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New comment by abejfehr in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

abejfehr — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:35:07 +0000

I’m pretty sure I heard the same quote at my high school and university graduation ceremonies, and those were many years before AI. It’s a standard way to inspire new grads, right?

New comment by abejfehr in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

abejfehr — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:02:02 +0000

Reminds me of this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl0NS0vu8

New comment by abejfehr in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

abejfehr — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:48:52 +0000

I don’t know how they know it’s an axolotl and not a newt larva. If it’s the latter it’ll be very jarring when it changes forms later

New comment by abejfehr in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

abejfehr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:38:59 +0000

You might find this talk interesting: https://youtu.be/W20t1zCZv8M

It’s one of my favourites

New comment by abejfehr in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

abejfehr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:08:21 +0000

There’s a lot of debate about whether this reduces model accuracy, but this is basically Chinese grammar and Chinese vibe coding seems to work fine while (supposedly) using 30-40% less tokens

New comment by abejfehr in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

abejfehr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:11:24 +0000

It’s commonly “they”

For example: “Meta released a new product, they (Meta) are calling it …”

New comment by abejfehr in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

abejfehr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:57:26 +0000

Both sports betting and prediction markets are effectively the same as reading tea leaves anyway. You can determine the real odds in roulette or blackjack because those are closed games that have simple probabilities, but any odds given in sports betting or prediction markets are just fancy guesses

New comment by abejfehr in "Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken'"

abejfehr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:38:32 +0000

Let me know when it runs DOOM

New comment by abejfehr in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

abejfehr — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:07 +0000

A valid use case I can think of is if npmjs.com is blackholed by your company to prevent supply chain attacks

New comment by abejfehr in "Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians)"

abejfehr — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:41:37 +0000

> The blocker wasn't capability—it was liability.

Yikes (regarding the AI patterns in the comment)

New comment by abejfehr in "HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)"

abejfehr — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:44:11 +0000

Isn’t that why you should like it then? It saves your time because you’d get the page earlier

New comment by abejfehr in "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"

abejfehr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:17:41 +0000

Or Rspack (https://rspack.rs/) which is intended to be a drop-in Webpack replacement

New comment by abejfehr in "Go.sum is not a lockfile"

abejfehr — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:11:48 +0000

how is this possible? isn't everyone using the same node version?

and checking in lockfile changes

New comment by abejfehr in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

abejfehr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:08:16 +0000

I think they're referring to the spiders that are deep in the web, since the midges presumably don't make it that deep

New comment by abejfehr in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

abejfehr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:33:40 +0000

That code from your post is fairly standard image load handling, but the notable part is this line:

self.apng_supported = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data[3] === 0;

Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's basically a "neat trick", like using ~~ for rounding or a fast inverse square root.

Is the intent that everyone who makes use of that trick is supposed to link back to your blog?

New comment by abejfehr in "A small collection of text-only websites"

abejfehr — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:42:18 +0000

I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites

New comment by abejfehr in "I want a good parallel language [video]"

abejfehr — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:15:56 +0000

Bend comes to mind as an attempt at this: https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend

Disclaimer: I did not watch the video yet

New comment by abejfehr in "'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud"

abejfehr — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:04:46 +0000

Not very much when there are products like this: https://floatfinancial.com/blog/virtual-credit-cards-canada/

New comment by abejfehr in "ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon"

abejfehr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:02:29 +0000

I might be silly but I don’t get the point being made there.

I believe due process is important in every case, and I want to believe that having a mixed system eventually results in due process being skipped more and more, but the example from the end of the article goes against that: England and France diverged, so it’s possible for a mixed system to go either way?

New comment by abejfehr in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

abejfehr — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:04:17 +0000

It seems to me that they (Valve) are complicit. Don't they provide the API that those sites use?

I don't think they tried very hard to shut them down, they could be doing a lot more.

Edit: based on what I recall from this Coffeezilla video (https://youtu.be/13eiDhuvM6Y?si=GJ_kXOJyXFTogy40&t=476)