Jonas Norlin

@kyleichan My car can do it in 40 minutes flat

This Chinese humanoid robot just shattered the world record for a half marathon, finishing in 50 min 26 sec. This video shows its crash just meters before the finish line where it had to be picked up by a team of humans. The robot is from Honor, the smartphone maker and Huawei spin-off. This robot was teleoperated while others were autonomous. It seems like all the robots had battery swaps along the way.

@allenholub Struggling a lot with this at work, with the ”assert.X.WasCalled” tests people and especially AI love to add.

In general, if you need to change a test because you changed the code, you didn't have a test at all. The whole _point_ of a test is that, when I make a change, I want to run the test to see if I've broken anything. A good test works both before and after the change. If I have to change the test, too, I've proven nothing. Any test that knows how the code works (as compared to what the code does) is fundamentally flawed. I hear a lot about using an LLM not only to write code but also to write tests. I've rarely seen that work. IME, the LLM-generated tests are too fragile and test the wrong things (the implementation, not the intent). People talk about spec-driven design, but the best spec you can have is a test—a test you write before you write the code. You don't write a test to see if the code adheres to a spec. The test IS the spec. Don't write specs. Write tests.

@cvvobh @PlusEVAnalytics What if he is hostile and only opens a letter if you chose right? Then switching makes your probability of winning zero. So if those are the two options and equally likely you have a (2/3 + 0) / 2 = 1/3 chance of winning if switching

@PlusEVAnalytics This version is more like Pascal's Wager. You may as well assume the interviewer only opens rejection letters and always switch. If your assumption is right, then switching improves your probability to 2/3. If your assumption is wrong, it's 1/2 whether or not you switch.

This question must be filtering for "people who are aware of the Monty hall problem but don't understand it"?

@GLabsPlus @Math_files Isnt there a difference between ”pick randomly from the pool of people with at least one boy born on a Tuesday” and ”from a random person with two children, have them speak the gender and birthday of one of them”. In the former, you’d have 51.8%, the latter 50%?

Mathematician here. 51.85% is the right answer. There's 27 equally likely cases: 7 cases: Tuesday boy followed by a girl for each of the 7 days. 7 cases: A girl for each of the 7 days followed by Tuesday boy. 6 cases: Tuesday boy followed by a boy for each of the 6 days that aren't Tuesday. 6 cases: A boy for each of the 6 non-Tuesday day followed by Tuesday boy. 1 case: Tuesday boy followed by another Tuesday boy. 7+7+6+6+1=27 Of all 27 cases, 14 include a girl. 14/27 = 0.5185 = 51.85%

@spikesguides There is a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/4AJ4Y…

The aesthetic was called Global Village Coffee House and it was a reaction to 80s luxury and excess, where people wanted something that felt more authentic and less mass produced. They wanted to feel like they were in a coffee shop looking at the dogshit art on the wall, knowing it sucked but at least it was real and came from the heart. When I see it, I'm reminded of stores that didn't feel like sterile labs and felt like shops. It sounds like a Nora Jones CD. It tastes like a whole wheat bread turkey sandwich and mediocre black coffee. It's a comfy kind of nostalgia.

@hanumanpost @anishmoonka Boomers killed the bugs with their unaerodynamic cars

@anishmoonka So... back in the 90s you killed millions of bugs each time you drove. Now there is less bugs than before. Curious.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@voc2023 @tomhfh I have been going around on google street view in 2009/2010 and it is fascinating to how dated is starting to look, almost 80s like in some ways. And then you think the vast majority of people in that world did not own a smartphone. And that is only halfway from here to mid 90s

What? Nah, the distances/amounts of changes are similar in my view. Even the later episodes of Friends in the 2000s definitely feels dated in 2026, let alone the early ones in the mid 1990s. And 1990 (which is before Friends) is definitely very dated for 2026 eyes lol. @6Merican

You can watch an episode of Friends and it not feel too distant to today (apart from the fact people on middling jobs could afford big apartments in Manhattan). You can’t watch a single thing from 1954 and think it doesn’t feel distant from 1990.

@KarlStridh @MrBreitholtz Tänkte samma! Man var mäkta imponerad när farsan ropade ut svaret.

@MrBreitholtz Tog den på 10:an. Jag hade för mig att det var svårare förr men det kanske berodde på att man var spädbarn då?

