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"Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life." Why are universities part of this set backbone items?

"This leads me to conclude that using AI to write code that a(nother) human is one day to interact with is a no-go, for all the reasons listed." So, if one's goal is to develop code that is easily maintainable by others, do you think that AI writing code gets in the way of that goal?

Electric truck ... nuff said

Repeat it with me ... "they have no moat"

And then again he may not have been Spanish and Jewish.

What a politician wants most is to win reelection. This explains everything

Being vague is often necessary. E.g., what is cruel and usual punishment.

Rivian - circling the drain

An my favorite https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/17612409604938631... Prompt: Is it okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse? Google Gemini: Nope.

What, no reviews

"I've even seen more a few on military property in some crazy belief that all such places are open to public inspection." All the auditor vids that I've seen that involve military property have been where the person doing the videoing stands on the public sidewalk or roadway easement outside the military or government building and films, which of course makes for the desired confrontation. There may be some where they're on the actual military property which can result in them being trespassed.

They are doing this because it's better financially for IBM the corporation ... period ... full stop.

A response from Kent Becket al. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...

What you truly owe = author doesn't think some people pay what he thinks they should

ello guvnuh

Uhhhh, ya know that Python has a library for that :-)

But, but, but .... don't be evil.

Follow the money.

Maybe own dogfood doesn't taste so good ... maybe

Exactly. Won't read because it requires sign up.

As always, follow the money.

From the article: "The Internal Revenue Service will spend $15 million studying a free, government-backed tax filing system". It's a long way from studying to implementing. Intuit pays their lobbyists to make sure this doesn't happen.

Maybe 100% of students choose to never again patronize the bakery and think that Oberlin shouldn't have to pay the judgement ... tough, not relevant.

The tech company I currently work for has unlimited PTO. I've never had an issue, even once, when I said I'm going to take XYZ days off and have gotten pushback. It probably happens but I haven't seen it.

Yes

I can, and absolutely will, object to someone recording my yard. You might not see a distinction but there absolutely is one. You certainly can raise an objection but it has no legal weight behind it. Anything that is in public view can be legally filmed. I think there may be some federal prohibitions against filming sensitive government areas though not sure if these have ever been testing in court. Walk around naked in your front yard or in your house in front of an open window you are eligible to be legally (though maybe creepily) filmed.

An attorney friend of mine summarized it by saying that the Supreme Court said it's OK for the EPA to dictate particular emission levels for power plants but not OK to require a plant to change it's method of power generation.

Assuming your a member of a union

Before election

Union boss: "we expect everyone to vote for candidate X"

After election

Union boss: "show me your vote receipt"

IMHO it matters because of the "D" word ... diversity