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HTML is super human readable if you stick to a subset of it.

It's arguable even more readable.

<b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> <u>underline</u>

I can never remember how many stars and ticks correspond to what in markdown.


Oddly enoght those are now called the "bring attention to" element [1], the "idiomatic text" lement [2], and the "unarticulated annotation" element.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

3: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...


Most editors format and highlight markdown syntax as bold, italic or strike through, but I have never seen the same thing for html. They only highlight the html-specific parts leaving the content unstyled.

The lava lamps are just for show.

You can get entropy just by plugging an oscilloscope into a pile of dirt and cranking the gain up.


Any high-gain amplifier can be used, with its input connected to a resistor or a diode.

For instance you can use the microphone input of a PC, together with an additional external amplifier made with an audio amplifier integrated circuit or an operational amplifier integrated circuit and with a diode or a resistor at its input. The microphone input of PCs provides a 5 V voltage that can be sufficient as a power supply for a noise source plugged in it.

Such a true RNG can be made on a small PCB with an audio jack, so you can plug it into any PC with microphone input and have a true RNG that you can trust better than the RNG included in modern Intel and AMD CPUs. In the past, many AMD CPUs had defective internal RNGs. Moreover, both for Intel and for AMD it is impossible to verify whether the internal RNG does what it claims to do or it generates predictable pseudo-random numbers.


Meh. The problem is that it might start receiving you local radio station and end up deterministic enough to screw you. So you need to shield the dirt properly.

> Google didn’t demand iPhone users install Google software to pass the test.

Can de-Googled Android phones present themselves as iPhones?


Apple has their own remote attestation infrastructure and you will not be able to impersonate an Apple device without extracting private key material from the secure enclave of a legitimate Apple device or compromising Apple certificate authority private keys.

Is this actually available in Safari?


Can they present themselves as... web browsers?

Yes, and then they'll get served a QR code that you have to scan on a phone Google approves of.

In the UK, the Department of Education guidance is that schools should be mobile-phone free. Students use computers to access the web fairly regularly. Guess that would be problematic then, since many schools policies is that mobile phones should be turned off and stored in your bag during the day.

It is market failure when normal people can't afford technology that they used to be able to afford.

You can also just redefine the battery capacity so that 100% = former 80% and then add a paid subscription feature to "occasionally overcharge it by 25%"

/s


Just use Unifi Airfiber for 6 miles at gigabit speeds. If you're relying on line of sight then 2.4GHz is nonsense.

And if you don't have line of sight then no you're not getting 6 miles


Is UniFi Air fiber extremely low power and cheap to produce?

$2000 minimum and closed source.

yes, considering the options.

What are the options?


Honest question: Why do we need physical graphing calculators anymore? Can't this just be a phone app?

That screen resolution for one is horrible for 2026.


Mostly for students in settings that may disallow either smartphones or calculators with specific advanced features (schools, SAT exams etc)

Also I don’t know about you but these days I welcome stuff that allows me to stay away from the damn phone.


i moved my ti-89 to be a phone app, but it was much much slower to type on the soft keyboard than it is to press the actual buttons.

It's about ensuring "academic honesty" on exams. Also, it's nice to have buttons rather than a touchscreen. Also, there is something to be said about using a device with a different form-factor than the one on which a student also scrolls TikTok/IG and distracts themselves otherwise.

You don't. Most academic uses are now replaced by desmos, which is also used on the SAT. It's free, it's fast, and it does most of what you need.

I am pretty sure I could use a TI-89 Titanium in the dark even now

I've used a Dahon Speed P8 extensively in Asia. In China you can just put a folding bike inside a large tarp bag and just get on any high speed train and then bike away when you reach your destination. It's awesome.

The only "gotcha" is how you deal with luggage. I've used a seatpost rack, but I've also had a seatpost rack fail on me one time.


Claude Code now has an official telegram plugin and cron jobs and can do 80% of the things people used OpenClaw for if you just give it access to tools and run it with --dangerously-skip-permissions.


I don't use OpenClaw is what I'm saying though, I use Claude Code for coding, and would like to better equip Claude by a custom coding harness that has superior tooling out of the box, but that is fair.


The /loop command which is supposed to be the equivilant to heartbeat.md is EXTREMELY unreliable/shitty.


I use it sparingly with my guardrails project. I basically tell it to:

Check any tasks if it's not currently working on one, and to continue until it finishes, dismiss this reminder if it's done, and then to ensure it runs unit tests / confirms the project builds before moving on to the next one. Compact the context when it will move to the next one. Once its exhausted all remaining tasks close the loop.

Works for me for my side projects, I can leave it running for a bit until it exhausts all remaining tasks.


> not because AI is doing the work they used to do

No, it's absolutely happening that way.

I work in tech in a senior IC role. I'm now expected to single-handedly do the work that I would previously have led a team of 5-10 people to do. The junior ICs, we aren't really hiring for. This is not specific to my company, it's like this across the board.


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