The word umbrella comes from the Latin word for shade, so “shade umbrella” _would be redundant_ save that parasol also denotes casting off the sun’s cancerous rays. We do not have a word for a “rain umbrella” in English. The German analogue is a “rain shield”.
Ten minutes later at In-n-Out, “You ran out of salt?”.
Did you know that “Magyar” is the Hungarian word for Hungarian?
@katelynsills.com *This* code is law. — Hammurabi
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To sum up:
The Gizmodo article is bad, and the journalist AJ Dellinger is sloppy at best.
"ChatGPT Voice mode" is a bad product.
The usefulness of AI products depends heavily on 1) their training, and 2) their tool use.
And the tool use is not "millions of times" the energy consumption.
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Well this is a big milestone! hachyderm.io/@ridley/1163...
This is the first time two distinct OCapN implementations have talked to each other.
Dart 🤝 Scheme
What is OCapN, you ask? It's the next generation of secure RPC using capability security! Check it out and get involved! ocapn.org
I’m gonzo for AI and this is a good idea. Wikipedia belongs to a deeper pace layer. Critical infrastructure. Move slow, edit things.
More:
- Tiffany Aching, Pratchett
- Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo)
- Dark Is Rising, Cooper
- His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids)
- Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that)
- Queen’s Thief, Turner
The billionaires so often forget that Hiro Protagonist lives in a U Stor-It, shits in a pay toilet, formerly delivered pizza for the Mafia to make rent, and freelances for pennies.
He is not aspirational, his world is not utopia.
Did you know I made a baby book for counting in binary! Tell 1 friend. Tell 2 friends. Tell 4 friends! Tell 8 friends!!!1! kriskowal.com/bbbb
the best version of this joke is the picture of a very small cheese grater with the caption, “no matter how good your cheese grater is, mine’s a little grater.”.
Last week we were able to present @robpalmer.bsky.social with his physical Ecma Recognition Award! 🎉 This was followed by an extensive round of tributes and praise, which Rob endured somewhat uncomfortably, at every opportunity urging us to cease and attend to the waiting celebratory Temporal cake.
Happy Proto-Indo-European Day to all who Celebrate!!
The real question is whether the original German would be sarcastic or whether Americans would feel they need to interpret the term ironically for it to make sense.
It’s a joke. I saw the book exists too and it seems like it might be on point, but I don’t know. The “joy of walking through the perilous shadows” seems to capture your situation.
Ah, Schattenfroh.
@wooster.bsky.social Check this out.
I have been writing about Temporal for *such a long time*
I talked to @b.trl.sn in 2021 about everything that was wrong with "our broken Date object" and how Temporal would fix that, but I did say it would have to wait on IETF work that wouldn't be done till 2022
thenewstack.io/javascript-f...
In Jr college, my philosophy professor hosted both the Catholic and Muslim students’ associations from her office at the same time. It was the most beautiful and welcoming room on campus.
Claude Sonnet last August, however, added some plausible looking types that were all absolutely wrong.
The test that convinced me that the sea had changed was when I pointed Claude Opus 4.5 at a hand-rolled monadic recursive-descent-parser for a significant-whitespace language of my own design for which there was no grammar and asked it to convert to TypeScript. It did that and fixed the bugs.
Myth: LLM-assisted coding means everyone is forced to use The Popular Framework forever.
I discovered, rather by accident, that some models are quite capable of evolving my vanilla direct-to-DOM dependency-free evergreen abomination.
I don’t know if I’m ADHD, but the stories of the lived experiences of people with ADHD are strangely relatable.
Code snippet demonstrating the `toSorted()` method, showcasing sorting of arrays without mutating the original arrays.
JavaScript now has non-mutating array methods ✨
`toSorted()`, `toReversed()`, `toSpliced()`, and `with()` return new arrays instead of modifying the original.
No more [...arr].sort() to avoid side effects.
Learn more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Whether you can sell that product is the wildcard. There‘s going to be a lot of supply for the demand.
And the pay-to-play model is a race to the bottom. Models are data and data leaks. The CapEx dumped into training has to be recovered quickly because tomorrow, inference on your home computer will be the price of the computer.
