models via LM Studio. That's way different than projects that use LLM-generated code. I think? Genuinely looking forward to reading more.
Finally, my project goal proposal got approved! Thanks Jack for championing it.
"Incremental Systems Rethought" is now officially supported by the Rust project and isn't just a imaginary concept!
Everybody is worried about Greenland.
The best way to avoid a lot of problems is for the US and Danish armed forces to declare some form of whiskey war.
US Special forces, seal team 6 or something, land in a remote part of Greenland, hoist a giant US flag, declare victory and go home after a few weeks.
3 days later, Danish special forces land in the same spot, take down the US flag and raise an enormous Danish flag, declare victory and go home after a few weeks.
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« Cam Gaze : À la recherche des premières camgirls », trois vidéos sur #arte https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-027070/cam-gaze/
Je suis encore étonné que Philipp K Dick a voyagé qu'une fois à l'extérieur du continent Américain, et c'était..pour un festival de science-fiction à #Metz en 1977.
À la médiathèque Verlaine, lors d'un événement SF il y a quelques années, on pouvait revoir des affiches de ce fameux événement.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/051147-000-A/les-mondes-de-philip-k-dick/
Předseda venezuelského parlamentu Jorge Rodríguez ve čtvrtek pozdě odpoledne SEČ oznámil, že vládní úřady propouštějí významný počet venezuelských a zahraničních vězňů. Označil to jednostranné mírové gesto, napsal deník El País. Mezi vězněnými zahraničními občany ve Venezuele je i Čech Jan Darmov...
This New York Times video journalism -- caution, it's graphic -- about Trump goons' murder of a Minneapolis woman is essential. No both-sides bullshit when one party -- the regime and its vile propagandists -- is relentlessly and provably lying.
I'm often hard on the Times for its relentless failures to properly cover this regime, but this piece is the real thing.
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How many Mastodon accounts do you have?
#AskFedi #Poll #Polls #Mastodon #AskMastodon #LetsAskMastodon #ask_mastodon
I know probably nobody cares about this on here, but:
if you're writing a song, and you don't want it to be boring, you can use more than one sentence structure in the song. Like,
"I'm gonna do the thing. I'm doing the thing. We did the thing. The thing got did, yeahhh" is not great. Adding adjectives to it doesn't really make it more compelling. That isn't to say there isn't room for some "I'm gonna do the thing", but you don't want it to be the only thing right?
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077
If you haven't protested before now, people who've been protesting from the start will be completely fucking thrilled to have you or any other newcomer. No "where were you before." People do that shit online, not in the real world where we need every person we can get.
Discover your community of street protesters and discover some of the most awesome and fun people you've ever met. The harder core the anti-Nazi, the less purity testing and pretense.
Even though tonight's vigils will be...
As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.
RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/115860108367572702
I am not dissing this idea or list at all. I like the idea of it, and all the use cases currently on display for uses of AI /LLMs are some of the worst examples of using it, making LLMs totally shit at many things. I definitely do not like the “Jesus (in the form of LLM ) take the wheel” idea of coding. It lessens everyone by robbing us of learning opportunities and the joy of discovery and mastery of a skillset.
That said , I think there are reasonable practices and use cases of true AI Assisted coding , stress on “Assisted”, where the ultimate last hands on the code should be a human be it in the form of a thorough review and testing. This won’t reduce the amount of bugs that slip through but how would that be any different than now?
This comes from looking at the KeePassXC response to concerns of them using AI/LLMs, and their response seems pretty reasonable to me, where nothing that goes in, is not reviewed and they’re very open about its usage. Whether or not this actually plays out in practice, time will tell.
There is currently no real-time, easy way for underwater inspection drones to send their large data signals through the water. Japan-based electronics maker Kyocera is developing optical communication to improve data transfer underwater. https://spectrum.ieee.org/underwater-communication-kyocera?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
And a very merry fuck you to every Democrat who informed me that we shouldn't stand up to the ICE death squads because that would just "give Donald the justification he needs to escalate the violence".
Fascism does not need your permission to escalate the violence. It is inherently violent. It mandates it.
알바 끝! 샨티랑 밤 산책 가야지
What I'm listening to today: "Hardware Jam 0006 // Shared System and Friends // 162bpm atmospheric drum n' bass", kaleidasonic
This is a neat mix of a classical 90s Drum & Bass beat with modern modular-synthesizer sound design; it starts with 2 minutes of random-notes ambient, then drops an Amen and a lovely chonky bass and keeps evolving in interesting new directions for the entire 15 minute runtime. (Those without long attention spans may wanna quit around minute 7.)
