EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com
In general, if you need to change a test because you changed the code, you didn't have a test at all. The whole _point_ of a test is that, when I make a change, I want to run the test to see if I've broken anything. A good test works both before and after the change.
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Re-ran my closed-loop AI code generation experiments this morning with Opus 4.7.
On one-shots, no significant change in completion rates. Without examples provided, ~25%. With examples, ~60%.
Token usage on the same problems is up 35% on 4.6, though. So there's that.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference
Here's preview of the end of the current US administration
Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity
Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro,
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www.renewableinstitute.org/seven-countr...
France moves away from Windows. The UK & rest of Europe, and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, should follow suit! www.engadget.com/big-tech/fre...
NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
When I say LLMs are good at writing code that they're bad at modifying, no matter how we prompt, this is what I'm talking about.
Note also how problem completion rates never get even close to 100% under any conditions. I've never seen it, either. I suspect nobody has.
arxiv.org/html/2603.24...
Half your enterprise desktops are still running Windows 7, only 85% of them are reporting back to your EDR server, and HR is spending all day opening PDFs with a copy of Adobe Reader from the Obama years. You don't need to worry about quantum safe encryption right now, honest.
"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get."
~ Tracy Chapman
Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht
#Booksky
Finally I can **actually** know why a thread is slow 👀
📈tsastat — A high-resolution Linux thread profiling TUI
⚡ Talks directly to the kernel via Generic Netlink
💯 Extracts nanosec-precise metrics
🦀 Written in Rust & built w/ @ratatui.rs
⭐ GitHub: github.com/AnkurRathore...
#rustlang #ratatui
microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
I can no longer deal with "feel bad for us, we are suffering " Americans.
1/3 of voters didn't bother voting - which would likely have stopped him.
There was a first term to show what he was like.
He vocalised the heinous shit that would happen for years.
There was the project 2025 document.
What if Jesus has been trying to teleport back all along but keeps messing up the calculations and gets trapped in a piece of burned toast or a pancake and has to try again.
Nu kommer EU med en open-source og gratis Office pakke som erstatning for MS Office og Google Workspace.
office.eu
We don't spend enough time thinking about strategic planning around the actual cost of using an LLM. The AI companies are effectively borrowing $1,000 for every $1 of revenue.
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AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-Postg...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644864
some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.
Study showed that a structured plan, including acceptance criteria improved single-pass coding agent completion from 23% to 61%.
My own experiments showed including examples took completion from 25% to 59%.
I suspect it's the tests that are the "active ingredient"
www.loadsys.com/blog/ai-codi...
“Der findes en dyrkelse af uvidenhed, næret af den falske forestilling, at demokrati betyder, at ‘min uvidenhed er lige så god som din viden.’”
- Isaac Asimov
Finally, our microwave is telling us the correct time again.
A lot of people are saying they thought they'd already opted out. I know I had.
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
Rare video: watch a meteorite hit the Moon in real time 🌕☄️
