Probabilistic Lean coder of Java, Kotlin, Scala, Swift and Rust..

Joined May 2008
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OMG love this, stupidest people on earth the antivaxxers will be fueling comedy into the next millennium...
Have they tried treating the Reflecting Pool with Ivermectin?
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Went to make that last post, was almost done realized the pasted G content was markdown and X said 'try our new composer.' I thought 'it wouldn't drop my whole post in the drink.' Clicked. Of course it did. $44B and a deformed drug addict running things guess the surprise there was out 10 decimal places.
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Could throw most of Skynyrd's catalog in the fire would be fine with me, but damn I love this song. The guitarists always spit out nasty, tasteful riffs, they have chops, but they don't have to beat you in the face with them. I love all songs that change the rhythm in the chorus. Asked Gemini if it was in a different time signature, and I knew the song was written for their Label Showcase when they got signed, but man gave me a great answer. The Industry Event: A Showcase The term you are looking for is a **showcase** (or **label showcase / industry showcase**). In Lynyrd Skynyrd’s specific history, "Workin' for MCA" was written for a legendary industry event: the "Sounds of the South" press party in 1973. Producer Al Kooper (the "Yankee Slicker" mentioned in the lyrics) had just signed the band to his new MCA-distributed imprint. He threw this showcase in Atlanta to introduce his roster to about 500 music industry executives and journalists. Skynyrd blew the roof off the room by opening their set with this exact song, which they had written specifically for the occasion. --- Time Signatures: Verse vs. Chorus No, the verse and chorus are not in different time signatures. The entire song remains in a standard **4/4 time signature** from start to finish. However, it is brilliant at tricking the ear into thinking the meter is shifting due to some incredibly clever syncopation. Why it feels like it changes: * The Syncopated Riff: In the intro and verses, the guitar and bass play a highly syncopated riff that pushes and pulls against the beat. They accent every three eighth notes (a 3-3-2 rhythmic phrasing over the bars), which throws off your internal clock if you try to follow the melody line. * **The Steady Drum Pocket:** If you look past the dizzying guitar work and listen strictly to the drumming or Ronnie Van Zant counting *"1, 2, 3"* in the beginning, the underlying 4/4 pulse never wavers. * **The Chorus Release:** When the song hits the chorus (*"Want you to sign your contract..."*), the band drops the complex syncopation and locks into a straightforward, driving 4/4 rock shuffle. Because the verse is so rhythmically tense and the chorus is so rhythmically straight, it feels like a massive structural shift, even though the actual time signature never changes. youtube.com/watch?v=ZxSSUX3M…
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In the great news realm, this is a 10! More bots, fewer self-help popularizing bobbleheads please...
Tim Ferris just shared that he's on track to sell 80% fewer books in 2026 than he did in 2022 "“how-to” books are getting crushed because LLMs seem to provide faster, cheaper, and more personalized advice"
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Yesterday built a @Apple macbook pro M5, went through the ridiculous process of adding my trade-in, then put it in the 'bag.' Today, I go back to change to 64GBs of RAM and the trade-in is not there. Seriously, everything is complete and utter shit, no matter how much capitalization has occurred.
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In case, like me, you thought you were not getting enough for the $3.5B LAPD budget, they dispatched this vicious doodledog... x.com/YourAnonNews/status/20…

FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey. His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive. A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it. 20 officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex. And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child. No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing. The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage. Like it never happened. If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel? Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.
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Product idea: app that let's you watch Curb reruns and either completely replaces Cheryl's face, or turns it into the grin she had listening to her wormbrained husband testify.
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Rob Williams retweeted
Researchers show that Claude Code is 98% not AI. Anthropic never gave us the architecture for Claude Code. There were no docs. Just a tool that every developer is currently obsessing over. Until it leaked recently. A research team pulled the source code, analyzed all 500,000 lines, and found something ridiculous. Only 1.6% of the codebase actually interacts with the AI model. The core of Claude Code is literally just a simple while-loop. It asks the model what to do, runs a tool, and repeats. So what is the other 98.4%? It is hardcore, traditional software engineering. The researchers found a massive, complex infrastructure designed entirely to babysit the AI and keep it from hallucinating or destroying your computer: - A 7-mode permission system acting as a security bouncer. - A 5-layer context compaction pipeline so the AI doesn't forget its goal. - A subagent delegation mechanism with strict worktree isolation. - Four different extensibility hooks to manage external tools safely. Every startup right now is trying to build a better AI model to get better results. Anthropic did the exact opposite. They took an existing model and built a fortress of deterministic software around it. They realized that the AI doesn't need to be smarter. It needs to be managed.
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Home automation,IoT, has been an unmitigated disaster, decades of dysfunctional garbage.. @Google. Behold the finally redone Home app with Gemini!
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Wait lemme compute the amount of surprise here: 0.00000000000001%
CEO of OpenAI btw
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Japan sits at 6% obesity. The US sits at 43%. And the biggest reason is environment. I saw it firsthand traveling to Japan. In 2 weeks there, I rarely saw anyone overweight. Not because they were dietin but because of how they lived. They walk everywhere. Their version of "fast food" has whole ingredients, fermented, high protein, rich in fiber. Meals are built around real food by default, not by discipline. Nobody was counting macros. Nobody had a meal plan app. They just lived in a system that made staying lean easy and being slim a standard. Meanwhile, the most obese countries on this list share the same pattern: car culture, processed food access, and sedentary defaults. Your ZIP code predicts your health more than your DNA. You can't move to Japan. But you can build your own environment. Walk more. Eat real food. Make the healthy choice the easy choice.
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Gemini, made by @google, on the state of the Play Store that all Android apps must go through:
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Wait, I thought UHC solved everything. This sounds like the treatment you would expect to get during the middle ages...
This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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WE knew Jim was an empty parrot but wow this is insane...
Jim Cramer on @SpaceX going public: "We should encourage wealth, and this one is ultimately going to make people a lot of money. He (Elon) probably has things in his head that are far more valuable than what we see. There's more to this company than what's in the prospectus. Personally, I'm proud to be an American today. I think this one is more than a piece of paper. It reminds me of when we landed on the Moon and I realized we had beaten the Russians." Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMAK3pZ…
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As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models. Here’s what this means for you: Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error. On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models. We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.
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We didn't need a further reminder of the fact that the stock industry, and the fintech goons who have tried (and failed) to take over tech, are pond scum, but here we are...
Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on the SpaceX IPO: "people gotta understand... [SpaceX] raised $75 billion... [and only] floated 5% of the stock... it's a very small float" "[But its valuation], that's a different story" "$1.7 trillion did not go to SpaceX. [It is] $75 billion. So people need to understand that" "then when Anthropic and OpenAI, if they ever make it to IPO, they're going to raise about $100 billion each. So the total raised actual real money is about $300 billion between these three IPOs" "Their valuations, that's a different story. And those probably won't hold and they'll probably, you know, go down 80%. So anybody buying these stocks at these prices is probably going to lose a lot of money if they hold on to them" @ShannonJoyRadio @DowdEdward
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Who is also, fittingly, the most disliked person in the US (and not because of his wealth, because he is an asshole of Dickensian proportions, exponential proportions...)....
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire economist.com/business/2026/…
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The most perfect post sequence ever:
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