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  My hobby: Annoying people by deadpan, and relentlessly referring to "AI" (ai) as "Al" (al). So many billboards for Al along 80 and 101 in San Francisco. What's with that guy.

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  Framework isn't really building you a better Linux laptop, and you might as well still buy a Dell/Lenovo. (Or an MNT if it fits your uses)

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  I'm not the only one who gets kept awake at night about this, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_the_atmosphere_of_Earth#/media/File:Mauna_Loa_CO2_monthly_mean_concentration.svg Not the graph itself—it's horrifying—but the misinterpretation of how urgent it is. At 500ppm, CO2 begins to have measurable impact on human cognition. We're almost there. But it also means there's *no margin any more*. Any closed room now quickly results in CO2 issues in humans. It...

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  Holy crap I actually finished PCB layout and all the checklist. New phase: finding alternates for all the "Basic" parts JLCPCB has either replaced or stopped being "Basic" since the last time I checked.

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  Oh grumble, so Linus Torvalds is pro-LLM then? I could draw a straight line from "NVidia binary blob module does not violate GPL" (2000s) to "LLMs are ok" but I'd come across as a very cranky old man.

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  Will always remember Lindsey Graham mostly for his spitting, foaming defense of Brett Kavanaugh, because Kavanaugh got accused of being a predator.

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  Group of SREs sat around a table at a bar, dishing about broken shit at work “I’ve got a teeeeeeext!”

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  I was this >< close to buying a Framework laptop last year, until I found out their shtick is just social-justice-washing. They're still funding fascists, and still not doing any kind of backpedaling or restorative action. Heck, I even picked up a business card at one point, thinking that might be an interesting place to work... Personally, I've decided this is actively worse than, say, buying a laptop from Apple, Dell or Lenovo; because at least they're not pretending to be s...

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  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116399965854914021 The Galaxy-Capitalism-Brain level is where even the ultimate rent-seeking technology (fake AI) also has to pay rent.

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  Having dinner with Trump is harmless they said. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/31/iran-reportedly-warns-apple-potential-target/

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  Lol Anthropic are an Accidental Tech Podcast sponsor now? (Not an April 1 joke)

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  The thing that really gets me about how all these LLM prompts are written, especially Claude, is that they're *IN ENGLISH*. You would think that they might be expressed more precisely and effectively as something in a vector space, native to the model. Nope. Just in English, instructing a mindless, unintelligent algorithm to *hopefully* emit a different token sequence. None of this shit is coding. It's not anything. This is the upside-down hellscape inverse of coding.

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116250982563193049 Never been convinced that there's a _need_ for any effect to exist in that point in the graph, because there's always the simpler explanation: dumb people can still learn things, but they're still dumb.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/116279537703079004 Among the many reasons I'm slowly disentangling myself from the Apple ecosystem. The company today is still mostly recognizable as the company a decade ago, but the pace of transitioning to another Microsoft is picking up.

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  Excited to hear that we’re going to rename all the Washington and Jefferson streets everywhere.

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  Putin was in serious danger of running out of money to pay his generals—the whole point of sanctions—and Trump (and the entire cowardly international community) just went and bailed him out.

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  You know you’ve been routing a PCB in kicad too long, when you look at map directions, and think it would be shorter if you just used a via or two.

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  Ballpark comparison, if most people used LLM chat frequently: it would be as if we wiped out the energy savings of moving entire nations from incandescent light bulbs, to LED.

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