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Gonna be wild if Iran forces regime change in the US by holding global energy and fertilizer supply hostage.
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But that has bad words in it!
EDIT: https://web.archive.org/web/20080702204110/http://bash.org/?...
It is much less work to get a conventional chess engine using a fixed-ply alpha-beta search up to that elo.
> This represents 0.6% of meta's 2025 profits
By coincidence, New Mexico represents 0.6% of America's population.
> huh i wonder why they want to do that?
Because immigrants and their foreign-culture socialized kids are the only reason Democrats can win national elections?
Disabled - You won't have access to this feature of disallowing training.
It is a slightly weird experience trying to buy an EV as they genuinely do get significantly better very quickly. It's like buying a computer in the 90s or a phone in the 00s.
“The industry doesn't have a supply problem — it has a utilization problem masquerading as one”
Most game engines seem to have some coroutine kludge.
"CATL’s “Naxtra” sodium-ion batteries achieve an energy density of up to 175 Wh/kg, the company said, putting it on par with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries."
Useful, but not a "breakthrough" in energy density. More like another good low-end option.
> the punchline "woman sues McDonalds for coffee being too hot" (distinct from that actual case, which was less ridiculous than the headline).
Whenever the McDonald's coffee case comes up, I always see caveats about how the actual case was a lot less sensational than the "woman sues McDonald's for coffee being too hot" headline implies.
I strongly disagree. I'm very familiar with the details of the actual case, and the Wikipedia article gives a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau... . Yes, the plaintiff received horrific third degree burns when she spilled the coffee on herself, but lots of products can cause horrible harm if used incorrectly - people cut fingers off all the time with kitchen knives, for example.
I find the headline "Woman sues McDonald's for their coffee being too hot" a completely accurate description of what happened, with no hyperbole and no "ridiculousness" at all.
> The failed revolution a month prior may have been the US too
Probably not. History has practically zero examples of foreign-caused popular revolts. When you want your person in power, you do a military coup.
What history is littered with is adversaries (a) constantly fomenting dissent in each other and (b) levelling up convenient revolutions. America has been doing the former in Iran since basically 1979. But to say the recent protests "may have been the US" is ascribing way too much influence to Washington.
I have no wheels and I must drift
Like "do something f--ed up because I wanted to?" (what I think most technical 'debt' is) or "make a rational calculation to take an action which will save effort tomorrow with a predictable future cost" (e.g. what you might get an MBA to learn to how do in corporate finance)
That used to be plausible. But what new revelation about Trump could hurt him? Misuse of office for personal gain? Trump Tower Moscow? Inciting an insurrection? Harassing young women? Adultery? Rape? Hanging out with a pedophile? Blowjob from a 13 year old girl? [1] Those are all on the record.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct...
There is a huge difference between buying a solar panel once and having it generate energy for the next 30 years vs. buying a barrel of oil now and consuming it by next week.
It's the same difference as buying a house now and owning it until it collapses vs. renting a house and being at the mercy of your landlord, or buying a piece of shrink-wrapped software and using it for the next 18 years vs. renting a SaaS subscription that provides a different product next month.
Most likely a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281
The legal doctrine that a company's primary responsibility is to maximize shareholder value dates from the 1970s. It started with Milton Friedman with a 1971 essay in the NYTimes [1] and then gained a lot of currency throughout the 70s stagflation and economic malaise. The final death-knell of the corporation as a social enterprise came during the 1980s era of corporate raiders and PE buyouts.
Note that the system that came before it had problems too. In the 50s and 60s, the top marginal tax rate was about 90%, which meant that above a certain level it made almost no sense for a corporate executive to be paid more. This kept executive salaries to a reasonable multiple of employee salaries, but it meant that executives and high-ranking managers tended to pay themselves in perks. This was the "Mad Men" era of private jets, private company apartments, secretaries who were playthings, etc. Friedman's essay was basically arguing against this world of corporate unaccountability and corruption, where formal pay and compensation were reasonable, but informal perks and arrangements managed to privilege the people in power in a complete opaque, unaccountable way.
Turns out that power is a hell of a drug, and the people in power will always find ways to use that to enrich themselves regardless of what the laws and incentives are.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
Canonical discussion:
Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513008 - March 2026
So, it does appear I was correct here - it's a difficult thing to solve.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-search-an...
> Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference Tuesday that the airport uses a safety system called ASDE-X to track surface movements of aircraft and vehicles.
> "ASDE-X did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence,” Homendy read from an analysis of the system’s performance.
Not to steal from Robin's excellent work, you can see how much it's been (low carbon/renewables generation) over the last twelve months at https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly (~56% renewables, ~73% low carbon)
(Robin, if there is a way to see this on your site, I could not find it, my apologies!)
Understood. What features would be most helpful in an open replacement?
Paper: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/03/sports...
