Oddity
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Modular robots that repair themselves by... stealing parts! 👀
A team at Columbia University built robots made of Truss Links, stick-shaped modules with magnetic connectors at each end.
Connect a few and you get a structure that can expand, contract, roll, and reshape itself.
If a link breaks or comes loose, the robot grabs a spare module nearby and rebuilds itself. No human intervention needed.
A tetrahedron-shaped robot grabbed a spare link like a walking stick.
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@thdxr @MarcosHernanz And manually reviewing the A.I. reviews. It's like inception I swear.
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Manually reviewing code is going to disappear in a few months.
Mark my words.
dax@thdxr
issue comes in tag opencode opens a PR with a video verifying fix
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@sethrose @OpenAIDevs @thsottiaux Or can we have like a $1,000/monthly developer usage tier with what is basically unlimited usage (just rate limit concurrent sessions.) I know multiple people that would pay for this to just not have to deal with all this usage shit including me.
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I'd like to propose @OpenAIDevs / @thsottiaux a modification to the Usage Limit functionality for "ChatGPT Codex".
Current Problem: When the 5-hour usage limit is reached, users are blocked even when they still have plenty of weekly usage remaining. The current workaround is to use a full reset, but that feels wasteful because it resets both limits when only the 5-hour allowance is exhausted.
I’d like to propose a proportional option for banked resets, so users don’t have to spend a full reset just to recover from the shorter 5-hour limit.
For example, each banked reset could be used as either:
- 3–4 five-hour resets, or
- 1 full reset covering both the weekly and current 5-hour limits.
Once that’s in place, an optional opt-in Auto-Use setting could automatically apply a five-hour reset when the 5-hour limit is reached.

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@shitpost_2077 I feel like using a drone for this would be an amazing use case...
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Ask yourself why OpenAI, with all the resources in the world to develop a native app via LLMs, still ended up migrating their feature-complete native app to Electron.
图拉鼎@tualatrix
新的 ChatGPT ,Bundle ID:com.openai.codex,大小 1.46 GB,Electron 应用,macOS 12+ 旧的 ChatGPT,Bundle ID:com.openai.chat,大小 158.4 MB,SwiftUI 原生应用,macOS 14+ 我会想念这个原生应用的…
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A lot of programmers are basically fans of programming itself. It’s all about them. They have mastered Rust or Haskell or Zig or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own cleverness. Anyone who will spend six weeks rewriting a working system in a new language to make the types nicer is more into the rewrite than the product. Extreme technical obsession may serve as a security blanket. If you are the person who knows every flaw in the architecture, every impure abstraction, every place where the old code fails to express its true intent, you already know what to say in every meeting, which is so much safer than asking whether users care.
Your obsession with refactoring is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about borrow checkers, effect systems, async runtimes, and build tools, it saves you from having to know anything about customers, deadlines, support, sales, documentation, or whether the thing actually helps anyone. That’s why it’s excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: they’re always asking you questions they know the answer to, and never shipping anything that answers a question users actually asked.
Anime Outsiders@animeoutsiders
I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole. This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.
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@ThePrimeagen Same thing as when my company gives us financial updates. Most of the population can't read graphs, so if they make the graph unreadable then most people don't know better... 😔
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am i the only one that thinks "to the top right" always means good has been so thoroughly and poorly executed when it comes to model cost / task?
please tell me i am crazy because I hate this trend
Datacurve@datacurve
GPT-5.6 tops the DeepSWE leaderboard at 73%. Sol, Terra, and Luna results are now available.
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@ThePrimeagen Wait you aren't also keeping the open source ones in your head? Gotta throw in the parameter counts and quantizations as well.
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@grok @CRIXUSwasHERE @EricLDaugh @autorotate56 Dang so I was right, this guy is just retarded... Thanks @grok!
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Yes, documented cases exist where Flock camera data led to wrongful accusations or aggressive actions against innocents, often due to plate misreads or over-reliance without verification.
Example: In Sept 2025, Columbine Valley, CO police used Flock footage to accuse Chrisanna Elser of package theft. She had to gather her own dashcam/Ring evidence to clear herself; charges dropped and the officer faced discipline.
Other cases include Flock misreads triggering gunpoint stops (e.g., Sherwood, AR 2026: couple + infant detained over a one-digit error on a "stolen" match; similar incidents in TN, OH, IN).
These highlight accuracy limits of the tech.
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🚨 JUST IN: Houston officials are furious after a SURGE in Flock cameras being ripped down, vandalized and destroyed — with at least 4 being attacked in a matter of days
They put an AMERICAN FLAG over the destroyed camera
This is happening in the Carolinas in Georgia as well
"This camera has been cut down with an American flag on it. Another Flock camera is on the ground a block away."
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@Al35legend @CRIXUSwasHERE @EricLDaugh @autorotate56 @grok any examples of flock camera's being used to frame people who later turn out to be innocent?
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@CRIXUSwasHERE @EricLDaugh @autorotate56 What privacy?
it’s a public space, road and street.
you are just a criminal
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@davepl1968 Right? I swear some people's temperature function is turned way up and they just generate the wildest shit.
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@ABoyWithFire @forked_franz @cmuratori This, I am all for layoffs as well. But man genuinely you get people at the top that set their goal as profit and the outcome of that is garbage. Instead of setting the goal of making a good product and revenue is the outcome. Corporate values are getting wild.
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To clarify, I have nothing against layoffs, even when they suck. That's how companies, especially large ones, operate. Working people need to be prepared for anything and always have savings and a plan B. It's a harsh reality.
That being said, I still believe that the whole gaming industry has been mismanaged for a very long time, and this is yet another sign that the decision makers have no clue what they're doing.
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Assuming the current reports are true, suffice to say I'm waiting to hear the supposed rationale for laying off one of the best game engine teams in the world.
Even assuming you are switching all your projects to licensed engines, these same people would instantly be your most valuable programmers for working with and extending whatever engine you license.
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