[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_emigration_during_the_...

(This is incomplete, I think there is a fourth or a fifth wave, probably since about summer 2026.)

A surface is whatever the user interacts with: a GUI, a TUI, an API, or anything else. I once exposed some functions of a web app on the window object. Boom, a surface for working in DevTools.

An oracle is a simple, independent way to compute a result. It may be limited, but it's still useful for testing, because you can check the real implementation against it.

I understand that programmers like me may dismiss all this as hot air. But it's just jargon.

And "predictive surface"?

It's a surface that anticipates what you'll want next and shows it before you ask. For Spinal, this might be simple. Say you query for all functions whose names start with x, that take an int32_t argument, and that return void. The result list doesn't just give you names; it also shows, visually, how often each function was edited, how long it is, and how complex it is. In other words, it displays information eagerly.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Spinal. I'm only guessing from the demo on their site.

A better example is an HTTP writer. One state is `Headers` with the methods `add_header()` and `body()` which returns the response in state `Body`. This enforces that one can't add headers after `body()` has been called. But you can finish the response in the `Body` state. If you do something not in this order, you get a compile error.

But "should not depend in the GUI to keep up" is wrong, I think. It needs at least one LED per mode. Because sometimes it's a bit annoying. Rarely cruise control doesn't engage or turns off by itself or something caused the cruise control mode diverge from what I have in mind, and a quick glance would help to resync.

So, respectfully, you shouldn't dismiss grandparent with "This isn't really true".

I tried to lipread the Inauguration, and where it was successful I did read the same nonsense, but often it wasn't possible because they weren't looking at the camera or the microphone was in the way.

The Seagulls, however, the only thing I could read was amm-amm-ammmmm-am-am-aaaammm. Nothing else. Of course, the doll has very simple mouth mechanics.

What this article is missing, I think, is that lipreading is not replacing auditory input with visual input because there are too many, let's just call them homophones. I find the word "visemes" a bit too cute. You need a lot of context. So I always struggle if someone asks me a very short question, because I don't know what it's about. Someone comes to me, says hello, and asks the question, and I don't have an idea what they want to know.

Re gameplays, the context is special, because you can assume that the football coach is not shouting "HAKUNA MATATA" over the field. This simplifies lipreading during gameplays. Essentially it devolves into something like a set of radio buttons.

I thought up to 3x a week and never consecutive days is the maximum.

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Maybe. Bugs that come from spooky behavior at a distance are notoriously hard to debug, especially in production, and it's worthwile to pay for it to avoid that.

[1]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html

I don't understand all consequences yet, except one, that the wealthy and powerful object to it because it hurts them and so the Land Value Tax is rarely introduced. Even if it gets introduced, it will abolished soon thereafter.

In other words, I don't think that AI is killing the web.

It's being profit-oriented and running amok in an unleashed way. It's prisoner's dilemma. You know, if you don't do it then someone else will do it and you lose. Enshittification is one consequence. The internet experienced it from the beginning. But only about fifteen years ago companies learnt how to squeeze the last drop out and, like in the tragedy of the commons, everybody is worse off.

And what's the most catastrophic? People are confused. They look at the tools but not at some famous people behind these rampages. Of course as leaders they just optimize the hell out of the internet with the target that their companies thrive. But in doing so they cause heavy damage.

Another way: Let ferment it to the max. If fermentation doesn't consume all the sugar, then it's somewhat stable.

Ancient wines also had resins added. Today these would probably have tasted almost medicinal, but often they are diluted before serving. Wine dilution is still a custom in some parts of Italy. I was invited to a party in Tuscany and they served a lot of Lambrusco amabile and for the children they diluted it and because Lambrusco amabile is rather sweet it was a little bit an oldfashioned soft drink. I tried it, too, and it's refreshing. I don't know whether it's sacrilegous but as one says, in Rome do as Romans do.

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/10/the-am-dash/

But that won't help for long. If the Amdash becomes popular, then AI will pick it up, because "am-" is just a text fragment and AI can learn to produce it.

Even worse if a future version of Unicode adopts the Amdash, then nothing will stop AI.

Or the opposite happens as one already said here: Nobody will use the Amdash.