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Phoenix, Arizona
The first 90% is easy. It’s the second 90% that’s a bitch.
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SNEAK PEEK: First native 64-bit (!!!) OS/2 apps ever, built and running on Omarchy. Coming soon... 😉 Oinos2 = Oinos2 is not OS/2
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SNEAK PEEK: This is a real OS/2 32-bit app... running unmodified on Omarchy. The past comes alive.
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Drinking coffee makes one happy. Being happy extends one’s life. So, drink coffee, be happy, and live a long life.
Coffee preserves the main biological mechanisms of aging.
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Writing is thinking. Writing by hand exercises even more of your brain.
Write more. Write more. Write more. Write more. Because writing is thinking. A 2025 Nature editorial argues that human-generated scientific writing is not only about reporting results.
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In New Jersey, its legislator is considering handing over power to unions to "oversee" all workers, employed or contracted. You will have no choice in this matter. Vote in November like your free agent career depends on it, because it does. #FreedomToWork
Responses are still coming in to yesterday's Substack, and people seem stunned that this is really happening Yes, it's happening. And to make it clear exactly what's happening, I'm coining a new term: "no-vote unions" It's an easier way to understand the concept of "sectoral bargaining," which is government giving unions a way to represent all workers in an industry without most of the workers ever voting to join As this New Jersey bill would do freelancebusting.com/p/from-…
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Trust, but verify. Unfortunately, the great majority will trust without verifying.
this is so unimaginable in europe lmao but it's also clearly the future for a lot of regular sicknesses such a waste of everyones time to go to a doctor with something where you clearly just need a simple prescription (also taking up space for people who actually should see a doctor) I guess the important question is how to decide if the AI doctor is sufficient or not
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Evidence that the old web and the promises at the time are dead, for safety and security.
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Bill Heyman retweeted
Four days in nature with no phones improved creative problem-solving by 50%. Your next idea is outside.
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Great read. We're entering the new golden age of gaming. The second renaissance.
All games are open source now! I wrote up my thoughts on what this means for the gaming industry and some predictions on where things go from here! Let me know what you think :)
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All games are open source now

A week ago I pointed Opus 5.5 at Terraria before bed. I woke up to a fully working, reverse engineered version of the game. Then I added a homing missile launcher, a tactical nuke and a bunch of new

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A modern form of Pascal’s Wager, as summoned by @dhh. What do you have to lose by blooming? “If it turns out that The Terminator really is coming to get you, you'll have gained nothing from the upfront neurotic fretting. And if The Terminator fails to appear, you will have squandered your precious time missing the intelligence boom and the creativity abundance that AI has and will unleash.” – @dhh
"This is not the time to doom, baby. This is the time to bloom. Intellectually, spiritually, and productively. Put down your anxieties, arrest your neurotic impulses, and decide to be happy about the present, the future, and..." world.hey.com/dhh/what-on-ea…
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Good morning! It’s going to be a great day! Find your groove and settle in.
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Here comes the sun.
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Here comes the sun. (Part Trois)
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Be optimistic. Don’t, if you want a miserable life.
You don't have to commit your entire life to optimism, just try it on for a week. Start thinking "what if it all worked out?" and "what a time to be alive!". Then compare your state of mind to the week before filled with pessimism and doomer nonsense.
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All software that runs on your local machine is essentially open source now.
The end of software secrecy is almost upon us. The death of closed source, and the final triumph of open source. I should have realized this a few months ago when I successfully decompiled the game of Firefighter from an ancient DOS shareware binary. My robot friend was able to tell it had been written in Borland Pascal from looking at the data layout; it gave me back very readable Pascal code with sensibly chosen function and variable names. I transpiled it to Rust and now ship it as part of my heritage games collection. The thing is, I thought of this as a fun stunt but didn't have any confidence that the technique would scale up to large, real programs. I have since learned that people are now doing this sort of thing with entire AAA games, which are among the most complex software artifacts ever to be shipped as a binary. If they can be decompiled, anything can be. This has implications. Massive implications. We need to think about what the world is like when, in general, there is no longer a secrecy moat around almost any software at all. 1/2
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“Smart” appliances
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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Have that fourth kid. Go into debt if you have to.
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