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Whenever you watch a Japanese movie with English subtitles, translators almost always turn the word "Itadakimasu" into "Let's eat" or "Bon appetit."
That translation erases one of the deepest truths in Japanese culture.
Every human being on Earth has to face a quiet reality three times a day: for us to stay alive, another living thing has to give up its life.
Fish are pulled from the cold sea, cattle are raised and slaughtered, and rice stalks are cut down after months in the mud.
In Japan, before a single grain of rice touches their lips, every four-year-old child and eighty-year-old executive presses both palms together, bows slightly toward the plate, and says "Itadakimasu."
Literally, it means: "I humbly receive onto the crown of my head."
Children in Japan are taught that you are thanking the fish and plants that gave their lives to become your strength, along with the farmer, the fisherman, and the cook.
And when the bowl is wiped clean to the last grain of rice, you bow again and say "Gochisosama deshita."
Written in kanji, "Chiso" means riding a horse at a full gallop to gather ingredients for a guest.
When you say thank you for every life on your plate, you never waste a single bite.
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Still no customers, but I’ve narrowed it down to the border radius.
Fixing that now.
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A coating’s material and thickness can change how a waveguide handles light. See how we develop optical layers to improve transmission, reduce reflection, and support virtual-image performance.
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The man who co-founded OpenAI turned down Meta and built a company worth $30 billion in under a year. Then he went back to his old university and told the graduates this:
“The day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do.”
Not some of them. All of them.
University of Toronto, 6 June 2025. Ilya Sutskever gets an honorary doctorate from the school where he started. He arrived in Canada at 16, sat in a Toronto high school for about a month, and was then let into the university straight into third year.
It was here, with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky, that he helped build AlexNet in 2012. The neural network that kicked off the modern AI boom.
Then OpenAI. Chief scientist. The research behind the models millions of people now use every day.
In May 2024 he left. In June he started Safe Superintelligence. By March 2025 it was valued at $30 billion. Meta tried to buy it. He said no.
So when this man stands at a podium for ten minutes, people listen.
He does not talk about money. He talks about time.
His argument fits in two sentences. Your brain is a biological computer. So why could a digital one not do the same things?
Anything you can learn, he says, AI will be able to learn too. Slowly, or maybe not so slowly.
That is the part people clip and share. The part they skip is what he tells graduates to do about it.
The rules he gives are simple:
Accept reality as it is. Not how you want it to be. Not how it was last year.
Don’t waste time regretting the past. Every hour spent on what went wrong is an hour not spent on what comes next.
Ask one question: what is the best next step? Then take it. Then ask again.
You may not care about AI. AI will still affect your life. Ignoring it is not a strategy.
Watch what AI can actually do. Not the hype, not the fear. The real capability. That is what tells you how much time you have.
He ends by calling it the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced, and says overcoming it will bring the greatest reward.
The full speech is free. Ten minutes on YouTube. No login, no course, no waitlist.
What it costs you is ten minutes, and one uncomfortable question: if anything you can learn, a machine can learn too, what are you learning right now that it can’t?
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You should be fascinated hitting the power button on your computer.
Every boot on an x86 machine iterates through the entire sequence of computing evolution in a few milliseconds:
Stage 1:
16-bit Real Mode, acts like an 8086 from ~1978. 500ns (ish); about 15-30 instructions. Goal of this stage is to create a writeable stack+heap.
Stage 2:
32-bit Protected Mode, acts like a 386 from ~1985. Tens of millions of instructions; takes forever on DDR5 /w memory training. Temporarily uses L2/L3 “cache-as-ram” to kickstart main ram (Intel calls this NEM).
Stage 3:
64-bit Long Mode, acts like AMD64 from ~2003. Hundreds of millions of instructions; enumerate pcie devices, gpu, bootloader, etc.
Stage 4+:
Secondary core wakeup. Every *single* core has to go through the same process, but by this point it’s faster because Main RAM is warmed up.
Stage 2 is just so neat man. Quite literally the same concept as an APU/cart start. Use the smaller motor (L2/L3) to kickstart the main turbine (Main Ram) and execute the training process.
