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hugh-avherald··on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
https://xkcd.com/1172/
hugh-avherald··on Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician
What if you to traverse a tunnel that turns 90° in both the x and y directions?
hugh-avherald··on Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop
I ran the Stockfish 17.1 speedtest on my dual-boot computer and got:

  Windows: 60,354,829 Nodes/second
  Pop!_OS: 68,402,540
hugh-avherald··on How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)
Here's an Australian example: https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/20... [PDF]

or

https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/file/cdpp-v-carrick-ps...

hugh-avherald··on Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Codex 5.2 automatically picked up my claude agents' skills. Didn't prompt for it, it just so happened that what I asked it for, one of claude's agents' prompts was useful, so Codex ran with it.
hugh-avherald··on We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis
That is not a definitive test.
hugh-avherald··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Claude Code isn't as surgical as Codex at reviews
hugh-avherald··on Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras
Only if you're really, really good at constructing precise instructions, at which point you don't really need a coding agent.
hugh-avherald··on Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer
It's not the most succinct language I'll give it that.
hugh-avherald··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
I suspect it's reached the point where the distinguishing quality of one model over the others is only observable by true experts -- and only in their respective fields. We are exhausting the well of frontier questions that can be programmatically asked and the answers checked.
hugh-avherald··on Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
IP law gives young or up-and-coming artists leverage in negotiations.
hugh-avherald··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
"I had Elizabeth Holmes explain to me three times what she got arrested for because it sounds an awful lot like what I do here every day."
hugh-avherald··on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
You don't even have to sell tickets: if it's a free concert, copyright is likely infringed. This is likely true in all jurisdictions.
hugh-avherald··on Eating stinging nettles
"I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States but they just don't get the spices right."
hugh-avherald··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
V1 is the decision speed with respect to a single engine failure in a multi-engine aircraft. It's the speed below rotation speed at which the decision to abort safely can no longer be made.

Captains can make the decision to abort the takeoff in the case of absolute power loss or for 'failure to fly' (where the aircraft is clearly not going to fly, e.g. the elevator/pitch controls aren't responding). But the training is adamant: if you're uncertain what has happened after V1 you try to fly the plane away from the runway.

hugh-avherald··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Day 2 is like Switzerland---small and neutral. Day 1 is like Germany---ambitious and misunderstood.
hugh-avherald··on Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes
In 1980s Star Trek it was used for porn. (TNG: The Perfect Mate, Hollow Pursuits)
hugh-avherald··on André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023)
Indeed. If your family's welfare depends on you having work, and your work is meaningless, then it can be taken away honestly and without recourse.
hugh-avherald··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
mines are generally down
hugh-avherald··on Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
^ (not legal advice -- far from it)
hugh-avherald··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
If you are ever in a situation where you estimate you will land with less than 30 minutes of fuel, you are legally obliged to declare a MAYDAY. One of the few situations where a mayday is legally required.
hugh-avherald··on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
I found ChatGPT also struggled with colour detection when solving Wordle, despite my advice to use any tools. I had to tell it.
hugh-avherald··on The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review [pdf]
Does anyone have any clue as to why economists in particular have such awful LaTeX settings by default?
hugh-avherald··on CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web
Or is less of a hassle.
hugh-avherald··on We put a coding agent in a while loop
If there's anything Tom Clancy has taught me it's that everything works out in the end.
hugh-avherald··on The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off
The Economist is much like LLMs: good if you don't know much about the subject.
hugh-avherald··on Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)
I don't think this qualifies as a definition.
hugh-avherald··on Going faster than memcpy
I've experienced modest but significant improvements in speed using very basic pragma omp section style parallelizing of this sort of thing.
hugh-avherald··on Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Insurance is not gambling. It's the pooling of risk. Mistaking the two is a common error and leads people being confused about the word 'uninsurable'.
hugh-avherald··on There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets
It is possible that such a human wouldn't come up with anything new, even if they could.
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