Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

At a talk about the demographic decline in Japan and the speakers are throwing around projections about what things will look like in 2100... It's a weird contrast to listening to podcasts predicting an intelligence explosion/singularity in the next 15 years. www.astralcodexten.com/p/slightly-a...

Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries

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astralcodexten.com

This coffee shop is just going hard through Evanescence's Fallen (2003) and I am here for it.

It begins

This gym has reached the stage in its lifecycle where they realize their original matched set of squat racks is not enough, so they start pulling in mismatched and smaller ones wherever there's free floor space.

Post elbow-surgery update: today I did 11 chin ups!

I have a number of long-running apps in pinned tabs. It's interesting seeing how many of them fail to do an SPA nav (usually with infinite loading spinners), when you come back to them after a few days. I suspect the issue is server-client version skew.

I've been upgrading graphics cards (1080 Ti → 2080 Ti → 3080) for a while, but finally my 2017 base-build has gotten behind enough in everything else that I'm doing a new one. Hello my beautiful 4090, with an AMD CPU this time! pcpartpicker.com/list/6PN3yg

"Please explain and fix this SVG path syntax" is such a perfect use case for AI. chat.openai.com/share/7f5faf...

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

I found my Google Play Store rating history. I guess I have a pattern.

A well-argued counterpoint to optimism about AI progress. thegradient.pub/why-transfor... And yet... I still want to believe.

No Surface Pro 10?! I've been holding out on an upgrade for the last half-year!

Museum pro-tip: if you run out of time to see everything, just stop by the gift shop on the way out. They'll have prints and postcards of all the best stuff. If you hold them up close to your face it's subjectively just as big as the real thing!

Spain's fertility rate is ... lower than Japan's? (1.23 births/woman vs. 1.34). I guess there's some other explanation for why there are so many more ill-behaved kids in cafes/restaurants/public transit...

I feel bad for hotels, airplanes, etc. that spent effort modernizing with USB-A charging ports everywhere.

It's been 5 hours since I landed in a non-Japan country and so far I've only bowed to a stranger once!

I just finished one of my favorite podcast episodes ever, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social interviewing Katie Elliott with an introduction to metaphysics. Sean is as always a great interviewer, and Katie was one of the most engaging guests he's had to date. Highly recommended!

This must have taken so long before copilot

This is cool. Caltech (my alma mater) was worried that the requirement on high school students to take calculus/physics/chemistry was bad for DEI. So they added an alternative path: Khan Academy, or test out using AP/IB exams. Same standards upheld, but more opportunities to meet them. 👍

No high school calculus, chemistry, physics class? Caltech has a new admission work-around

Caltech is dropping requirements for high school calculus, chemistry and physics courses for students without access to them and will offer other ways to demonstrate knowledge in those fields.

latimes.com

I spent 100 hours in Cyberpunk 2077 before I finally recognized the innuendo in this (very common throughout the game world) hotel sign.

Debugging speculation rules developer.chrome.com/blog/debuggi... by @tunetheweb.bsky.social

Debugging speculation rules - Chrome Developers

Learn all about the Chrome DevTools features to debug speculation rules used to prefetch and prerender future page navigations.

developer.chrome.com

You might think defining min() and max() in C would be simple. But you would apparently be wrong? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/minmax.h

Interesting to compare: ChatGPT explaining 峰 vs. 岳 characters, both with external sources https://chat.openai.com/share/3a58f277-a283-484a-ac12-b23e20b297af and without https://chat.openai.com/share/ee73c1dc-0aff-44c1-92e8-6bebdf365b5d. The without is honestly better?

This is a work of art. Don't forget to check the release notes too.

qntm@qntm.org · 3y ago

lol https://github.com/TodePond/C

I just fed a 3074-line FreePascal file, plus a 7-line diff, into Anthropic's Claude AI, and asked it to spot the bug. And... I think it did, using its knowledge of FreePascal string semantics. Living in the future is pretty great, isn't it?

Recent <ref> changes do not work for long reference names · Issue #153 · whatwg/wattsi

E.g. in the live https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ now, we have [JSIMPORTATTRIBU] and [CSSVIEWTRANSITI]. No idea why this would be happening... 4cabebb#diff-c1f20712f6803c4501d76807b80642566e51f13847a8...

github.com

WTF how did ai.com change hands from OpenAI to X AI?

I went under general anesthesia a few days ago. I still feel like the same person, despite the discontinuity of consciousness! It's nice to get some first-hand confirmation that uploading will preserve my identity.

Observables are to event subscriptions as promises are to callbacks: first-class objects you can transform, pass around, and build on top of. @domfarolino.com and @benlesh.bsky.social are looking to make them a standard part of the web platform, and I'm optimistic about their chances!

GitHub - domfarolino/observable: Observable API proposal

Observable API proposal. Contribute to domfarolino/observable development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I now have a Pixel Fold! It seems cool! I hope I end up using it as planned!