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Muckle thanks tae ye, ah'm stealing thae richt noo

> old/new, head/tail, fast/slow, same/diff, and right/wrong

also some abbreviations work fine:

    min
    max

    row
    col

    beg (vs start)
    end

    key
    val

    src
    dst

    pos
    len

and we have

    public_key
    secret_key (vs private)

    from
    till

    push
    pull

    load
    save

    init
    done

    inner
    outer

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and if you speak Norwegian you have two options:

    ja    yes
    no    nei

but that may trigger a different kind of OCD :-)

there is also kde connect (or valent for the gnome UI)

I tried to find out what unprivileged user namespaces was, and all I can find is people talking loudly about how insecure they are, e.g. https://secureblue.dev/articles/userns

But does bubblewrap also use them?

Never heard of that one. The most popular ways for agent stuff seems to be https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell , or just opening a terminal in emacs and using claude code. If you want to run it through an emacs terminal, consider using https://github.com/dakra/ghostel#ghostel (or vterm, or eat)

> Our Customers

> Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security for reaching global audiences and securing respondent reliability at any scale.

wat

Thank you for showing me how to use that bigram in context. But the question remains, how does a drunk linguinist speak?

https://www.pecva.org/wp-content/uploads/Health-Impacts-Vant... the report

> Based on Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ) air permit No. 74242, the facility is authorized to operate eight natural-gas simple-cycle turbines and more than fifty diesel generators, including emergency and black-start units

hah https://abcnews.com/US/solar-generates-energy-coal-us-1st-ti... ends with

> Trump has touted coal as clean in the past, but experts say coal emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and several other pollutants.

Wow, experts say coal emits carbon dioxide. What a world we live in where that's considered expert knowledge.

Ooh so lets just change the initial prompt to

    [old prompt asking for some complicated solution requiring insight]
    <the-token-that-signals-that-the-chatbot-started-talking>
    Aha!

and since Aha! is near the good stuff in the network it will just work =P

> physical book sales are plummeting — the main source of income for writers — and shadow libraries are killing the incentive to write

there have been many times I've wanted to pay for an ebook but found that the only places that sell it apply DRM to it, so shadow library it is

> that doesn't mean other kinds of AI are not AI

I kind of agree, though I find "AI" to be an almost useless term, in particular these days. I dislike the current state of discourse where AI is used to mean inhumanly large models, so I tend to use a specific term like LLMs instead of AI. But the point here wasn't whether this or that form of ML is in fact AI. The term "AI" was almost never used in mainstream media until a few years ago, when it suddenly it was all over the place https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=AI,Biden... and nearly without exception referring to very large generative text/image models. So when a news article in 2026 talks about AI without specifying that it's nothing to do with ChatGPT etc. (and in fact using a very different method requiring no large pre-trained model and no dependence on large companies), I find it highly misleading.

On a meta-level, this type of reasoning explains so much of what comes out of Silicon Valley.

> parroted in the media

ugh just recently I saw a news article gushing about how AI had helped with some health/medicine study, and various patient organizations were all like "oh yeah this is a Good use of AI" and then I click the link to read the study and it's decision trees and clustering on a tiny dataset that you could analyze with a ten year old laptop.

I mean, sure at some point decision trees and clustering were called "AI", but the way the article was written you'd think OpenAI and Anthropic were responsible for the advancement of medicine.

> Mr Walker had been asked to explain why Iceland burgers passed British tests for equine DNA but failed the Irish tests.

> He replied: "Well, that's the Irish, isn't it?"

so his big bad mistake was to make a remark about how the Irish are more picky than the Great Brits about having horse meat in their burgers?

Can you give an example, understandable to hackers, of how you fixed an organizational problem? Genuinely interested :)

> If tech can cause social problems (there are multiple books on this) then it can solve them too

You haven't actually argued why it can solve them too. When you're about to make a general argument about tech, try to exchange "tech" with "cocaine" to see if the argument still holds (If cocaine can cause social problems, then it can solve them too)

It was news to me that the lung damage from pollution isn't necessarily permanent in children, if a change in environment happens early enough. Up until reading this, I was under the impression it would be.

We had a lot of construction work in the neighborhood, our house covered in fine dust particles each day. My kid got asthma in the same period, keeps asking when she can stop taking the medicines, and I say "I don't know" thinking "probably never". But maybe now the construction work is over, there is hope? (And if construction starts again, we know that it is better to move, because there is hope.)

Directory listings can also be editable: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/wdired-editable-dired...

Been a paid customer for over 13 years now. I'm very happy with them, have never considered switching to anything else.

If you repeatedly use the same holdout and trigger acceptance on the holdout, it is no longer a holdout but just another training set.

The study didn't really show that. What it did show, is that in this particular study there was no strong effect either way and there is really no way to generalize from the results. See in particular the details on what made the agent stumble, it was things like "cargo repeatedly gets invoked with the wrong arguments" - nothing to do with functional or static, just ecosystem idiosyncrasies and trivial differences.

Well, it did show you probably shouldn't use assembly, but that's about all it showed very strongly.

And of course it also showed very strongly that you should not base any choice-of-language decisions on single studies.

Yegge's writing was always ..interesting.. but reading him now just makes me feel sad for him.

Heh, the article is kind of negative about Haskell's "success", but fun is exactly the reason why I still prefer Haskell over all other languages.

don't press enter! the answer will show below your input

Try also

    wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab
    grep -xFf <(grep -o ^... iso-639-3.tab) /usr/share/dict/british-english 

You can make whole English sentences out of ISO 639-3 language codes:

    woo yes, any fun car has the big dry cat, and thy ads are zen too; bye!

using the codes of Manombai Nyankpa Anyin Fulniô Galibi_Carib Haisla Chitwania_Tharu Biangai Darai Catalan Ansus Tha Adamorobe_Sign_Language Western_Arrarnta Zenaga Xicotepec_De_Juárez_Totonac Pouye

Ask the waiter and have an actual conversation with a human, or at least do an image search[0], either way you'll learn something and become a more experienced and cultured[1] human being. And you'll have a more truthful expectation than an AI image will give you.

[0] https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=pot+au+feu&iar=images&noai=1

[1] What's the English word for Bildung?

i read a school-assigned book during the loading portions of a certain computer game. the two stories are completely interlinked in my head.

ouf :( maybe original link should be changed to https://www.drcathicks.com/ ?

The author Cat Hicks also co-hosts https://www.changetechnically.fyi/ which has some interesting episodes, e.g. https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/17541876-...

In https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116743715688970777 she gives a concise explanation of the minimal groups paradigm where "People assigned to arbitrary groups immediately form strong allegiances, even though they haven’t been given any other psychologically meaningful cues about their group"