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient improvisation 4 (Soma Enner + Cosmos)", Più
Cosmos is an "asymmetric looper"—a loop pedal whose loops are of varying lengths and so can drift in phase against each other. Here it's fed with tiny sound fragments (with such sources as small plastic frog, whose shape is sonified by rubbing it against the Enner's case and spring reverb) to build up an all-enveloping ambient soundscape partway between a rainpipe and a horror movie score.
Předseda venezuelského parlamentu Jorge Rodríguez ve čtvrtek pozdě odpoledne SEČ oznámil, že vládní úřady propouštějí významný počet venezuelských a zahraničních vězňů. Označil to jednostranné mírové gesto, napsal deník El País. Mezi vězněnými zahraničními občany ve Venezuele je i Čech Jan Darmov...
Every natural number is the sum of forty-nine palindromes
Article by William D. Banks
In collections: Fun maths facts, Integerology
It is shown that the set of decimal palindromes is an additive basis for the natural numbers. Specifically, we prove that every natural number can be expressed as the sum of forty-nine (possibly zero) decimal palindromes.
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04721v1
PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04721v1
Entry: https://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Everynaturalnumberisthesumoffortyninepalindromes
ChatGPT、「ちょっと離れているけど関連してそうだな」みたいな論点を整理させるとめちゃくちゃ上手いな
표준 독일어(Hochdeutsch)는 특정 지역에서 유래했다기 보단 중립적인 문어로써 발전했는데 하노버 지역 사람들의 방언과 제일 유사하다고 합니다 (그 지역에서 유래했다는 뜻이 아님)
표준 독일어가 국가별로 깨진 건 비교적 최근의 일인데 대신 맞춤법은 범국가적으로 협의를 거치고 특히 꽤 최근인 1996년에 독일어 맞춤법이 전면 개정됐습니다. 현재 발음대로 맞춤법을 개정해서 일관성이 높습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iqga7bwbwbdo4z6suofriwa5/post/3mbvq5qfys22z
방금 딥시크 그렇게 화제가됐는데 결국 아무도안쓴다는 글을 보고
"내가쓰는데..."하고생각햇다
Evan Prodromou shared the below article:
IFTAS Blog @about.iftas.org@about.iftas.org
New insights into the people, pressures, and infrastructure shaping decentralised platforms Published by IFTAS, this report draws on detailed surveys and community feedback from volunteer moderators, administrators, and community managers across the decentralised social web. It offers our most comprehensive picture yet of the trust and safety landscape across projects like Mastodon, GoToSocial, WordPress, PeerTube, and more. What’s in the Report New pressures on moderators: The average […]
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since I can't actively work on it right now: I feel like the thing the escodb i/o scheduler does must be very similar to things that compilers, CPUs, and disk controllers do, i.e. rearrange a bunch of data accesses under some constraints to make them go faster. but I've no idea what to search for to find prior art I should be aware of. anyone know?
おはよーございます
As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.
Per NYT:
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
RE: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@revpermanente29/115859130832647541
Je sais pas si tout le monde se rend bien compte du degré de dégueulasserie de cette mesure : le téléphone portable est le dernier outil de contact avec la famille, les amis, toute personne qui peut aider ou donner des conseils, le seul moyen d'appeler au secours...
Ce pour des gens qui ont vécu l'enfer durant leur parcours et sont dans une grande vulnérabilité...
마크 업데이트로 나온 아기동물들 독보적인 솜털이다
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077
I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/
this list also contains some of my first contributions, just a bunch of little docs cleanup things so far
so, what terminal should i be using for macos these days?
#jj-vcs 0.37.0 came out yesterday! im intrigued by the new divergent change syntax, seems very neat
github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...
Release v0.37.0 · jj-vcs/jj
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
Notes from the 2026-01-08 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- @evanEvan Prodromou’s Personal Places API proposal
- Discussion of how an overlapping W3C Community Group and Working Group might function
- The FOSDEM Social Web track is going to be even more awesome this year
everyone is a PM now, whether you like it or not
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544454
The Full-Sized 32-Wheeled, Articulated Bus Built for a 1976 Movie
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/the-full-sized-32-wheeled-articulated-bus-built-for-a-1976-movie/
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