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This is the original blog post where Terrence explained his thoughts where the ChatGPT conversation was originally referred from:
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the...
Docs full of emojis, this is another AI slop?!
Tangential note: there is already a community effort[1] to rewrite GNU commandline tools into Rust and Canonical shipped the rust version of the /bin/utils in Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon by default[2] in their "oxidizing" initiative.[3]
PS: Linus Torvalds has confirmed that the existing Linux kernel will never be fully rewritten in Rust.[4] Let's see how well that statement age.
[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
[2] https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-l...
[3] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-ox...
The submission link should have been the original editorial piece at
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-apple-s-decade-long...
Yep. The 4 Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB NVMe SSDs are $1100 apiece. Yikes!
https://www.samsung.com/us/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/990-pro-p...
At this point the only OS with a consistent look and feel at all is Mac.
Apparently, NOT! Apple's controversial Liquid Glass UI disrupted their long-standing Human Interface Guidelines by prioritizing cinematic aesthetics (transparency, refractions, and blur) over core tenets like readability, contrast, and content deference. Critics highlight that transparent, light-bending panes frequently clash with underlying wallpapers or videos, causing text and buttons to become illegible. This is a HOT topic in recent WWDCs and amongst UI designers.[1]
[1] https://blog.prototypr.io/why-apples-liquid-glass-design-is-...
Gary Bernhardt's Wat lightning talk [1] was my favorite of all time.
It's only 2 years predates this talk in the title.
AI and their armies of agents has been making the job search much much worse for both employers and employees - the reason is simply, spamming becomes extremely cheap and easy - sometimes it's literally one prompt away.
Find offline channels to connect with potential employers in person is your best bet, IMO. Good luck job search!
I can't believe promoting the QR code-based challenge as the agentic way of fraud defense. Having non-human readable data input is dangerous if somehow the QR code is comprised with a zero-day URL, it's game-over.
Note: I know QR code is ubiquitous these days, but still blinding scanning a QR code to go to accessing an URL is like running a binary downloaded from the internet.
Note2: yes, the `curl $URL | bash` installation approach is essentially just that, yet somehow became popular.
We need one for Anthropic's Claude: https://status.claude.com/
IMO, Claude is not fairing any better than Github.
I am an early GitHub user with low 6 digit user ID (joined around 2011 with a two letter handle). I approve Mitchell's message.
It's been painful to use GitHub these days, user experience practically went down the toilet with ridiculous pains like CVEs [1][2], slow and ineffective and expensive GitHub Actions that doesn't allow local execution instead a "push & pray" workflow leading to repetitive "commit-push-wait" cycles to debug CI errors or bugs and then the absolutely horrendous Arkose Lab's Octocaptcha[3][4]. Note that only new users are encountering the Octocaptcha at account creation time, the amount of the time I wasted on solving these ridiculous visual or audio captchas are insane. I happened to need to create 3 separate accounts for the orgs that I am consulting for recently, each time it was at least 20-30 minutes to go through the account creation process. Sure it blocks some AI bots, but can't GitHub team create something that doesn't hinder the user experience?! Oh, if you have uBlock Origin or Privacy Guard on (which I did), it will take longer because each failed answer will set you back for another 5-10 mins of puzzle time!
Plus the reliability issues that Mitchell mentioned. Mona the Octocat jumped the shark in 2026. RIP.
[1] https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-38... [2] https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/trivy-security-scanner-git... [3] https://octocaptcha.com [4] https://share.google/aimode/2KOowSozTuZJVhBLw
This reminds me the 2008-2009 era where Mac OS X Leopard was running Hackintosh on Dell Mini 9 and some other netbooks.
At $349, it was almost a fully functional laptop that runs on Mac OS X (comparing to over $1000+ MacBooks or $1599 MacBook Pros)
Two friends of mine literally working remotely in an Africa trip with Dell Mini 9 and mobile hotspots and were doing video conferencing with Skype (on Wi-Fi).
Bad code works fine until it doesn't.
Who is to judge the "good" or "bad" anyway?
The high cost of high end DRAM (4GB+) cost skyrocketing has caused some interesting shifts:
1. Shifting Hobbyist Focus: Because hobbyists typically prefer parts under the $100 mark (so they don't "fret over breaking them"), the community is shifting away from modern, high-powered SBCs. Instead, people are moving toward:
2. Older SBC models (like the Pi 3 or 4 with lower RAM).
3. Microcontrollers (like the RP2040) which remain cheap. So Used hardware and "repurposing" old tech is retro trending again.
