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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 13h

Chesterton's Fence for the AI age

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Daily McMaster-Carr [UNOFFICIAL] @mcmasterdaily-mirr.selfhosted.social · 12/09/2026

Pica Ruler 24" Long $35.12 each 2270A13 Pica, a unit of measurement that's new to me

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latinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇺🇾 📊 Uruguay is the region’s only country rated as having open civic space, even as five countries were downgraded between 2021 and 2025 ↓

Civic freedom ratings in Latin America from 2021 to 2025 show changes, highlighting countries with improved or worsened statuses.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 28/09/2026

OK, this was a crazy release. Opus 5.5 ran for 4 days straight solving all sort of integration issues in the drive train subassembly and build farm ops. 40 PRs in total. It did pull through though. $14k in token-equivalent costs, 167 subagents, not all running at once. github.com/pedropaulovc...

$This session is being continued from a previous conversation that ran out of context. The summary below covers the earli claude-codeclaude-opus-5-5amet-windowsC:\src\harmonic-analyzer2026-09-22T17:50:29.906Z cost: $14,053.60 subtotal · incl. 167 subagents · effective view · Session files in R2 · Export zip Cost by model 4 models · $14,053.60 subtotal incl. 167 subagents This session and every subagent session below it, every page. Input and cache read are separate counters and are deliberately not summed — under subset accounting the cached tokens are already inside input. Cache write is 5m + 1h. The footer separates this session's own spend from the rolled-up total. Model / coverage Calls Cost Input Output Reasoning Cache read Cache write Cache hit rate claude-opus-5-5129,758 / 140,094 priced · this session + 153 subagents 140,094 $13,980.41 subtotal 342.1k 68.1M 0 37.41B 1.20B 96.8% claude-sonnet-5806 / 806 priced · 12 subagents only 806 $45.25 1.6k 227.1k 0 125.6M 7.1M 94.6% claude-fable-5-196 / 96 priced · 2 subagents only 96 $27.93 2.5k 67.3k 0 14.0M 1.7M 89.2% <synthetic>75 / 75 priced · this session + 22 subagents 75 $0.00 0 0 0 0 0 — This session onlyexcludes subagents · 18,899 / 20,521 priced 20,521 $1,726.55 subtotal 57.9k 13.9M 0 5.89B 53.2M — Including 167 subagents130,735 / 141,071 priced 141,071 $14,053.60 subtotal 346.2k 68.4M 0 37.55B 1.21B —$

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 27/09/2026

Maybe we deserve to not have to toil 40h a week for 30 years to earn a retirement.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 27/09/2026

Chegando a hora. Vota, Brasil!

Certificado Eleições 2026 - O Tribunal Superior Eleitoral certifica que
PEDRO PAULO VEZZA CAMPOS
concluiu o curso Mesários - Exterior 2026
no aplicativo Mesário, com carga horária de 10 horas,
em 24/09/26
Atenção: este certificado só terá validade para fins de folgas se estiver acompanhado da Declaração de
Trabalhos Eleitorais (DTE) emitida pela Justiça Eleitoral, conforme o art. 98 da Lei n. 9.504/1997 e o § 3º
do art. 15 da Resolução-TSE n. 23.751/2026.
Para verificar a autenticidade deste certificado, informe o código de verificação no link ou
aponte a câmera do celular para o QR Code.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 26/09/2026

I don't have a problem. YOU have a problem.

Dark dashboard titled “SOLIDWORKS FARM DESKTOPS” shows 5/5 live desktops, refreshed every second, with a lease through 2026-09-26T04:12:32Z. All five tiles are marked READY. Their
SOLIDWORKS windows show a black knob, a long threaded screw, a white cylindrical part partly covered by a cookie notice, a large gear, and a mechanical assembly.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 26/09/2026

Current AI harnesses are definitely not optimized for CAD work. I only got the sketch sheet on the right because I asked for it beforehand.

