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I’m not sure at all why you’re pointing at a rule established in 2024 and promptly rescinded in 2025 as a way to point out govt. waste.

This is a profoundly dismissive and even circular take...or at least an intentional misrepresentation of what I said.

When I say personnel constraints, I mean there are almost not enough people to do the work that needs to be done.

When I say budget constraints, I mean the budgets and projects are funded so lean, that they're always having to cut sections out of projects to get what they can done with the budget they're given.

I have no idea where you've gotten this idea that the waste in government is from employing too many people, but in the areas I am familiar with, it's nowhere close to an accurate read.

My spouse works in the DOI and while there maybe some inefficiencies, particularly in process, it isn't the people themselves which are the problem. Her group operates on razor-thin budgets and personnel constraints. They suffer the frustrations because they believe in the work.

We had a significant reduction in government workforce during the Clinton administration.

The stark difference is that THAT effort was handled with careful planning and through the proper channels. The way any mature, thoughtful, and responsible person would approach something like this.

One thing has been made very clear with Trump's terms - if there is no detailed plan on how they intend to do something, it's going to be a disaster. You can't just wing things and expect everything to work out.

Unless you just want to disrupt, punish, hurt, etc., in which case this is working as planned...which some may claim was the actual plan all along.

I’m not sure it would be legal for them to remove something they actually advertise as a feature to sell the car.

Also I’m sure they’d be hit with a class-action lawsuit immediately if they tried it. Manufacturers sell a lot of cars which would lead to a lot of pissed off owners.

Auto manufacturers aren’t likely to provide updates over the long term.

Imagine if your ten year old car hasn’t seen an infotainment update in four+ years. Or if you want to buy used.

Personally I’d much prefer my phone. It’s baked into Apple/Google ‘s business model to keep it up to date.

Also I only need my phone’s subscription, not an additional one with the auto manufacturer.

I haven't used superpowers yet, but it seems a major focus of this release was to reduce clocktime as well as token spend.

From TFA (well, blog):

The long and the short of it it is that across about 36 hours of work and what would have been $650 of unsubsidized token spend, our Anthropic eval benchmarks were looking like we'd reduced wall-clock runtime for Superpowers builds by 50% and token spend by 60%.

The switch emulators Yuzu or Ryujinx perhaps?

The kind of polish they put into absolutely everything, including these announcements, is incredible.

100%. They're easily the gold standard for emulation and open-source gaming...and possibly open-source projects in general.

The effort they put into the announcements is frankly amazing and shows what a labor of love this project is.

Probably. But it would be at least somewhat thought-out and apply to all the AI providers. Not just the one currently disfavored by Captain Dipshit and the Sycophants.

I really don't know why business cozies up to Trump so much, given how unbelievably unreliable and mercurial he is about...everything.

Elon?

At my core, I do believe it's a good thing, so don't try to frame things as if I'm ethically opposed to the overarching idea here.

It's that the powers-that-be have and always will have more resources to bring to bear than the individual will have to combat them. And right now we're moving at absolute break-neck speed to invent technologies that can be used undermine us individually as well as collectively at ease and scales heretofore never seen.

I believed for a long time that the information age would be the great liberator - the great balancer. But we're on the precipice right now of governmental and societal collapsem and it has everything to do with the massive proliferation and preponderance of either misinformation, or agenda-aligned (shaped) information.

Anti-vax, Antifa, ACAB, conspirituality, QAnon, etc., etc., have all had an enormously negative impact, and we're still in misinformation infancy, and lucky that the leadership in goverment is so old that they're not particularly great at bending these technologies to bear on us. But that's not always going to be the case.

No, this really hasn't always been the case. At least not in the sense it is today.

20 years ago your misinformation came from television, radio, and print. All of those things were expensive to produce and there was an implicit need for them to be at least vaguely believable and reliable, because their existence depended on it to continually generate revenue.

- Today, a single person produce 100% AI-generated media for basically the cost of their time.

- That media is as high quality as anything else out there.

- Social media platforms provide the delivery system for free.

- There's no real way to tell if there's even a real person behind the name/pseudonym used for posting it. It might be a person, it might be an algorithm, it might be a nation-state. You have no way to know.

Coincidentally, this is at the top of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355751

It's more about using LLMs to impersonate someone, but the point stands.

You should reconsider the scope. Nobody is losing sleep over Airbnb pics.

We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible.

Pithy, dismissive, reductionist, and wrong.

No, it's not.

I completely unplugged from broadcast TV simply because I can no longer stand to be bombarded with FUD, manufactured lifestyles, propaganda, etc., that provides absolutely no useful information about a product, or really anything other than reminding me that X company's Y product exists.

Since when have we considered ads something helpful?

Their purpose isn’t to be helpful. They're there to sell you something, and nothing more. Any semblance of helpfulness is misinterpretation and merely coincidental.

I think the rule of thumb for non-professionals is:

Buy cheap and if you use it enough that it breaks, buy expensive the second time.

Maybe the entire approach is inappropriate.

You don’t think there might be a better solution than having a dozen or more companies all launching thousands of satellites which all perform the same function?

at least it's also hilarious.

Until it stops being hilarious. Then what?

I thought this was debunked awhile ago. ?

A strong and convincing rebuttal!

My buddy and I are writing our own CRUD web app to track our gaming. I was looking at a ticketing system to use for us to just track bug fixes and improvements. Nothing I found was simple enough or easy enough to warrant installing it.

I vibe'd a basic ticketing system in just under an hour that does what we need. So not 20 mins, but more like 45-60.

I don't understand why people with this opinion think it's worth the effort to post it.

You're a gamblin' man, I see...

Thanks - I downloaded the repo but it's only ~64MB zipped. No way that's all of AIX 4.1.3. :(

As a long-time AIX admin I'd LOOOOOVE to see some of the AIX source.

I used to be connected to the community where stuff like this was passed around. But that was a long, long time ago.

Dunno but the repo is 4+ years old.

Wow I don't know how I missed that...

Wow I never knew this existed. Thanks for pointing this out!