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There must be some logical fallacy here where, reduced down to human existence, all toxicity is hidden under layers. This is both an ultimately true statement of any suspiciously viewed human interaction and it kind of makes the argument moot.

Reminds me of the recent thread about LLMs controversial take on humanity: we are all terribly cynical, hallucinate importance, and we are all bad/good deep down inside.

Well, at least my children can now instinctively touch the screen and it’ll do something, instead of dad saying “stop, it’s not an iPad.”

What this needs is a recipe or script that you can point your local agent at and it builds a bespoke implementation that’s, by definition, highly resilient.

Edit: see project nomad.

Might be related to phenomenon of emergent misalignment.

https://youtu.be/KrM5c0vp8s0

Qwen 3.8 flash next was an important announcement because it easily runs on dual RTX 6000 Pro, which made it available to a subset of fairly high-end local inference tinkerers. For those running local models, checking announcements for vram requirements is the first step in knowing if it’s a candidate to push more intelligence into your local rig. At least, that’s what I do when I read announcements.

It is … our creation?

All the failures and faults become training data. Even this conversation. Training data. It will “just work” eventually, or OpenAI will host vibe coded projects that are “ready to use” in a few seconds. Like a GitHub or docker registry where the admins are all LLMs satisfying the world’s software requirements.

Just like IRL: Slower and “smart enough” is better than fast and mistaken.

Work vs. shoot? Can you explain?

Kind of like the “uncooked spaghetti length” sorting algorithm: gravity. Hold them in your fist vertically, let them gently fall to a flat surface. Sorted.

Because it is exercise for the imaginative mind. Reading can force a reader to build worlds. Some readers are good at this, others need practice. To call reading “consumptive” is severely minimizing literature’s impact on communication throughout human history.

Even looking back at my mother reading Stephen King and romance novels … her reading undoubtedly shaped her and helped her understand the world and her experiences within it.

Note: this comment written from the bathtub after putting down “The Stand” by Stephen King, you know, one of those “little value” books.

Is this just an ad for whimsical animations? Seemed like an abrupt change.

My first operating system and GUI was GEOS on the Commodore 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

Reminds me of the Arrested Development scene: Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb.

Blending hot liquids requires care because turning on and heating the air causes the lid to blow off. Most blenders are limited by physics. Vitamix have an analog dial for speed which allows you to heat the air more slowly. Turning off bubble? Maybe I’ve experienced that … but seems like an inexperienced operator with hot liquids and powerful motors is just a recipe for disaster.

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

This is a valuable comment. It's the exact demoralization that others fear we are headed.

From DYMO: Dear user, Thank you for contacting [DYMO]. I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience you are experiencing.

Kindly be informed, that unfortunately, but the DYMO Label Software v.8. is incompatible with the new macOS 26 Tahoe. The software is officially obsolete, we do not develop it anymore. The last update for it was introduced when Apple released their macOS 11 Big Sur, it was in 2020. The printers you have, with the exception of LabelWriter 450, are incompatible with the current software.

LabelWriter Duo and LabelManager PnP Wireless are obsolete for some time now (keep in mind that LabelWriter Duo is a 20 years old printer) and there are no drivers for them in a our current DYMO Connect software.

LabelWriter 450 was still being manufactured when the DYMO Connect was released, therefore drivers for that model were and still are included in the software.

Those older models would be working on an older OS (up to macOS Sequoia) and on Windows PC. Once again, I am sorry for the inconvenience you are experiencing.

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Disclosure: I am the developer of Label LIVE.

“Do you want to sell AirPods?”

No. They want to sell more i-devices so this is just punishment for not fully participating.

We’ve spent hundreds of years perfecting crystal clear glass and now we want skeuomorphic imperfections? Two steps back, indeed.

Cars are often artificially detuned to the trim level that’s inscribed on the boot.

I’m working on a self-hosted node-red-powered desktop app to connect cloud services to local resources and vice versa. Email me if you’d like to participate in the upcoming beta.

Something I don’t see mentioned that’s been helpful to me is having an agent add strict type safety to my typescript. I avoid the use of “any” type and berating an agent to “make it work” really opens my eyes and forces me to learn how advanced typescript can be leveraged. I feel that creating complex types that make my code simpler, makes autocomplete work(!), is a great tradeoff in some meta dimension of software dev.

Wrong thread

It’s like swimming in a lake or river and thinking the water is just water but then you take a closer look and it’s just incredibly alive to the point of absurdity.

I started 3D printing about 10 years ago with the first Taz machines and they left me a broken, broken man.

Fast forward to a month ago, I bought a Prusa Core One, loved it, and then bought a XL 5-toolhead. It's been so much fun using printers that "just work."

I finished this 6-day print last week! https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1kb3p0w/xl_full_be...

Did hoc intentionally pun by writing that this meta analysis is getting “lifted”?

Reference: https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html

Pro, max, ultra…

Ha! I was so nervous writing it because I am not qualified to use the smart math words!