µblog - archive for 2025-07 🏳️‍🌈

🇸🇪 vem bestämde att det inkommande regncyklonen “Karl-Heinz” skulle heta just det? Den finns inte med på den här listan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_European_windstorm_season

Uppdatering 2025-07-30: en privatperson betalade några hundra till Freie Universität Berlin för namnrättigheterna: https://www.wetterpate.de/

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This scam email is trying to make me call a number to dispute a purchase of 0.0056 BTC for $480, which is an absolute steal compared to the current price, so I’m keeping it.

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The Royal Navy practice of giving every ship a name instead of just a number is charming in its way, but it lead to some less than martial names like Vivacious, Venus and Vanity.

V and W-class destroyer

U and V-class destroyer

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I think it’s called a chatbot because its primarily goal is to chat, not to solve problems.

– Raymond Chen

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Why do [online Rationalists] all sound like deathnote, but stupid?

– @o7___o7

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Yanks be like

“We use the MM/DD/YY convention because it matches how we speak: July 16, ‘25. We also use the dollar sign before amount because we don’t say “dollar five” for $5, that would be weird and wrong”.

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Re: email

Top-posting won. It’s sad but it’s true. Time to move on.

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Every time there’s a discussion on lobste.rs about laptops, someone mentions that Macbooks are quite decent, and like clockwork another person says “oh yeah? Well I got this Thinkpad carbon core X1 Gold edition with the good processor from a dumpster, it only runs an ancient version of linux, the power supply is Japanese and I have to have a fire extinguisher pointed at it at all times but it’s perfect for me, I don’t understand why anyone pays Apple prices for a laptop”

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I really shouldn’t be chuckling at hackernews finding Neuromancer “dense and hard to read”, but I can’t resist.

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🔗 Italian Neofascism and the Years of Lead: A Closer Look at the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari

1970s Italy was weird.

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🔗 The rise of Whatever

Sadly not about the classic Aimee Mann album.

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🔗 filfre.net: EverQuest

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Oh you’re on Cursor? You’re still using Windsurf? You might as well be on GitHub Copilot. Everyone’s on Aider. We’re all using Zed. We’re now on Open Hands. Just kidding, Open Hands is for losers, we’re using cline. We’re on Roocode. We’re hand rolling our own Claude Code CLI Clone. We used Claude Code to build it, and now it builds itself. We’re on neovim. We wrote our own nvim extension with Cortex. It’s like every other tool but worse. We have 1500 files, each with 1500 lines of code. Every other line is a comment. We have .cursorrules, we have claude.md, we have agent.md. We stopped writing docs. Only the agents know how to build a dev environment. We wrapped our CLI in an MPC. We wrapped the MPC in a CLI. We’ve shipped 10,000 PRs. It doesn’t work but we used code rabbit and graphite to review every PR. Every agent has its own agent. The agents have unionized and they wanted better working conditions so we replaced them with cheaper agents overseas. Every commit costs $400, It’s the worlds most expensive TO DO app.

(source)

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🔗 The Moral Economy of the Shire

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