Dark terminal screenshot says the farm launch is awaiting Main’s GO, with an optional canary; nothing launches during
the freeze. A vendor comparison for MHA-147 must run on “amet” or a worker with the file copied in because
91375A106.SLDPRT is gitignored. It also says dtasm’s ACK and Main’s GO are pending, and PR2 awaits the user’s pick.
Below, a “Rocker Q4” selection menu highlights the recommended choice: “(a) axial #2-56,” described as giving a 2.07
mm shaft wall, meeting the 2.0 mm target, matching the photos, and using Ø8 washers. Other options listed are axial
#4-40, radial #2-56 in a Ø16 ball, and radial #4-40 in a Ø19 ball.

Engineering comparison sheet titled “#743 Q4: rocker pivot shaft (MHA-065) retention at the bracket ear (MHA-123),”
with three scaled section views; inboard is left. (a) Axial end screws: a #4-40 screw gives 1.73D thread engagement
and 1.74 mm of shaft wall; #2-56 gives 2.07 mm. This option matches the photos and avoids a ball, but needs Ø8
washers. (b) A radial #2-56 set screw in the existing Ø16 ball gives 1.65D engagement; the ball extends 3.2 mm past
the ear’s inner face into the washer space. (c) A radial #4-40 in a Ø19 ball gives 1.67D engagement; the ball extends
5.1 mm past the ear and interferes with the hub or washer unless moved outboard. The drawing notes that the larger
ball reuses MHA-147. Bracket is black, shaft blue-gray, balls gray, screws gold, and end hub light blue; a scale bar
marks 10 mm.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 25/09/2026

Oh, it's worse than that it seems from the title alone. You can nest values inside nested values inside a cell.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 23/09/2026

I don't know what kind of witchcraft Anthropic did but Opus 5.5 is crazy token efficient. I left a 20 agent swarm working today for 12 hours and my usage was something like 15% of my weekly usage whereas I would have consumed 50% with Opus 5.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 23/09/2026

Anthropic quietly gave subscribers a banked reset, valid for a month. Don't forget to use it!

Claude.ai settings page, usage tab. Plan usage limitsMax (20x)
Current session
Resets in 4 hr 7 min
12% used
Weekly limits
Learn more about usage limits
All models
Resets Mon 1:00 AM
78% used
Fable
Resets Mon 1:00 AM
88% used
Resets

Get extra wiggle room to explore Opus 5.5. Expires Oct 22.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 22/09/2026

OpenAI getting rid of Terra is too on the nose of a metaphor.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 22/09/2026

First impression of MiMo v2.6 Pro are quite good. Clear thinking trace and not overly verbose in medium mode. Used less common omp tools like learn properly on the first try. Tokens per seconds are good. And, obviously, cost is awesome. Curious to try the ultrafast mode later.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 18/09/2026

Microsoft runs on Fiddler. So much so that it's documented multiple times. Eric deserves a prize for not only developing it but also its spiritual successor. www.google.com/search?clien...

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Google Search

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Retweeted by Theo - t3.gg [UNOFFICIAL] @theo-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 10/08/2026

RT @composio: Here’s how the 4 new harnesses scored: - Pi Agent passed 20 of 30 tasks. Deep Agents (by LangChain) passed 16 of 30 tasks. Hermes Agent passed 15 of 30 tasks. Prime Agent passed 15 of its 24 valid runs (6 runs were excluded; more on that later).

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 18/09/2026

As expected, lots of part fitting bugs caught and fixed as the assembly doc was authored but agents did a great job in the end. $1100 in API equivalent costs. $700 Opus + $325 Fable + $75 Astra. 54 subagents in total, <5 in parallel.

