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Watching Ghost in the Machine (2026). Every scene of this documentary that could be confused for AI generated content has a “NOT AI” label.
Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells with a Microwave ift.tt/LtkgW4I
The editor was configured to index just a few places, but if I opened a file from elsewhere in the tree, it would be added to the index - and eventually the editor would crash.
I have no idea how big the Windows Vista codebase was. In those days, we were using Source Depot (a modified version of p4), and the source was split across several different repos (called depots). This way you could work from just a few depots and not have to have the whole tree.
Interesting, but periodic benchmarks would be better.
Introducing the Nerf Sentiment Index!!! it tracks how often people on social media complain that a model has been nerfed, measured per 10k mentions. The higher the score, the more nerf reports.
This week (5-12 Oct):
🥇OpenAI 6.0
🥈Claude 4.1
Gemini 6.2 (but dataset is too small)
Grok 0.8 (pulled down by the flood of 'grok is this true' replies)
Opus 5.5 and Codex got the most 'it got dumber' posts. Which model do you think has been nerfed?
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Weird dream where I was at a pawn shop in a small town and the owners showed me they had this lawnmower that when started up at the same time a large coil was being charged, would "phase" out of visibility. Touching the frame of the mower was then enough to "step out of phase."
Story time: During Windows Vista development, I used a source editor that featured dynamic indexing. While handy, it became notoriously buggy as the index grew. Near the end of the project, I was working all over the source tree fixing appcompat bugs, so it was crashing a lot.
Ended up attaching a debugger with a command set up for the exception (sxe -c) that patched things up just enough to continue. After that, the editor would occasionally pause for a second, I'd chuckle, and carry on. Once we shipped, I switched editors.
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Thanks very much @JensenHuang! My first trip to Taiwan was in 1985 when I was 20. Compeq (not Compaq 😂) made PCBs for us. This is the hand wired (Jay Bell, RIP) prototype of our first 286 based PC and the actual production motherboard. It was based on a chipset from Chips and Technologies, they were produced in Japan at that time before TSMCs rise. I explained a bunch of this history in #PlayNiceButWin.
youtu.be/gkFkIP2gKgY?is=6dgf…
