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Very cool tech! Q1 27 is… Ambitious. Good luck with it, we need new interfaces for AI!
Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:02AM (#50316796)
Very cool, thank you for sharing that :) I got curious, funny how every single Wikipedia article for languages which use the Latin script is some cognate of “anthology”, including for “outsiders” (excuse the term) such as Finnish, Basque, or Hungarian, while the Dutch (and the Romans obviously) translated it.
Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:47AM (#50316679)
Rust in the future? Excuse the flippancy but what is missing nowadays?
Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:58PM (#50308586)
I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!
After asking my LLM some questions to barely grasp what you are working on, I can now say: very cool!

For anyone wondering, the thing lives at https://compile-xc.org/ ;)

It’s The Register, very much their style
Re:Blindsight (Watts Novel) on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:53AM (#49975107)
My understanding is that they are implying interstellar travel, because of its complexity, would be impossible without some form of consciousness in charge to steer things.

I'd argue that evolution has accomplished plenty of incredibly complex designs without an ounce of consciousness in play—much more complex than anything humanity has made. And I'd add that even we puny humans have been able to create intelligence without consciousness, meaning the concept of one being orthogonal to the other does not at all seem far fetched to me.

I think Blindsight quickly runs into questions which people will disagree on rather strongly, based on their beliefs and world views. Which I'd say is a marker of a good sci-fi book.

Re:Blindsight (Watts Novel) on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:37AM (#49961790)
Isn't the point of the book that the aliens are not at all conscious?
Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:22AM (#49772997)
I know the point you’re making is half facetious—do you feel like LLMs are specifically getting better at planning?
Re:I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:45AM (#49711700)
As someone who knows exactly nothing about PNG, I got curious and had an AI retrieve some numbers:

IFPRI's 2023 survey of ~2,700 rural PNG households (~900 in highland strata) found 57–70% of highland homes thatched; across those same strata, 8–12% were on-grid, 41–68% had solar, and 5–14% had no electricity. This nonrepresentative sample excluded communities more than two hours from motorable road or river access and "areas with known security risks".

The same study found adult literacy of 40–54% (27% for seasonal-highlands women), assessed using Tok Pisin (not English) sentences—directly for household heads and by household-head proxy for other members—and secondary/vocational completion of 4–8% [1].

Phones: the 2016–18 DHS put mobile-phone ownership at 34% of people aged 15–49 nationally [2]; a 2018 rural (lowlands, not highlands) IFPRI survey found just over half of households had no phone-owning member, and only about a quarter of the poorest quintile owned a phone [3]. Cellular connections—distinct from unique owners—subsequently rose from ~2.7M in 2019 [3] to 5.03M in early 2025 [4]; there were 2.57M internet users (24.1% of the population) in early 2025 [4].

[1] https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/05f7b268-cfd9-4b35-aba6-71c8... (Tables 2.4, 2.7, 2.8)

[2] https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/improved-ta...

[3] https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/fd5ac6eb-5268-4db7-ac96-bf01...

[4] https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2025-papua-new-guin...

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:43PM (#49631790)
On the Samsung Flip you can definitely see a crease—it's not super annoying but it's definitely there
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:45AM (#49560621)
If you define AGI as "can do the work of a human sitting at a computer, end to end", then I'd say comparing yourself to it on a specific skill is the wrong test. Can you hand it a role and walk away for a day/week/month?

I can’t yet. I think that I'd want at least two things it doesn't have: the ability to retain what it learned yesterday (without me carrying it in the context window and thus micromanaging it), and the ability to prioritize correctly, i.e. tell which of the n things it could do next is the one that actually matters.

Can't say for sure that those are enough, but not having them seems to be most of why I still have to "babysit" these incredible tools.

Re:Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:47AM (#49463989)
Fans stop cooling you once air temps approach body temperature. The EU sees tens of thousands of excess deaths each summer, mostly among the elderly.
Re:Substack writers, you need a website on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:45AM (#49095697)
It does
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:30AM (#48147799)
Yes, and /model claude-opus-4-6[1m] gets you the larger context window. Happy to help :)
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:01PM (#48144054)
The only way to keep using CC for me has been to stick to 4.6 1M
Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:58AM (#47958306)
Agree with your sentiment, I think synthetologist (σύνθετος/synthetos + λογία/logia) flows better.

The plural of anthropos is anthropoi, not anthropodes.

Re:The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:29PM (#47905222)
Fair warning: I’m quite ignorant in terms of economics, so this is a naïve way of looking at it.

The question that always pops up for me when it comes to UBI applied to the current capitalist system: even if you did actually come up with the money somehow (which is a pretty huge if as you say), once everyone has X “base money” per month, doesn’t that mean the cost of living (specifically renting) will rise to match this new “base”?

Re:1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" on Saturday April 25, 2026 @10:01AM (#47901629)
Look up “spatial agency bias” and “glance curve”
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:18AM (#47816581)
> extrapolanorsking

<3

Why these wouldn’t be cached is beyond me. Cool idea though!
TFA states "Capybara and Mythos appear to refer to the same underlying model"
Re:Flighty Airports on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:46AM (#47526996)
The point is "everyone is there at the stated boarding time" never actually happens IRL, so you give an earlier time.
Re:Flighty Airports on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:42AM (#47514828)
My guess is that's because boarding a plane is a little bit like being an extra for a film, it's a hurry up and wait situation. If they printed the exact time boarding starts and people showed up then (and later), no flight would ever board on time. Better for the airline to print an earlier time and have people wait longer, so they can board as quickly as possible. Every minute behind schedule costs the airline money.
Re:Flighty Airports on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:35AM (#47514781)
Have you asked people how much they'd be willing to pay?
Very cool to see movement in this space, and congrats on launching! Agree that it looks polished, I also like that you chose to show screenshots from settings on the LP.

I use yabai and I've been wanting something similar to what you built. Instead of one desktop per workspace, I'd like to be able to have "sets of desktops" per workspace as it were, because not all work I do that involves multiple apps needs them on the same screen at all times (or even ever).

As an example: I might have IDE + browser on one desktop, Fork.app and local server on another, and Music.app on a third (as I like to listen to music while I work). So to me, those are all related, but don't make sense on one desktop.

The other consideration is that I also tend to use tiling more on bigger displays. Since I sometimes do work with just the builtin display, I have to reorganize windows and desktops every time I switch, which is a bit of a PITA. With a solution like yours, but for sets of desktops, I could just switch to a different set and be done in seconds.

Is something similar possible using HopTab?

Re:The worst volume control UI in the world on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:05AM (#47466659)
It's already included in the list, between the pricing UI and the Windows XP disks
Re:Can I Run AI locally? on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:34PM (#47370263)
How much difference are you seeing between standard and Q4 versions in terms of degradation, and is it constant across tasks or more noticeable in some vs others?
Re:Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:48PM (#47146280)
It was always a matter of time

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