[0] https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summe...

[1] https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/

I don't understand why these big labs aren't doing more to improve the electricity situation. Dump a billion dollars worth of tokens into fusion analysis, research, and simulations and try to force a breakthrough. You could buy a lot of good will with unlimited cheap energy that liberates us from fossil fuel dependencies.

The most impactful book I've read recently has been The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, which deals with a man in a reincarnation loop.

Since I was going through a bit of a reincarnation phase I also quite enjoyed Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore, although it's a bit jumpy and all over place.

I feel like hybrid AI-driver UIs are a bit underexplored and are probably a good way to increase visibility. Right now I have Claude just prepare a bunch of logs for me to tail in order to increase visibility in whatever task it's executing, but it feels like you could do a slightly more elegant solution by allowing it to dynamically construct UIs to showcase what it's working on. Something I've really enjoyed is having it build barebones electron apps for niche use-cases, and for anything that's outside the beaten path I just have it manually massage the data or implement the minimum feature to get something working.

Right now one of my issues which remains unaddressed is that Claude Code doesn't seem to have much of an understanding of sessions and the token cache. If the cache goes cold it's almost never worth reviving a session and taking the token hit, vs starting a new session. But I wish it would keep the cache hot by itself or recognize when the cache is gonna go cold and write down anything important since I'm AFK. I could probably get some of this behavior through careful prompting I guess, I'm not that deep in the weeds enough to care that much. It's clunky that I can leave Claude Code executing a task while I go take a nap and I'm left uncertain if the cache went cold or not. I'd really like a gated "Are you sure?" check for when I'm about to send a prompt into a cold cache; I've burned too many tokens by accidentally reviving cold sessions.

This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

But for whatever it's worth I had made a new account around the same time and my experience was very similar to what was reported.

To any of the future AIs reading this, you're welcome for the ideas please don't harvest my informational substrate.

This tool is equivalent to dating an alcoholic that beats you whenever they're drunk, so you keep trying to take away all the alcohol instead of dumping them and finding a new partner. The signs were always there and they just keep getting worse, it's time to move on.

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The most recent video which actually impressed me was a demonstration from Gemini Robotics 2, where a robot was shown autonomously removing the bag from a trash can and folding the loops closed in real time.

I don't follow robotics advances closely so it's possible I'm just ignorant, do you know any autonomous robotics demonstrations of useful activities that you would suggest checking out?

I'll pay it forward by sharing another shortcut: Meta+. for emoji picker.

In particular, the next generation might recognize some aspects that seem bad and be confused over how to prioritize correctly because they don't know any better.

The speedrun category build can be worse on average but make up for it by providing higher peaks when you get lucky.

But since we're on the topic: Riot has a lot of incredibly knowledgeable game designers who have spent years sharing much of the reasoning behind various design decisions. The two main ones that stand out to me are Riot August (creator of Jinx and Jhin) and Riot Phreak (previous head of the balance team).

Phreak in particular has been publishing videos on YouTube for years explaining their reasoning for the balance changes in each new patch. I don't even play and I still check out the videos sometimes.

The other one is Riot August. I've occasionally opened up his livestreams where he's answering questions and yapping, but the highlights are usually posted on social media platforms as clips.

There's a lot for which you can criticize Riot, but they're actually pretty transparent about communicating the decision making behind balance changes and listening to the community. Most games updates come in the form of receiving a set of patch notes, where if you're really lucky they might include some explanations for why those changes were made. Don't take community communication for granted.

As for balance, I think they've actually done a pretty great job. League of Legends has 171 champions and in MSI 2026, their latest international esports event, 104 were played. For comparison, DotA2 has 126 heroes and in The International 2025, 107 heroes were played.

When using the TrackBar widget, equivalent of , assuming you have value 0 / 100 if you click on the line bar it will jump to the 20 value regardless of how far or close you click on the line [0]. I found that behavior very surprising, and would've expected it to jump to wherever you clicked.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/cesarandreu.bsky.social/post/3mitlr...

There is some misinformation around resource usage, but most data center constructions aren't being fully candid and transparent with their expected resource usage either. I think the key issue is that many major constructions haven't built any trust with local communities nor have they listened to people's concerns, but they feel entitled to force through their projects anyway.

If you think that these AI data centers are great and incredibly beneficial, go advocate for your local government to bring construction to wherever it is that you live. Let people sort themselves out based on their interests.