Jacob Goss and Daniel Mangrum, “Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics, March 25, 2026, https://doi.org/10.59576/lse.20260325
https://www.lynalden.com/march-2026-newsletter/ has some helpful advice on allocation away from AI exposure.
Can I please just have multiple users on my iPads, please?
> Its range has been estimated to be anywhere from between 970–1,500 km (600–930 mi) to as much as 2,000–2,500 km (1,200–1,600 mi).
You presented the absolute maximum estimate as if it were the conventionally accepted value. That's incredibly misleading.
.. and a substantial domestic influence organization. Lots of US donors with US passports handing over good old US dollars. Lots of pro-regime news stations. More since the CBS takeover.
Go's net/http Client is built for functionality and complete support of the protocol, including even such corner cases as support for trailer headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... Which for a lot of people reading this message is probably the first time they've heard of this.
It is not built for convenience. It has no methods for simply posting JSON, or marshaling a JSON response from a body automatically, no "fluent" interface, no automatic method for dealing with querystring parameters in a URL, no direct integration with any particular authentication/authorization scheme (other than Basic Authentication, which is part of the protocol). It only accepts streams for request bodys and only yields streams for response bodies, and while this is absolutely correct for a low-level library and any "request" library that mandates strings with no ability to stream in either direction is objectively wrong, it is a rather nice feature to have available when you know the request or response is going to be small. And so on and so on.
There's a lot of libraries you can grab that will fix this, if you care, everything from clones of the request library, to libraries designed explicitly to handle scraping cases, and so on. And that is in some sense also exactly why the net/http client is designed the way it is. It's designed to be in the standard library, where it can be indefinitely supported because it just reflects the protocol as directly as possible, and whatever whims of fate or fashion roll through the developer community as to the best way to make web requests may be now or in the future, those things can build on the solid foundation of net/http's Request and Response values.
Python is in fact a pretty good demonstration of the risks of trying to go too "high level" in such a client in the standard library.
People built a lot of great stuff with Ruby, PHP, Notes and VB. I don't know what the problem really is.
Personally I think that whole Karpathy thing is the slowest thing in the world. I mean you can spin the wheels on a dragster all you like and it is really loud and you can smell the fumes but at some point you realize you're not going anywhere.
My own frustration with the general slowness of computing (iOS 26, file pickers, build systems, build systems, build systems, ...) has been peaking lately and frankly the lack of responsiveness is driving me up the wall. If I wasn't busy at work and loaded with a few years worth of side projects I'd be tearing the whole GUI stack down to the bottom and rebuilding it all to respect hard real time requirements.
Useful context here is that the author wrote Pi, which is the coding agent framework used by OpenClaw and is one of the most popular open source coding agent frameworks generally.
I never got a dev account because it is entirely predictable it ends this way.
You could have stuck with the web and never had to fight with the app store: why did you choose suicide as a business plan?
Much safer than Starfleet fuel tanks.
I'm converging on this as the real end state: it's a "better Excel" for general business work. And has some of the same limitations - maintainability and security. But there are also plenty of small businesses that run off a shared Excel spreadsheet and a few mailboxes.
Nobody ever really solved making CRUD apps easier through better frameworks. So now we have a tool to spit out framework gunk, and suddenly everyone can have their own app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
is no joke. I've heavily studied applications of logic to computing from the golden age of AI and I can say it is thoroughly depressing to see how much "it doesn't work" which you try to do things with logic.
At this stage I just want a coherent system. There is no way "individuals can have their accounts terminated for one song" and "AI companies can download a complete copy of everything, including pirated works, and roll it into models which can reproduce it exactly and sell it back to you" should be able to co-exist.
Seems pretty unlikely that the Yuan is going to be the dominant world currency, given its capital controls.
I wanted to buy the entire new lineup (Machine, VR, and controller), but alas, AI RAM shortage. I hope it can get released soon.
> If you made anything that was worth protecting you might feel differently.
How do you know they didn't? Oh, because of the No True Scotsman of "no person who truly made something worth protecting can have this opinion".
As if none of us have released anything under an MIT license. Ridiculous.
Some VNs have no real choices and could hardly be called games. Others are deeply branched.
By the 2010s many JRPGs such as the Hyperdimension Neptunia series and Danganronpa pretty much stole all the visual elements of visual novels and mashed them up with gameplay from other genres.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportati...
> Ms. Lopez-Jimenez, 41, a native of Guatemala, and her daughter, Wendy Godinez-Lopez, were flagged by T.S.A. officials on Friday when they showed up on a passenger list for a Sunday flight from San Francisco to Miami. The agency then tipped off Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the documents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-t...
> Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers are sharing names and birth dates of travelers believed to have been ordered out of the country by an immigration judge. ICE can then send agents to the airport to detain and quickly deport those people.
