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The replies seem to believe that the number one priority in fighting a fire at the library of Alexandria should have been minimizing water usage

nicely done claude

it's so cool that I can just ask claude to find a way to require double clicking on taskbar icons to open them after getting annoyed that I keep accidentally starting programs

Saying fusion runs on seawater is like saying your car runs on air

how does microsoft manage to ship software like this

claude is so mean

Opus 5.5 just told me "I'll bounce only the snap taut, and leave a strip struck end on as it is."

How will humanoid robots connect to our devices? Here's one suggestion.

do a breakthrough

whales might not be fish but they are bony fish

wtf

I bet this feels really good if you're an agent

these are always fun

my hypothesis is that dirac just liked kaomojis ⟨0|φ|0⟩

Claude being a glass half full kind of person

imagine how confusing it would be if poland was chile

I do love that when a compass app asks me if I want to accept sharing data for legitimate interest with their 105 vendors I can instead just tell claude "make me a compass app"

inference

hm lots of ships called titania yet no one calls their ship alumina

turns out if you have a folder named "foo" and a folder named "foo ", opening either one in windows explorer opens the same one (so one is inaccessible)

"Omega Gate" sounds like the sort of thing you fight a battle over in a movie

can't believe this is what fable thinks of me

how is "reinstate" a word but "instate" isn't as in "Trump instated tariffs on China"

thinking about how this 2020 meme is just reality now

I like how concisely this encapsulates current discourse

googling "warm hat" and "cold hat" gives you pretty much identical results

Stochastic parrot confirmed Although it is taking the side that humans are also just stochastic parrots I suppose

working on a game-thing

I think I only realized today that "My new single is out now!" is not etymologically related to singing

a Catholic education: skips the icky bits a catholic education: does not skip the icky bits

"It's one addition Michael. What could it cost, 10 cycles?" "You've never actually written assembly, have you?"

Tbh developing physics-heavy things with Claude Code is kind of annoying. Even Opus 4.6 seems to have terrible taste here, always reaching for hacks instead of figuring out 𝘸𝘩𝘺 it doesn't work as it should. Runaway turbine? Let's impose a speed limit instead of finding where energy isn't conserved

cleanup day

there were omens and portents

Good catch by me.

aren't we all in detached HEAD state sometimes

So it turns out Claude Code can use TUIs if it uses tmux with capture-pane and send-keys (it managed to split my commit with `jj split`)

Promised Land problems