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Perhaps, even though they are not themselves explainable, AIs can help us engineer explainable systems. But I’m not optimistic. It feels like we’re on a path to keep making systems harder for humans to configure, and we keep expanding our reliance on superhuman intelligence to do that for us. The Configuration Crisis and Developer Dependency on AI LLM series at The New Stack

I was already dreaming of starting my own business before I ever got my first job. My very first job was at a movie theatre in the late twentieth century. In my breaks I would brainstorm ideas for starting a web design business. I would fantasize about proposing to redesign the movie theatre's website. When the boss wasn't looking, I would sketch out my web site and my pricing on …

I’ve continued to lean into my shmup era lately, focusing mostly on Touhou 10 and Blue Revolver: Double Action (a brand new remaster of an acclaimed 2016 game). I started playing Blue Revolver some time after making that last post, and it is a proper jewel of a game. Actually: it’s the very next shmup I would recommend to a newcomer after ZeroRanger. ZR taught me why I should care …

Let’s review this year’s progress by looking east to west. The post Think the clean energy revolution moved fast last year? Just wait. appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

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Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko has done an excellent job stewarding Mastodon, but I also might have said the same thing about Matt Mullenweg a few years back. Why gamble when you …

Ambitious literature and public policy each seek to shape reality. Few places embody the power of artists and policymakers to arrange space and time more persuasively than Washington, D.C. Read on Places Journal

The Guildhall Art Gallery, situated right next to the Guildhall itself, was built in 1999 to house the art collection of the City of London, which had been put into storage during World War II and essentially never taken out. The building was designed in postmodern style by the architect Richard Gilbert Scott, grandson of the Gothic Revival architect George Gilbert Scott. Echoes of the gothic and neoclassical styles that …

His Majesty King Kevin Yakum, President of North West House of Kings, and Colleagues Receive Dr Nsah Mala and SOIF MD Cat Tully in Yaoundé, 11 September 2024. LR: Dr Nsah Mala, His Majesty King Gilbert Njong III (Mbessa), SOIF MD Cat Tully, His Majesty King Kevin Yakum (Bambalang), His Majesty King Wilson Ayo (Modele), and His Majesty King Mbah Yangsi (Akeh) Dr Nsah Mala, a Next Generation Foresight Practitioner, …

02024 Daily News This is the third year we’ve collected headlines daily. The original idea behind this was that news stories don’t last a day, but we ready them in a serialized daily format. We wanted a way to look at trends and breadth of a story. These headlines are completely biased to both personal tastes, presumed historic value and news corporations publication interest. Every year a new smart phone …

Week highlights: new releases of HDRView, LibreCAD, and cabbage; new features in GIMP and Ardour; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update. GIMP The DDS plugin now support loading files with BC7 compression. CmykStudent read the docs, looked up the implementation in ImageMagick, and wrote the code. This is a new feature, which seems counter-intuitive for something that has had two release candidates, but there you go. HDRView 2.1.0 Wojciech …

Wind whispers insults down the chimney - all your failures as a husband, friend, human You pull on Gore-Tex. Rustle as you walk. A meteorological mystery - This storm has squatted overhead for weeks. You pull on rubber boots. Open your front door. The cold hits your exposed cheek followed by countless raindrops, each delivering possible disasters. You pull each foot forward. Soon, one step follows another, squelching in saturated …

In my previous job, I worked as a food broker, which meant I was like a snack detective, hunting down the best munchies to bring to the masses. To get a jump on my snack game, I scoured the internet for clues about what these treats tasted like before I even dared to approach potential suppliers. One of my secret weapons was the legendary Taquitos.net. This site just hit the …

I haven't used it for anything yet, but automerge looks like a really nice library for doing CRDT/OT-like multi-player interactions

Last week, NASA announced it would study two different ways to pick up the samples the Perseverance rover is collecting on Mars and return them to Earth. Jeff Foust reports on the two approaches as well as interest by at least one company in an alternative.