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I don’t know if this is contentious, though it feels like it will be, but after a season and a bit of the new Rurouni Kenshin anime I’m ready to say it’s far superior to the 90s version

I’m sure you can poke holes in this idea, but if your goal is to maximize productivity / output, then it behooves you to maximize engagement. People won’t engage in clearly rigged games. If the top of the ladder is unreachable, you’re just losing potential participants to apathy / disinterest

preventing massive disparity through taxation is just balancing. you want your audience to believe they have a credible path to the top of the leaderboard. in theory capitalism actually should do this through efficient markets etc, but that demands … well, balancing

for some reason I find myself watching Gargoyles yet again. this show was too good for its Disney afternoon slot. a ludicrous collection of voice talent, serialized drama in a sea of episodic media. an audacious four episode series open. I don’t know how they got away with it but I’m glad they did

interesting results that are not shocking from this Mozilla study on open weight vs. frontier AI models: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/e...

it feels inevitable that more compliance requirements (and expensive auditing) will continue appearing to prove SBOM-but-for-AI for critical sectors. US gov (and plausibly EU tbh) will basically ban Chinese model use for critical work

interesting results that are not shocking from this Mozilla study on open weight vs. frontier AI models: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/e...

Yes, especially when I’m rapid posting and fuck up. However, there’s this part of me that thinks it’s better if we just own our errors and have to correct in a follow up. Using IRC more again has made me cognizant of how much I rely on fast-editing my messages instead of … stopping and thinking.

Modern messaging has totally broken my brain, in terms of composition. I’ll forget on IRC that *nobody knows it took me five minutes to compose a reply* because there’s no typing……. indicator. When I do recall this, it’s freeing.

my work continues giving me infinite tokens for, well, work. it "feels good" to use the most powerful available machinery for every task, but as the sudden onset of "tokenomics" is hitting people, for my own personal use on small codebases I genuinely think Opus (or comparable) is mostly overkill

also, model release cadence continues to be stupid fast. reassess new models with baseline behavior. no accumulated user config, no pile of skills, no honed instructions. try "unburdened by context" tasks with model+1/model+2 revs if you have the time. discard now-superfluous instructions

my work continues giving me infinite tokens for, well, work. it "feels good" to use the most powerful available machinery for every task, but as the sudden onset of "tokenomics" is hitting people, for my own personal use on small codebases I genuinely think Opus (or comparable) is mostly overkill

just from personal experience/trials, i've found that avoiding compaction/compression is broadly positive. the easiest way to do that is to not burden *every new model prompt* with superfluous (and distracting!) instructions, skills, etc that may not be relevant to the task at hand

my work continues giving me infinite tokens for, well, work. it "feels good" to use the most powerful available machinery for every task, but as the sudden onset of "tokenomics" is hitting people, for my own personal use on small codebases I genuinely think Opus (or comparable) is mostly overkill

I’m not sure who recommended this book to me, or if Amazon just got the suggest right? But it’s confirming so many of my biases. a.co/0ijbbVcx

The book itself is quite modern but doesn’t seem to contemplate the impact of naming on LLM assisted coding, which I suspect (free of evidence) matters *more* than it does with humans, who are far more adaptable.

pov you have dangled an esoteric debugging problem before me

i know i do not post enough these days but just wanted to check in and ask an important question ... is it just me or is the discord 'wink' emoji kinda... weirdly horny-looking?

i'm listening to Revolver today because the first song is "Taxman" (happy tax day!), and there's a "2022 mix" in 🍎🎶 and they have either inserted or really emphasized a yawn sound in "I'm Only Sleeping" and it is SO UNSETTLING WHY DID THEY DO THIS link: youtu.be/sAG3m3p9UeI?...

also in 🍎🎶 they have lightly animated the album cover so like, sometimes john or whoever is blinking. i love this "feature" in new albums (taylor of course uses this well) but i do not like it here. i was not asking for harry potter-ization of still album art, i guess. also, get off my lawn

for fun (and as a leetcode-esque exercise) i wrote a wordle solver that would do a given wordle using a provided dictionary of five letter word candidates, determining the frequency of letters and optimal next move given the state of the board coincidentally, that was the last time i played wordle