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This AI complaint is brought to you today by this ridiculous poster at Manhattan’s Guitar Center
“Make your dream tone a reality”, my ass.
Ever notice how 90% of AI marketing copy is literally just vague platitudes because they can’t actually think of any legitimate benefits or use cases?
“Be anything you imagine” = “we can’t imagine anything good enough to say here so you do the thinking for us”

@… oh fascinating. Yeah, I would love to explore more about the tensions there. Specifically if individual file syntax weighs more than the bundler? Like that original decision to require a preprocessor for JSX (where if it were to be designed today I would hope it would use template literals instead). Or how .astro files (last I saw) were pretty tightly coupled to Vite. And ho…

This is cool: A user-defined string literal operator that turns string literals into their (compile-time) hash codes. Might be useful in some codebases to avoid having to maintain unique numerical values for a bunch of identifiers.
(But it might be that in large codebases, the time to run all these compile-time hash functions adds up to be unbearable.)
(I was specifically thinking of the "slot IDs" in

C++11 compile-time hash of literal strings.
C++11 compile-time hash of literal strings. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Still thinking about how, when my optometrist asked "if I see flashes of light", I found it really hard to answer.
(Contextually I was aware they were asking if I had a condition - photopsia - but, as phrased, to my literal brain it's asking if I have functioning eyesight.)

An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila
Jianfei Jiang, Christof M. Aegerter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18084 https…

An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila
The mesoderm invagination of the Drosophila embryo is known as an archetypal morphogenic process. To explore the roles of the active cellular forces and the regulation of these forces, we developed an integrated vertex model that combines the regulation of morphogen expression with cell movements and tissue mechanics. Our results suggest that a successful furrow formation requires an apical tension gradient, decreased basal tension, and increased lateral tension, which corresponds to apical con…