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6510··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
I would have to beg to disagree, my opinion is the only thing that counts. The grades are just your opinion or not even that(?)

The murals and the waffling shall continue until morale improves.

6510··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
It's okay because it upsets all the right people.
6510··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
Demolish the building leaving only the wall then make a park around it and name it after the guy who ordered the demolition.
6510··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
The dull blocks have no character, the artwork in contrast captures and hammers out the original character. It doesn't have to be true, nothing ever has, they just need to rubber stamp it as such.
6510··on Substack writers, you need a website
There was a time when google toolbar had a search gmail button. I would use it to open gmail using whatever query was inthere. It happened quite often that it found newsletters matching the query. It takes quite a bit of hoarding to accomplish.

Perhaps it is even a better solution than website that vanish eventually. I might one day make a newsletter with links like:

    example.com?re=you@yourwebsite.com&article=1234
Then mail you the requested article. With RE: and the same title they will even be threaded.
6510··on AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
> A federal jury convicted Menendez on 16 felony counts. These included bribery, extortion, conspiracy, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent.

Seems you have to go all out before the comprendes?

6510··on Substack writers, you need a website
For a decade or~so I subscribe to newsletters and had skip inbox rules that archived them in a folder about the subject. Eventually I never really looked at the folders but it never bothered me as I don't really see them. Not sure if that means it works or not.
6510··on What happened to TheNumbers.com
I once had the dumb idea to make websites in pdf but the idea is growing on me. Perhaps it should even be in animated gif with <img> <map>'s
6510··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
I have this cheap B movie in my head with a primitive people living on an island. They compete in hunting, fishing, building boats, houses, cutting trees, growing crops etc they use sea shells as currency. Someone finds a spot with countless sea shells, 95% of the population spends their days digging up more and more. Almost everyone is insanely rich, everyone except from the dumb people still hunting, fishing, building boats, houses, cutting trees, growing crops etc
6510··on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
You don't have to maintain it, you make it once then it just works. As long as your website can print post titles and urls to a document the rss feed should work.
6510··on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
No support
6510··on I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
Thinking about it a better question [for me] would be what might have but didn't ship because of LLMs.
6510··on Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
If you do it in binary you only need addition.

12 × 34 = 0xC x 0x22 = 1100 x 100010

Only two 1's!

1100 add 5 zeroes + 1100 add one zero = 110011000 = 408

ta-daa!

6510··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Stack overflow is pretending to be Claude now. I wonder if one can get it to say your question had already been asked.
6510··on If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
It use to work but chrome on android shows the datalist items as a horizontal scrollable row above the keyboard (useless) and ignores input (even more useless) on windows it shows the datalist as a scrollable popup (confusing?) and ignores input (useless) while firefox on android completely ignores datalist and on windows you have to click the input twice to have the initial list show up.

It took forever but safari mobile got it right.

Extra fun to be had if you attempt to dynamically update the list.

Conclusion: utter garbage, stay away from it.

I just typed this by hand (lol) in 3-4 minutes:

https://jsfiddle.net/tjc4mpxe/

This is what we are waiting for? This is what is taking so long for browsers to support?

6510··on If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
asmjs reminded me of an 80's thought: Why would you not include all the opcodes in higher languages?
6510··on Unschooling
Ricardo Semler created a school where where kids could pick what to do. He described a fascinating process where some kids only played video games for a good while. They were far far behind then discover that other kids learned all kinds of things like reading and writing. They dropped gaming, learned to read/write incredibly fast then stuck with that study speed and raced ahead of everyone. The joke seems to be that it was their own choice, not a forced labor prison sentence.
6510··on Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
my js brain keeps thinking encoding[i] = next_j[i][j];
6510··on SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers
Not at all, people incapable of caring for others can also contribute wonderfully but they operate entirely different. It is arguably mean to expect our behavior from people who feel nothing for other people and your generosity is weakness to be exploited. They do however have great respect for that what scares them shitless which can be upgraded to unmatched respect if the scary thing helps them when they most need it. Could be a person or an organization. In the old days they have wives. lmfao
6510··on We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps
I wouldn't be surprised if multiple versions of both the cube and Breakout code are available some place online.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Breakout_game...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Screensh...

That the tiles are much to thick makes Grok the most reasonable result.

6510··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
As long as god doesn't see it anything goes.
6510··on We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
I've thought about it and decided the animation wont do.

The page needs a generated video with giant cockroaches, mechs, 3 men in supper hero gear with swords & lab coats and there needs to be a puny human being saved. Then a dark voice narrating how the man created an unmaintainable mess using llms and that after a fierce battle that lasted a week he was saved by team slopfix. Beethoven symphony No. 5

6510··on "Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"
Gradually, over a 2 hour movie, change the protagonist from a white guy into a black woman and the villain from a black man into a white woman without the plot ever accounting for it.
6510··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
The whole point of delegation is to free up time to do something else. There is a store here where the owner always runs around like a madman. I ask him why he doesn't have his employees do all those things (they mostly stand idle chatting) He said: Then I have to explain everything and they will probably do it wrong.

If I'm getting a $200 mowing bill it could be worth looking at the machines. If I pay you $4 per week I wouldn't worry about it.

6510··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
Someone did quote me on bash.org once as having said: Wanting a man who doesn't smell is like wanting a woman who doesn't talk.
6510··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
He was praising the degree not himself. The exercise doesn't make philosophers, they study their work. If your only tool is a hammer that doesn't mean it isn't a marvelous tool.
6510··on How Kalshi Infects the News
> you can always find a plausible sounding excuse why failure is inevitable.

Exactly! This is the mind set. So tell me, how do you progress when you are there?

Or even better, now that we've accumulated many people conditioned by streaks of failure, how do we maximize their productivity and tax revenue? Should be an easy question for you :)

6510··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
I have very low expectations for $2 per hour. If I would feel the need to use such service I would expect them to cut all corners. If you have a subscription for a decent LLM, know how to get my data into it and know how to write a prompt that does the job you might have 3 skills I don't or I might not have time to do it.

If the lawn looks great you get to do it again. I could ask the guy you send how much you are paying him and I could ask you how much the mower costs but it wouldn't necessarily be a good use of my time.

6510··on How Kalshi Infects the News
> Similarly, the ability to start your own business is difficult for most people

Ah right, after a 14 hour shift you've left your car half way as that was how far she could take you. You are now on your knees with the god of all migraines, around you are small mountains of laundry as you fail to repair the washing machine while your ramen gets cold. Your mind locked in a loop, if I pay this bill how will I buy food, I need to pay this bill, I need to buy food. Then POOF suddenly it strikes you that you could start your own business. Adrenaline rushes though your veins. The whole business lasts about 20 seconds before you wake up in the laundry, shit what time is it, fk I have to walk to work.

6510··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
I think of it as a species trying different formulas until one sticks to the wall. (it never does) Eventually, one way or the other, we will go full grasshopper and burn everything to the ground again, we have that part down to an art.

We will again (proverbially) ride our horse to the saloon with our gun (or sword) hanging from our belt, we will play poker, smoke, drink, sing, dance and hang out with the guys - only to have each one of those things taken away again.

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