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I feel like the analysis missing here is whether or not the Örebro Party supports policy that would eventually undermine internet privacy and freedom of speech - two missions that would directly contradict Mullvad's core mission of being a log-free VPN, and thus call into question whether or not they can continue to be trusted in a field where the stakes are high.

The other policies they support don't look encouraging when you consider correlates of parties in other countries, but they seem to have not declared an explicit position for or against censorship and privacy, and they also seem to be a party where others' correlates may not apply here.

If anything, this suggests Kimi K3 is underpriced, forcing rationing of compute resources. Anthropic even struggles to avoid 503 errors at the $50/mtok point.

How many were introduced by misuse of AI coding/vibe coding though?

Is there active research in improving the density of models i.e. higher performance at lower parameter counts? Is this something that's even theoretically possible to do with the architecture?

I feel like I can have a much better model for how I can expect the cost of LLMs to change over the next few years. "Build more datacenters" reeks of "just one more lane bro" and because of Jevons paradox I'm skeptical it will bring costs down. Could ASICs and custom processors (ala Groq) move the needle here at all if the model density can't be improved?

I refuse to believe that the decline of our education system is some inevitable, intractable problem.

Looks like a HP 2640 terminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOXCPaHcr5U

I writhe in pain when I try to find a frontend dev guide for a newbie to learn off, and one of the later chapters is some shit like setting up a kubernetes cluster

"Hypno-Sex-Ism"

50 years early to the "gooning" trend, I see...

Considering they rolled back DEI along with everyone else after Trump's second victory, it's difficult to view those previous "values" as anything other than cynical kissing-up to the previous holders of power.

Wow, we used to have a florist/floral nursery around my parent's place LONG ago (like, they had to have ripped it down by the early 2000s) and for years I vaguely recalled it having a somewhat unique looking sign with a big globe lamp and two stacked, rounded-corner rectangular plastic signs. This was almost certainly the brand of sign it was, and the installation of the sign was probably some time in the 1970s. Amazing what small, inconsequential mysteries get solved by a blog article.

I believe the term is "hypocrisy."

Past a certain point there's also a diminishing return on the effort put in to get a raise/promotion and it mostly becomes about managing "up or out" expectations.

I'm about maxed out for development roles compensation wise. By saving most of this compensation and investing it in the S&P 500 and similar indices, I get way more of a return for far less effort. There are days - not months, days - where I'll earn about $7,500 in stock appreciation. The long term trend has me about matching my monthly salary in earnings.

Raises are inflation adjusted so there's no erosion of the underlying capital going into investments.

Why try harder when I'm paid enough to just invest it in the stock market? The biggest problem I have right now isn't how to get a promotion or raise, it's coming up with increasingly contrived excuses to avoid up-or-out and being pushed into more responsibilities.

Another way to view this calculation: if you keep your infrastructure secure and up to date, you (very likely) don't have to pay any ransom in the first place.

There could be a problem with the way the system generates entropy for randomness.

It's more Clavicular than Andrew Tate.

This is essentially the premise to Fallout, or at least the leadup to it.

FreeDOS is technically a modern, actively-supported DOS.

If a trans kid calls the suicide hotline and the volunteer suggests they stop wearing dresses to school so people won't bully them, I'm pretty sure the outcome will be far worse than anyone intended. There should be specialists who know how to handle specific kinds of callers.

I wonder if this will lead to a sort of "open sourcing" of music, where the reputation of what one produces will be improved by releasing the raw DAW files/tracks/etc. Even if AI is used to generate the constituent parts of a manually-assembled track, it would still demonstrate to listeners that there was significant human involvement in the process.

Touring, merch, etc will also serve as good "proof of give-a-shit".

Also some information on HAL/S, the language used to program the shuttle's guidance computer: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19790006637/downloads/19...

Did a quick lookup on Orion and apparently today the Artemis programme is using C with MISRA-like internal standards.

Is rationing really necessary when the price raises enough that people aren't flying anywhere anyway?

Retro console homebrew and demoscene are all about this. There's a lot of fun stuff going on in N64 homebrew right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNEo0aQkGnU

This occurred in Florida. This is but one isolated incident, yet, I can't help but notice the two examples that come to mind (this and Christopher Duntsch) both occurred in states with leadership that champion deregulation. Even if deregulation was the ultimate culprit, it seems inexcusable to me that academic/medical institutions aren't self-regulating effectively despite that.

Immediately was reminded of another case of a grossly negligent surgeon, Christopher Duntsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch

I'm sure I and many other concerned patients and potential-patients are asking; how does something like this even occur? What institutional failures in medicine led to two grossly negligent and incompetent surgeons being given the controls to peoples' lives? What safeguards were neglected at the academic and organisational layers, and what are we doing so that this does not occur again? If institutions are doing their job, no case like this should ever get to the point where a prosecutor needs to stop and clean things up, much less to the first maiming of a patient.

Prediction markets don't have any "natural" reason like that for excluding insider trading. It's just "game designers" crying their hearts out when someone ruins their game by having an advantage.

I can think of a few very good reasons you would want to prohibit insider trading on prediction markets. Betting on war outcomes; being incentivised to commit war crimes or throw vital operational goals for financial gain. Wagering on public figures' jobs; being incentivised to harm them.

This goes missed a lot in debates about conscription. The Iran war in the US and the Ukraine war in Russia enjoy very little popular support among military aged men. This is in stark contrast to WW2, and even in Vietnam there was still a strain of thinking of draft resisters as cowards. But wars in this day and age enjoy a shockingly tiny public mandate, and it's entirely possible that governments can only do a draft on paper. Putin is practically unable to push further mobilisation because the first round provoked such stiff violence and resistance.

Right, a lot of the draft law being male-only reflects a combination of the reality that, relatively speaking, not much war has been waged since the end of WW2, and that much of contemporary gender equality is still somewhat new on a historical basis. So they're really just out of date laws with not much of an impetus to update, at least until recently. The worldwide trend is pretty clearly in the direction of making service and conscription, where needed, more gender agnostic. There are still some realities that don't really change here, such as men being most useful for direct combat, so even if women are conscripted it's likely they'll still avoid much of the worst of warfare simply by virtue of not qualifying for stringent standards.

Going to assume this phrasing is an awkward translation, but we can see how this works out in tolerant nations with conscription like Thailand. Typically, trans women who are already on a medical pathway are medically excluded from military service. This is less an affirmation of who they are by the military and more of a frank admission that their current state could never be made combat-ready. It's likely that even if SHTF, this would remain the status quo, because it's difficult to imagine draft resisters taking estrogen simply to avoid service. Even if treatment is largely done via informed consent, medical exclusion would likely require blood levels be in a certain range, or certain surgeries performed.

Ah yes, the new "for tobacco use only" of tech.

PSA: Adblock is non optional for personal and enterprise security.

My gf told me they blocked all addons at work, including adblock. Told her to recommend to the IT department that adblock be mandatory on all computers. Ad networks make too much money not to look the other way on malvertising.