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Love the deceleration narrative :)

"No, sir, we haven't reached the peak of this tech... It's those open models! Please, keep pumping dollars into the market!"

It's okay to record everyone around you all the time because:

1. Women do it. 2. The government does it. 3. Private businesses do it.

What?!

Roblox made a change where you’re not allowed to share your games with friends unless you do “age verification”

My son had a similar "making games" interests and I just showed him the Godot engine. Roblox bosses are doing you a favor. Act now :D

Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.

You might enjoy the "Shell Has a Forth-like Quality" article. It's changed my shell scripting a lot.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html

Yeah (2) is the killer feature especially in totalitarian shitholes (pretty much every country nowadays) full of money grab ops disguised as police checkpoints and cameras.

I wonder if we can build a decentralized version of such a reporting service.

It's not that different. I'd rather have a different way to do UPSERTs or a different window function here and there [1] than figure out every ORM's join syntax or its sneaky ways to SELECT N+1 me into oblivion.

[1] LLMs make these very easy to handle.

Personal wealth in 2025 grew at its fastest pace in years

s/personal wealth/money supply/

Money printer go brrrr...

Cringe. China and Russia are building energy infrastructure and here we have Europe open sourcing tools to help cope with its self-inflicted bureaucratic burdens instead.

Yay, sustainability!

Now a question: Since we're obviously thousands of times better at producing compilers than we were fifteen years ago, so much so that a single undergraduate can write a passable one in four months, why hasn't IBM invested millions of dollars and hundreds of programmer-years to produce a super FORTRAN I compiler that's thousands of times better than the FORTRAN H compiler?

s/FORTRAN I/Mythos/ for the 2026 version of this.

I love this. GLM, Kimi, and DeepSeek await :D

I came back to reread this last sentence three times. Well done, sir, well done!

I wonder if someone's tried IF tools like Inform 7 as the specification language you give an LLM agent. Looks like a good way to describe UI screens.

These people have names and addresses. Getting them out in the open will help a lot.

I'm not saying we should lynch them, but a good deal of public shaming is in order. Who knows, their kids might pick a different vocation.

"Everyone I don't agree with is Hitler" is not an argument.

How did it come to this?

Trying not to get my account banned...

The British elite allied with non-British people and betrayed their own.

I can invalidate Bitcoin, by comparing it to NFTs.

I'm sorry, that's not how it works.

In this day and age "money laundering" just means "not bending over and letting the state tax you to oblivion". TFA is just scare mongering.

People need to learn about Bitcoin.

The last good MacOS was System 6. Change my mind :D

No use messing with Google's watermark, fellas. Go do something else that's 100x harder instead.

works for Google

Gee, I wonder why...

All my life I've dreamt of fighting for and fulfilling FATF Recommendation 16. :D

I'm pro-crypto camp, yet I misquote and post misleading titles about it.

What did he mean by this?

"Friendship ended with Bun, now pnpm is my best friend" the post...

Yesterday I heard about lat.md [1] which seems to have similar ideas about annotating code with spec refs. I now need to try them both.

[1] https://www.lat.md/

Dreaming about ` | nindent 12` in my specs! :D

Somewhat tangential... I "love" how a pack of Luckies cost 10 cents in 1917 and now they are at about $10.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

Someday, I'll lose understanding of the code, because I didn't write it.

I've been wading through vast corporate codebases I never wrote and yet had to understand for the past 20 years. This isn't any different, and AI tools help with that understanding. A lot!

The tools and techniques are out there.

It's in the Quickstart article here:

https://codespeak.dev/blog/greenfield-project-tutorial-20260...

codespeak login

Instant tab close!

The fact they don't really need it in their life (or job). English is definitely necessary if you work service jobs in Tokyo (to deal with tourists), but not much anywhere else.

But the linked article seems to imply the opposite. I mean, working with an English PM sure sounds like the language is one of the job's core competencies.

Yeah. I'm not a native English speaker and I spent significant time and effort learning the damn language. It paid off.

What's preventing Japanese engineers from doing the same?