StJohn Piano

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Identity verified Member since 2025
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  • AI can easily regenerate code, but not state

    / If generating is cheap, rewriting is cheap too. Build fast, throw it away, rebuild. Why should anyone care about architectural debt in a world where an agen…

    13 Sep 2026
  • AI rewards expertise

    / Lots of people don’t think there’s any skill involved in working with LLMs. If you want the product that LLMs can deliver - PhD-level mathematics, compute…

    4 Aug 2026
  • Annihilation: An edge case in cinema

    Annihilation [2018] is the one film where I would respond "I don't know" to the following questions: - Did you like the film ? - Is it a good film ? - Would y…

    13 Jul 2026
  • Turn off red notification badges on phone app icons

    Small but significant change to interacting with a phone: I discovered today that it's possible to prevent the phone app icons (e.g. the icon for Whatsapp) fr…

    11 Jul 2026
  • Garbage collectors in programming languages

    When you need some memory (to hold some data) you request it from the operating system (for example using the malloc function in C) and when you're done with i…

    17 Jun 2026
  • Why Rust?

    / We've had fast languages like C and C++, and then we've had safe languages like Lisp, Java, and Python. The safe languages were all slower. Common wisdom sa…

    16 Jun 2026
  • Network AI: Explain The Ruling Class

    Tela Network has become significantly become more interesting with the introduction of Tela Network AI. Query: Explain the ruling class Answer excerpt: / S…

    9 Jun 2026
  • The collapse of the USSR: A possible explanation

    / The state functionally went bankrupt, and was dissolved in what amounts to essentially a corporate-sovereign restructuring. Starting in the 1970s and accel…

    17 May 2026
  • How content propagates on social media

    There are eras of media, and each era has its own rules for how to craft an effective message. / There was a time when brands or individuals could rely on th…

    16 May 2026
  • Mythos: Silverbug (Silver as Store of Value)

    Viewpoint = what someone thinks Mythos = the story-world that makes those thoughts feel true / Re: 'silver is an industrial metal and has no monetary …

    15 May 2026
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