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New comment by yummybrainz in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

yummybrainz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:33:37 +0000

My favorite writing of his is:

https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues

New comment by yummybrainz in "Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it"

yummybrainz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:24:36 +0000

Thank you! That makes sense to me.

New comment by yummybrainz in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

yummybrainz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:22:40 +0000

Pittsburgh!

https://truetime.rideprt.org/map

New comment by yummybrainz in "The revolt of the reader"

yummybrainz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:16:09 +0000

I agree that it's not great style for just conveying information clearly and plainly (e.g I'd hate to read documentation written like this) but I'd argue that here, the medium is part of the message.

It's supposed to sound dry and depressing and somewhat sterile.

> It's hostile to the reader with the side of flaunting author's superiority.

I think if someone deliberately obfuscates meaning to sound fancier when the point is to communicate information directly, sure, I'd agree. But writing is often art, and I think demanding effort from the reader is fair in that case. I wouldn't make a blanket generalization like that.

New comment by yummybrainz in "The revolt of the reader"

yummybrainz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:10:43 +0000

I agree!

Both versions are great: the former is poetic and grand and would fit right in in a fantasy text; the latter is dry and informative and requires much less mental effort to translate and extract meaning from (though still more than "normal" text.

I could imagine a third version that's clearer than the second and still nearly as poetic as the first.

New comment by yummybrainz in "Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it"

yummybrainz — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:47:46 +0000

Is there no measurable quantity in the current state of a magnetized ball that would predict its behavior in a magnetic field then?

I'd be surprised if that were the case: seems like it'd violate some sort of "locality", where the future should depend entirely on the present state.

Is it just that there's unidentified present state that's perhaps more easily characterized by knowing the history? Or is it somehow unidentifiable in principle?

New comment by yummybrainz in "KOReader"

yummybrainz — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:13:26 +0000

Many Kindles have backlights for night-time reading!

New comment by yummybrainz in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

yummybrainz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:08:26 +0000

Pretty sure it's the former!

New comment by yummybrainz in "A key remapping daemon for Linux"

yummybrainz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:05:22 +0000

ESC on tap, CTRL on hold is the way!

New comment by yummybrainz in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

yummybrainz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:27:31 +0000

FYI NewPipe allows up to 4x playback; PipePipe up to 10x! And both block ads, while PipePipe also integrates Sponsorblock.

New comment by yummybrainz in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

yummybrainz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:18:01 +0000

Do you think (or care) about the ethics of this sort of behavior? Do you consider it unethical and if you do, under what conditions would you decide to do it anyway?

New comment by yummybrainz in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

yummybrainz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:29:18 +0000

Yeah, completely unintentional on my part, but I do be dumb sometimes.

New comment by yummybrainz in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

yummybrainz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:28:40 +0000

Welp, I done goofed.

Fuck it, just have a great day :P

New comment by yummybrainz in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

yummybrainz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:22:29 +0000

You go, girl!

New comment by yummybrainz in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

yummybrainz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:50:10 +0000

Username doesn't check out :P

New comment by yummybrainz in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

yummybrainz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:19:43 +0000

Wow, thanks for all the details! Maybe I really have to give spicy water another try...

New comment by yummybrainz in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

yummybrainz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:18:12 +0000

> We were waterlogged men.

I laughed, thank you.

Fun article, from someone who detests sparkling water (water shouldn't be spicy!)

New comment by yummybrainz in "Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework"

yummybrainz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:17:49 +0000

> Startup time really is an issue with Python, because import is super slow.

Python has lazy imports coming soon in 3.15!

Source: https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html#whatsnew315-...

New comment by yummybrainz in "What are locusts and what happened to them?"

yummybrainz — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:32:03 +0000

I frequently visit your website to get design inspiration for my own. Thanks for being so detail-oriented and all your writing in general!

Edit: Actually, while I have you here: do you think that the modal popups for links (the ones that pop up when you hover on a link) should be a standard browser feature? I'd be curious to see if a web extension could replicate it more generally for all sites.

New comment by yummybrainz in "You can just say it"

yummybrainz — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:04:20 +0000

> I’d rather fight for collective ownership of the machines.

I would love if we could force the big tech companies to release their models + weights since they're fundamentally products built on the collective labors of humanity (at least some of which is licensed under the GPL or the CC-BY-SA).

If I could hit a button and abolish copyright and the notion of intellectual property, I would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-culture_movement