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Enjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

De volgende klap voor de Europese autofabrikanten en hun voorliefde voor diesel, LNG en waterstof...
China's shift to #ElectricTrucks may reshape global fuel demand (diesel and LNG): "While electric trucks are two to three times more expensive than diesel ones and cost roughly 18% more than LNG trucks, their higher energy efficiency and lower costs can save owners an esti…

China's shift to electric trucks may reshape global fuel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market. Sales of electric trucks jumped 175% in the first half of 2025, with battery-electric vehicles now making up more than a fifth of the market. Electric trucks are now cheaper to buy and operate than diesel ones. Forecasts suggest heavy-duty electrics could account for half of new sales by 2028. Analysts estimate that the transition is displacing a substantial …

The unwrap thing is the equivalent of ignoring the return value of C functions that can fail.
I still prefer the Rust syntax for this, at least ignoring the error is explicit text in code.
In C ignoring a possible error is silent. To spot the error one would need to know the function signature and documentation in advance.
Side note: exceptions are even worse in my humble opinion. They have the advantage of giving more information about an error than just a null or a negativ…

I thought my code wasn't working but then I remember I left a UF2 board plugged into my computer via USB and it cripples the Finder so it cannot show newly created files... unplugged it and my script's file showed up.
#FTFF

Neil Young - "After The Gold Rush" (1970)
Somehow I went all these years without acquiring this record, until today. Apparently this lp was inspired by a Dean Stockwell script for a movie that never got produced.
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung

from my link log —
Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust.
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/donkeys-mules-horses/
saved 2021-05-27

Of Donkeys, Mules & Horses
A quest for the perfect data-structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP Prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.

One of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband

LSU nursing grad, detained by ICE for 6 months, may self-deport: 'I feel hopeless all the time' (Haley Miller/NOLA.com)
https://www.nola.com/news/education/ice-detains-lsu-nursing-grad-for-six-months/article_1e83af3a-4f80-5413-9f12-4ed3e6166575.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p25#a251220p25

I posted on my ko-fi #art #pixelart

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