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shusaku··on iPhone 17e
Me too, but I’m going to have to upgrade. The lack of storage on my phone (64GB) is killing me - every time there is an os update I have to delete almost everything to make room
shusaku··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
> This is where the gap gets wide. CLIs compose. I can pipe through jq, chain with grep, redirect to files. This isn’t just convenient; it’s often the only practical approach.

Unix style composability is a beautiful thing. But when was the last time you installed a set of tools that actually worked together like this? It only works for simple tools. And you can already connect all the simple ones you want (grep, awk, etc) through the file system.

shusaku··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Iran is hitting back at US bases so it could be related to those risks, rather than a full invasion.

(Crazy idea, maybe the people shouldn’t be left in the dark about their government’s war plans by having a deliberate legislative body debate and vote on it)

shusaku··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
It’s still pretty unclear how in the US is planning to go. For example, manifold still rates the chance that Iran’s regime falls this year at 46%, which should be a given if the US put boots on the ground. https://manifold.markets/SaviorofPlant/will-irans-regime-fal...
shusaku··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
I’m honestly perplexed. I had anticipated a scenario like “the US feared Iran was unstable and attacked to protect nuclear material”. It seems this would give them reasonable cover. I don’t see how Israel going along helps
shusaku··on IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
What an awful comment. The person above you is now flagged because of your paranoia. Of course later they post a link to exactly what they built.
shusaku··on IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
“AI will steal your job” never made sense. If your company is doing bad, sure maybe you fire people after automating their job. But we’re in a growth oriented economic system. If the company is doing good, and AI increases productivity, you actually will hire more people because every person is that much more of a return on investment
shusaku··on Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models
Absolutely there is, which is why they haven’t genetically modify the mice for useful experiments.
shusaku··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
This drove me nuts, but also the authors should like get to the point about what was wrong instead of dancing around it for page after page.
shusaku··on cURL removes bug bounties
> To replicate the issue, I have searched in the Bard about this vulnerability.

Seeing Bard mentioned as an LLM takes me back :)

shusaku··on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
It’s because their models burn tokens like crazy. API use is way too expensive

Edit: or should I say, the subscription is artificially cheap

shusaku··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
I guess that’s kind of the defense of Musk on the cyber truck. If Ford can’t sell hem off their F150 platform, it means you need to make more of a splash. He just went too far…
shusaku··on Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
> The post would eventually garner 86,000 upvotes, hitting Reddit’s front page and likely being viewed by millions.

Unfortunately, this won’t have nearly the reach of the original claim. Currently sitting at 3 votes on hacker news

shusaku··on I canceled my book deal
And the only thing they asked is like to add a chapter on a machine learning algorithm. I get that everyone wants to talk about how sick of AI they are. But there are plenty of AI projects that would fit right in the spirit of the book.
shusaku··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Fair point. In my mind it is critical because mistakes are common and can only be fixed by a peer. But you are right that we should not miss the forest through the trees and get lost on small details.
shusaku··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
20,000 submissions to a single conference? That is nuts
shusaku··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Checking each citation one by one is quite critical in peer review, and of course checking a colleagues paper. I’ve never had to deal with AI slop, but you’ll definitely see something cited for the wrong reason. And just the other day during the final typesetting of a paper of mine I found the journal had messed up a citation (same journal / author but wrong work!)
shusaku··on End of Japanese community
It’s a shame because “improve an off the shelf llm ti translate in line with this large dataset we prepared” is precisely the kind of project people love to work on. It could have been a chance to immortalize the hard work they did up until now.
shusaku··on NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD
If there really is enough market demand for this kind of processor, it seems like someone like NEC who still makes vector processors would be better poised than a startup rolling RISC-V
shusaku··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Next time add “in the style of a thedailywtf post” to your prompt to stay on genre.
shusaku··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
That’s the irony of the situation. This should’ve been a clear win for Trump, using the prize to help bolster his status and direction on Venezuela. But then we got this absurd media storyline about him wanting the prize himself (probably to bury the government shut down news).
shusaku··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
The tankies are trying to discredit any criticism of Maduro
shusaku··on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
My only critique of this is that maybe the countries they compared started to invested in safer urban driving infrastructure during the Lehman shock, and its counteracting the universal growth in distractedness
shusaku··on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
> We also can’t rule out that increased recklessness or distractedness on the part of pedestrians is playing a role.

Or a raw increase in pedestrians on urban roads? Maybe people are more willing to go on a walk at night in the city these days?

shusaku··on Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
> Gambling thrives in contexts where a ladder to success doesn’t exist or is perceived as not existing.

This is a neat moral message… but is it really true? Gambling is addictive, so the reality might be that even without such deep social problems you get similar levels

shusaku··on Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world
As an American, I’m planning a similar strategy to finance my vacation to Ecuador.
shusaku··on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US
From the linked actual journal article I thought this part should be limited to e-readers

> ATUS asked participants to recall all their activities over 24 h, beginning at 4 a.m. on the day prior to the interview and ending at 4 a.m. on the day of the interview (Figure 1). Activities were coded using a standard lexicon, verified by two coders. We focused on two reading outcomes: (1) daily reading for pleasure, classified by ATUS as reading for personal interest (e.g., reading a magazine/book/newspaper, listening to audiobooks, reading on a Kindle or other e-reader; Table S1); and (2) daily reading with children (e.g., reading to or with household or non-household children, listening to child read, helping child read; Table S1).

shusaku··on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US
Maybe I am misunderstanding the study but I don’t understand why reading a magazine or newspaper is counted while reading an article on one’s phone is not.
shusaku··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
I look forward to the people who always claim “taxation is theft” to comment on a single man deciding to strong arm a company into giving 10% to the government.
shusaku··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
The US has been slowly but steadily sending the opposite signal over the past year: “just wait a little and you can have Taiwan”
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