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e40on US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia

AI hallucination? If definitely has that feel.

e40on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

I started with gosmacs then switched to gnu emacs in 1985ish. So about 40 years. The renaissance of emacs development in the last decade has been very nice to see.

e40on Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

I don’t think you understand how supply chains work.

e40on Challenging the Narrative of European Decline

Krugman sure is a good, probably even great, writer. His prose is almost effortless to consume. On the content, very interesting.

e40on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

I think we can all agree that information should be behind a -v CLA. It's probably just something no one has thought of doing. I've learned over the decades to just ignore it.

e40on Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

Care to share?

e40on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

I agree, people don’t change, the circumstances change to expose their true self.

e40on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

Of course it does. It’s still a measurement though against other super rich.

e40on Why I email complete strangers

I sent Colin Furze a note and got back a nice reply. The dude has an insane number of followers, so it was surprising I got a reply.

e40on Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

Gift link

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/science/humans-walking-ve...

e40on Putin expands military presence on NATO's border

A ploy to waste resources of neighboring countries? Distract from something else? Theories?

e40on Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

Just want to thank you, Mike. I love Homebrew and wouldn't know what to do without it. My company sponsor's the project on github and I recommend that everyone consider helping out.

e40on Who's the smartest corvid?

I was talking with a neighbor once, and we had just started feeding the local crows. We were standing there for about 39 minutes, the I heard something metallic hit the sidewalk. I looked about 4 ft away, directly under the power lines, at a bottle cap. I hadn’t seen one of those in decades. Clearly it had been dropped by the crow perched up there.

Then, once we noticed a weird nut near the bowl of peanuts. Not sure what type it was, a buckeye I think.

Oddly, we’ve been feeding them for 6 years now and no other gifts!

e40on Who's the smartest corvid?

We have two types jays that visit us. Scrub and Stellar. They come into the kitchen (door off the deck) to stand and sort through the bowl of peanuts in the shell. It’s hilarious to watch them go through them, finding the heaviest (?) ones, tossing the rejects to and fro. They’re completely unafraid of us. They are a great joy to watch.

e40on Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

Clickbait is a thing and pisses people off.

e40on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

While I'm grateful for all Andrew has done to create and maintain rsync, I rely heavily on it for backing up files between machines on my home network, so I've spent the time to figure out how to pin the Homebrew version of rsync to 3.4.1 because the bugs in the subsequent two versions really scare me (as does the original report that triggered all this).

Here is the process I used to do it, which was way more complex than I thought it would be:

https://gist.github.com/e40/caa67c1b8d439a528695f996d0519d8e

e40on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

Took my son there when he was young (6?) and we all loved it. What a great day trip.

e40on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

Some were forced out, sure, but enough could have voted to prevent this shitshow.

e40on A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

The Usenet comms gave me a lot of laughs. It was so cleverly done. It’s been a very long time since I read it, but that is one of the memories I have.

e40on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

Yes, climate change debate went the same way.

e40on U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

Wrong zone.

e40on Lid-lifting Kiwi author forced to sit in silence at writers' festival

I did that. She’s a very good writer. While I haven’t finished it, I’ve enjoyed it so far.

e40on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

It’s not even friendly inside the Apple ecosystem.

e40on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Proof? I don’t believe it did.

Edit: BBB? Is it in effect yet, though?

e40on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

> Attacking every open source maintainer who might use AI for the sin of having used AI because one hates AI is just abusive behavior, not "sane response".

That's not what happened, and I think you know it. The number of LOC introduced in the last 2 versions of rsync is off the charts. And there are bugs. I've been in a situation like the author of that issue. Upgrade a package and things fall apart and it would be very, very expensive to debug it to file the appropriate bug reports... so I roll back to a known good version.

Yes, the language the person used wasn't the greatest.

IMO, this is a litmus test for how you feel about AI. For the people that hate it, it's just a big pile on and "I told you so" ... we don't have enough info about the author to know if they are anti-AI. We know they are against using AI in a BAD WAY.

e40on Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

Your libido sounds more than fine if you have multiple girlfriends.

e40on Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates

Unintended consequences are indeed a bitch.

e40on Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

There is also Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story which is his diary from the years making the movie. Quite interesting and like a fever dream, at times.

e40on US mass layoffs tracker via WARN ACT notices

Very interesting to browse. Thanks to the author of the site.

e40on Tesla Self-Certifies Level 4 Autonomous Vehicles in Texas

That’s not even a complete sentence.