there's actually nothing in FAR part 103 preventing you from making a self-launched sailplane that takes off using JATO bottles

a vocal version of this would slap. it's basically a shaker round already, just arranged for synths https://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/track/dream-in-sacred-smoke #np

you ever think about whether the bee movie copypasta counts as a single utterance

there's a type of post you see a lot of now (especially in legacy media and places like huffpo and blogs whose names start with the word "the") where they start identifying a real trend which has problematic aspects, and then do this sleight of hand where they equate the opposite of those […]

read Foucault's Pendulum: a novel about the consequences of doing a grift writing computer generated conspiracy slop written in 1988

say I want a space efficient way of representing documents as sets of terms, where I want to be able to efficiently see if a query is a subset of a document (ie all the terms in the query are in the document). I can easily see if two sets are equal by assigning each possible term a prime number […]

free idea for any IP lawyers: go around to open source developers and get them to put the code equivalent of trap streets in their code. make sure they do it in a way that will show up in build artifacts. then download all the apps from the app stores, find any that match, and send C&D letters

apparently valve is using turnip, not qualcomm's proprietary driver, in the frame https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

LMAO https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

konfabulator/dashboard applets but they're palmos applications

my fantasy is that all apps from all old architectures should be able to be run on a modern linux desktop for preservation's sake, and not be confined to non-interoperating full machine emulators only. we can do this with windows and android apps already. i can play x86 steam windows games on my […]

jet turbines in parking lots are running 24/7 to bring you this

NVDA just lost all the gains it made from the earnings results yesterday, for those playing along

this is really good information design from the breezy weather app. I'm delighted

how common is it for mobile apps to use sqlite extensions? if you're a mobile dev, and I gave you an extension .dylib or .so file, would you know what to do with it?

the ocaml equivalent to .unwrap() is Result.get_ok which I don't think I've ever seen used

let's see how things are going in zig land, maybe they do a better job of error handling https://bsky.app/profile/wffl.ihatereality.space/post/3m5yp6m47yk24

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/servo_002_arrives/ As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine <- by me on @theregister

Cloudflare was down Why? Edge web servers were restarting Why? They failed to handle filter rule files being over a certain size Why? The code was calling .unwrap() and not handling the error case Why? That code path had never been exercised before Why? The rule file was trusted input and […]

I often use python to debug and write unit tests for C code, and so I have a workflow where I'm constantly: making a change to the C code, rebuilding the C extension, running a python script or doing something in the ipython console, repeat. every year it feels like python's build tooling is […]

where is your system on the Chomsky hierarchy? the answer may surprise you https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/

what if there's just enough time between the AI crash and climate change mass migration (which requires huge amounts of production of new technologies; off grid solar, etc) that everyone forgets how to do production ramp for new things

san francisco is so, as the kids say, cooked

what happened in 2024 that made moerno and bitcoin de-correlate?

it can only index like 10k documents per second, that's a little disappointing (though I haven't done much tuning yet)

is anyone working on using bone conducted sound in VR headsets to address VR sickness by directly acting on the vestibular system?

thinking about the arts and crafts movement and how style might evolve as a reaction to AI slop the way arts and crafts was a reaction to early industrial production. what does "authentic" digital stuff look like?

if activitypub server A supports i2p and its users follow accounts with @i2p_address.i2p.alt usernames, and a user on server A reposts an i2p post, and a user on server B follows that user, would that break anything? would server B tolerate not being able to resolve any of the i2p addresses?

the oneida commune became a corporation that makes silverware until they eventually moved all the production to china and sold the brand to a conglomerate

we don't need an organizational fork of mozilla, mozilla being an Organization is the original sin that led to the current state of affairs. we need everyone sharing patches and building from source (which librewolf did an admirable job lowering the friction of doing). the only way to stop […]

you don't need a floating point unit if you just do all your math in GF(2)

NPUs are useful for all kinds of stuff besides neural nets (really anything that involves big matrix multiplications), you just need to learn MLIR or ONNX to program them

finally switching off thunderbird (to claws) after they opened a popup ad asking for donations, in a foreground window, when thunderbird was minimized

I wrote up the fused random projection thing in a little blog post: https://notes.hella.cheap/one-weird-hashing-trick.html

really clear and thorough picture of the mechanics of AI bubble financing and what it might look like when it blows up https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/

what are people's favorite prompt injection or other poisoning techniques to deal with AI companies scraping their version control servers? is there a way to inject analytics beacons that will trigger coding agents to connect back to you and tell you who is using the agent?

using a count-min sketch over ngrams as a markov chain and staring at this, eyes squinting, head turned sideways, trying to decide if it's reasonable

a crash is going to put a bunch of corporate SaaS companies out of business which means their customers are going to be high and dry which means they'll be looking for replacements as quickly as possible and will want those replacements to be on-prem which is going to create a ton of basically […]

the experience of talking to people that swear everything is fixed in the latest LLM that came out six months ago is the same as the experience of talking to people who insist house prices never go down

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if you cluster tokens by co-occurrence, and you make a count-min sketch of ngram frequencies, then you can do autocomplete as a bounded search problem (where there are a small number of tokens per cluster and you're only considering tokens in the same cluster), and you can do autocomplete on the […]

is there a fast way to do length normalization when your vectors are integer and you don't want to use floating point where normalization is all the vectors sum to some constant not one, obviously if they were normalized to sum to one it would be a binary vector and throw away a ton of […]