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it's a lot easier to use hyper granular least privilege keys for everything now, just ask your agent to set it up having 100s of these doesn't feel painful anymore

Capital is just storytelling layered on reality, it does not like exist in any practical sense. It's just a bunch of SQL rows in a few venerated databases.

Very true, but also striking how almost all users of this platform, many complaining about "cost" of "living" all day, are in the top decile to the right, lamenting through phones (and assorted modern comforts) assembled by people nearer the mode of the distribution.

the reasonable thing to do would be admitting that the protocol (before the new spaces addition) is for public data only, and not implement DMs at all (and also stop pretending that access control like private accts and blocks are anything more than a speed bump), but then twitterites wouldn't join

LLMs used to fish for interesting stuff in the entire raw feed at the message level beats LLMs used as spam filter for legacy feeds at the account level.

It's possible (and fine) to switch models at every turn in the chat.

In the process I learned there is no good open source contrast algorithm so we're doing a survey on contrast to make one. Would be cool if you could take some minutes out of your day and do it. For science! contrastsurvey.earendil.com

Supper Intelligence.

Microsoft and Nvidia: You can run an AI model on this Surface Laptop Ultra Us: Look at that sweet magnetic USB-C port.

Not sure answering "will the hobby survive?" solves "will someone pay for it?" anxiety. 🙃

Nice thing with AI programming: it's easier to make single-file script with no dependencies. Took a few minutes to remove requests and BeautifulSoup from a little web scrapper Python script. The project-subset Soup clone is 120 lines. A "developer comfort" wrapper like requests was pointless here.

Video KYC: rekt. 😂

I kinda think that grappling with modern ML turns you at least a little insane. If you aren't at least a little crazy it's because you have not engaged with it enough

Maybe a revival of separate interface/implementation languages would be a good idea in the AI age: where we write or review the interfaces and bots do the implementations we don't look at outside emergencies.

That's cute. Public info, that should be widely available to public policy researchers, is inaccessible? Let's hack our way in! Aligned.

The "upgrade every twenty minutes" culture is not solving "technical debt", it's simply defaulting on it.

Maybe the way to fix the "too many submissions" problem is to switch to a "we will call you" pull model. (Like close github PR, and instead scan all forks for interesting stuff; a scientific journal could close submissions, and fish for stuff by scanning the entire preprints dump, etc.)

new blog post char.lt/blog/2026/09...

This is the one effective and operational regulatory force that keeps the entire world somewhat grounded at the moment.

For fans of free tokens ling-3.0-flash-fin on openrouter is very good for coding. It's a finance-themed fine tune but it doesn't hurt normal coding ability.

I think I'm using coding agents like it's Spring 2026. Does that count as retro-computing?

"Wait, I think I'm mixing up the coordinate systems." 🤖🤝🧍

Looks devastating for (remote) sex work.

IIRC Austral borretti.me/article/intr...

Annoying, but it's not implausible that IF a co gets a model that's far ahead they will just become the entire economy, by outcompeting everyone without access, selling end products and services, and employing the residual "hands", directly. That's why antitrust authorities need nuclear weapons.

Leftists: In my essay I invented Fully Automated Gay Space Communism as an aspirational tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Fully Automated Gay Space Communism from classic leftist essay Definitely Create Fully Automated Gay Space Communism Leftists: wait wtf

slippery slope: > why do you want a magnetic catapult on this aircraft carrier? > why do you want an aircraft carrier? > why do you want a navy? > why do you want "national security"? > why do you want nation states? > why do you want to be alive?

SET: it's Wirth it.

Sure. But even dumb python script used to require initiation into the Python priesthood or being submissive to a member of the priesthood. Excel is liberation computing for the office proletariat! 😎

Financial apocalypse for Big Saas is compatible with it being true that end users will rarely want to DIY; through weakened pricing power, increased competition from Small(er) Saas, and recursively the same happening to their legacy customers.

just had a very productive call with dijkstra. goto is back on the table

Life hack: read the 1 and 2 star reviews. If it's mostly "delivery dude was rude" or "this hammer is useless to remove nail polish, avoid" the product's good.

Life hack: read the 1 and 2 star reviews. If it's mostly "delivery dude was rude" or "this hammer is useless to remove nail polish, avoid" the product's good.

"That path resolved rng_get() to MicroPython’s software fallback instead of COLDCARD’s hardware RNG implementation." 😂

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

Mansplaining School of Prompting defeated. 🤣

Not a good time to be a yak. 🙃