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"Support" seems a bit strong here. the statment has more of a "known to work with" than a whole lot of direct support effort, also you have to have a locked bootloader, here's the relevant statement.

For power-users: Are all third-party ROMs blocked?

No. We currently support GrapheneOS when the bootloader is locked. We may support other third-party ROMs if:

    They do not break the AOSP security model,
    They support installation with a locked bootloader,
    They properly configure and publish self-signed verified boot keys for their ROM, and
    They promptly update to the latest AOSP patch level. We frequently update minimum operating system security requirements.

Technically MUDs still are a thing, there's a good number still running. Though sounds like you don't really just want a MUD where you want to go out mobbing but a more social thing (but not IRC?).

I suspect MUDs may have a bit of a resurgence soon, I've seen more and more interest in them as of late simply because they seem like an excellent pairing with LLMs which easily consume text. Though I think for your needs someone would need to work on the barrier to entry to getting on a MUD as well as the modern UI/UX expected today.

Honestly these look pretty good, I think run-of-the-mill anime is a strong target since it's highly formulaic and one of the more stylistically derivative genres.

I don't think this tech is quite "full length movie" watchable yet (maybe other uses), but seems only a matter of time where it would be "good enough" for common use.

https://www.aventos.dev/our-work

dunno, I've seen worse and some of the scenes if you asked me if it was AI or not I probably couldn't tell you. most egregious thing I saw was at the 27 second mark where the girl is inside the table.

At the current level of tech it feels like it would be a pretty dull full length Anime, and hard to squeeze all the bugs out but for something shorter like a commercial or FMVs for like a video game seems good enough.

Super interesting if this proves to be a viable technique. I would absolutely love to see some native PC releases of Nintendo games (I know big N will never do it)

Sad it's not available right now because talking about it puts a target on them for Nintendo to shut them down even if this effort is technically legal (not sure it is).

I wonder if this type of thing could cause a new age of game preservation, some games are just finicky and won't run on modern machines and throwing AI to port a code-base may allow some older gems to work properly again.

Curious as to where the line between “addictive feature” and "good UX" is. Is deliberate pagination actual impedance to use or merely an annoyance that's been weeded out with modern UX design?

When does a feature that simply makes your product easier to use cross into a territory that it's illegal?

What about media previews, in a platform like reddit if you can preview or expand media directly from the main list is that an “addictive feature” or just convenient design?

also interested in the larger economy, if you create a plugin that restores or adds infinite scroll to a website could you be liable for providing illegal UX?

EDIT: to clarify I'm not really griping on infinite scroll in particular, more the difficulty in regulating postitive UI/UX. Dark patterns are relatively easy to identify. If the unsubscribe button is hidden behind 3 screens and is in 3 point font that's pretty clearly a dark pattern. This seeks to regulate the opposite basically "your platform is, too easy, too good at serving your content"

This is much harder to categorize and has fuzzier boundaries. For example imagine if it applied to remembering your login for more than 24 hours. Certainly people would use your service less if they had to continuously authenticate. Are long-lived sessions good UX or encouraging "addictive" behavior?

Results don't seem that surprising.

What were your engagement numbers between A and C? I would expect similar numbers between A and C maybe more with C since AI stuff can be off-putting to some users.

sounds like A and C are entirely different UX so maybe people just didn't like the results of A compared to C.

Unsurprising that later engagement with C was higher since signup would be a deliberate response to seeing the product instead of "because I had to".

Also unsurprising that B has the most raw signups because looks like with that there's no meaningful way to engage with the product without doing so, given the low impedance of leveraging Oauth (lots of people are signed in all the time anyway) for some users signups are basically zero-care, would be interesting if the ratio of email signups to Oauth on option C were different than B since C is a deliberate choice.

Claude, would you kindly dumb this paper down for me.

A lot to unpack here, setting aside the drama I get a few takeaways:

- Your AI code is probably as good as your human user's skills and attention:

Seems pretty likely they were shying from style guides because the AI use was itself sloppy. I'm not a big AI user but if I just ask a chat model for some code it will give it to me, then I have to go over it and fix the code for our check-style. Without deliberately aligning all your AI use to enforce it style is hard to maintain. Existing lack of style was a technical debt they didn't want to pay.

- The most popular language is probably the best language:

I suspect the amount of training data on Rust is several orders of magnitude greater than Zig. I suspect they could have gotten there simply asking the LLM to rewrite the Zig thing in Zig, however I'm betting LLMs write much better rust code so why not take the opportunity to move to a language that will get all-around better results.

