it is?!

TIL! i guess that would explain it, if so. 😢

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please don’t put your citation as the title

sorry i forgot the rules in this comm; i edited the post to put just the article title as the post title and quote the first two paragraphs in the post body

what attracts you to that article and what, according to you, is worth other’s attention?

the interestingness seems self-evident in this case, but what caused me to post it specifically now was being reminded of it by a comment which mentioned it recently (which i can’t find now) which pointed out that as LLMs become more efficient, it’s unlikely that will lead to a reduction in overall power consumption as the increase in use of them will outpace the efficiency improvements.

While failing to find that comment I just found another one citing Jevon’s paradox in the context of cost and demand for software development.

In theory, the bomb would have had a yield over 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included the natural ^[1] uranium tamper^[2] which featured in the design but was replaced with lead^[3] in the test to reduce radioactive fallout.

This is a controversial take. It’s not unlikely that the models simply managed to steal users’ research.

You’re confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_priority_controversy with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_bulk_release_of_mathematical_papers

i recommend reading these responses from mathematicians about what happened on october 6 https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100-reactions-to-100-solutions/

on the one hand:

locate certifi/__init__.py|xargs cat|grep ^__version__|sort|uniq -c

“almost entirely” is not really accurate. there are many projects with lots of volunteer labor happening but most of the big projects which are included in most distros’ default installs do also have people being paid to work on them, actually.

re: tuta

it’s also the new tab in many tools

such as?

does ctrl-shift-t mean “a new page” in some application i don’t know? 🤔

i only know it from web browsers where it is usually the shortcut for “reopen the most recently closed tab”.

OK so the accounting tricks are nothing new but… maybe this is the first S-1 filing which repeatedly touts “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” in its “Risk factors” section?

Lightning looks really good

interesting, i hadn’t heard of that one before. have you actually tried it?

pros:

• not a web app
• has search of encrypted rooms
• supports spaces and threads, two features many clients lack
• supports calling and screen sharing (i’ve never used matrix for either and don’t particularly want to, but, ok…)

cons:

• project started 3 months ago
• appears to be authored using an LLM agent (Codex) mostly by a lone developer who has (afaict) not published any other software before and has minimal web presence
• written in C++ (which is safer than C but still an unsafe language)
• does not appear to have offline support - it says encrypted search uses a local search index, not a local copy of the full history 😢

it is being very actively developed so far; maybe i’d try it out if it is still around next year

Fractal is nice but it doesn’t have offline support or any search functionality at all.

element X is mobile only, i’m looking for something to use on Linux. (but also: does it even have offline support and/or search of encrypted rooms?)

gomuks does have a self-hostable web UI i could use with a browser (in addition to offering an electron wrapper for it) but they don’t indicate that they have search of encrypted rooms and/or offline support. (do they?)

no need for the -o since grep matches lines and wc -l counts lines

grep -o prints each match on a separate line, so the wc -l count will be higher if there are any lines with multiple matches.

the tweet is from today, btw: https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2114380495421075703

…i regret to inform you: 🥛🤝🦆

😢

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations