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  hrmm. The new "inverted" world map from Brazil is neat. don't see any easy way to get an official one in the USA. Maybe it's okay to print my own.

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  sigh

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  error: loop too open

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  Reconfigured lots of symbols today in exchange for money, time to go outside and clean up something for Earth Day!

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  rude and 2D

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  not sure what words are good for signs but the art was nice

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  here are some recent tree facts ive learned. basswood which is quite soft and nice for carving comes from Tilia americana, native to eastern north America. and folks call it either a basswod tree or linden tree for some reason. it has more names too: https://roamingroots.blog/2025/08/16/tilia-americana/ the american chestnut is not gone yet but is considered at risk. some individuals survive outside the original range and people are working towards modifying the species to defend against the f...

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  what specifically are the LLMs good at? they lowered the barrier to entry for access to knowledge and prototyping. vector embeddings seem useful? LLMs dont solve problems relating to truth, authority/trust, collaboration, governance. IMO the proof is yet to be seen on long term maintainability. :shrug: anyways tell me about your favorite programming language or math and have you used LLMs with it and what was that like?

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  air brakes

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  processing data (exciting)

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  something good

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  Is "tribal knowledge" a colonizer term? Seems like in tech that is used to mean "we need to take this knowledge and extract or distill it so that others can have it" Wonder if and when it makes more sense to have those others "join the tribe" instead?

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  my systems are not ready for full draft-meow-mrrp-00 implementation. hopefully by summer tho

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  are there only two cooking techniques? step 1: get food stuffs step 2: either kill or proliferate the microorganisms on said food stuffs

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  RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121 Violence, then rebuild; profit, then philanthropy – repeat! Different war, same business model, new interface, same shining eyes. “We’re making the world a better place.”