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impure··on What even is an OS now?
This reminds me of WWDC 2010 when Steve Jobs said developers using private APIs 'know exactly what they're doing'. Good luck with your project, but I think you're vastly underestimating the problem. And many OSes are already integrating user generated AI apps.
impure··on Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
Reuters is reporting that it is due to difficulty getting power. Which, if correct, should have been a foreseeable risk.
impure··on Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO
Probably a good time to IPO now as the Apple Watch Series 12 copied a lot of their features. Also look at that PE. I guess they justify it by looking at revenue growth but the wearable market is pretty cut throat. And we are starting to see more and more competitors.
impure··on Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was a lot sooner given skyrocketing fuel costs, high bond yields, and unsustainable AI spending.
impure··on US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
If you had any doubts about digital sovereignty or leaving the USD movements...
impure··on Nebula Sans
What is going on with the kerning in ‘print’? Yuck.
impure··on Future euro banknote design proposals
What's with all the birds? Also I like A the best. It's very modern.
impure··on US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Also will be interesting what happens when the SPR runs out.

impure··on Do LLMs pass the mirror test?
For my AI Agent it sometimes detects if I manually modified the file contents or git state. And it always assumes it must have made a mistake. It's sort of annoying actually.
impure··on AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke
I recently made an AI Agent and surprisingly coding with DeepSeek V4 Flash is quite cheap. It probably has to do with the aggressive prompt caching. I'm using OpenRouter with Novita AI as the preferred provider.
impure··on Open source AI must win
Not to be that guy, but the correct term is Open Weight LLM. And I’d argue it already has. Many open models are already very competitive with closed models at a fraction of the cost.
impure··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
No, the new method of inflation that Kevin Warsh likes is the trimmed mean which is 2.8%.
impure··on Where is the AI jobs crisis?
First of all the May jobs report was mostly in temporary workers possibly due to the World Cup. Second as already noted the jobs are mostly in healthcare. Third job openings does not equal employment. These numbers have been diverging for a while likely due to people holding multiple jobs. Also I believe the evidence suggests the job crisis is due to WFH and not AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326721
impure··on They are looting your life savings
They’d have to keep this up for 12 months which is not guaranteed as you have to factor in hardware depreciation and other costs. Also they’d have to issue more shares to get over the liquidity requirement. And looting may be too strong of a word. They are nudging your returns down a little bit. Although SpaceX could go up too, crazier things have happened.
impure··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
Good thing they're not dropping the profitability requirements. Ed Zitron would be proud.
impure··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
They have to be rebalanced every quarter regardless. And I'm not sure how many people would actually sell due to the inclusion of a single company. They're very loud about it, but no evidence that this is causing a significant amount of selling.
impure··on Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?
Steve Jobs famously said, "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." Not sure if it is true, but programming definitely has applicability to other things. Programming is just a list of instructions if you think about it.

AI coding tools are great but they are restricted in what they can do. They still result in incredibly hacky solutions. They still litter your code with security vulnerabilities. And they still fall into loops of trying to do things the hard way, possibly failing, and burning your API tokens. I've been hearing about these problems since people started coding with AI and nothing has improved. You will always need a programmer, especially if you plan on maintaining and updating your code.

Plus AI is a wonderful learning tool. You don't have to scour the internet for a solution to your problem only to find someone who asked the same question, resolved it, and never explained how. You can just ask your AI tool.

I am very skeptical about the AI replacing programmers hype. Sure, there are a lot of AI-coded apps but there were always a lot of apps. Discovery on the app store has been a problem for a while now and I don't really see AI changing things much. It might even result in more programmers as programmers need to come in and fix all this AI slop code.

impure··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Oh no, not Rsync. I guess that's one good thing about MacOS shipping with an ancient version of rsync. Oh, wait, they ship openrsync now, but the command is still called rsync.
impure··on My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
I had an emoji cut in half problem in Dart. I was a bit surprised because I thought substring operations worked on characters. It only caused an invalid Unicode symbol though so not too bad.
impure··on Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
People want to believe this war will end soon.
impure··on PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.
impure··on US national debt surges past $39 Trillion
Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servicing costs pushing the US into a debt crisis.
impure··on US national debt surges past $39 Trillion
If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.
impure··on UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence
32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.
impure··on Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]
This is the one I read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032... which says how older participants benefit more from restricting social media use.
impure··on Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]
I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.
impure··on Maybe the G in AGI stands for Gemini
Gemini is also my favourite. It’s very smart and has a backbone. I don’t think the Gemini 3 Pro complaint is very fair as it was listed as ‘preview’. Although I should note Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is 2.5x the cost of the previous version and I’m quite annoyed by that.
impure··on this css proves me human
This actually makes me more likely to think it’s AI generated and you used a script to try to hide it.
impure··on You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents
It’s always amusing when the all powerful agents need our help to work properly.

Them: Agents will write code 10x faster than a human.

Also them: You will have to dumb down your CLI for them to function properly.

impure··on Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp
Ah, file permissions. My old friend. Good thing this happened on a 'local' server and not a remote VPS.
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