Is that not just the coolest thing? Next time I’m annoyed waiting at the DDR5 training process, I’m going to imagine it’s spinning up SR71 turbines.
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I got tired of restarting my router every time the internet felt slow, never knowing if it was actually the problem.
So I made a little macOS app that tells me.
It's called WiFi or ISP. It lives in your menu bar and tells you whether slow internet is your Wi-Fi or your ISP.
It times your router and the internet past it at the same moment. If the router is fast and the internet isn't, it's your ISP. Then it tells you what to try, in order.
Free and source available.
It's the third of a few small Mac apps I've been building. More coming soon.
ALT WiFi or ISP's menu bar dropdown reading 'Slow: ISP, not WiFi': router fast at 4 ms, internet slow at 186 ms, with options to run a speed test, view history, and export a report for your ISP.
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Shenzhen speed in one photo.
This scooter man handing me ICs through my factory window, 30 mins after I realised I’d picked the wrong chip.
Wrong motor encoder IC. Found the right one on Taobao, added the seller on WeChat, booked this guy.
Back to writing firmware. Investor demo prototype saved. This is how the hardware game is won.
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What on earth is this gear!? 😬
A variable-angle gear joint with a 180° tilt range and a trochoidal tooth profile, staying in mesh the whole way.
Never seen anything like it, feels like there could be so many applications for this 🤯
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With everyone busily using LLMs + Blender/Three.js to make 3D models, I thought I'd try a different geometric representation.
This dragon isn't a mesh, NeRF, 3DGS, or video model: it's 27kb of GLSL code (generated via LLM), defining a closed-form implicit surface. 🧵 [1/n]
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After dinner at an American friend's house, I sought to fulfill my duty as a guest.
A black iron skillet lay by the sink, crusted with the dark grease of ribeyes.
I reached for the sponge. I poured a generous stream of green dish soap.
Bubbles of purification bloomed.
From across the living room came a sound like a dying bison.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO—!!!"
My host tackled me into the drywall.
The sponge flew. Soapy foam landed harmlessly upon the linoleum.
He scrambled to the sink, panting, shielding the iron pan with his trembling forearms as if shielding an infant from artillery fire.
"What were you doing?!" he gasped, eyes wild with terror.
"I was performing ablutions! Removing the foul oil with chemical foam!"
"That's not foul oil, you lunatic! That's my great-grandfather's 1938 Lodge skillet! You almost committed an execution!"
He turned the faucet. Only warm water. He grabbed a handful of coarse kosher salt and a chainmail scrubber, rubbing the black metal with the desperate tenderness of an archaeologist dusting a mummy.
"No soap! Never soap! Soap strips the seasoning!"
"Seasoning?! You cook with the ghosts of past beasts?!"
"It's polymerized fat! Eighty-six years of bacon, butter, and triumph baked into a non-stick shield! If Dawn touches this iron, four generations of my bloodline die in vain!"
I stared at the black relic. Not a cooking vessel. An altar of ancestor worship forged from unwashed pig grease.
"A cursed heirloom passed down through the dynasty..." I whispered in awe.
He dried it with a towel. He placed it upon the burner, set the blue flame on high, and rubbed a single drop of oil across the surface until it smoked.
He bowed his head before the rising vapors.
"Forgive him, Grandfather. He knew not what he did."
He wiped his sweaty brow and turned to me, dead serious.
"I'll take a bullet for you, brother. But if you ever bring bubbles near this stove again, I will bury you under the patio."
I bowed deeply to the warrior and his greasy idol.
"Understood. The oil gods shall remain unpurified."
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I also have a little announcement for DevDay. I asked Tibo to include it in the presentation but he didn't read my slack DM 😭
My first onboarding project is merged. I fixed this issue once and forever! I reduced amount of disk writes by 50% and the size of stored files by 4x
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Just found out “slang” is slang for “shortened language”
Whole other world out there
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
“Slang” is not derived from or slang for “shortened language”; that is a common myth with no historical basis. The word’s etymology is unknown and it has referred to informal nonstandard or group-specific vocabulary since the 18th century.
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sla…
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