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shawabawa3··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
What exactly does that mean?

The project you linked to was completed pretty quickly and is supplying 2.5GW to the UK grid

shawabawa3··on A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech
it's legible but a very confusing sentence

man-choker is not a word, and choker is a niche garment, why not "necklace" or just "wearable"?

Then it "executes" a question?

and then there's a reference to "both devices" - what devices?

You need to put together a lot of context clues and assumptions to get to: They are probably a diabetic with a glucose monitor and pump, and they want a smart device to analyse the data with natural language (but again, why a choker specifically? Wouldn't a smart watch or something make more sense?)

shawabawa3··on Is being bilingual good for your brain?
I think your have the classification backwards

A1 level is "can barely speak the language, can maybe order a baguette"

C2 is ~native level

shawabawa3··on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
do pilots get to mess around on a laptop while flying? My understanding is that most of a flight is just sitting there waiting for landing to start, could mean a lot of spare time to pick up programming
shawabawa3··on Atuin – Magical Shell History
you could just disable sync in atuin
shawabawa3··on 2048 with only 64 bits of state
Doesn't happen for me, i wonder if it's only on certain architectures or certain versions of bash or something
shawabawa3··on Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
it's misleading, but it does say "solo-owned". Presumably those other 8 people didn't have any or much ownership of the company
shawabawa3··on How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous
the word "biro" didn't exist until Biro invented the ballpoint pen, which came to be known after its inventor
shawabawa3··on Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess
I think at this point "elo" has become genericized to refer to any skill rating system
shawabawa3··on Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13
Sadly, and imo almost unforgivably in such a modern language, no
shawabawa3··on The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris
any source on this? It's difficult to find any primary source on her opinion

All her written texts i can find after she moved to France she referred to herself as "Marie"

In her biography of Pierre Curie, she herself wrote of herself before she married "Mon nom est Marie Sklodowska"

here's a letter she wrote to the president and signed simply "Marie Curie" https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/letter-from-mar...

shawabawa3··on Coventry Very Light Rail
It's not uncommon at all in London to have a traffic jam in a bus lane just from the volume of buses and taxis
shawabawa3··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
Why do you recommend removing the battery? Risk of fire?

I would have thought any reasonably recent laptop would be fine to leave plugged in indefinitely. Not to mention many won't have an easily removable battery anyway

shawabawa3··on Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
You can create a new game with new rules never seen before

You can explain this to an LLM

The LLM can then play the game following the rules

How can you say it hasn't understood the game?

shawabawa3··on I let Claude Code write an entire book
Why would you choose not to read a book based on how it was written rather than the content?

If it came out that Stephen king had been using AI for decades would that make his work any worse?

shawabawa3··on Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups
"next available flight" could mean waiting 2 days in a random airport, hardly reassuring
shawabawa3··on The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
Every time I've been monorepos compares with polyrepos it's always "monorepo plus millions of dollars of custom tool engineering" vs "stock polyrepo"

Why can't we add millions of dollars of tool engineering on top of polyrepos to get some of the benefits of monorepos without a lot of the pain? E.g. it wouldn't be too hard to create "linked" PRs across repos for changes that span projects, with linked testing infrastructure

And I don't see how discovery changes significantly from browsing through loads of repositories instead of loads of directories in a repository

shawabawa3··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
This is like 80% of security vulnerability reports we receive at my current job

Long convoluted ways of saying "if you authorize X to do Y and attackers take X, they can then do Y"

shawabawa3··on Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
I'm pretty sure ibuprofens risks are significantly higher than a 10-20% increased risk of dementia, it gives significantly increased risk of strokes iirc
shawabawa3··on What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)
> If you’re just starting your career I’m begging you not to laser focus on coding widgets better for the sake of it.

How is that focusing on the product?

Focusing on the product means solving problems for your customers, exactly what you said they should be doing

You're both arguing for the same thing

shawabawa3··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
In the UK customer service absolutely cannot transfer money

The banking system is so backwards in the US it's actually insane, you've just got used to it

shawabawa3··on FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
In the UK/EU that's exactly what happens

You see the full price of your stay on the map, when you click through you see the breakdown per night plus any fees

shawabawa3··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
I have a feeling this may be a cursor issue, perhaps cursors system prompt asks for comments? Asking in the aistudio UI for code and ending the prompt with "no code comments" has always worked for me
shawabawa3··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
You don't need a follow up

Just end your prompt with "no code comments"

shawabawa3··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
If I buy a book I'm free to print as many copies as I want inside my house

It becomes illegal if I try to distribute those copies

So the question is, does distributing an AI that has been trained on Harry Potter count as distributing Harry Potter?

shawabawa3··on Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
Google is the leader in LLMs and self-driving cars, two of the biggest innovation areas in the last decade, so how exactly has it been floundering in its ability to innovate and execute?
shawabawa3··on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Pretty good description tbh

Their business model is an online payment provider (like e.g. PayPal/apple pay) that splits the payment into 3, 6 or 12 monthly payments, usually at 0% interest

The idea being that for the business the loss in revenue from an interest free loan is worth it if it causes an increase in sales

shawabawa3··on Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)
Her follow-up with stats on her investments: https://substack.com/@halletecco/note/c-113855500

tl;dr: returned $0.31 on every dollar invested, albeit with a bunch of ongoing investments that may still pay off (but are unlikely to get her even on the investments let alone a profit)

shawabawa3··on The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif
shawabawa3··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
Gemini is pretty good at resisting this

https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/1dxV3NoYHo6Mv36uPRjk...

It was doing so well until the last question :rip: but it's normal that you can jailbreak a user prompt with another user prompt, I think with system prompts it would be a lot harder

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