Agreed, though I was disheartened to find that we are now forcing electric cars to be loud because won't someone think of the pedestrians. There was a moment when EVs were quiet, and now there are some which drive by my house (residential neighborhood, so around 20 mph) that are louder than a well maintained ICEV would be at the same speed. The worst offenders are hybrids (looking at you, Toyota, with that unholy screech you make...)
I've had a lot of success at work breaking down tasks that are supposed to be "done by the agent" into small LLM calls orchestrated deterministically via boring queues and messages. That's why this really resonates with me in a world where we're lured deep into the ecosystem by the model vendors.
At the end of the day we can get so much done just by breaking down a problem into smaller problems.
But won't it be fun when we can cloud burst-parallel a grid/tiled sampling of multiple code implementations/architectures, and interactively explore navigate/blend-points-in the latent design space. Multiples embodying different trade-offs, styles, clarity vs performance, etc. Code as generative art. What might the software engineering equivalent of designer moodboards be?
> New data from NISAR shows where Mexico City and its environs subsided by up to a few centimeters per month (shown in blue) between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026
The labels on the map were also confusing, and at first because of the relative positioning of the texts identifying the airport and the angel I thought up was East and not North, although a closer inspection made things clearer (and yes, up is North).
In our org it's people that have too much stuff in their context, every mcp in the world installed, GTD, PAI, OpenClaw. I'm equally baffled how one can spend that much money during their day to day.
This rural German company is somehow affiliated with the actor Jeff Bridges who seems to always had an interest in photography.
> Bridges has been an amateur photographer since high school. He began taking photographs on film sets during Starman at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen in 1984, with his favorite camera, a Widelux F8 that his wife bought him. He published many of these photographs online and in a 2003 book entitled Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges. In 2013, he received an Infinity Award for his photos from the International Center of Photography in New York. A follow-up book, Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume Two, was published in 2019.
Why not, seems to be made exactly for this purpose if you look at the "‘Age over 18’: true" flag. What's bad about that solution?
> The technical solution for an EU age verification app is privacy-preserving, open source and user-friendly.
> First, the user downloads the app onto their phone and sets it up by certifying their age.
This can be done with a biometric passport/ID card, a national eID (e.g. national ID Card or other electronic identification mean), a pre-installed third-party app (e.g. a banking app), or in person (e.g. at the post office). Only the information confirming that the user is over the age will be saved in the app. No name, no birthday, or any other data is saved.
> After completing this step, the communication between the app and the provider certifying the user’s age (e.g. eID, third-party app) ends. No further data is exchanged.
> The app is then ready to be used online. When an online platform asks to verify the user’s age, the user can use the app to communicate they are over a certain age (e.g. ‘Age over 18’: true) to the platform.
The EU app still requires that you let them violate your privacy in exchange for a batch of about 30 easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans rooting/jailbreaking, bans third party operating systems like GrapheneOS, and requires that you install Google Play Services/IOS equivalent for "anti-tampering".
Obvious straw man because age check can be done in a privacy preserving way. I think it's less that everyone agrees but more that one country did it and others followed.
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