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> Usage telemetry is on by default in releases. Turn it off in Settings → Privacy.

Probably a good idea if you work with sensitive data (and you’re already on Zero Data Retention)

I’m also a physicist, and I do worry about physics. I’ve already had a few successful sessions with Claude and Astra where they came up with useful ideas in my field. I still know what to ask for and nudge them where it matters, but I fear it’s going to be a few short months before they can decide that too, unassisted.

I want all of those things AND flying cars

a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2H31RzTPoU

wow that's such an annoying animation

My late neighbour Tullio (wonderful old man, clock maker) once told me that when he was a kid he cared for a chick crow and they went on to be friends for many years. For example he would ride his bike to work in the morning and the crow would accompany him along the way, and then back home in the evening. What a magical frienship.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but isn’t the climb independent of the route?

You can’t diagonalize a generic matrix by adding a rank 1 matrix. That holds only for dimension 2.

I’m not in any way aware of how macOS is architected, but aren’t all these inconsistencies (like different app icons, different menu styles, different window corners etc) pointing to bad code design? There should be one shared source of truth for what needs to be consistent.

I don’t think this is true.

This comment is hysteresical

Come on now, I don’t think it was meant as a justification of that inexcusable driver’s behaviour.

As cool as this looks, I can’t get past my suspicion of Meta…

That’s what I’m saying, I don’t set it up. I just install Claude code and I’m good to go.

Managing configuration files feels like worrying about fine-tuning in 2023

I’m a professional theoretical physicist in my 40s and I never thought the day would come that I would realize I became shit at mental math. I can do quantum physics in my head but don’t ask me to add 17 to 34

I’ve tried to keep up with “best practices” around AI use, but things are improving so quickly that I’ve largely given up. The vanilla agents are just fine for my needs as they come.

I don’t think so: the ELO rating difference is what matters, e.g. a 1000 player vs an 800 player has the same win probability as a 2800 vs a 2600.

George Costanza would be proud

That’s a fair question, but it seems that it’s not yet necessary. See here

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/

Reminded me of this https://xkcd.com/1367

IMHO the iPod nano (the little puck with a touchscreen that you could clip on stuff) was the best player I ever had.

ok ok, I get it now, it's satire ^^'

where are downpayments so cheap? I'll move there ^^'

Exactly. Is that figure about the water 'flowing' through the datacenter? I want to believe they would not just dump it after use.

> Academic studies and knowledge are literally a worthless waste of time

Not everything is about money

I agree, but like many others I'm willing to pay a fair price for that freedom and ownership, and I believe there is a customer base to be captured. And in the end there's a cost for a company to put all of those locks in place, which they could simply avoid.