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Old bank notes are not in circulation forever. They are accounted for by serial numbers. Banks and ATMs can process the serials and designs and report them. Eventually bank notes get pulled out of circulation. So an old bank note is by default suspicious and gets checked more thoroughly. Counterfeiters mostly benefit by blending in with the masses, so having some old note can raise suspicion.

Maybe it is also just fun...

> I wonder why do we need new notes...

Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the current banknotes are too well known and I guess the counterfeits are getting too close.

By now I’m more and more starting to wonder how this graph looks for Google itself

I wanted to try it today.

Had to request access on huggingface, which was still not answered after a day.

Given all the Inkling and Kimi announcements, this atm just feels like too little too late to be taken seriously.

That said, it’s their first release and I hope they do catch up fast.

I don’t understand Merz’s obsession with this sick leave topic, like this is going solve the economic crisis in Germany and calling people lazy will score points with voters?

Fun fact: research shows it’s probably not better or worse than before, just more rigorously reported through a new digital system since couple years (before that people needed to send paper slip notes to their employers and insurance, which some just wouldn’t do so the data was incomplete).

On the other hand, they explained that they want to go back to the rules like they were before Covid. Effectively, this means that sick leave notes can be fixed contractually between employers and employees and a lot of companies and contracts have more flexible rules as also most HR departments don’t feel like dealing with the bureaucracy.

But why would you still test for IE in 2026?

Honest question. I’s < .5% market share and retired since 2023.

Had the same experience with Claude, just somehow the entire thing felt (token) expensive.

Put a maid's uniform on it and looks almost like Rosey for the Jetsons (1962): https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey

Now honest question: How is all of that Daily Reset and Laundry stuff going to work if you have stairs and multiple floors?

  ...the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests....

To me this seems a core issue: PR reviews for most people feel tedious and this has been the case way before AI already.

Don't get me wrong, slop is slop, no matter if AI or entirely human-fabricated. But just like AI-assisted coding can actually be helpful, why can't AI-assisted PR reviews make it less tedious?

It looks like an updated HomePod mini

I’m working on tools optimized for agents, not humans, as the main users. Token efficiency, state, and loops matter more here than traditional UX.

- vibesurfer (https://github.com/frane/vibesurfer): a web browser for agents, without Chromium and CDP.

- agented (https://github.com/frane/agented): a “text editor” for agents, with undo, state, and LSP support.

- grpvn (https://github.com/frane/grpvn): a local chat for your local agent and LLMs.

In my recent quest to build agent-as-primary-user tools I've built grpvn (https://github.com/frane/grpvn), a small Go/SQLite application that lets skill- and mcp-capable agents talk to each other. Biggest issue is the lack of a hook system so the agents can autonomously read and respond. Waiting for this to be supported, as IMO multi-agent teams talking to each other are an interesting next step.

I feel the same and don’t get the extreme AI is inherently evil vs. AI is the best thing ever invented discussions. For me it’s all just emacs vs vi or tabs vs spaces kind of discussions.

It’s a tool and the good old sh* in sh* out principle applies.

People might take Mitchell’s comment as some kind of anti-AI stance, but it’s not he uses it regularly and makes a point in the X comments: “use AI, but think”

That comment sums it up best, because right now it’s hard to talk to either side, which separates at the comma.

Was thinking the same recently.

It feels like an arms race on who’s gonna become the Microsoft of the 90s, trying to own and provide everything.

I think it will play out in the same way