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test6554··on Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services
Oh boy, time to Put everyone's job loss, home loss, death, and herpes diagnosis on the blockchain. NFTs anyone? Prediction markets!??
test6554··on Executable Is a SQLite Database
The tree-view is practical for users but seems impractical for relational database performance.

SELECT * FROM files p LEFT JOIN files c ON p.id = c.parent_id LEFT JOIN files gc ON c.id = gc.parent_id LEFT JOIN files ggc ON gc.id = ggc.parent_id .... where p.id = 123

test6554··on Executable Is a SQLite Database
When you have a hammer, everything starts to seem like a nail. /s :)
test6554··on Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
It seems like someone with an immigration background should have to go through an on-boarding period where a new arrival takes part in community service and is immersed with civic-minded people and good citizens rather than just heading straight for the slums to fend for themselves and live among the sorts of people who will be a bad influence on them.
test6554··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Open AI is about to find out all about rounded corners
test6554··on SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
“hold my beverage”;
test6554··on New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
Ohh, I need to VPN into nyc or california before trying to cancel my new york times subscription.
test6554··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
This reminds me of the kids in MR. Deeds.

Kid 1: What are you going to do with your $20,000

Kid2: quit school

Homeless man: good idea, school is for fools!!

test6554··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
People who have the disposable income to buy $8,000 personal robotic assistants or $20,000 1X Neo are a lot more likely to live in larger spaces. I've got about 1,000 sqft per occupant in my home. Plenty of room for a C-3PO or Johnny 5.
test6554··on How do wombats poop cubes? (2021)
Perhaps that's how aliens would see humans. Perpetually trying to die except for a small group of humans fighting disease, monitoring and protecting climate, keeping order, etc.
test6554··on Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
Kinda sounds like "not slavery" with extra steps
test6554··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
Gotta move to the EU and sue based on right to be forgotten
test6554··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
I don't blame someone for working at facebook, but I don't think most of you realize how cash money a FANG company looks on your resume to IT managers at the lowly normal companies. Go work in financial services, insurance, retail, go be a contractor and work/travel until you find what you like.
test6554··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Back in the day... 2004-2005 facebook was amazing. Spread like wildfire, and lots of fun to use. Just you and your college friends, and their friends.
test6554··on Data centers in space makes no sense
AI sovereignty, not AI efficiency. Redesign AI chips with lower power density and higher thermal tolerances and you get more efficient radiation with some sacrifice in compute power. But you are outside the jurisdiction of every country.

Then you get people paying much more money to use less-tightly-moderated space-based AI rather than heavily moderated AI.

test6554··on LLM-as-a-Courtroom
Defence attourney: "Judge, I object"

Judge: "On what grounds?"

Defence attourney: "On whichever grounds you find most compelling"

Judge: "I have sustained your objection based on speculation..."

test6554··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
Imagine a senior dev who just approves PRs, approves production releases, and prioritizes bug reports and feature requests. LLM watches for errors ceaslessly, reports an issue. Senior dev reviews the issue and assigns a severity to it. Another LLM has a backlog of features and errors to go solve, it makes a fix and submits a PR after running tests and verifying things work on its end.
test6554··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
When robots start sending us bullets, we'll probably look back fondly at the time when they sent us thank you letters.
test6554··on The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
The “nostalgia” of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
test6554··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
How long before it creates a folder named meth den and just holds up in there for a couple weeks at a time.
test6554··on Free software scares normal people
It’s a bit like obscuring the less-used functions on a TV remote with tape.

It’s like creating a new tv controller with fewer options.

test6554··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
Under the grant rules programming languages must be strongly typed. No strings identifying as an int, etc. :-)
test6554··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
Things that need work necessarily cost money. Someone doing the work for free is not inherently sustainable. Profits motivate work to get done all on its own. Profits by definition is money over and above expenses. So it creates a perpetual sustainable mechanism. Competition motivates quality and efficient pricing (eventually).

Lobbying corrupts this a bit. However they are not lobbying to suppress private competitors only government-run competition that has no profit motive or competition. When the government runs it we still pay for it, except now people who don’t use it also pay. Also wealthy people pay a disproportionate share as compared to their use due to progressive income tax.

In theory anyone can start a company if they have a better or more efficient product or offering and get the profits instead.

Thats the rationale in a nutshell.

test6554··on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
I'm worried all that cheap easily accessible LLM capacity will be serving us ads if we're lucky and subtly pushing us to use brands that pay money if we're not.

If AI says don't buy a subaru it's not worth the money, then Subaru pays attention and they are willing to pay money to get a better rec. Same for Univerisites. Students who see phrases like "If the degree is from brown flush it down" (ok hyperbole, but still) are going to pick different schools.

test6554··on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
Those extra ounces will build muscle. Those extra hundreds of dollars you save won’t hurt either.
test6554··on Death to type classes
I just picture Charlie from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” connecting the dots.
test6554··on Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust
It’s the mark of a good programming language that you can, with sufficient effort, write bad code.
test6554··on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
Do some people just mentally insert the word “people” after every occurrence of the words “black” or “white” they happen across in their daily lives?

And then decide whoever used them had malicious intent?

test6554··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
This. Pokemon likely has an a la carte menu and platforms can choose which seasons they want.

Streaming services have a limited budget for kids content so they can’t catch em all without sacrificing other kids content. They need pokemon they need action they meed rainbows and princesses and they needs stuff for babies and toddlers.

test6554··on Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up
This is a bit like getting mad that Adam Sandler made another movie. It costs you nothing that stuff other people like exists. Don't waste energy on it.
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