A lesson in dependent variable definition and specification.
Often more important than all the fancy methods tbh.
Often more important than all the fancy methods tbh.
Yes, “police per homicide” is correlated with fewer police killings, but the homicide denominator, not the police officer numerator, is doing most of the work there. Countries with more homicides have more police killings, but that tells us little about police staffing.
November 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
A lesson in dependent variable definition and specification.
Often more important than all the fancy methods tbh.
Often more important than all the fancy methods tbh.
### Verb
**must**
1. (RFC 2119) Indicates that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.
**must**
1. (RFC 2119) Indicates that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.
November 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
### Verb
**must**
1. (RFC 2119) Indicates that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.
**must**
1. (RFC 2119) Indicates that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.
The message alone provides Respect
The specification about the punishment provided Respect+100
The specification about the punishment provided Respect+100
November 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The message alone provides Respect
The specification about the punishment provided Respect+100
The specification about the punishment provided Respect+100
Extreme heat wave!! Hottie Andrei Nolan. That you @ashenonedraws draws for this c0mm drawn to specification and drawing the tatts!! ❤️ #andreinolan
November 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Extreme heat wave!! Hottie Andrei Nolan. That you @ashenonedraws draws for this c0mm drawn to specification and drawing the tatts!! ❤️ #andreinolan
The way my hormones are set up, I just imagine trying to pull from my brain the magic word for “feels like wind but inside and colder” to the two-ton machine’s exact specification while I’m piloting alongside 20 drivers who got their driver’s license six months ago.
Brilliant engineering.
Brilliant engineering.
“The luxury carmaker is betting that drivers want to talk to their cars—not necessarily to control the actual driving, but to adjust features like heating and infotainment.”
They’ll do anything to avoid giving us actual physical controls.
They’ll do anything to avoid giving us actual physical controls.
November 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The way my hormones are set up, I just imagine trying to pull from my brain the magic word for “feels like wind but inside and colder” to the two-ton machine’s exact specification while I’m piloting alongside 20 drivers who got their driver’s license six months ago.
Brilliant engineering.
Brilliant engineering.
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November 9, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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That billboard stunt was real. The plane was a Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan from WWII that was converted to civilian Model 18 specification after the war. The stunt was performed by legendary movie stunt pilot Frank Tallman.
November 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
That billboard stunt was real. The plane was a Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan from WWII that was converted to civilian Model 18 specification after the war. The stunt was performed by legendary movie stunt pilot Frank Tallman.
When I'm giving a book talk, peeps always ask what's to be done w/ the current system and I ask why we default to deportation. They are always surprised at alternatives. As are my students when I point to Art III that there is no specification of # of fed judges. 1/
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November 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
When I'm giving a book talk, peeps always ask what's to be done w/ the current system and I ask why we default to deportation. They are always surprised at alternatives. As are my students when I point to Art III that there is no specification of # of fed judges. 1/
philosophy paper titled "An Exact Specification of the Iterated Horse Fight Hypothetical"
November 4, 2026 at 8:32 PM
philosophy paper titled "An Exact Specification of the Iterated Horse Fight Hypothetical"
Interesting little factoid: ActivityStream 2.0 was for a bit being worked on as an IETF internet draft: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sn...
November 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Interesting little factoid: ActivityStream 2.0 was for a bit being worked on as an IETF internet draft: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sn...
i would also appreciate some more specification from the IGF people. no idea why you'd lie about this but also i don't like how non-solid this is
November 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
i would also appreciate some more specification from the IGF people. no idea why you'd lie about this but also i don't like how non-solid this is
We're still waiting for standards positions from Mozilla github.com/mozilla/stan... and WebKit github.com/WebKit/stand...
There has been progress on the issue for grid lanes, as of the CSSWG at TPAC which I mentioned in rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
There has been progress on the issue for grid lanes, as of the CSSWG at TPAC which I mentioned in rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
CSS reading-flow · Issue #1056 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification title: CSS reading-flow Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-4/#reading-flo...
github.com
November 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
We're still waiting for standards positions from Mozilla github.com/mozilla/stan... and WebKit github.com/WebKit/stand...
There has been progress on the issue for grid lanes, as of the CSSWG at TPAC which I mentioned in rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
There has been progress on the issue for grid lanes, as of the CSSWG at TPAC which I mentioned in rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
That sound you hear is a lot of very online people's priors about how the democratic party works being strained far beyond design specification
November 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
That sound you hear is a lot of very online people's priors about how the democratic party works being strained far beyond design specification
it's not even a grounded plug let alone a like appliance plug like for a dryer. it's just the two prong. just a weird specification
November 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
it's not even a grounded plug let alone a like appliance plug like for a dryer. it's just the two prong. just a weird specification
The interesting part of the new state of affairs is that for relatively simply programs, the specification and the test suite are enough to reconstruct an independent implementation.
I regret adding any herdr support, even though I use it for practicality’s sake, into Polytoken because it opens the door to this.
These attempts at companies have no future business that isn’t monetizing other people’s work and seeking rent on top of them, why would I want to do it for them?
