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"We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us"
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“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.” — Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart, best known for his work in the "Star Trek" and "X-Men" franchises and his prolific award-winning stage career, has died at 86 years old, his spokesperson confirmed.
Stewart died at home on Wednesday, with his wife Sunny at his side, a post on his social media channels said. His death followed "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia," the post said.
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Captain Jean-Luc Picard
(rest in peace to one of the best actors of all time)
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We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today. And, in my book, a tremendous friend and man. I learned so much from him. I will miss you, Patrick Stewart, all of my days. @mang0ld
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This thread makes a common fundamental error - it ignores demographics. The housing demand from a 30 day old is different than a 30 year old.
An unplanned surge in the adult population has a different impact than an unexpectedly high number of births.
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Or how adding 30,000 college students studying introduction to bookkeeping and fundamentals of tourism would somehow increase the supply of workers in the construction trades, and get more homes built.
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Same, wrong level of abstraction for this next phase. They had a good run.
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As always @jk_rowling nails it.
“It’s true, of course, that trans activism doesn’t impact all women negatively. In fact, the more privileged you are, the less it tends to affect you, and the more it might benefit you. Aside from an avalanche of death, rape and torture threats, it hasn’t noticeably affected my life. Nor does it hurt wealthy women who repost the vogueish mantras while sitting in dressing rooms guarded by private security guards. It doesn’t hurt women in the upper echelons of media, publishing and academia, who don’t need a changing room at work and who feel a snobbish disdain for working class women who don’t want to strip off in front of heterosexual males who’ve ‘identified’ into the women’s changing room. Trans activism doesn’t hurt headline-hungry female politicians whose attitude to women’s rights is ‘whatever is good for me personally’. On the contrary, trans activism has been good for those women. It’s fashionable, and keeps them popular with their progressive tribe, and costs them, personally, absolutely nothing.”
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
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"As Doximity ramps up its investment in clinical AI tools, the partnership with Wolters Kluwer positions [Doximity] Ask as the front door to clinical knowledge."
From @HeatherLandi at @FierceHealth on our partnership with @Wolters_Kluwer's @UpToDate.
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Really? You don't think adding 30,000 renters to a metro of 600,000 people in a single year might impact monthly rents?
Is housing somehow immune to the laws of supply and demand?
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This is who and what the recklessly inept Liberal bureaucracy is competing against - abusing Canadian tax dollars and moving Canada backwards economically and technologically.
- already lost burning through $50 billion we could have spent on hospitals and schools but they wanted to bet against Tesla on EVs. Total failure.
- now giving Telesat billions of taxpayer dollars to ‘compete’ with StarLink and SpaceX. Telesat is a US hedge fund company so badly managed for so long it has a negative price to earnings ratio.
But it has a Liberal donor CEO
Who hasn’t met a single timeline or target - ever - while Musk is making a car fly.
We need to end this horrible - and deeply politicized - capital allocation and start partnering with the best firms in the world instead of creating fake govt funded imitations that burn taxpayers.
Elon proofing?
First the Liberals punched a $50 billion hole in Canadas budget competing on EVs against Tesla and losing all of it.
Now they’ve given Telesat - owned by American hedge funds - more govt money than its entire market cap - to provide a subscale weak copycat of StarLink without the capabilities, scale or economics.
And they’ll pay SpaceX for it to work.
The federal govt is horrible at capital allocation. Using debt to fund failed business models the private markets won’t touch is stupidly wasteful.
Doing it betting against far superior scale companies run by @elonmusk is totally insane.
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Interesting
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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Introducing Anatomy
Describe a machine in one line. Claude brings it to life.
- Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore
- WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more
- Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate and move
Install it as an agent skill. Fully open source.
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So I was trying to understand why pull requests speeding up the Elixir version were being denied by the clankers while they were being accepted to Go/Express/Rust.
It turns out that, not only each project had a different starting point and a different prompt, but also each project also has a different set of verifications that they are required to pass!
For example, Elixir is the only guided to "preserve the pinned Rails reference behaviour", the only with a explicit verification that we are using Redis and draining its queue (so we cannot remove it while others can), and the only one actively enforcing it.
So it turns out that the people telling you to not read the code cannot even use AI to set up fair benchmarks (probably because they would have to read the code in order to do that).
You don't have to believe me, you can do your own research or ask your agent to do it for you. E.g. here is what Claude Code came back with: gist.github.com/josevalim/ae…
Also extracted a separate verification project that's responsible for the benchmarking and checking of new implementations and improvements to the existing ones. The full report from the latest runs is there too. github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
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Elixir is very good at handling many connections without breaking. So you don't need to give it any special attention for good performance. Here a benchmark with a lot of clients posting to the once-campfire repos. Elixir mops the floor with the Rust versions.
The problem with all of this that keeps getting glossed over is that Elixir is requiring all of this special attention to get it to the numbers it can achieve. I also believe those numbers under represent Elixir's potential but this isn't a "which is fastest" benchmark. It is "which is fastest without knowing how to write in that stack" benchmark.
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Maybe don’t follow lead of loud voices putting all reads behind a single global lock publishing benchmarks
That’s how bad their code is
They aren’t even trying to make code that works well or they don’t care or they are this bad at programming
Either way, listen to smarter ppl
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We built the state of the art for whole-body tumor detection and segmentation.
Our pan-cancer model just won Best Pan-cancer Segmentation Accuracy at FLARE 2026 at MICCAI, #1 medical imaging conference in the world.
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Oh FFS. It turns out the req/s in the initial vibed Rust version is within the same order of magnitude as the initial vibed Elixir/Go versions, and even performs worse in some of them.
The history is in the repository! The Rust version only got faster with a bunch of additional work. The initial Elixir/Go versions presented in the tweet below saw none of this additional work. It was comparing a 300 commits Rust version with a 2-3 commits Elixir/Go version.
Source: github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, and Rust. Yes, Ruby is the slowest. I didn't care about that when the pay-off was huge in terms of productivity and developer joy. But if you're no longer reading the code? github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
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The shown benchmarks use non-equivalent implementations: Elixir routes all DB queries through a single GenServer with Redis for jobs (retained from Rails), while Rust uses in-process queues, omits CSRF tags/fields, and applies other caching changes.
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