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It struck me today that if you think you need a million more satellites in orbit to make your product succeed, your product is infeasible (the polite respons...

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Implementing transcendental functions in Ivy <a href="https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/implementing-transcendental-functions.html" target="_b...

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Yesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. A...

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Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs u...

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Also: replies that say I should switch to Linux will be ignored. Too much of my non-programming workflow makes that impossible.

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I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides sec...

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Several folks asked about day/night. These were both made at roughly mid-day a few seconds apart.

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Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but ...

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A thread about my use of AI in coding through 2025. Expecting similar results in 2026.

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As Spock would say, "fascinating".

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Besides the obvious objections, I find it deeply ironic that Claude Code would send me an email thanking me for my efforts towards simplicity in software.</p...

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This is what happened to the web when the software industry never spent a moment thinking about long term stability. About users. About usability. About anyt...

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Happy Firmware Update Season to one and all.

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Is it just me? Perhaps because I often have only one or two tabs open - I'm a compulsive tab closer. But the new UI in macOS Safari for handling tabs was...

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For # tongueouttuesday , an echidna with its long stick...

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I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathema...

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Saw Zootopia 2 today because sure why not. I must say, the computer rendering of fur has come a long long way since Jim Kajiya's teddy bear. How is...

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Saw something unremarked in the background of a YouTube video, spent 5 minutes in CAD, walked to the 3D printer and pushed the button. An hour later my life ...

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