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sorokod··on Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database".

https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...

sorokod··on Native Americans had dice 12k years ago
...and, is it?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

sorokod··on The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is lovely and the contrast between the Dutch and the Japanese cultures in the 18th century is quite striking.
sorokod··on If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems
Amdahl's law applies regardless of whether you are believe in it or not
sorokod··on Harold and George Destroy the World
Changing the domain name and similar letterhead style shenanigans are risk free and good enough for public relations.
sorokod··on EU's Ursula von Der Leyen Calls Europe's Nuclear Exit a "Strategic Mistake" [video]
In text form:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/es/speech...

sorokod··on A Theory of the World as run by large adult children
The US Department of War does not take full advantage of its name. Declaring a war has real legal and political consequences which presumably are not appealing to the current US administration.

https://www.war.gov/Spotlights/Operation-Epic-Fury/

sorokod··on Polymarket Removes Betting on Nuclear Detonation After Backlash
In related news, START treaty has expired beginning of February.
sorokod··on The Markets of Old London (2024)
Ridley Road Market is not mentioned but worth a visit
sorokod··on Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI
Plausible denAIbility
sorokod··on Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs
Divination?

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a magic ritual or practice.

sorokod··on Asteroids the size of 22 penguins to pass Earth this weekend (2023)
> 22 emperor penguins

How much is that in Gentoos?;

sorokod··on I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21
Also, wear sunscreen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq_A8nXMsQ

sorokod··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
There is no chance US will need to take Greenland by force ( financial or military) , all it has to do is to increase the number of troops already stationed there by agreement.

Yet here we are.

sorokod··on Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland
A bit different, nether Russia nor China are NATO members like Turkey and Greece
sorokod··on Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland
Take it? You mean go to war with NATO over Greenland?
sorokod··on Demystifying Evals for AI Agents
"You won't know if your graders are working well unless you read the transcripts and grades from many trials."

Anyone can recommend tools for reading and analysing transcripts? I assume this is regarding data that CC is writing in .claude directory.

sorokod··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
You will also need to accommodate the banking apps updates, banks will not support very old versions of their apps( very old varies but probably about a few months ). Beyond that the new versions may require hardware support that may not be available in a decade old phone.
sorokod··on US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after two-week pursuit
A chaser article

"Reflagged by Russia, spied on by UK, seized by US: why so much interest in a rusty tanker in the Atlantic?"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/marinera-seize...

sorokod··on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
The drowning will instinctively try to surface for air. They will drown you to achieve that.
sorokod··on The most famous transcendental numbers
By common definition of "almost all", 1 == 2
sorokod··on Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In
On the reason spectrum of :

- 50% inflation, tax hikes and currency devaluation [1]

- Manufactured crisis

- The presence of the 3i comet in our solar system

where would Occam's razor cut?

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/26/irans-government-b...

sorokod··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Your caveats of "rarely" and "usually" undermine the "anything" you use.

The edit is naive to an extent that makes one wonder if you are writing in good faith.

sorokod··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
(BTW, givent token cashing your argument of 3 x 1 = 1 x 3 deserves more scrutiny)
sorokod··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
Neither the original issue (having three models) nor this one (un consolidated payments) have anything to do with the end result / quality of the output.

Can you comment on that?

sorokod··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
Have you tried executing multiple agents on a single model with modified prompts and have them try to reach consensus?

That may solve the original problem of paying for three different models.

sorokod··on Stop Slopware
The spec and the test harness - that is all in a nutshell.
sorokod··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
You can spend 30 min, watching someone learning how to ski, you will learn something. You will not be able to ski by yourself though.
sorokod··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
> There's the police and the criminal justice system for that.

Well yes, however there was an orchestrated effort to convince people that the system is not working. That effort was successful enough to generate public interest we observe now. Beyond morbid curiosity, there is a belief that the exposure may force the system to do now what it was supposed to do in the first place

sorokod··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
> One of the annoying things engineers have to deal with is stopping whatever they're doing and doing a review.

I would have thought that reviewing PRs and doing it well is in the job description. You latter mention "someone" a few times - who that someone might be?

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