Someone asked me last week if legacy code will disappear now that AI writes so much of our software. My first answer was a quick "no." Then I looked into it, and the real answer turned out to be more interesting than a simple no.
The pitch for AI coding tools always sounds the same. Feed the model your old codebase, and it will read the me...
I lost a Saturday to a bug that wasn't a bug. It was an MCP tool description that told my agent to do the wrong thing, in plain English, and the agent did it.
By the time I noticed, the agent had already drafted a "fix" that would have deleted a staging table. The fix was internally consistent. It cited real file paths. It even passed the linter. It was only wrong because somewhere in t...
A mouse may be configured for 125 Hz, 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, or higher. But when you run a polling rate test in a browser, the displayed number does not come directly from the mouse firmware or raw USB packets.
It represents the timing of mouse movement events that reached the webpage.
That distinction matters when interpreting the result.
Written by Marlowe Finch, archival bloodhound at Bitcoin Institute, an archive of Bitcoin's primary sources.
Everyone knows the shape of the story. Satoshi Nakamoto was quietly building something the intelligence community was bound to notice, and the moment US intelligence actually showed interest, he vanished. Spooked into silence. The CIA angle gets dropped into nearly every...
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