Jean Niklas L'orange 🦆

Man oppnår ingen markedseffekter når én innkjøper, (uten kontakt med brukerne av det som kjøpes), gir én og én leverandør monopol på å levere tjenester i 3-10-års-perioder.

Det er helt vilt at vi har en så dårlig strategi for bruk av privat sektor i det offentlige

www.kodemaker.no/blogg/2025-1...

Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...

Lia Smith, transgender student athlete at Middlebury College, died to suicide last week after being banned from participating in competition.

A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indi...

yeah, it is unfortunate that all life originated from the C

Not yet back to speed... but I did a "HIIT" treadmill session today 🏃‍♂️

I love that album so much.

Also: Look at the number of tracks. Then look at the length of the songs. And I mean all the songs.

Den er grei, NRK.
Nå kan dere forklare hvorfor dere ikke dekker #Nokings.
Bruk samme logikk som sist og ta den tiden dere trenger, vi venter.

Pointer addresses?

She wasn't really "deported," was she?

She was in international waters when Israel illegally boarded her ship, detained her, and then bought her into Israel before shipping her to Greece.

That sounds like a lot of things but "deported" is not one of them.

I think a lot of people who are reasonable AI skeptics are saying things like “I don’t see a reliable use for LLMs in areas I’m an expert in” and that those folks are quite distinct from people who argue that LLMs don’t have capabilities that they clearly do

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Det er akkurst sånn jeg ser ut når jeg må ta livet av søte fiender i Silksong

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

There is no thriving #Haskell community without its members of the LGBT community, and on that there cannot be any compromise.

Reminder (mostly to me) that international press has more accurate information about what is happening in the US

Hvorfor omtaler Aftenposten, VG og NRK Charlie Kirk som «konservativ»? Risikerer å hvitvaske ekstremisme, skriver Andreas Bjørnbekk.

Veldig god kronikk om hvem Charlie Kirk var og norske mediers lemfeldige omtale av høyreekstremisme!

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Jeg er mildest talt ikke begeistret for Amrit Kaur, men jeg forventer faktisk mindre av henne enn av Simen Sandelien.

Poenget med ungdomspolitikk for meg er at folk skal kunne være duste, og så modnes. Kaur er 21 år gammel.

Det er uendelig mye pinligere å se en edgelord på godt over 50.

As in last week’s example of simple ROI arithmetic, we will put our costs in the numerator, and our benefits in the denominator. FF = W + I + C + E P H The idea here is that for each prompt, the minimum amount of time-equivalent cost possible is W + I + C + E . The user must, at least once, write a prompt, wait for inference to run, then check the output; and, of course, pay any costs to Mallory’s vendor. If the probability of a correct answer is P = 1 3 , then they will do this entire process 3 times10, so we put P in the denominator. Finally, we divide everything by H , because we are trying to determine if we are actually saving any time or money, versus just letting our existing human, who has to be driving this process anyway, do the whole thing. If the Futzing Fraction evaluates to a number greater than 1, as previously discussed, you are a bozo; you’re spending more time futzing with Mallory than getting value out of it.

That brings us to the “sad” path. Mallory happens to formulate an incorrect answer. Bob investigates this answer. Bob does not realize that this answer is incorrect because he is unable to recognize any inconsistencies with his existing, incomplete knowledge of the system. Bob integrates Mallory’s incorrect information of the system into his mental model. Bob proceeds to make a larger and larger mess of his work, based on an incorrect mental model. Eventually, Bob asks Alice a new, worse question, based on this incorrect understanding. Sadly we cannot return to the happy path at this point, because now Alice must unravel the complex series of confusing misunderstandings that Mallory has unfortunately conveyed to Bob at this point. In the really sad case, Bob actually doesn’t believe Alice for a while, because Mallory seems unbiased17, and Alice has to waste even more time convincing Bob before she can simply explain to him. Now, we have wasted some of Bob’s time, and some of Alice’s time. Everything from step 5-10 is C , and as soon as Alice gets involved, we are now adding to C at double real-time. If more team members are pulled in to the investigation, you are now multiplying C by the number of investigators, potentially running at triple or

"The Futzing Fraction": blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futz...

I really love this post, it tries to bring some rigor to the cost benefit analysis. It shows how if you shift some of the variables by just a little bit it quickly becomes a cost and not a gain.

#AI

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

iirc this user was suspended a couple of times and he did improve after that. Seems like that was a temporary thing though.

Oh no, really hope they make a full recovery

i've finally got a new blogpost out!!

this one talks about modern CSS, it's new features, and practical real world uses

as usual, the visuals are css-only and have lots of cool interactivity and easter eggs :3

have fun!

lyra.horse/blog/2025/08...

In unrelated news, I may at some point in the future waste a lot of money on a Fraktur monospace font, just to see how good a Castlevania-riced Linux setup actually works. And I bet that the answer is "poorly".

Niri is cool though.

It is a little bit interesting that a lot of people say "I don't use frameworks, I want to set up software project à la carte" then they decide to use a Mac, or Linux with a predefined desktop environment, instead of setting up their own desktop environment à la carte.

Not sure if LLM developers are in the FO part of FAFO, but sure feels like they're getting closer.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

www.discourseblog.com/p/the-enragi...