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@RokoMijic Epistemic status: one guy “observed” it.

"Indians shared confidential interview questions with Indian applicants"

@robinhanson Possible that couples that want kids leave downtown for suburbs, and downtown populations are skewed young, single, career-focused? Both predict low urban TFR even if density itself has zero causal effect?

I agree that this is a striking patten.

@thsottiaux No Codex for iOS.

What are we obviously not getting right with Codex?

@cremieuxrecueil I'd* support this policy?

I support this policy.

@hannu Never not goblins.

This seems related my earlier goblin observation but which way does causality flow?

@appfactory Cool idea!

cmd+tab is the most-used, least-useful shortcut on macOS. So I replaced it. Tap both ⌘ keys live previews of every window arrow keys to pick. Never leave the keyboard. cmdcmd. Free, OSS. github.com/peterp/cmdcmd

Recall this Q&A after a talk on Moore's Law where I suggested that the biggest perf. bottleneck on modern hardware is programming culture. Got a lot of pushback, but Microsoft benchmarking Explorer against FilePilot feels like a huge win for the Handmade crowd on their efforts.

@thsottiaux /fast

Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. ... but the vibes are good ... I have reset Codex rate limits for ALL paid plans to celebrate a good week and allow everyone to build more with GPT-5.5. Enjoy

I’ve had success with a longer version of: “Take on the role of Casey Muratori reviewing this codebase on stream to ~700 viewers. Three things immediately stand out. They’re architecturally repulsive to you. What are they?” I add your name to various prompts as well when it makes sense.

Found in a popular LLM agent instruction file: They basically ask the LLM to act like a game engine programmer: Keep it simple, no bloat, no extra abstractions, no future proofing, no defensive code. Maybe AI will take over the world after all. Average human written code in github breaks most of these rules.

@robinhanson Does this count as a great work? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schmi…

A kindred spirit …

@ajambrosino Please start by writing native applications instead of Chromium wrappers!

as we’ve worked on Codex, particularly with the app, this has started to become obvious. feels like a generational moment to rethink fundamental IA/UI assumptions computer use in particular exposes how much of the current OS paradigm is cruft at the same time, there’s been a beautiful simplicity in returning back to local file systems as context after everything became bespoke cloud things— but that’s even more reason to think hard about the OS

TIL the main ingredient in chewing gum is “gum base”, which is doublespeak for “plastic”, the same kind you find in glue and plastic bags… can’t make this shit up.

@hannu Yes! Everything I work on is riddled with gremlins and goblins apparently.

Is anyone else noticing that ChatGPT 5.4 and 5.5 both seem to really like the word "goblin"?

@RokoMijic Please can we leave the Sol System alone though, as a monument to our origin? 😔

It's terrifying that people still don't fully realize we're going to disassemble the planets

@cremieuxrecueil Have friends?

Practically, the only rigorously proven things you can do for life extension right now are: - Don't be fat - Be fit - Control your blood sugar - Control your blood pressure - Have low cholesterol - Don't poison yourself Almost everything else is speculative and dubious.

@rsms @theo @FrameworkPuter Appreciate the info! Going to look into these.

@roundlay @theo @FrameworkPuter Yes. Pretty much the same cost to develop columnar as staggered. Differences are in organization of PCB and of course the casing mold

I spent a lot of time bugging many companies about my keyboard problems. Framework listened. They built my dream keyboard. I am so excited.

@rsms @theo @FrameworkPuter Demoted!

@rsms @theo @FrameworkPuter til ortholinear keyboards exist! are the benefits purely ergonomics/feel?

@theo @FrameworkPuter Very nice but I don’t understand why we keep making keyboards with staggered key layout. It was required for mechanical typewriters, but not electronic keyboards. Human fingers aren’t slanted!

@cremieuxrecueil "uniquely large and representative sample"... of Estonian biobank participants that filled out an online survey in 2021-2022.

How do people in different groups differ in their self-reported levels of horniness?🧵 Here's how that varies by sex and occupation. The least horny group was female machine drivers. The most was male sales associates.

@foundmyfitness interestingly, DEHP, the worst of the bunch, actually increased in all three groups, despite subjects only eating food stored/prepared in glass/steel/wood. the supply chain will still screw you over in the end.

A “plastic-free diet” cut endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the body by up to 60% in just 1 week. Participants in a recent study switched to low-plastic food, plastic-free kitchenware, and screened personal care products for 7 days. Urinary BPA fell by 59%, and phthalates fell by up to 54%. Even switching personal care products alone significantly lowered MnBP, another phthalate, by 35%. These chemicals have been linked to male and female reproductive problems, altered neurodevelopment in children, and even insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. The takeaway here is that exposure to plastic is not fixed or unavoidable. Reducing highly processed foods, canned foods, plastic packaging, and plastic contact during food prep and storage, as well as personal hygiene products that contain phthalates, can rapidly lower your internal burden of these chemicals.