They don't have to be at the airport to do this; airlines have to send them the manifest.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-19/chapter-I/part-122/sub...
> Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, an appropriate official of each commercial aircraft (carrier) departing from the United States en route to any port or place outside the United States must transmit to the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS; referred to in this section as the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) system), the electronic data interchange system approved by CBP for such transmissions, an electronic passenger departure manifest covering all passengers checked in for the flight.
I would argue it is an anti-pattern and irritating the core audience they want to reach with Claude Code
Yep, this applies to social media companies, not iOS or the App store.
Yeah, so much simpler,
"Common IHttpClientFactory usage issues"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/htt...
"Guidelines for using HttpClient"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/networ...
And this doesn't account for all gotchas as per .NET version, than only us old timers remember to cross check.
(1) Something that would be a wild success to any other company would be a failure for Facebook, Facebook just isn't the right company for this opportunity.
(2) I think the Horizon Worlds problem is not so much that the whole idea is cringe but rather than the authoring tools weren't good enough for users or brands to create interesting worlds. I wanted it to work but I couldn't find worlds I wanted to visit and was strongly alienated by the platform's inability to incorporate JPG images or GLB models. No way I'm going to waste my time learning an awkward interface to make worlds based on dumbed-down computational solid geometry where I can't apply those skills to other platforms.
(3) Part of that problem is that the MQ3 has enough RAM that you can use video game programming techniques to make interesting worlds but very little headroom for user-generated content in systems like Horizon Worlds and VRChat. The 16GB Apple Vision Pro is better but I find it completely comfortable to author for PC VR with a 64GB workstation as much as I love the standalone MQ3 experience.
I found this to be a very odd and strange rant. The author's three issues with Apple are:
1. Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at the very least this has been Apple's stance for a very long time now (the author talks about faxing credit card details), so it's not like it's something new. If you wanted full unfettered installation rights, Apple was never the company for you. And while I think it's fine to argue against Apple's stance, I find most of the arguments are less than honest about the pros of things like developer verification for the end user.
2. mac OS26. I totally agree that this is a total fiasco from a design perspective, and liquid glass is unqualified shit. Still, I see Apple at least somewhat moving in the right direction by getting rid of Alan Dye.
3. Apple had a bug in their age verification protocol. Again, valid point, but Apple needs to follow UK law. I've seen a lot more missives arguing against requiring things like driver's licenses and other government ID, and so it seems like Apple is at least trying to go the least restrictive route by choosing credit card verification.
To emphasize, I'm not apologizing for Apple here. In particular, much has been written about how Apple has lost their way regarding the "it just works" philosophy. But it seems like the author's main beef is against Apple's level of control, and this is just a fundamental difference in Apple's stance that has existed for about 2 decades.
> Turing test ain't dead yet.
Only because people are lazy, and don't bother with a simple post-processing step: attach a bunch of documents or text snippets written by a human (whether yourself or, say, some respected but stylistically boring author), and ask the LLM to match style/tone.
Can you imagine being an engineer and working hard to create something new and cool and some jackass in marketing slaps the name “AGI CPU” on it?
If you have an emotional response to anything an agent or LLM does then you should lay off the sauce for a while and take a walk or something. This stuff is just dumb tech, no matter what the appearances and it does not warrant you getting emotionally invested in your interaction with it. It's a tool. Just like there is no point in getting upset at a hammer or a chainsaw. You are in control, you are the user.
It's not just software: I use my Vision Pro (now in year 3) less than once a month now, and each time I do the painful/awkward/unpleasant set-up and prep and difficult interface sours me on the device yet again, until a new blockbuster movie like "Project Hail Mary" appears that when watched on the VP in 4K on a virtual 40-foot screen blows my mind.
Not quite that scale, but this one is very impressive as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee
I drove out to see it when I lived in Canada, it is very hard to describe the incredible feeling of tinyness you have when you are out on the floor of what must have been the site of one of the most violent things to happen in relatively recent history.
As I mentioned on the Reddit thread,
This is quite understandable when you know the history behind how C++ coroutines came to be.
They were initially proposed by Microsoft, based on a C++/CX extension, that was inspired by .NET async/await implementation, as the WinRT runtime was designed to only support asynchronous code.
Thus if one knows how the .NET compiler and runtime magic works, including custom awaitable types, there will be some common bridges to how C++ co-routines ended up looking like.
I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Consider the possibility that your opinions are not universal.
A close family member did just that. They absolutely love history and are super well informed about lots of interesting subjects. The downside is it basically sets you up for becoming a history teacher and that's not the most rewarding career there is.
Yeah, a good opportunity to contribute upstream.
But that's not native. That's how videojs+HLS.js works, it plugs in the MSE to handle HLS.
Always jarring to see how Unity is stuck on an ancient version of C#. The use of IEnumerable as a "generator" mechanic is quite a good hack though.
