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For the first week, my rescue pup ran away scared from the TV even with the sound muted; eventually I found a video that was calm and static enough for him to realize the TV wouldn't kill him, and then we were able to turn on the sound too.
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
For the first week, my rescue pup ran away scared from the TV even with the sound muted; eventually I found a video that was calm and static enough for him to realize the TV wouldn't kill him, and then we were able to turn on the sound too.
I'm still driving the first car I bought, and I haven't bought another
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I'm still driving the first car I bought, and I haven't bought another
I'm just playing off misunderstanding injecting the turkey with marinade vs injecting the turkey into yourself.
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm just playing off misunderstanding injecting the turkey with marinade vs injecting the turkey into yourself.
Huh, I've never heard of ingesting turkey intravenously into your body.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Huh, I've never heard of ingesting turkey intravenously into your body.
Yeah. Because of the bilingual packaging, "colored pencil / crayon de couleur" became "pencil crayon".
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Yeah. Because of the bilingual packaging, "colored pencil / crayon de couleur" became "pencil crayon".
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." - Captain Zap Brannigan
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." - Captain Zap Brannigan
Local models might survive the bubble popping, but I doubt that marginal productivity gains, if any, will be worth the actual costs of LLMs once venture capital runs out of ability to subsidize the run costs (and already-becoming-uninsurable legal costs of building the models.)
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Local models might survive the bubble popping, but I doubt that marginal productivity gains, if any, will be worth the actual costs of LLMs once venture capital runs out of ability to subsidize the run costs (and already-becoming-uninsurable legal costs of building the models.)
For Wizard Wednesday: This guy, or more specifically this guy plus six of his closest clone friends.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
For Wizard Wednesday: This guy, or more specifically this guy plus six of his closest clone friends.
Yes, the paper studying the effects said the devs involved also estimated that they were more efficient - they expected to be 25% more efficient and thought they were 20% more efficient after doing it, but actually measuring the output revealed that they were 20% slower. arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yes, the paper studying the effects said the devs involved also estimated that they were more efficient - they expected to be 25% more efficient and thought they were 20% more efficient after doing it, but actually measuring the output revealed that they were 20% slower. arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
Except they aren't even useful - people think they're useful and estimate that they're more efficient when using LLMs to code but in reality they're 20% less efficient when using LLMs vs actually doing it themselves.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Except they aren't even useful - people think they're useful and estimate that they're more efficient when using LLMs to code but in reality they're 20% less efficient when using LLMs vs actually doing it themselves.
They had four security guys out directing traffic, so the parking lot itself was running relatively smoothly! The 500 feet of road between the interstate and the entrance to Costco's parking lot was an absolute clusterfuck.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
They had four security guys out directing traffic, so the parking lot itself was running relatively smoothly! The 500 feet of road between the interstate and the entrance to Costco's parking lot was an absolute clusterfuck.
I made the mistake of going to Costco during Thanksgiving week.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I made the mistake of going to Costco during Thanksgiving week.
Makes me wonder if Erdős had ADHD - he famously took Ritalin and Benzedrine basically his entire adult life to prolifically publish math research.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Makes me wonder if Erdős had ADHD - he famously took Ritalin and Benzedrine basically his entire adult life to prolifically publish math research.
Do any of those operate in the US? Because I know there's inter-europe payment processors but US-Europe is much less of a thing due to regulatory burdens, which is why people end up still using PayPal.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Do any of those operate in the US? Because I know there's inter-europe payment processors but US-Europe is much less of a thing due to regulatory burdens, which is why people end up still using PayPal.
PayPal is one of very few money transfer businesses that operate within the US and work internationally. Unfortunately, despite how bad they are, all the other options I've ever heard of are substantially less reliable at actually sending money.
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
PayPal is one of very few money transfer businesses that operate within the US and work internationally. Unfortunately, despite how bad they are, all the other options I've ever heard of are substantially less reliable at actually sending money.
PayPal is one of very few money transfer businesses that operate within the US and work internationally. Unfortunately, despite how bad they are, all the other options I've ever heard of are substantially less reliable at actually sending money.
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
PayPal is one of very few money transfer businesses that operate within the US and work internationally. Unfortunately, despite how bad they are, all the other options I've ever heard of are substantially less reliable at actually sending money.
Proton is getting into AI themselves (and lying about conversations with it being private and never saved); their CEO also praised Trump's nominations to the DoJ.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Proton is getting into AI themselves (and lying about conversations with it being private and never saved); their CEO also praised Trump's nominations to the DoJ.
Also can say "go away" via it in the event of salesmen/missionaries. (I have Nest instead of Ring, because I worked at Google at the time and knew someone who worked on the team that would tell police "no, you're asking for too much info" - this was pre-Covid so no guarantee that team still exists.)
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Also can say "go away" via it in the event of salesmen/missionaries. (I have Nest instead of Ring, because I worked at Google at the time and knew someone who worked on the team that would tell police "no, you're asking for too much info" - this was pre-Covid so no guarantee that team still exists.)
I'm on a street that doesn't have porch piracy (no sidewalks/street parking) but my front yard camera is useful for "where did they leave that package?", finding where my dog pooped when I'm cleaning the yard, wild animals; then I have a camera watching my firearms storage on principle.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I'm on a street that doesn't have porch piracy (no sidewalks/street parking) but my front yard camera is useful for "where did they leave that package?", finding where my dog pooped when I'm cleaning the yard, wild animals; then I have a camera watching my firearms storage on principle.
You mean Arrested Development doesn't give the very best legal advice?
a man with glasses is talking about arresting a husband and a wife for the same crime
Alt: George Bluth Sr. from Arrested Development in prison claiming "they cannot arrest a husband and a wife for the same crime" then winking.
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You mean Arrested Development doesn't give the very best legal advice?
On the other hand, making it so that you don't need to engage in Pokemon Eugenics outside of the most extreme cases (shiny, minimal other-attack IV, etc) is nice - you can fix the one you care about, rather than just "catch a new one."
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
On the other hand, making it so that you don't need to engage in Pokemon Eugenics outside of the most extreme cases (shiny, minimal other-attack IV, etc) is nice - you can fix the one you care about, rather than just "catch a new one."
Yup, Monstrosity is just an activated ability with no "activate only as a sorcery" restriction.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Yup, Monstrosity is just an activated ability with no "activate only as a sorcery" restriction.