Yesterday I noticed that my personal weather app that I coded wasn't working, and that the weather service it depended on was giving HTTP 500 server errors for a lot of other people. It turns about that Claude Desktop also experienced a glitch, and that it was because scheduled tasks did not handle the transition to Daylight Saving Time gracefully. This is another reason why we should abandon this stupid semiannual ritual. It no longer makes sense. Why can't our government get its act together and fix it? I don't want to hear how we should have Congress handle this and that. Congress can't do squat.
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Roblox game-buying frenzy is turning teens into millionaires./ There was an article on Bloomberg that came out recently that I was going to link to, but it turns about it's been reported since last year. It's great that enterprising teens are making money like this and it's incredible that such a platform exists. The people putting up the money are game design companies, and it speak volumes about the demand in the gaming industry.
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Humanity Changed an Object's Orbit Around The Sun For The First Time. This is kind of a big deal. This is what movies like Armageddon were about – the ability to divert a space object's orbit. It was actually done, and so perhaps the Earth can be saved from wayward asteroids, provided we have enough lead time, and that the object is small enough.
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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years. The change was motivated by AI but GPL has been losing momentum. The MIT license is easier to use and does allow proprietary use and no disclosure is required. Or course this upsets geeks like Richard Stallman, but change is life.
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3-D printing a tiny elephant inside a cell. All right I had to see that to believe it. It's true.
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AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns. Here's a video of a distraught software engineer.
It's odd because I use LLMs to code but don't feel useless or have an empty feeling. Is it attitude. I think I use AI-assisted coding differently that most engineers. I'm in no rush, so I use it incrementally, and do feel that I am crafting something from scratch. And I learn from the LLM all the time. New libraries that I didn't know about. Or new approaches that I hadn't considered. And I love it when it figures out what has gone wrong without me wasting an hour or so doing the troubleshooting. If this guy is just cranking out apps for a company I can see why he's not proud of his output. He's a cog in the corporate wheel. I create software for myself, and try to learn while I'm doing so.
Chamath Palihapitya is finding that while it may not be hard to start a startup, making it profitable is.
Iranian Women Graduate in STEM at Nearly 3× the Rate of U.S. Women — and Has 5× More PhD Students Per Capita. Yeah, there were a LOT of Persian students and instructors in the AI program I was enrolled in. If you look a country rankings of IQ, Iran is consistently high, usually in the top 10. So this doesn't surprise me at all. That's why it was especially painful to see them held back by their oppressive government. That will end soon, though.
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I would love to have all the features enabled on all my devices.
I would love to have Siri on my phone.
I would love to have Alexa control the lighting in my house and play music on command.
I would love to own an electric car with over-the-air updates.
I would love to log in with my Google account everywhere.
I would love to sign up for your newsletter.
I would love to try the free trial.
I would love to load all my credit cards onto my phone.
I would love all of that.But I can't.
I've had those feelings. I even don't want websites to set cookies on my browser. The web is not what it used to be.
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Sinkhole.app. Not sure why they named it "sinkhole" but this could come in handy. Instead of paying for apps that do simple things, here's a utility collection that will do these for free. Public service.
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Have you switched to Ghostty? I have, although I didn't know about all the other things that made it better.
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Apple's foldable phone may be called Ultra, and may cost a whopping $2900. I don't think I need it, frankly. I'm still waiting for Tony Stark's phone.
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Washington state gas prices are soaring. Don't just blame the Iran bombing. Blame all those carbon taxes. The state is becoming like California.
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Oregon Workweek Hits Lowest Level Since 2010 As Hours Shrink. How is the state going to prosperous and attract business like this? It's a Doom Loop.
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