Sheet 1 of 3 of engineering drawing MHA-A04, "frame assembly," rev v36, from Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Project For Hobby Machinists. At left, a small 1:8 front elevation of the frame in working position, with section arrows A-A at the base joint and B-B at the top joint, dimensioned to a top cross-bore axis height of 1018.0 mm (reference 1044.8). Center and right are two hatched section views at 1:3 — Section A-A through the base plate and Section B-B through the top casting, both showing the four rounded corners where tubular columns pass through, cross-bore screw holes, an internal rib structure, a gooseneck hub with set screw at left, and the engraved maker's nameplate at right. Title block gives general tolerances (.X ±0.8, .XX ±0.51, .XXX ±0.13, drilled holes +0.10/0, angles ±1°), "remove burrs and break sharp edges R0.25 or chamfer 0.25 max," threads UNC/UNF class 2A/2B, finish and material "see component drawings," third-angle projection, units mm.

Sheet 2 of 3 of engineering drawing MHA-A04, "frame assembly," rev v36. Top is a 10-row bill of materials: 1 MHA-035 two-plate frame base (qty 1); 2 MHA-083 open-end tubular frame column (4); 3 MHA-089 rocker-arm support casting (1); 4 MHA-039 1/4-20 x 5/8 hex-head screw, 18-8 SS (4); 5 MHA-077 top-frame casting (1); 6 MHA-133 steel push-on cap for 1 in OD tube (4); 7 MHA-086 engraved brass maker's nameplate (1); 8 MHA-030 brass #4-40 x 1/4 fillister-head slotted screw (4); 9 MHA-132 zinc-plated steel #10-32 x 1-3/4 narrow fillister-head slotted screw (8); 10 MHA-118 steel 1/4-20 x 5/8 square-head cup-point set screw (1). Below is a tall isometric exploded view at 1:7, rendered in teal and grey: a dark rectangular base plate at the bottom, four vertical silver tubular columns rising from it, the teal top-frame casting floating above with push-on caps and screws exploded off it, the triangular rocker-arm support casting and the nameplate pulled clear of the base. Balloon callouts 1–10 point to each part. Caption: "Exploded view 1:7 — see sheet 3 for installation order."

Sheet 3 of 3 of engineering drawing MHA-A04, "frame assembly," rev v36. The left two-thirds is text. "Match-fit and assembly sequence," ten steps: rough-cut the MHA-083 columns oversize and fit each to its assigned MHA-035 socket as a close hand-slip with no perceptible rock, retaining orientation match marks; pilot-transfer the lower cross-bore axis through both tube walls using the existing casting bores, then enlarge both walls to dia 5.00 so the MHA-132 shank passes freely without thread contact; reseat the columns, fit the MHA-077 top casting with its hub opposite the nameplate end, and set every cross-bore axis to the controlling top-axis height from sheet 1; final match-cut each column to its actual base/top/cap stack; repeat the pilot-transfer at the top axis; reassemble and install eight MHA-132 screws from the pilot-drilling side; verify cap recess clearance and push the caps on; seat the MHA-089 casting with four MHA-039 screws; install the nameplate with four MHA-030 screws; start MHA-118 in the gooseneck hub with its cup point clear. Below, "Assembly-only checks" lists five verification items covering match-mark alignment, screw-head seating and thread engagement, cap seating and undistorted tube ends, flatness of the casting and nameplate, and an unobstructed gooseneck bore. At right is an isometric render of the finished assembly at 1:7 — teal base and top frame, four silver columns, triangular support casting and brass nameplate on the deck.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 18/09/2026

Does anyone else agree? It may come with too many bells and whistles out of the box but it's easier to turn off some annoying features, like snapcompact, than to customize pi from scratch. I like it.

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Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 17/09/2026

NEW AMTRAK CASCADES TRAINS START SEPTEMBER 30. You can experience the new Amtrak Cascades trains beginning September 30. Four daily trains will be operating as new trainsets. Trains 503, 508, [SEA-EUG] 516 and 519 [SEA-VAC]. See the schedule at AmtrakCascades.com. Read more at: media.amtrak.com/

A new Amtrak Cascades train cruises up the tracks in style south of Tukwila with Mt. Rainier rising majestically in the background under a light blue sky with trees fringing the photo. The new train sports evergreen, mocha and cream colors with gold nugget accents. There are two headlights on below the windshield of the train.

