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See, Judge Alsup should have been the person Biden put on the Supreme Court, that or re-nominate Merrick Garland. Instead, he made a silly promise to sate Black Lives Matter, which even when he took office was fast on its way to ignominy, and now Kagan is stuck being the only competent liberal justice on the court. At least Alsup can continue setting the direction of law as it applies to the tech industry.

What did he scrub? Looks like an account with posts to me

Every mile of road is an operating expense.

Has, not is. Clearly you didn’t take Intro to Object-Oriented Programming in CS.

Important to note that `~` SSH commands work only right after you press Enter - it doesn’t trigger everywhere you press `~`.

Also EnableEscapeCommandline fortunately only affects `~C` - the all-important `~.` to kill a hung SSH session still works with it disabled.

Headscale exists, not sure what the difference is in practice.

The actual ask (from https://screendna.org):

we call on legislators to make screening of orders for synthetic nucleic acids — and the equipment needed to make them — mandatory

I’m guessing that the analogy would be to legislation that requires screening buyers of chemicals that could be precursor to regulated or illegal drugs.

If you only need to keep Office around to occasionally edit a file while preserving formatting, there’s now another option in 2026 - get a coding agent to do it for you. I’ve had Codex make substantial edits to financial model spreadsheets a few times, and it knows enough about how to modify office XML files to do that work correctly. Occasionally Excel didn’t like some of the files at first, but the view-only version of Office for Mac works well enough to allow Codex to discover and fix any incompatibility. Between agents and LibreOffice, no need for Office anymore.

I mean, did you check the IPs and make sure they’re from OpenAI? Obviously a fly-by-night AI company is going to set their User Agent to be from a big player.

I care more if AI was used to churn out a bunch of slop writing, mostly because of the lack of an authorial voice, which causes most of the writing to suck. Code is different - I have never cared about how much or how little effort went into a coding project, unless the point is supposed to be a puzzle - so I literally don’t care if people use AI for their projects, only if the idea behind the demo is cool.

There have been arguments that the wealth tax proposal has loopholes that would allow it to be extended to much lower levels of wealth without a further amendment. More importantly, if that’s the way the state’s politics are trending, it might be worth it to leave and come back if the threat goes away.

Who knows, maybe one of the band members invested in a successful startup, or is an LP for a VC that did. That’s not unheard of for the entertainment industry. Most people wouldn’t have pegged Ashton Kutcher as an investing genius, but he has been highly successful.

They just sold the rights to the recordings though, as the article states.

Ironically, they probably could if they used Codex or Claude Code. Those harnesses and models are good enough to do that these days (since late last year, and getting better since then). However, it seems that DeepMind and no one else at Google has access to either of these.

However if my memory got reset every hour, I certainly might tell the same story or use the same metaphor over and over.

All people repeat the same stories and phraseology to some extent, and some people are as bad or worse than LLM chat bots in their predictability. I wonder if the latter have weak long-term memory on the scale of months to years, even if they remember things well from decades ago.

Nah, the good LLMs can generally web search and read documentation well enough that the fact that pre-training isn’t up to the minute is not a serious concern. Badly-documented projects are more of a concern, but they weren’t likely to get much pre-AI usage either.

Denial of service isn’t worth that much generally, I think - you can’t use it to directly steal data or to install a payload for later exploitation. There are usually generic ways to mitigate denial of service as well - IP blocking and the like.

In this case, it was United, almost all transpacific flights. I've read that United has started to move to Starlink, but only on a few flights so far.

If I’m flying for work and Starlink is that much better, quite possibly. My wife’s experience with other in-flight WiFi providers has been quite poor, often to the point that it barely works. Having said that, neither of us has been on a flight with Starlink yet.

I think this is why they're supposed to be limited to 800 W, but is that enough to avoid serious danger to utility workers when a whole apartment building or neighborhood is full of these?

Good thing LLMs exist now

With LLMs, it's potentially a lot easier to use microcontrollers now, depending on how widely available the documentation is now.

If Starlink becomes common enough on flights, I absolutely believe it will be a competitive disadvantage.

Thanks for the update

https://xcancel.com/joehollinsvet/status/2039377310839624069

My impression of dialog box size from least to greatest is CJK (Chinese < Korean < Japanese) < English < everything else

Just a district judge, so I’m supposing the Trump administration will file an appeal if they care, and will almost certainly get a preliminary injunction. The Ninth Circuit ruling will be more telling.

Beer is cheaper from a super market but everyone I know prefers pubs.

It's a pretty frequent complaint that drinks at pubs, bars, and restaurants have become extortionately expensive, to the point that a lot of younger people are drinking less for that reason.

Delivered: https://github.com/telotortium/dotfiles/tree/27c11efd967eebc...

But the DoD signed a contract with Palantir.

One thing I’ve never heard a good answer to: If Anthropic is a supplier not to the Department of Defense itself, but to Palantir, why isn’t supply chain risk the proper designation (assuming the government’s concerns with Anthropic having authority over military missions is valid)?

As for whether code written with Claude Code should be so considered - if it’s just code that is subject to human review, I would argue that this use shouldn’t be a supply chain risk. But with Claude Code PR Review and similar products, the chance that an AI product (not limiting to Anthropic here) could own a load-bearing part of the lifecycle of a critical piece of code becomes much larger, and deserves scrutiny.

I think Venezuela and Iran are more about restricting the oil to China in case of a conflict rather than providing energy for the US, although getting ahead of an anticipated demand increase from AI data centers is probably a contributing motivation.