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Ugh, those LLM bots on Github...
In #OpenRV's repo a commit is "fixed typo". Then a bot comments with a wall of text about what that commit is doing in a tone that sounds like Brainy Smurf right before he's getting booted out of the village. Then the devs add a file to the repo that asks LLMs to only raise issues when they're 100% sure it's an actual issue.
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Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the '90s dot-com boom and comparable to the mid-2010s US shale boom (Toby Nangle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/918fbc46-56a9-4225-b2cd-77fb4a532218
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Running a custom kernel on a HiSilicon IP camera SoC again after a few years, rediscovering the importance of picking the right toolchain.
https://gist.github.com/orangecms/5c597bdbe165a7151ff85f14ddffbdcf

IP camera running custom kernel
IP camera running custom kernel. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

It has happened to the best of us: You forgot the name of a function or the package that function was in but you are sure its there somewhere and does exactly what you need! Introduce {forgot}, it helps you find that function: https://github.com/parmsam/forgot

GitHub - parmsam/forgot: R package to search for that one function you need in that one package
R package to search for that one function you need in that one package - parmsam/forgot

from my link log —
Lessons from merging hash tables.
https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338
saved 2026-01-08

2026-01-01_hashmap-merge.md
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As I've noted before, the hit to US capital, from Venezuela gaining control of its oil, long preceded the Chšvez-Maduro years.
Graph shows share of Venezuelan GDP going to USA shareholders from late 1950s to mid 80s. Then slow increase til Chšvez govt at turn of century. Then increase under Maduro.
Entender la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela | ctxt.es

I might need this at work… #claude
❤️ https://github.com/sr-kai/claudeusagewin

GitHub - sr-kai/claudeusagewin: A Windows system tray application that displays Claude Code usage limits in real-time. Designed for users running Claude Code in WSL.
A Windows system tray application that displays Claude Code usage limits in real-time. Designed for users running Claude Code in WSL. - sr-kai/claudeusagewin

This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…

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Skr-ZERO/Xuandong-Kaishu
《玄冬楷书》——基于开源字体《马善政毛笔楷书》的拓展字体
github.com/Skr-ZERO/Xuandong-Kaishu

GitHub - Skr-ZERO/Xuandong-Kaishu: 《玄冬楷书》——基于开源字体《马善政毛笔楷书》的拓展字体 · GitHub
《玄冬楷书》——基于开源字体《马善政毛笔楷书》的拓展字体. Contribute to Skr-ZERO/Xuandong-Kaishu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-micro…

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub
OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft’s popular code repository that lets software engineers store, share and collaborate on computer code, according to a person with knowledge of the project. The decision to embark on the new product came after OpenAI engineers, like other ...