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Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi’s great rival, who is forty-one and diminished, showed the danger of staying too long. “He reminds me more and more of Joe Biden,” Kristjánsson said.

aloofness has also allowed Vijay to comfortably absorb multiple contradictions into his own political persona. He can simultaneously be a rationalist whose manifesto speaks against pseudo-scientific practices and field a celebrity astrologer candidate

With npm-style ecosystems, the package graph can grow faster than anybody’s ability to reason about it. The problem that this type of thinking created also meant that solutions had to be found along the way. GitHub helped compensate for the accountability problem and it helped with licensing.

When I asked Yan for the hardest moment of 2025, he did not mention Jelly Jelly or the competitors or the bodyguard. He told me about API servers.

Altman argued that allowing for some falsehoods can, whatever the risks, confer advantages.

it won’t have the magic that people like so much

He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it. He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it. He is going to download Blender because someone on Reddit said it was free, and then stare at the interface for forty-five minutes. He is going to open GarageBand and make something that is not a song. He is going to take screenshots of fonts he likes and put them in a folder called “cool fonts” and not know why. Then he is going to have Blender and GarageBand and Safari and Xcode all open at once, not because he’s working in all of them but because he doesn’t know you’re not supposed to do that, and the machine is going to get hot and slow and he is going to learn what the spinning beachball cursor means. None of this will look, from the outside, like the beginning of anything. But one of those things is going to stick longer than the others. He won’t know which one until later. He’ll just know he keeps opening it.

irreversibly blow electronic fuses inside the device's Qualcomm processor

Qfprom (Qualcomm Fuse Programmable Read-Only Memory), a region on Qualcomm processors containing one-time programmable electronic fuses. These microscopic components are physically altered when "blown"; a controlled voltage pulse permanently changes the fuse's state from "0" to "1."

PBL reads the current anti-rollback version from the Qfprom fuses and compares it against the firmware's embedded version number. If the firmware version is lower than the fuse value, boot is rejected. When newer firmware successfully boots, the bootloader issues commands through Qualcomm's TrustZone to blow additional fuses, permanently recording the new minimum version

programming skills could atrophy as AI writes most code, or become more critical than ever as human developers focus on oversight

Entry-level coders are skipping the “hard way”: they might never build a binary search tree from scratch or debug a memory leak on their own.

humans focus on the hardest 20%. Architecture, tricky integrations, creative design, edge cases: the problems machines alone can’t solve.