These attempts at companies have no future business that isn’t monetizing other people’s work and seeking rent on top of them, why would I want to do it for them?
November 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The interesting part of the new state of affairs is that for relatively simply programs, the specification and the test suite are enough to reconstruct an independent implementation.
🇫🇷 OWASP MCP Top 10 : les dix risques des serveurs MCP exposés, lus avec la spécification MCP, et un plan de revue en…
🇬🇧 OWASP MCP Top 10: the ten risks of exposed MCP servers, read alongside the MCP specification, with a four-step…
#AgentsIA #MCP #OpenTelemetry #spanobserver
🇬🇧 OWASP MCP Top 10: the ten risks of exposed MCP servers, read alongside the MCP specification, with a four-step…
#AgentsIA #MCP #OpenTelemetry #spanobserver
OWASP MCP Top 10 : les risques des serveurs MCP exposés - Span Observer
OWASP MCP Top 10 : les dix risques des serveurs MCP exposés, lus avec la spécification MCP, et un plan de revue en quatre étapes pour équipes SRE.
span.observer
November 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🇫🇷 OWASP MCP Top 10 : les dix risques des serveurs MCP exposés, lus avec la spécification MCP, et un plan de revue en…
🇬🇧 OWASP MCP Top 10: the ten risks of exposed MCP servers, read alongside the MCP specification, with a four-step…
#AgentsIA #MCP #OpenTelemetry #spanobserver
🇬🇧 OWASP MCP Top 10: the ten risks of exposed MCP servers, read alongside the MCP specification, with a four-step…
#AgentsIA #MCP #OpenTelemetry #spanobserver
Überlege gerade, mir einen Langdock-Account zuzulegen, nur um einen Wittgenstein-Hund-Agenten zu konfigurieren.
System Prompt:
Du bist ein toter Hund.
Specification:
Role: 0%
Experience: 0%
Personality: 0%
Dead: 100%
System Prompt:
Du bist ein toter Hund.
Specification:
Role: 0%
Experience: 0%
Personality: 0%
Dead: 100%
November 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Überlege gerade, mir einen Langdock-Account zuzulegen, nur um einen Wittgenstein-Hund-Agenten zu konfigurieren.
System Prompt:
Du bist ein toter Hund.
Specification:
Role: 0%
Experience: 0%
Personality: 0%
Dead: 100%
System Prompt:
Du bist ein toter Hund.
Specification:
Role: 0%
Experience: 0%
Personality: 0%
Dead: 100%
"one-shot from detailed specification" will continue to have a high failure rate mostly because we are not as good at specifying as we think we are
November 5, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"one-shot from detailed specification" will continue to have a high failure rate mostly because we are not as good at specifying as we think we are
models are actually pretty good at writing IETF RFC documents given the specification which is W larp
November 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
models are actually pretty good at writing IETF RFC documents given the specification which is W larp
I had planned to film this 2003 Oldsmobile Alero but it was so badly rotted we deemed it unsafe to drive. A great pity, as the Alero was notable as being the final Oldsmobile built in April 2004. This one was an upper-mid range GL2 specification.
November 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I had planned to film this 2003 Oldsmobile Alero but it was so badly rotted we deemed it unsafe to drive. A great pity, as the Alero was notable as being the final Oldsmobile built in April 2004. This one was an upper-mid range GL2 specification.
Greenwich (close combat specification) doodle. From the same fic as the Stechzeug and the Gendarme, serving as the Gundam expy. There is a long range sister unit, but I hadn’t redesigned it so it’s old and bad and old and literally just a poorly drawn Gundam.
November 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Greenwich (close combat specification) doodle. From the same fic as the Stechzeug and the Gendarme, serving as the Gundam expy. There is a long range sister unit, but I hadn’t redesigned it so it’s old and bad and old and literally just a poorly drawn Gundam.
But today I stumbled upon @oliviac.dev’s article, “How to use the HTML specification to write better HTML”, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
oliviac.dev/blog/how-to-...
oliviac.dev/blog/how-to-...
How to use the HTML specification to write better HTML - Olivia Coumans
This article explores how to use the HTML specification to write better and more semantic HTML.
oliviac.dev
November 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
But today I stumbled upon @oliviac.dev’s article, “How to use the HTML specification to write better HTML”, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
oliviac.dev/blog/how-to-...
oliviac.dev/blog/how-to-...
Ooh. What's the specification being verified against? Conservation of momentum, mass, energy?
November 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Ooh. What's the specification being verified against? Conservation of momentum, mass, energy?
What did one specification say to the other specification?
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Booger tinkle poop smelly stinky burp doo-doo!
November 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
What did one specification say to the other specification?
Booger tinkle poop smelly stinky burp doo-doo!
Booger tinkle poop smelly stinky burp doo-doo!
Formally, you do that by producing a specification detailed enough for someone else — ANYONE ELSE — to write compatible code. It’s possible to do that with genAI. I have no information on whether or not they did.
November 10, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Formally, you do that by producing a specification detailed enough for someone else — ANYONE ELSE — to write compatible code. It’s possible to do that with genAI. I have no information on whether or not they did.