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https://archive.md/bcGNj

Streisand effect?

THIS is the question!

Henry Ford II: "Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?" Walter Reuther: "Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?"

The actual significance of this article is that, finally, the establishment is beginning to accept that the US may be in big trouble because of this war.

What happened to enforcing the law on those who assaulted the Capitol?

Well, i feel a bit reluctant about sharing this, because it is so sad, but the following was recorded not long ago ... wouldn't be surprised if they took it down

https://youtu.be/6_anRV5ZFWY?si=csobK4NBKKT-tE8H

Sure, but all the same, given what you've said, isn't it a bit weird that Kramnik himself has rushed to raise drug taking suspicions? Is he trying to divert attention? Regardless of whether he has anything to do with this, it would have been classy of him to stay quiet for a while about this

Indeed, he also quit commenting, which he was really good at and seemed to enjoy doing in the past

I think that Cursor is doing the same. A couple of weeks ago they removed the 500 prime model requests limit per month in the $20 plan, it seemed like this was going to be good for users, in fact it's worse, my impression is that now the limit is effectively much lower, and you can't check anymore in your account's dashboard how many of these requests you've made over the last month.

Thank you, I will certainly check this out because this is something I've been sort of doing, manually, but I am still struggling to get the right workflow.

This recent OpenAI presentation might resonate too then:

Prompt Engineering is dead (everything is a spec)

In an era where AI transforms software development, the most valuable skill isn't writing code - it's communicating intent with precision. This talk reveals how specifications, not prompts or code, are becoming the fundamental unit of programming, and why spec-writing is the new superpower.

Drawing from production experience, we demonstrate how rigorous, versioned specifications serve as the source of truth that compiles to documentation, evaluations, model behaviors, and maybe even code.

Just as the US Constitution acts as a versioned spec with judicial review as its grader, AI systems need executable specifications that align both human teams and machine intelligence. We'll look at OpenAI's Model Spec as a real-world example.

https://youtu.be/8rABwKRsec4?si=waiZj9CnqsX9TXrM

Is it something similar to Harper Reed's "My LLM codegen workflow atm"?

https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

Here is a good documentary about these scam centers, where some management staff even openly admit what is going on there:

https://youtu.be/kSNn2pHtRH4?si=6WAbOG4p6bd80dJ8

In stackoverflow's survey [1] it ranks below the 40th position in popularity, near the bottom and below the likes of Prolog, Apex, MicroPython, and just above Cobol.

If that isn't obscure, nevermind building all your tech around it like the article says, then I guess that nothing is.

Where does Linux rank in OSs?

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology

https://archive.md/u10ol

The Taliban are not a terrorist group, awful as they are

They want to destroy the so called "dark state" by scaring and scarring officials out of their wits to do their biding, "the art of the deal", trimming the budget is the excuse.

The moka is pretty good though (and much more expensive)

Very interesting. And there is still ethnic tension in that area to this day.

It was the DDR who developed the modern Vietnamese coffee industry, collapsing before it could benefit.

Beginning in 1975, largely parallel with the coffee crisis in East Germany, the production of Robusta coffee began in Vietnam. Robusta plants grow faster, contain more caffeine, suit the climate of the Vietnamese Central Highlands, and lend themselves better to mechanized harvesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis

+ Chinese polygamy, as Marco Polo observed, allowing well-off men to parallelize reproduction

Vultures are actually fascinating, team workers that collaborate with crows and magpies to clean the countryside from carcasses.

There is an excellent documentary about this in Spanish: https://youtu.be/4bLO8d0e9O4?si=z2BUAz-90BhWGBdl

Ha ha, I see, nice

Al Gore read the intelligence briefing.

Wasn't that George W. Bush?

Trying to force or avoid stalemate is a huge motive in top level endgames though regardless of whether they actually end in stalemate or not.

Ig Noble winner if there ever was one, I bet.

MIT's open course 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-performance-engineering-of...

Made me think of Sayyid Qutb's "The America I have seen":

Qutb argues that the American way of life, with its focus on hedonism and consumerism, corrupts the moral self and reduces human relationships to short-lived pursuits of pleasure. Qutb sees the American focus on individual pleasure as primitive and animalistic, erasing the gravity of death and the sanctity of life

He's the intellectual behind the modern jihad, distance 2 to a young Bin Landen.

scares over LGBTQ+ content

Indeed, but also aggressively pushing that kind of content in the first place

Principles of Computer System Design

This textbook, an introduction to the principles and abstractions used in the design of computer systems, is an outgrowth of notes written for 6.033 Computer System Engineering over a period of 40-plus years. Individual chapters are also used in other EECS subjects. There is also a web site for the current 6.033 class with a lecture schedule that includes daily assignments, lecture notes, and lecture slides. The 6.033 class Web site also contains a thirteen-year archive of class assignments, design projects, and quizzes.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-004-principles-of-computer...

First of all, apologies, the way I started my reply was too brusque.

Yes, at the end of the day it's all about who has the power. I just wanted to point out that present Vietnam is far from united and that you can't imagine how much resentment there is in Saigon towards the communist government in the north.

Saigon had a "good" war, barely saw any fighting, but the post-war was horrible, scarring southerners to this day, many people repeatedly tried to flee on dingies out of desperation from human (northern) caused starvation and scarcity, this in a land that had never experienced hunger (the Mekong Delta is extremely fertile and milked by the north). They haven't forgotten.

The world is full of hopeful irredentists, and whether they will ever succeed or not is not a matter of right, but might (maybe in the shape of a foreign power). It is just that in southern Vietnam most people are irredentists, which I suspect is not the case in the US south, isn't that right?