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The Bug Club:
🎵 How to Be a Confidante
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https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-be-a-confidante
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I'm pretty annoyed that my current laptop (which runs hot! Like, 140F on the metal base of the laptop!) cpu (i5-10310U) has a typical TDP of 15W, and cpubenchmarks shows it having roughly the same performance as an N100 that runs w/ a typical TDP of 6W. Damn that 10mnm/7nm lithography.

Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes
Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13335

Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes
Humour, as a complex language form, is derived from myriad aspects of life, whilst existing work on computational humour has focussed almost exclusively on short pun-based jokes. In this work, we investigate whether the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to explain humour depends on the particular humour form. We compare models on simple puns and more complex topical humour that requires knowledge of real-world entities and events. In doing so, we curate a dataset of 600 jokes split across…

Typically I’ll spend every summer saying “I hate the heat” and I still do, but I’m trying my best to get used to it because it’s only going to get hotter on this planet every year. Okay, off for a bike ride!

"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as …

Interesting background on Spain’s grid blackout. A series of small issues and manual fixes that made it worse…. Recovery in a few hours was impressive. Overall that sounds like a fairly typical outage to me. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t
The Iberian blackout was a consequence of grid management, not any power source.

Is General-Purpose AI Reasoning Sensitive to Data-Induced Cognitive Biases? Dynamic Benchmarking on Typical Software Engineering Dilemmas
Francesco Sovrano, Gabriele Dominici, Rita Sevastjanova, Alessandra Stramiglio, Alberto Bacchelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11278

Is General-Purpose AI Reasoning Sensitive to Data-Induced Cognitive Biases? Dynamic Benchmarking on Typical Software Engineering Dilemmas
Human cognitive biases in software engineering can lead to costly errors. While general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems may help mitigate these biases due to their non-human nature, their training on human-generated data raises a critical question: Do GPAI systems themselves exhibit cognitive biases? To investigate this, we present the first dynamic benchmarking framework to evaluate data-induced cognitive biases in GPAI within software engineering workflows. Starting with a seed set of 16 hand-cra…

⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…
So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation

⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…
So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation

This is the first time I’ve heard of a web #accessibility lawsuit *demanding* an overlay:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:734050244680636…

Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. | Bet Hannon
Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. Typical serial plaintiff, with dozens of cookie-cutter suits. What isn't typical however, is that the plaintiff's attorney wants to make only putting an overlay widget on the site the only requirement to settle. I've never heard of that before. Almost always the requirement is that the site conform to WCAG 2.1 AA within 12-24 months. Has anyone seen this happening with a defendant before? I t…