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New comment by user_of_the_wek in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

user_of_the_wek — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:13:05 +0000

Don’t forget the candles

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:57:26 +0000

OTOH I have often witnessed people agreeing without realizing it. I‘ve been able to defuse a bunch of arguments by pointing that out.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "You Can Run"

user_of_the_wek — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:43:49 +0000

Reminds me of Brecht

> Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:21:07 +0000

Cancer does not grow endlessly.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:25:16 +0000

Ah, the Dwarf Fortress approach :)

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Fun&redirect=no

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:46:27 +0000

Obviously this blue part here is the land

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:04:45 +0000

The circus left town, but the clowns are still here.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:35:30 +0000

> The image depicts and older man...

Ouch

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:15:16 +0000

No, I think you are misunderstanding. IQ does not describe the likelihood of someone being that smart. It just means you order a number of people by their „intelligence“, the one in the middle is defined as 100 and then it depends on how many other people are in that line which IQ number the person at the end of the line gets. So it’s impossible because the definition of IQ is such that a certain number doesn’t come up without a certain number of measurements.

It‘s as if you would say 150% of all people are female. That is impossible, not just unlikely.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:10:19 +0000

If you just take the statistical definition of IQ and run with it, AFAIK the smartest person alive will be at something like 190 IQ. If you really run with it, the smartest person that has ever lived should be around 200.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:47:20 +0000

There is also an old point-and-click adventure game based on the story, in case you didn't know.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:14:04 +0000

I also use Windows App to connect to my Fedora box from my Mac :-P

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "iTerm2 Web Browser"

user_of_the_wek — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:35:45 +0000

First I thought "WTF why?" and then I turned on RTL text. Now I'm thinking "?yhw FTW".

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "iTerm2 Web Browser"

user_of_the_wek — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:30:45 +0000

When I saw the release notes, I checked the calendar to see if it's April 1st... The reasoning is really cool though.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Notes on Managing ADHD"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:02:03 +0000

I hope what I write will not scare you away from trying these, I just want to add to make sure to know about all potential side effects. My daughter tried Atomoxetine and reacted very badly to it. I recognized it as a potential side effect from the documentation that came with the meds. The doctors did not even know it could happen. Everyone is different though! She uses Elvanse now (I don’t know how that’s called outside Europe) and it works for her.

Again, chances are it will work for you without side effects so work with your doctor. Just be well informed.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?"

user_of_the_wek — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:50:35 +0000

> If AI agents can train on outputs alone, any organization that can define quality and provide enough examples might achieve similar results

Great, we're safe!

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Gaslight-driven development"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:38:23 +0000

Crupdate

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Gaslight-driven development"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:37:01 +0000

Reminds me of signs like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScarySigns/comments/dhzov1/your_gps...

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

user_of_the_wek — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:35:35 +0000

Reminds of something I heard: Of the 3 most recent recessions, analysts predicted 20.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "I made a chair"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:04:10 +0000

I find it weird that low weight is one of the main selling points of this product, but they don't say how much it is.