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Anthropic bought Bun, so they kinda, sorta had to make this work. I am sure the cost at $145,000 in Claude time will get some attention.
I am curious how this will work going forward from FOSS perspective. Will humans be allowed to modify the generated code? Only the .md prompts for the agents? Or what?
It's funny you should say that, because the next release apparently directly addresses this. Including startup to tray. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/close-tray-starting-154
Incredibly well said.
ne.general, alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, meowww wars, Stephen Boursey. Anyone else old?
Nitpick: It's called Contributor and supposedly has the same features of the previous subscription. It still feels like a setup for future degradation by some marketing genius.
The whole section that introduces Zaphod is so apt for Trump. It talks about the president's position not being to concentrate power, but to distract attention FROM it. It really feels that way to me, anyway.
I used to follow the balloon projects that hams would launch. A mylar balloon with a tiny 50 milliwatt transmitter and GPS, solar powered on the 10Mhz band tracked thousands of miles away.
You’re right — H-1B is dual intent. But my main point still stands: conflating H-1Bs with “immigrants hollowing out the middle class” is misleading. H-1B was designed to address shortfalls in skilled labor by granting temporary work authorization to foreign workers. On paper, it’s a fine idea.
In practice, the program has been abused, by body shops for instance, that we ended up with a new word: insourcing. That’s the real issue, and not immigration per se, but the way a temporary labor program reshaped whole categories of employment. And while politicians sometimes talk about fixing it, I wouldn’t expect much. If anything, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the “dual intent” aspect pared back in the future under the current guy.
I've seen plenty and even tossed them as streamers as a kid. I've also seen many scratched CDs lying at the side of the road.
It’s important to clarify that H-1B is a non-immigrant visa — you don’t get to stay if you lose your job. That matters because the debate isn’t about immigration itself but about how the program functions. H-1B was meant to supplement shortages in highly skilled roles. Over time, though, it’s reshaped whole categories of employment. Anecdotally, I see very few young U.S. devs compared to many late-career ones finishing out their working lives. If we dare to use the term “national interest,” the real issue is whether a temporary labor program has morphed into something that permanently alters the market.
I often wonder why compact disc was the bridge technology to full digital and not DAT.
I'm probably not thinking this through, so go easy, but why wouldn't tracked panels also produce a normalized power curve? My assumption behind the question is that they follow the same track as Sol every day, which doesn't vary at least year-to-year.
The TT creator, John Aravosis, said recently on his show that it took TT 3 days to figure out he is gay and he said he never interacted with it in any way that would convey that. On the other hand, it kept giving me animal snuff that utterly revulsed me, despite my reporting it, thumbs downing.
I deleted my account about a year ago. Although I loved a lot of content and was awed by the work of many creators, I got this weird anxiety when I had been scrolling for, say, an hour. It was like my brain was giving me a warning sign, though my consciousness did not perceive it. I came to a personal decision, unscientifically, and without any jingoism or conspiracies, that short-form scrolling is bad for my health.
A couple of weeks ago I signed up for Loops (the fediverse version of TT) and I scrolled a few videos. I had such a strong negative feeling that I closed it and uninstalled. I am so happy YouTube Shorts is so shit, because I watch one or two that catch my eye, then go back to the longer videos.
When Zuck said on Jan 7th, 2025, that he wants to work with President Trump to oppose states threatening free speech, he wasn't talking about China. It was 100% the EU and its regulations. The quid pro quo starts to emerge.
When I was just starting my career around the late 1980s, I wrote a program on the Psion for a chain store in the UK that had 21 stores. Basically a person would walk the aisles and enter the stock codes and quantities. When they were done they would plug the device into a serial device. I wrote this other program in MS Basic (DOS) that dialed up all these Psions and downloaded the orders into an IBM S/38 Order and Inventory management system. I thought I was the dog's. I loved those devices.
It is poorly written, with some atrocious dialog. I watched it all because the story intrigued me, but all I kept thinking was, "The last season of GoT was shit for THIS?"
The excellent YouTuber "Plainly Difficult" covered this story.
I always tell my gun-hoarding, go-box toting, bug-out planning prepper friends the same thing. You don't have enough guns and ammo to stop the masses coming for your canned pork'n'beans.
So much for the Brisling Sardines industry. We hardly knew ye.
I have been confused by Quantum Computing and have been reading and watching as much as possible on the topic. I can never seem to grasp the potential. I keep thinking about classical problems. Like what if I multiply a real number by a number consisting of qbits? Or what happens to bitwise operations with qbits?
Then, something I read to the effect that we need to stop thinking of QC as solving classical problems but solving different problems at least reassured me I wasn't too dumb to get it.
What a wonderful calling to have had in life.
I have always felt that the problem with the plastic recycling is that there is a lack of an economy. If you sell a yogurt for $1.99 I don’t care about what happens to the container, I t’s hardly surprising that most of it ends up overseas, in the ocean or a landfill. If the state levied a tax on the container, manufacturers would be motivated to gain a competitive advantage and use something exempt from the tax. Recyclers, who might want to taste of that tax money, could invest in better technologies for handling the material. In fact, you enable capitalistic forces to solve a problem. It’s only cheap to use virgin plastic because the manufacturer is absolved of cost of dealing with the waste.
For my own part, I have started to throw all my plastic in the garbage. It feels better to know it goes in the landfill versus the great Pacific garbage patch.
I don't understand the reply either. The link shows clearly how it works and that it's about managing water levels, not pond elimination. Many times these ponds are secondary, and extra care (in some case by regulations) is needed for primary ponds where beavers need deeper water to survive through winter.
Another solution I have seen is the A-frame trap which blocks the beaver from damming the culvert and takes longer for them to build around the trap. Even when they do, which they will, when the water rises it spills over. From a maintenance perspective, they are easier to clear than clog in the pipe.
As a species we had better get smart about coexisting with these creatures. Some say the water issues out west are related to the extermination beavers, and their reintroduction will do much to replenish ground water and create natural reservoirs.
But that doesn't mean we we should antagonize the humans by insisting we allow roads to wash out and flooding to occur. We need compromises.
It reminds of the story of the de Havilland Comet, which had a bad habit of breaking up in mid-air. Engineers submerged the fuselage of the plane in and out of deep water to simulate pressure changes and it finally failed. leading to the diagnosis of metal fatigue. I mean that was 70 years ago. You'd think it might have crossed his mind.
Even solar panels over a bank of Superchargers is essentially a marketing exercise. An array over a 20 acre parking lot? Now you're talking.
Thank you for that. I forgot the distinction. Like T-rex eating the lawyer hiding in the toilet in Jurassic Park.
A little more cheepnis, please.
3 large hurricanes bring such cold that it flash freezes on contact. Survivors hide in a library and have to burn all the books to fend of the flash freezing. Effed up symbolism right there. Love those movies.
Well Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen was published in 1935. Bell's Theorem was published in 1964. Bell's wasn't tested experimentally until 1972, by which time it was largely forgotten except for creative fellow who worked out a way to test it.
I think having testability as a qualification for theory might not serve us well.
It blows my mind how much we have deduced about black holes in 100+ years, yet it was only very recently that we could actually "see" one. Would hate to lose that.
I switched to DDG earlier everywhere this year and, honestly, I've totally forgotten about Google Search. However, I also run pi-hole, and unfortunately, the DDG top results are usually all sponsored and don't work, due to pi-hole. I don't begrudge DDG the click revenue, but I haven't spent time trying to set the whitelist rules.