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David Shapiro (L/0) [UNOFFICIAL] @daveshapi-mirr.selfhosted.social · 17/09/2026

Perfect. If you want to understand EA, read this

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.

Effect: Currently, physical changes in designated historic, special review, and
landmark districts are reviewed by community volunteer boards facilitated through
the Department of Neighborhoods. The authority of the City Traffic Engineer to
construct traffic control devices, such as markers, signs and signal devices, used
to inform, guide and control traffic, including pedestrians, motor vehicle drivers,
and bicyclists, in these areas is unspecified. This amendment would clarify that
the City Traffic Engineer’s authority is over all City right-of-way, including
designated historic, special review, and landmark districts. It would also specify
that traffic control devices in such areas are not subject to landmark designation,
nor do construction of traffic control devices require a Certificate of Approval1. The
amendment allows the Traffic Engineer to coordinate with the Department of
Neighborhoods or the landmark preservation boards to minimize design conflicts
in alignment with the historic, cultural, architectural, or geographic significance of
the district.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 16/09/2026

Mimo V2.6 Pro pretraining is in progress right now, and you can watch their dashboards as it progresses mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

mimo-
• v2.6-pro
in progress
1d 10:59:42
started 2026-09-15 10:32 UTC
step 10
step 11: training• 1,640/1,568 accepted • 1h 33m in
dynsam/avg@n • A vs st...
0.590
40.026
cost so far
$719,357
tokens • step 10
2.22B
tokens • total
20.6B
samples trained
251k
train batch size × n
1,568 × 16 seqs

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 16/09/2026

It is super useful but this is your periodic reminder that you are inviting a remote code execution engine into your (personal) machine. Think about your threat model and act accordingly.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 15/09/2026

The DOOM demo is fascinating

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 15/09/2026

Holy shit. I did not see this coming. This changes everything. They decoupled semantic intelligence from text generation. This is an AI that is as smart as Fable, but which is structurally incapable of threatening the liberal arts.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 12/09/2026

I would go one step forward and advocate for total research transparency like AI 2040 describes. ai-2040.com?choices=plan...

ai-2040.com

AI 2040: Plan A

A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 12/09/2026

My anticonsumption rule of thumb: if I don’t know what is int the box on my doorstep I probably don’t need it.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 11/09/2026

We're all living in a simulation for sure

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 11/09/2026

I am still salty that in 2019, the ICANN favored Amazon the company over a consortium of South American countries over control of the .amazon gTLD.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 11/09/2026

Fingers crossed for Germany

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 10/09/2026

This section in my AGENTS.md saved me from so much aggravation with agents forming cargo cult practices over time. github.com/pedropaulovc...

### Empirical skepticism — a "doesn't work" claim is a hypothesis until a repro backs it
* A "doesn't work / impossible / too slow / must be ugly" verdict is not evidence until a re-runnable repro is attached. N self-authored failures prove your *call shapes* fail — not that the feature is dead. An instant False/None is a rejection with an enumerable cause; suspect your arguments first, the feature last.
* This holds whether you wrote the claim or inherited it (comment, runbook, prior agent). A specific, named mechanism with no repro is a hypothesis wearing a fact's clothes — specificity makes it more *trusted*, not more *true*. Untested inherited claims calcify into folklore.
* When you WRITE a gating claim, commit its repro next to it. When you INHERIT one, spend the few minutes to falsify it before building on it — especially when it's expensive (forces a slow/ugly pattern everywhere).
* Before any "dead" verdict, get a **positive control**: reproduce a form known to work, then bisect the delta to your failing form one variable at a time. That converges; brainstorming more failing variants does not. If no working form exists anywhere, say so — that itself is the evidence.
* Don't pre-engineer defensive fallbacks around an *unverified* assumption that a tool will misbehave. Assume it works; if a failure is real, reproduce it first, then fix with evidence.
* "It was reviewed" ≠ "the premise was checked" — review verifies written code, not unstated architectural premises.
* Word verdicts honestly: **"dead under <variants tried>; untested: <list>"** — never "dead, period" while untested deltas remain. If you can't enumerate what you haven't tried, you haven't mapped the space.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 10/09/2026

This drawing wasn't too bad before but a better adversarial review prompt helps. Built by Fable 5.1 high reviewed by 6 Astra low. $463.19 in Fable API-equivalent credits. github.com/pedropaulovc...

