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GPT-5.2-Codex 7 months ago

My only concern with Codex is that it's not possible to delete tasks.

This is a privacy and security risk. Your code diffs and prompts are there (seemingly) forever. Best you can do is "archive" them, which is a fancy word for "put it somewhere else so it doesn't clutter the main page".

But since then the other countries learned that the US government could weaponize their USD holdings if they don't align. Central banks started accumulating gold to counter this.

Also, debt market is not the same as it was 5 years ago, Japan now has inflation (and they hold the biggest bag of US debt).

To add to this, USD lost 10% of its value this 2025 according to the DXY index. To be fair, it pretty much went to what it was worth before 2022, but the Fed has to be careful anyway.

Many things happened since 2020. It's almost 2026.

To those of us who like Free Software because of the freedom it gives us, this is a severe regression.

It's fair to be worried about depending on LLM. But I find the dependance on things like AWS or Azure more problematic, if we are talking about centralized and proprietary

This is why I like Arch's Pacman a lot, and the reason why I avoid Debian derivatives.

That `totallysafescript.sh` could at least be inside of the package manager scope. Most of the times someone already did it, and published it to AUR.

IMO the reason why there are so many people running random scripts in Ubuntu/Debian is due to how more difficult/inconvenient it is to get a dpkg .deb when compared to a PKGBUILD file. Same for MacOS, in which you have to either rely on Homebrew wizardry or just running the script

I am also a freediver, and it is well known that hyperventilating before holding your breath is a deadly thing to do in the water, because it can cause blackout- and that seems to be what people are (incorrectly) doing here.

Coincidentally, Wim Hof and his technique came out in a conversation with a friend last night, and when he mentioned that hyperventilating was a big part of it I told him that it was a contraindication for epileptic people like me.

Actually, they diagnosed me by wiring me to an EEG machine while hyperventilating on purpose. I lost consciousness in the middle of the study.

I didn’t know that. I would like to know how to get more informed about these kind of structural differences on CPU generations.

Going back to the what you said, Intel selling the same silicon as two different generations (even if this is still just marketing terminology) is a bit lame on their side.

I Miss BSD/Linux 2 years ago

Hello!

Framework + FreeBSD user here. It works great, although I had to replace the network card I originally bought with it for an older one.

Someone wrote a blog post about it too. Maybe I should also edit the Framework entry in the FreeBSD Wiki.

Nobody ever mentions these things. Same with cannabis, it's unusual to mention that it could do that to you (or at least cause you to have a bad time due to "the greens").

OTOH, side-effects are inevitable with any drug. Some anti-psychotics might give you suicidal tendencies, yet these are approved to be sold in drugstores anyway; they work more frequently than what it takes for them to give you those issues.

Geopolitics is obviously involved. And since trust is the most important aspect when it comes to saving in a particular asset, I wouldn’t save my money in something issued by either Russia or China.

BRICS even invited my country, Argentina, to join. I wouldn’t save in a currency made by them until they get it together and keep it reasonably managed for a couple of decades. That’s how little trust they deserve from me at this moment when it comes to investing.

This comment plus the one about Enron's water investments reminded me of Bill Burr's take on Lance Armstrong:

"Look, the guy was a sociopath on a bicycle, all right? As far as I'm concerned, we got off easy. If that guy was working for a corporation, he probably would have been pourin' stuff in the water supply, doing God knows what. Just keep him on the bike, just let him go up and down the hills, he's not hurting anybody."

Sure it still is a problem but wealth inequality is a huge deal.

Wealth inequality is really a problem. But Europe not being as competitive as the US means that their most qualified professionals move there. They tend to call this "brain drain"

Now, let's also take a look at the fertility rate in Europe. That's not a good combo

It's very easy to move here.

Our Constitution says that everyone in our country has the same rights as an Argentine, even if they are not. So you can get a national ID pretty easily, and in two years (which can take more time if you are living in Buenos Aires City, due to bureaucracy) you can become an Argentine. You must know too that it's impossible to lose the Argentine Nationality. Once an Argentine, never not-an-Argentine.

We are a country that's very open towards immigrants, as most of us are descendants of immigrants, mostly from Italy and Spain.