- Technical bankruptcy is more favorable than paying technical debt:

These migrations we're seeing seem to point to a future where it's simply easier to burn a code-base to the ground, take the test suite and re-implement rather than actually pay large amounts of technical debt. I think this is a pattern that will come up more often with heavily AI written codebases that become untenably noodley, or brittle.

Can AI vision models process "Magic Eye" images? the demo video reminds me of text in SIRDS images.

Mixed bag. I agree the permit probably shouldn't have that requirement, at least not at this time. that's a whole bag of regulation: how much monitoring? what constitutes a micro plastic? what's the baseline for the ocean in the area? who consumes the monitoring data? how do you monitor? are there consequences when it goes too high? what is too high? are all microplastics made equal or do different types of plastics have different effects?

In an honest administration I would figure they would strike the requirement then go forward to answer questions like those to see if there's a need to form regulation around it. And an honest administration could probably bring forth those types of nuances to an informed and level-headed public and be accepted.

We do not have an honest administration, nor an informed or a level-headed public. His firing was likely both retaliatory for making them look bad when the information was released but also "we know this guy's not going to play ball and cause problems for us later. get rid of him"

Not sure why. looking at the polls it would seem the primary points are

1) Sony ending physical disks

2) potential high price of next gen.

1 is hilarious, even games that come on physical disks are already mostly useless without internet. I had a ps4 and bought "Last of Us" and the game is literally unbeatable without an internet connection. It has a game breaking bug that isn't patched on disk. Many other games are crap or broken without patches. Also jumping to PC where there hasn't been physical media in ages and 99% of games have DRM is just out of the frying pan into the fire. based on the market share for GOG I can assure you only a small fraction of gamers actually care about "owning" their games.

2 is kinda stupid, they mentioned a price point of $1,000, not sure you can build a next-gen-console comparable PC for that price. My current computer's GPU cost more than that by itself and anything but a pittance of RAM will too.

I mean go for it, more PC gamers the better (it's my chosen platform) but if you weren't already on board years ago not sure anything has really changed.

Heard they were rolling this out, hasn't happened to me yet. wonder if it's a soft wall or simply rolled out to certain areas/IPs

I'm curious if these systems form a net positive. The cost of a thing provides a pretty reasonable proxy as a summation of the energy put into it's creation. The implication being that a balcony solar system is probably roughly net-negative, environmentally speaking, until it reaches its ROI.

I wonder if enough of these systems reach return to cover all the ones that don't for some reason or another. Looks like ROI might be 3-7 years, at the high end seems probable people would maybe move and not be able to use them and never really get their money's worth out of it.

Seems a lot of work for an intuitive result. If a wall uses only 50% of the material per linear foot and is less than 200% length, well duh it's going to save bricks.

Though depending on the wall the precise savings may be different, in a flemmish bond some bricks are laid header out (spanning the two bricks) where it looks like the model is just 2 offset walls side by side

I also think the strength test is missing the point. any focused damage is likely to be more severe on a thinner wall, period. But I believe you can make a crinkle wall of relatively arbitrary length with decent height whereas an buttressed straight wall of sufficient length might be something you could practically push over with your hands.

I think Monsanto is an evil company, like in a very real cartoonish-evil sense. I have no doubt they put their thumb on the scale of research leaning it towards safe.

That said I suspect glyphosate is probably not that bad, and among herbicides it may actually be the lesser of many evils. As in most things the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. Glyphosate may have carcinogenic properties but also may not be particularly dangerous in the quantities that a normal person may encounter either in food or spraying the weeds around their house a couple times in the summer.

Probably the most convincing thing I can casually dig up is that despite massive increases in use[1] the per-capita rate of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma has been pretty steady since 1990[2]. Now suspiciously it did rise between 1975 (roundup introduced in '74) and 1990 but seems to have plateaued since then.

If it were substantially linked via casual exposure I would expect a stronger correlation with its use. I wouldn't go drinking the stuff but it's possible it's no better or worse than the myriad of other "safe but not really" chemicals we douse our lives with.

[1] Table 1: https://alanplewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Benbrook-T...

[2] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/nhl.html

those levels weren't what I was expecting.

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp?section=1&sub_...

I'm curious as to how I would score, I would definitely count myself as "literate" but I wonder how well I'd do on the level 4/5 tasks and if they cross over into more general memory, intelligence, and study habit metrics that even a normally "literate" person would not do well at.