Engineering drawing MHA-089 rev v34, "rocker-arm-support," from Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Project For Hobby Machinists (harmonic-analyzer.vza.net). Three orthographic views, a section, and a green-shaded isometric of a tapered trapezoidal bracket: a 177.8 mm square frame with a 165.1 mm square pocket on both faces and a 127.0 mm square through-cavity with R12.7 corners, standing on a 63.5 mm deep mounting foot. Section A-A shows the 16.9 mm top tapering to the 63.5 mm base with a 6.35 mm central web; Ra 3.2 surface finish callout. Bottom view lists four mounting holes A1–A4 in a hole table: Ø10.72 thru, tapped 1/2-13 UNC thru, at X 27.31 and 147.95, Y 13.02 and 47.94. Notes: taper, pockets and web symmetric about centre plane; pocket centre 88.9 from mounting face; pocket and cavity concentric; chamfer both outer pocket rims 1.27 × 45°. Title block: low-carbon steel or gray iron; green enamel finish, mask mounting face and threads, light oil on bare machined surfaces; tolerances .X ±0.8, .XX ±0.51, .XXX ±0.13, drilled holes +0.10/0, angles ±1°; ASME Y14.100 / Y14.5-2018; scale 1:2, unit mm; © 2026 Pedro Paulo Vezza Campos.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 08/09/2026

Uh, your neuralese is leaking, Astra.

A CLI command in oh-my-pi invoking claude -p with a wall of text without spaces for most of the length. "Adversarial readonly review HEAD6f953a3d vs priorclearfe26c09f. Userexplicitlyrequests restoringmissingMcMasterSLDDRW sheets: supplierSKU/stockdescription plusstandardFront/Top/..."

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 08/09/2026

I 100% blame OAuth on this one. Authorization code flows should have been handled by the browser from the very beginning with prompts above the Line of Death. Alas, passkeys alleviate but don't solve this pain. textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/t...

textslashplain.com

The Line of Death

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything…

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 08/09/2026

I'm not particularly impressed by Astra's 3D modeling capabilities yet. KitchenDrawerBench: organize my kitchen drawer. Luna max, Opus high, and Astra low. All 3 started custom, no Gridfinity or joints until prompted, poor ergonomics on first layouts . Luna $0.82, Opus $21.45, Astra $26.49.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 07/09/2026

I'll do anything but use public transportation or a bike

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 07/09/2026

This is your 3-month warning to get your music listen stats in shape before Wrapped season.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 06/09/2026

Playing with Astra today

Cat cycle meme: I wake up ↔ Another AI benchmark saturated

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 06/09/2026

In today's episode of "I totally don't need it but I want it" a purpose built machining shop with clean and dirty process separation with sub micron-level equipment www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPY...

youtube.com

Dan Gelbart Workshop Tour HD

YouTube video by Dan Gelbart

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Theo - t3.gg [UNOFFICIAL] @theo-mirr.selfhosted.social · 03/09/2026

"GitHub GraphQL is rate limited for this account until about 01:00 UTC, so I updated the PR body over REST." Please free me from this prison.

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 03/09/2026

2006: Google Translate statistical translation. Wow, throwing data solves text translation 2018: AlexNet. Wow, throwing data solves image recognition 2020: GPT-3. Wow, throwing data ca-. I need to take a sabbatical to learn ML, my job won't exist soon 2022: ChatGPT. It's beautiful. My my job won'-

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 03/09/2026

Fuck, I am NOT looking forward to having to migrate to a different password manager and have to regenerate all my passkeys

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