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datasette-fixtures 0.1a0
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datasette-fixtures 0.1a0

Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database tables used by Datasette's own tests, intended for plugin test suites. This new plugin takes advantage of that API. You can try it out using uvx without even installing Datasette like this: uvx --prerelease=allow \ --with datasette-fixtures datasette \ --get /fixtures/roadside_attractions.json Which…

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Quoting Armin Ronacher
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Quoting Armin Ronacher

The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it. Typically, it was prompted so badly that the conclusions produced are more often than not inaccurate but always full of confidence. The result is complete guesswork on root causes, fake-minimal repros, suggested implementation strategies, analogies to…

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Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games
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Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games

Tool: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games Via Hacker News I learned that UK publisher Usborne published free PDFs of their 1980s Computer Books, some of which I remember working through on my Commodore 64 as a child. These were so great! Beautifully illustrated books with fun projects made up of code you could type into your own machine. I remember playing "Mad House" typed in from the 1983 book "Creepy Computer Games", so I fed that PDF into Claude and had it build an interactive version…

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On the <dl>
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On the <dl>

On the &lt;dl&gt; I learned a few new-to-me things about the &lt;dl&gt; element from this article by Ben Meyer: A &lt;dt&gt; can be followed by multiple &lt;dd&gt; You can optionally group the &lt;dt&gt; and &lt;dd&gt; elements in a &lt;div&gt; for styling - but only a &lt;div&gt;. You can label them using ARIA. They've been called "description lists", not "definition lists", since an HTML5 draft in 2008. So this is valid: &lt;h2 id="credits"&gt;Credits&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;dl…

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The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
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The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly more expensive over the next few years. The short version is that memory manufacturers - of which there are just three remaining large companies - have a fixed capacity in terms of how many wafers they can process at any one time. This fixed wafer capacity is then split between DDR - used in desktops…

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The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities
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The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities

View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device communication, and medical imaging. The proof relates to a famous question posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. It has been verified by prominent mathematicians in a companion […] The post The Erdős Proof and AI Capabilities appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service
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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on "active listening", with this deck which claimed: Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers I wrote about this in…

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Datasette Agent
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Datasette Agent

We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent represents the moment that LLM and Datasette finally come together. I'm really excited about it! Datasette Agent provides a conversational interface for asking questions of the data you have stored in Datasette. Add the datasette-agent-charts plugin and it can generate charts of your data as well. The…

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