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Cake day: September 27th, 2026

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  • Our devices are shoving convenience in our faces every opportunity they get.

    “Give us all your data and depend on our products for the rest of your life but boy will it be convenient!”

    In face of that pretty much everything else is inconvenient, esp. interacting with humans.

    LLM-assisted coding puts that on overdrive. Countless times have I heard in the past year or so “well who has the time to code by hand?”. Sure, people have always been complaining, esp. unpaid FOSS coders, but never as an argument against doing the thing itself.

    It’s like giving people the choice between a bun, a cucumber and a beef patty or an already packaged McDonalds hamburger. “Well who still has the time to make their own sandwiches”.

    I hope hand-coded will become a selling point at some point but considering most people don’t care about what is going on under the surface of their devices at all…










  • Depends a lot on the proofreading the scientists did before “deploying” it:

    Radical Numerics’ research is really more like a blog post — not only was the study self-published, rather than being vetted by a scientific journal, but it hasn’t even been peer reviewed. Making matters even murkier, the company declined to share clinical information about the patient or the doctors involved with the NYT, citing the proprietary nature of a treatment it hopes to monetize.

    Say no more. Is Elizabeth Holmes out of prison now?