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> Then you change the UI slightly – tweak a colour, move a button, update some copy – and suddenly every screenshot that includes that element is stale. You know they’re stale. Your users might not notice, but you know, and it gnaws at you.

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Related: Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799


Read the article you’re linking to, it is not relevant here.

Of course it is, he managed to avoid this pitfall, I "press F to pay respect"

"F" usually means somebody did something wrong and you are paying respect to their memory. You don't say it as a form of congratulations.

> did something wrong

Nah it's for those who sacrificed their own life, those who succumbed to the call of duty (or to the imperium of perfection) and put their teammates first.


Ahhhh... you need ChatGPT pro at 100 bucks/month. Am I correct?

I believe so. With Pro you get “Thinking” with levels Light, Standard, Extended, and Heavy; and you also get the “Pro” model with levels “Standard” and “Extended”.

I don’t often go to Pro as it does take a while like you saw here, but I do often use Thinking Heavy for high quality answers. Idk why, but i just get consistently worse results with Gemini (Gemini pro), where it’s just much lazier, eg won’t do actual searches unless explicitly told.


Could this be used to 3D print supports ? For now, the only thermoplastic I know of that can be used to this effect is HIPS in conjunction with d-limonene.

PVA also exists, solves in pure water.

> I have not time to send you the demonstration of a difficulty which greatly astonished M. de Mere, for he has a very good mind, but he is not a geometer (this is, as you know, a great defect) and he does not even understand that a mathematical line is divisible to infinity and believes very well to understand that it is composed of points in finite number, and never have I been able to pull him from it. If you could do that, one would render him perfect.

Makes me think of how the US army trains their waterboarders: by waterboarding them first.

The goal is to manufacture a lack of empathy along the lines of: "why should I treat this person better than I was treated".


You'd think the natural result would be 'This was horrible; this trainer is a psychopath. I am not going to do that to another human being.'

But then, we're talking about humans, especially the violence-enjoying strata of humans here.


That is the natural result. They're selecting for people that don't have that reaction, or those that can suppress it.

Just like chefs... a lot of lowlives lurk there too.

Wut? How are chefs like waterboarders?

presumably they were abused as line cooks or whatever and once they make sous chefs they become abusers. Similar dynamics exist in jail, in fraternities, etc.

Related:

https://cybercat.institute/2025/05/07/neural-alchemy/

https://cybercat.institute/2026/02/20/categorical-semantics-...

https://cybercat.institute/2025/10/16/dependent-optics-ii/

> The reason I put off starting the series for so long is one of the same reasons blocking the writing of the paper: some of the introductory material is some of the most difficult to write. It has been such a long time that I no longer know how to adequately explain why the problem is so difficult.

My sympathies to Jules


https://www.bu.edu/biorobotics/icra10workshop/icra10workshop...

> A broad variety of serpentine and continuum robots have been developed for minimally invasive surgical applications.

Soft robotic grippers are also interesting because they allow you to grasp objects without complex touch/force sensors.

https://joaobuzzatto.com/kirigami-grippers/


I'm not interested in reading the same arguments over and over angain. Ai is not scary anymore, it's fucking boring. Exits thread


> Once you cross that line you need to know what and why.

This is counterbalanced by the fact there is often one straightforward solution to every problem you run into, and those have been abundantly discussed online. Written as someone who just gave it a try.


It’s also that so many real-world use cases of BSDs entirely avoid these issues. If they were dominant concerns they would be addressed in a very professional manner, like the rest of the system. But the target market for these things just doesn’t overlap. Maybe there is a market for a BSD-esque approach to solving these things, but honestly? Meh.


> When the context gets edited and compressed enough, it sometimes stops behaving like something that needs to be managed, and starts reconstructing what it needs automatically.

Do you have examples?


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