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fkozlowskion Factorio that you can touch

It's a great way to rebuild a sense of agency for me. I find the weekend binge a good way to feel like I can effect changes in the world.

fkozlowskion Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

Thanks, I was thinking the same! This also has some good photos

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/08/archaeolog...

fkozlowskion Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

Related — this isn't the only map the Romans made that has survived.

https://formaurbis.stanford.edu/

fkozlowskion Measuring the sloppiness of code

Nice! It's interesting to see quantitative ways of measuring slop. I'm curious what _would_ happen if you did plug these back into the LLM as a form of feedback. Goodharting may happen... or it could get the LLM to generate cleaner code potentially?

fkozlowskion AI Coding Without the Vibes

Agreed — I also always append to my agents.md — "If there are any technical choices available, please surface them to me so I can understand them and choose"

fkozlowskion GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

I find that it's difficult to thread the needle of navigating on my own with also not spending forever in traffic or in train delays. It's disheartening when I do know how to get somewhere, but I land in a +1 hour traffic jam because I chose to not look at GPS.

Maybe I need an app that just yells at you when you take a super-wrong turn, or if you're about to be in a massive amount traffic?

fkozlowskion England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

I wish Pestilence retired already!

fkozlowskion England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

I've always found it a bit surprising that we don't all celebrate smallpox elimination day. I think it'd be a great reminder of the victories that humanity has had against the four horsemen.

fkozlowskion Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed

It is actually judged by a human at the end FYI.

"The top 5 submissions will be finalists, judged by hand."

fkozlowskion Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

As other commenters noted — Rome did almost fall apart and come back a few times. Peter Brown has a bit about how the crisis of the 3rd century was reversible because it was fundamentally about control of the empire, rather than disassembling it.

My headcanon is that while the elites of the empire found more value in controlling the reins of power rather than carving out their own fief — that's what prevented collapse.

fkozlowskion Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

Yeah, that's a good point. Even though Latin had diverged to the point that reading Cicero required explicit schooling — the post-476 Romans did consider themselves Roman and fully the descendants of the late Republican / early Imperial period.

I'm mostly arguing that people overindex on the political changes and don't see the ground level continuity. Map color changed != they're not Roman any more.

Regardless, I do enjoy asking "what made Rome Rome?" — I like the idea of the Byzantines being Roman in 1453 even though at that point it was tenuous.

fkozlowskion Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

Ah that makes sense

fkozlowskion Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

I'm honestly surprised that they even had the inclination to attempt creating a model. I guess it's bullish that a municipal IT department had the guts to try this?

fkozlowskion Running a business means contact with reality

Yeah, didn't expect this much traffic. Thanks for reading!

fkozlowskion Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

Location: NYC, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Javascript, NGRX, .NET MAUI, C#, SQL

Résumé/CV:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yFcC_9td-h2f3TlgFRifQMv...

Email: kozlowskifrederick[at]gmail.com