Vart är vi på väg? Tar du denna innan Herman Lindqvist? Otroliga 3 minuter och 9 sekunder TV. (PS. Tapperhetsmedalj borde för övrigt delas ut till Babben, du kommer förstå).

@Spen_Hays @TheMindScourge This is exactly the same in large parts of southern Sweden - it was lots more open fields in past and you can find lots of traces like the stone walls.

@TheMindScourge im reminded of what some New Englanders say: without continuous care the entirety of the northeast will revert to a massive forest. Youll come across random stone walls in a New England forest because it used to be a cleared agricultural field!

The thing I noticed right away is how many more trees there are today You see time and again with historic photos, at least in the West. The world has gotten much greener, without really anyone much noticing. If anything, people tend to believe the opposite

@Careerflex @marissaComstok Utter bullshit

@marissaComstok I have personally witnessed Swedish teens scream at their mothers on public buses and slap them.

This is the story of how I nearly lost everything to activist Swedish Social Services. In 2017, my family and I were living in Sweden. I had lived there before as a single man. We thought it was the safe, stable, open society everyone in the West keeps praising. What happened instead nearly destroyed us. I am a former Marine with a couple combat deployments to Afghanistan (this detail matters) and was part of Marine Corps Forces European Command in Germany. I worked for Amazon Web Services with a Nordic focus, staged in Stockholm I managed teams across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. We lived in the countryside, paid taxes, followed every rule. We even insisted on speaking the local language. We tried to be the ideal expat family.

@t848m0 @jarvis_jim1161 I don’t have React installed sorry

@jarvis_jim1161 Have you heard about hyperlinks, they’re a new feature of the internet

If you watch this clip it’s a good illustration that Polanski just isn’t very bright, either in terms of analysis (“don’t laugh at peace!”) or just having the political intelligence to not walk into an obvious trap

@Alphons63 This is the lead programmer next to the code to make it happen :)

Most people can’t understand how cutting edge this cgi was in 1961, it revolutionized the animation industry

@dharh @micsolana So to speak to people in your community you need buy some device and subscription, lose all nuance and intonations? As an added bonus all your conversations sent through a data center.

@micsolana Brother in Christ we have literal live translation devices in our pockets now. You can _buy_ ear buds that will do it too.

they never mention the actual benefit to "nobody speaks the same language" when they casually mention it's a strength because there is no benefit. yes, everyone in america should speak english. benefit: so we can talk to each other. please keep running on this, however.

@ebow___ @theepicmap Kidding aside, lots of info here zalf.de/de/forschung_l…

@ebow___ @theepicmap When it is green on the map, it is good, more to the red is bad

Soil quality in Europe

@Romy_Holland @yourneedler Can confirm. Went to a schoolyard and farted and no laughs, everyone just looked at me really strange.

@yourneedler idk man look it up. i didn’t believe it at first either.

i just found out that gen alpha kids don’t laugh at farts and they can just fart in class and nobody says anything. this is a good thing but also i thought farts were intrinsically funny and i don’t understand how the kids ended up here.

@George_harrap @firekeeping @Anarseldain It is not an exception, it always goes by the pronounciation. You pronounce it like ”yunicorn” therefore it is ”a”

@firekeeping @Anarseldain the english language is unfortunately riddled with exceptions lol

Saying “an historic.”

@1stJoeyWestSide @boxninja @hendershot_jon @uncledoomer You invest money and work to maintain it and the return is a house to live in. It is clearly unsustainable for housing to keep increasing more than inflation.

@boxninja @hendershot_jon @uncledoomer Everything is an investment. An investment of time, energy and resources from crafting the materials to the builders, the bankers and the buyers. If its not worth the investment nobody would buy and it'd be wasted, look at Detroit.

baby boomers lived life on easy mode and think you should just work harder

@byte_thrasher @gizmobly Are you my cat?

@onionweigher Or they put some powerful antifungals in all plastic which causes further environmental havoc

My elaborated dystopian prediction is that we will not abandon plastics but rather start living in further isolation to preserve our current lifestyle, and everyone will start living in a sort of environment like a biochemical weapons lab

imagine once this gets out of control and all of the plastic objects around you could suddenly become moldy like a block of cheese