IMO, perhaps there will be push to make software/firmware more RAM efficient with AI assisted coding?
To broaden my point, I think we’d find that many websites we use are doing this.
Your point of "I think we’d find that many websites we use are doing this" doesn't make LinkedIn's behavior ok!
By your logic, if our privacy rights are invaded which is illegal in most jurisdiction, and then it become ok because many companies do illegal things??
LinkedIn has been a weirdest social network for a long time.
Yep. False report.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710#issue...
LOL. Same here. But the footer disclaimer and testimonials gave it away immediately:
"We had 847 AGPL dependencies blocking our acquisition. MalusCorp liberated them all in 3 weeks. The due diligence team found zero license issues. We closed at $2.3B." - Marcus Wellington III, Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp (Acquired)
© 2024 MalusCorp International Holdings Ltd. Registered in [JURISDICTION WITHHELD].
This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services.
NYC government has thought about the legality of red light cameras. What they made it legal is to have human law enforcement officers review ever single computer flagged speeding footages with zoom out license plates, putting enforcement officer's signature into the tickets mailed out. In the same ticket they also provided a signed affidavit from the red light camera technology vendor's technician who performs weekly technical maintenance to certify that the red light camera is functional proper at the designed technical specifications (violation speed was far exceeds the margin of errors of reported speed etc.) Thus, both signatures satisfied the legal due process in NY state law. And the red light camera tickets mailing out are legal and enforceable.
Sources:
1. yes I got them before when I was driving a lot in Queens, New York City had legal counsel regarding fighting these red light camera tickets.
2. NYC government is quadrupling those cameras as it's a really cheap way to increase municipal revenue and reduce traffic speed. It's working if you drive in Queens NYC you will notice most traffic obey to the speed limits. https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1q8fm89/nyc_to_quadrup...
I wonder if Chrome dev team can corroborate on this finding in their crash reporting.
I needed that exact functionality and Claude code and ChatGPT consistently showing this same exact combo CLI receipt with the simple prompt "how to do use CLI to remove merged branch locally."
They were talking about prioritizing migration into Azure for a long while now. Not sure this incident today is related.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
And coincidentally, an early CircleCI engineer wrote an article about GitHub Action (TLDR: don't use GitHub Action for CI/CD!)
https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-act...
In my current time zone UTC+1 Central European Time (CET), it's still January 21st, 2026 11:20PM.
Why is the post dated January 22nd?
Read and summarize the project
Implement a fresh project based off of this description
Genuine question, if we were to ask AI to do those two steps to generate a different code base from scratch entirely, does it qualify for a "clean room" design legally speaking?
Author's real cause prevention notes.
1. No nullable fiels.
Is that a typo there? fiels should be fields?
Ed Zitron the author of the article talked about this in an earlier podcast:
This is a optional/invite only feature. LinkedIn doesn't provide that work email validation feature for all employers on their platform. Why did I know that? Because my past startup was requesting LinkedIn to enable that so that we can enable that feature but they said it's an invite only feature. Internally, I think they are only invite those employers who has certain amount of employees and/or revenues to turn it on.
Apple / Google developer program uses Dun&Bradstreet to verify company and developer identities. That's another way. But LinkedIn doesn't have that feature (yet).
Seasoned accounts are a positive heuristic in many domains, not just LinkedIn.
Yep. This is how the 3 major credit bureaus is the United States to verify your identity. Your residence history and your presences on the distributed Internet is the HARDES to fake.
The pseudonym "Mykola Yanchii" on LinkedIn [1] doesn't look real at all.
Click "More" button -> "About this profile", RED FLAGS ALL OVER.
-> Joined May 2025 -> Contact information Updated less than 6 months ago -> Profile photo Updated less than 6 months ago
Funny things, this profile has the LinkedIn Verified Checkmark and was verified by Persona ?!?! -> This might be a red flag for Persona service itself as it might contain serious flaws and security vulnerabilities that Cyber criminals are relying on that checkmark to scam more people.
Basically, don't trust any profile who's been less than 1yr history even though their work history dated way back, who has Personal checkmark, that should do it.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mykola-yanchii-430883368/overlay...
Someone correct me if I am wrong, we've haven't heard that Tesla OTA updates bricking people's cars.
They implemented a dual redundant system similar like the dual BIOS for motherboard since 1999.
Wonder if anyone has tried these over flourishing AI code assist tools to supercharge the speed these porting projects? If so, what's the experience has been?