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Friday October 30th, 2026

Trying to figure out where I read LLM Dan Lyke / comment 0

Trying to figure out where I read "LLM coding agents are to app development what Geocities was to the web".

(I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that analogy.)

To install the Conda package manager Dan Lyke / comment 0

To install the Conda package manager for Python on the Mac, please either install the super annoying desktop application, or run:

conda install anaconda::conda

in the terminal. What sort of bullshit recursive thing is this? The actual answer appears to be:

brew install --cask anaconda

Reader, the answer was not, in fact, that. At least not directly. Feels like another situation like Qt where the goal is to make the command line use as annoying as possible to rope people into the additional telemetry of the GUI tool.

Nationalize the Federal Government! Dan Lyke / comment 0

Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

Oh, that's a good idea. We should nationalize the Federal government so it'll be responsive to the people.

Chat is it a good sign when you Dan Lyke / comment 0

Chat, is it a good sign when you find:

from shlex import _find_unsafe

at the top of a Python file?

(Despite importing shlex, and using this deprecated method to tell if it should be escaping the string, it then manually escaped the string...)

wanted to see a cult up close Dan Lyke / comment 0

Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket: I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy.

If you haven't seen the clip yet, I think his delivery is perfect. He sounds like a decent dude.

meat & dairy linked to lower T Dan Lyke / comment 0

Men Who Eat More Plant-Based Protein Have Higher Testosterone Levels.

Via.

Thursday October 29th, 2026

Binance go boom? Dan Lyke / comment 0

Multiple posts suggest that Binance and Polymarket have been hit, to the tune of several billion dollars.

So, anyway, cryptocurrency, amiright?

Edit: PC Mag: Binance Investigates Reports of Hack as Billions In Crypto Get Moved:

However, the hack appears to only affect Binance.com, not Binance.us, which was created for the US market. "We are a separate, independent platform, and customer funds and services are secure and operating normally. Rest assured, all user funds are safe," Binance.us tweeted.

The cut-rate Cheesecake Factory was intentional? Dan Lyke / comment 0

Trump’s Secret Stake in Cheesecake Factory Revealed

Financial disclosures reviewed by the Daily Beast show Trump made numerous trades in the restaurant franchise as his White House renovations went into overdrive.

Via.


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