Though given those descriptions I can't help thinking those would be great tests for AI. I'd love to see the proficiency scores for various models.

EDIT: Ok I just needed to scroll further, they have sample items in the last section up to level 4 and even at level 4 the question seemed trivial.

The most wordy one is the Q Drum article (which by the way Q drum is a real thing, kinda neat idea) and there's literally only two basic criticisms (flat land and expense) and if you had any idea what the life straw is you can probably construe what the similar criticism in the email is going to be without even looking.

Based on the scores and the proficiency description I assumed they were actually targeting some sort of normal distribution and levels 4/5 would be genuinely difficult explaining the scores. I'm now much more sad that the scores are so low.

At least I got a laugh at how they refer to each test item as "the stimulus" which has such a sterile/clinical flavor to it.

to be pedantic you'd need to think a lot about how you power your human. Did you fuel up your human with beef or beans? local or shipped? were they operating a day in climate control? have to commute? did they need equipment like a large monitor? etc .

in reality basically all those concerns come out in the wash when you factor pay. energy inputs throughout the chain tend to materialize as expense. if the human was paid less then likely they used less energy.

wow, very interesting I can't say I've really ever heard of anyone financing research themselves, hope things work out and maybe a treatment arrives in time for you.

As an aside if you end up cryogenically freezing yourself for a future treatment don't forget to actually cure your boneitis when they thaw you out.

For anyone else out there that looked at the picture and their first thought was "are those tanks open to the rain?" thinking they were just open cylinders

seems it's called a floating roof tank :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_floating_roof_tank

And it prevents vapor loss or needing vapor overhead as the roof floats directly on the surface. Rain/snow water is pumped out off the top of the roof as needed.

Gonna play a little devil's advocate here.

Setting aside whether I think data centers or good or bad and just focusing on the sale of the land (for whatever purpose).

The land was donated back in 99 and looks like they never followed through on making it anything. Which is pretty shitty to Mr Bland's vision.

Though that donation itself is a bit weird because literally on the just the other side of the neighborhood is. a park!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/jwcANZ59bW17sTmm7

according to the town site the park was dedicated in 1955 https://www.taylortx.gov/244/Fannie-Robinson-Park

I suspect It just sat fallow for 25 years because there was already a park nearby and nobody bothered to press them on using the land for it's donated purpose. It switched hands a few times. Likely someone turned it up in some meeting and realized at this point they were never going to do anything with it and might as well sell it.

Edit: In considering the protracted timeline, I revise the assumption to "nobody at the office knew why they had the land or any stipulations attached to it". it's even possible that the buyers in 08 didn't know the terms of the original deed from nearly a decade before. Not that it makes it right to sell it but the intent wasn't likely malicious, the land wasn't donated just last year or anything.

pretty sure the red is the bulk of parcel R130425000A0001 52.42 acres.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1601-Martin-Luther-King-J...

We plan to open IOCCC30 towards the end of 2026 and have the contest run for a similar amount of time, closing sometime towards the end of Q1 2027.

Based on that it Looks like the contest starts late and runs into the next year. the 2025 rules were finalized in December.

If the only interesting thing about a work is it's provenance is that work actually valuable?

actually in all honesty human works are predominantly crap, and a bit passé. If I'm going to visit a site whose whole shtick is provenance I'd rather see some really, objectively good, ai stuff. that would be way more interesting.

The executive branch cannot just legally not spend that money.

Time and time again this proves to be rather irrelevant to this administration. There's literally no consequences for illegal actions and even if they're called out on it all that is reactionary. The system will be well broken before a ruling.

Kicking myself for not getting the other 2 sticks when I built my computer. I didn't really need them and had them in the cart, just never pulled the trigger.

Now they're worth over half as much as the whole machine.

Not sure that's isolated to the EU, all these companies seem to snub everyone when it comes to banning.

Seems unless you have enough followers to make the news cycle you're SOL when it comes to fighting those bans.

Yep, this is the same thing they did with the video streaming.

The video thing actually made me cancel prime. The shipping isn't a big deal anymore and I was able to justify the prime as a bonus to the streaming service.

“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”

“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What's that?”

“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”

A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

“What?” they said.

“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

Good bit of survivor bias in the retired population. If you can put in 30-40 years of full time work and then afford to retire you probably don't have a propensity for substance abuse.