Watching the X-Files S01E07 about a computer system called COS, a rogue AI, ironically the system architect is called Claude
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Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it
There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather than the...
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this is incredibly fascinating and the implications this has for treating neurological diseases like ALS is enormous. two minute read. amazing stuff. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
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Fascinating how it never seems to have occured to such a 5 dimensional chess master strategist as Ulf Poschardt that fear of Fascism among Centrists and mobilisation on the Left might mean that AfD pressure on the CDU/CSU could lead to a more Left wing governing coalition in Germany
SPD absolutely lost Gen-X
Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt@de.whln.eu · 3w agoBERLIN: Wahlverhalten nach Alter — Hochrechnung Infratest dimap/ARD, 18:35 Uhr CDU | SPD | GRÜNE | LINKE | AfD 16-24: 8 | 7 | 12 | 43 | 12 25-34: 7 | 6 | 14 | 48 | 9 35-44: 12 | 9 | 19 | 31 | 15 45-59: 20 | 11 | 19 | 19 | 19 60-69: 25 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 22 70+: 34 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 13 #aghw #ltwbe
#Merz is such a pathetic Trainwreck, down under we'd have been seeing some decent #leadershit action
AfD in Saxon Anhalt wants to both kick immigrants out and also attract German expats back, extremely coherent
Really hoping the BSW don't reach 5%, Germany needs leadership, time to step up Boris Pistorius
Tweaking a source code parser is endlessly rewarding fun! So many little tricks, know your customer!
Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.
oh, i'll make the parser faster, 6 hours later, rabbit holing
I truly love the ring bahn in #berlin in summer, when it's running, as it has the ultra modern trains which air conditioning which actually works above 35C
Hmm, didn't manage to quite reproduce my late night, slightly drunk fried chicken with mirin glory again today! 39C is only a baby heatwave
England football fans From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
one of my favourite things about software performance tuning, is you can sometimes fuck up and see hardly any improvement, but counterintuitively, that's often a great signal, that you're doing all the extra work to get the benefit, without the actual benefit, without introducing overhead
It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.
Trump should be called Pool Boy for the rest of his cursed life
Apple customers deserve a browser that’s genuinely blazing fast, private and secure. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/safari-...
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» “Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!?
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ELON MUSK SUFFERS BIGGEST PERSONAL WEALTH LOSS IN HISTORY AS SPACEX VALUE PLUNGES MUSK RECORDS LARGEST-EVER FORTUNE WIPEOUT FOLLOWING SPACEX DECLINE
Humans will for some reason walk a long way to see water falling down a mountain
I reckon the EU should pass a law making the presence of a cork screw mandatory in all forms of accommodation
You can knock Windows all you like, the NIO WatchService on Windows rocks, beating both Linux (ok) and MacOS (dire) Simply point it at a directory and get FS events #java