Roshan: Roshan moved page Blog/2026-06-04/Thou Shalt Not Covet to Blog/2026-06-12/Thou Shalt Not Covet {{Tweet | name = Elizabeth Warren | username = SenWarren | text = Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon...

Roshan: Cite brando A long time ago, Wikipedia was formed and because Wikipedia is an aggregator of information and not a scholarly work, it created "[[wikipedia:Citation needed|Citation Needed]]", a tag to describe text within it that was not suitably referenced. Wikipedia itself and this particular tag were both...

Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:The_Shard_as_photographed_out_of_a_cab_window.webp}}|thumb|I love London so even nondescript photos of the streets make me nostalgic]] {{Tweet | name = Aella | username = Aella_Girl | text = I'm so mad at everyone in my life who told me never to pick stocks, that smarter ppl will...

Roshan: To the UCL final, we'd been to the UCL as a whole many times [[File:Roshan at the Emirates - Arsenal v Everton - Feb 3, 2018.webp|thumb|Arsenal 5, Everton 1. Aubameyang's introduction. The last photo I took at the Emirates.]] Today, for the first time in twenty-two years, Arsenal are champions of England...

Roshan: I read a recent comment by someone describing their book that instantly turned me off reading their work despite the fact that I'm a huge fan of sci-fi and adventure. It is impressive that they worked their way to completing the book but there is no chance I'll read it now. I don't mind reading random indie...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A list of companies that were killed by regulatory action in the US. Also see [[wikipedia:Category:Internet services shut down by a legal challenge]] for ones that ever experienced shutdowns. == Antitrust Legislation == * [[wikipedia:iRobot|iRobot]] was...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Everyone has experienced this. There are studies and papers on why doing a thing X will yield less of another thing Y. Then, in reality, the opposite gets done and works. So what's the deal? Supposedly BART's problems weren't that they were letting in...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot One of the little fun things I like to do is ask ChatGPT for an infographic on something I want to know. Past image creators would struggle, so I wouldn't ask for an infographic. But Images 2.0 is really something! The infographics it produces are...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rapid_View.png|thumb|A test JSON that's 11 MiB in size]] I recently talked about [[Blog/2026-04-25/The rise of personal software | the rise of personal software]] and over the days since I've realized two things about personal...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Hacker_News_with_many_commenters_blocked.png|thumb|I only see 20% of the posts and they're all middling to good]] Recently I've been using [[Overmod]] more and I have set up quite a few lists to block users on Hacker News. Fortunately...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rowik's_Semantic_Search.png|thumb|Now, with semantic search]] One thing that annoyed me on this wiki is that the search bar shows inline results based on a prefix search, and then if you ask for a full search you get a full-text...

Roshan: Fix formatting. When you learn from others you get both their wisdom and their misconceptions. Software engineering is my primary skill, so I'll describe it with negative examples of misconceptions that stuck with me. == In or Out == When I was young, in the early 2000s, we had a computer lab at school and...