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Almost exactly a year ago, I measured how many of the top one million websites had adopted llms.txt, the web experience optimized for LLMs. Back then, the number was 1.22 %, or around 12k domains. A lot has happened in ...
What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.
Look, before you say it, I know. Persona 4 Golden is held up by some as one of the best and most important RPGs ever. After all, it was the series' Final Fantasy 7 moment, where many of the mechanical ...
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem (Gamers Nexus, YouTube) We all know that smart TVs phone home but it’s far more invasive (and illegal) than you could possibly imagine. Unplugging the network is not even safe because ...
All the smart kids I know have been doing extremely unsafe things such as blowing up or burning various things, selling homemade figurine counterfeits, recklessly riding bikes in the woods,
Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner Bros; Privacy wars get worse; "Weapons of Math Destruction"; HK ...
I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up ...
Maybe it's because I got to see it in IMAX, but I really liked Christopher Nolan's Castaway reboot. Casting Zendaya as Wilson was a bold choice, though.
Sundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it's a luxuriating that's quickly pierced by the worry that we've seen the last warm ...
After discovering shin honkaku detective fiction and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, I’ve read: Murder in the Crooked House (Sōji Shimada) The Decagon House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) The Mill House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) Shimada’s second book (translated into English) is far ...
Biggest knock on Astra so far is that when I raise an issue during a long-running task, it will acknowledge my concern and then stop all work. Then I put the Tim Cook anecdote with "then why are you still ...
I'm near-sighted and worn glasses ~daily for the past decade or so. It took me awhile to find a simple and effective approach to cleaning my glasses so here I wanted to share what I've found useful. H...
Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians v looking at the internet; Advice for self-publishers; Advice for writers; ...
This is the first Saturday in a month I've woken up without a blocked nose or a mucus-hurling cough. Trips to Spain, Sweden, and Germany in quick succession and loaded on top of a cross country bike ride may have ...
First Astra impressions: it's like Fable, but faster. If you value your time, I can't see why you'd drive a coding agent with anything less than a Fable/Astra model. They produce so much less rework.
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, ...
A charcoal sketch of a student at a desk with a finished handwritten page in front of him while a purple AI figure across the desk hands his pencil back to him, its other palm open and empty/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp I've been ...
A sienna sketch of a man squatting under a giant open book he is lifting overhead, while a purple robot arm on a desk hands a striped summary sheet to a faint gray figure/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp There's something really interesting about the ...
