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mohamedkoubaa··on Splitting a Git Commit
I think I'd rather keep my old school interactive rebase skills sharp for when I actually need it
mohamedkoubaa··on The Amazon tax
Etsy in particular has an incentive to fix this in ways that Google would never
mohamedkoubaa··on The Amazon tax
There are people who rent time at my local makerspace who sell on Etsy. Maybe the issue is that Etsy doesn't make it easy to find them?
mohamedkoubaa··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
I wonder if xAI is A/B testing routing some difficult grok 4.6 queries to Sol to seed some true believers.
mohamedkoubaa··on David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post
PSA: The government can remotely brick your MacBook.
mohamedkoubaa··on Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
Terms like AI used to mean something specific
mohamedkoubaa··on On AI regulation and messaging
I assure you they already have these ideas
mohamedkoubaa··on On AI regulation and messaging
>Every time the US completes an AI data center, someone in the Chinese nuclear command updates their target priority list

You might have stumbled on the way to convince people that more data centers are a good thing

mohamedkoubaa··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
That fanatical tireless entity will need access to human tissue.
mohamedkoubaa··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Sure but I bet this doesn't translate as well in this way to things like Erlang
mohamedkoubaa··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
The amount of body fat and ways the body stores fat are highly uncorrelated for people who are not severely obese, and severe obesity itself might be made worse over time by high levels of visceral fat.
mohamedkoubaa··on A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
I'm on your side, the comment I was replying to seemed to assume that the gp commentor was motivated by or at least interested in ethics.
mohamedkoubaa··on A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
Appeals to an ethical basis don't work on everyone
mohamedkoubaa··on Asus Bike Booster
It's fashionable and it takes strong leadership to avoid fashionable things even when they make absolutely no sense
mohamedkoubaa··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
It's not a remotely good proxy
mohamedkoubaa··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Anything to keep people from running local models
mohamedkoubaa··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I'm not sure if xAI is distilling but I noticed grok4.6 being worse than 4.5 in all the ways mentioned here
mohamedkoubaa··on Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
Especially since the Internet is literally a _messaging_ protocol.
mohamedkoubaa··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Very telling that even top economists are unable to imagine a world without a reserve currency when that is the state of nature (even in antiquity there were multiple currencies, not just gold)
mohamedkoubaa··on We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images
Hold my beer
mohamedkoubaa··on The punched card tabulator
People didn't use to use the phrase "inter-disciplinary" until late in the 20th century because before that there was no taboo against applying skills in one domain in another
mohamedkoubaa··on Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
The utter banality of the fourth reich
mohamedkoubaa··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
To those that use facebook in 2026, why?
mohamedkoubaa··on The Essential Question: "What should I read next?"
Brilliant
mohamedkoubaa··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
My strat until the bubble pops is to just use the most subsidized model with acceptable performance
mohamedkoubaa··on The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”
Pro tip: never feel guilty about leaving a book unfinished. If it's taking too long to read, pick up the next thing on your list.
mohamedkoubaa··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
I use it because it's cheap and good enough
mohamedkoubaa··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
Jury is still out here
mohamedkoubaa··on Mojo 1.0
The value has been speculated on. It doesn't mean the value has materialized.
mohamedkoubaa··on Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
Even if it's predictable the opaqueness of the earth crust makes predictive models hard
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