> dotnet's HttpClient is... fine.
Yes, and it's in the standard library (System namespace). Being Microsoft they've if anything over-featured it.
Single-sign-on is actually useful.
Most of the rest of this stuff .. well, who is responsible if the laptop is compromised?
The trouble with sandboxing is that eventually everything you want to access ends up inside the sandbox. Otherwise the friction is infuriating.
I see people going in the opposite direction with "dump everything in front of my army of LLMs" setups. Horribly insecure, but gotta go fast, right?
Most of those cases turn out to be:
- ex-partner disputes involving harassment
- actual incitement to violence, like the hotel arson
And if you look at the actual convictions, first offense for most things is usually a suspended sentence. I'd be interested to see if you can find a case on bailii (no, not social media, actual court transcripts only) which matches:
- first offense custodial sentence
- one off post, not a pattern of harassment
- between strangers
- does not include even implied threats of violence
(Last one I can think of was the Robin Hood Airport one, which hinged on whether a joke threat to blow up an airport should have been taken seriously.)
Why would Microsoft ever do that?
WSL is already there for the folks that want to play with Linux.
FoundationDB has optional support for Swift, apparently very little work has been done pushing the rewrite forward during the last two years.
DR-DOS 5 was alright and Viewmax a nice way to manage files and directories.
You miss a big part of that cycle, incentives, meeting KPIs and OKRs, and who gets to gain from specific decisions being made.
Some of us have it legally via PS2Linux, naturally distribution isn't allowed.
I am having an identity crisis that thankfully is sorted out by being senior and close to retirement than early career days.
Since COVID I have seen teams scaled down, lots of custom development or devops/infra work work got replaced with SaaS and iPaaS cloud products, serverless/lambda, managed containers.
This is the next step.
Great that people feel more productive, unfortunely for many of them, us, more productivity means the C-suites can do some head count reduction yet again.
This is an excerpt from "Always/Never" from Sandia.[1]
During WW2, the British used Spitfires to shoot down V1s. The V1s, pushed by a simple pulse jet, I presume are much faster than the drones. So some WW2 aircraft could be re-armed and used to shoot them down cheaply.
The British also employed a belt of radar-guided flak guns to shoot them down.
I don't hear any comparisons with the V1s, so my idea must be stupid, but I'm not seeing the flaw in it.
Up from 35 years. Average age is currently 22, though. Air Force and Space force went to 42 years back in 2023. The Navy went to 42 years in early 2026.
Maximum age for the Marines remains 28 years.
With high youth unemployment [1], it ought to be easier to recruit.
The land war is getting closer. The Army's 82nd Airborne has been sent towards Iran. Possibly to take Kharg Island, one of the very few objectives for which an airdrop might possibly make sense.[1] Possibly. 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force is already on the way.
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLUEM1524ZSUSA
[2] https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-03-24-2026
It’s hilarious that the greenies who live in dense urban areas have a harder time charging their EV than folks who live in the burbs. I’m thinking of putting in a second EV charger so I can charge two cars at once.
800V to each rackmount unit, with hot plugging of rack units? That's scary. The usual setup at this voltage is that you throw a hulking big switch to cut the power, and that mechanically unlocks the cabinet. But that's not what these people have in mind. They want hot-plugging of individual rackmount units.
GE has a paper about the power conversion design, but it doesn't mention the unit to rack electrical and mechanical interface. Liteon is working on that, but the animation is rather vague.[2] They hint at hot plugging but hand-wave how the disconnects work. Delta offers a few more hints.[3] There's a complex hot-plugging control unit to avoid inrush currents on plug-in and arcing on disconnect. This requires active management of the switching silicon carbide MOSFETs.
There ought to be a mechanical disconnect behind this, so that when someone pulls out a rackmount unit, a shutter drops behind it to protect people from 800V. All these papers are kind of hand-wavey about how the electrical safety works.
Plus, all this is liquid-cooled, and that has to hot-plug, too.
[1] https://library.grid.gevernova.com/white-papers-case-studies...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQOreYMhe-M&
[3] https://filecenter.deltaww.com/Products/download/2510/202510...
"Brushless DC motors" are actually just AC synchronous motors.
DC is also much harder to switch than AC; the latter has zero-crossings which tend to extinguish any arcs that form, but DC will just keep going. Look at the DC vs AC ratings on switches and you'll see a huge difference.
A nice demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zez2r1RPpWY
A more detailed explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpzwR7wLeo
If you steal from the young for pensioners, you eventually run out of young people to pay for pensioners.
It's almost worth the experiment and your cables are a sacrifice I'm willing to make. For science, of course.
This older model has a micro-USB port that can be used with wired ethernet.
- i probably got 3 good videos out of 100 gens
My experience with AI image generation is similar, although with a higher success rate (depending on how accurate you want the result to be); but indeed, filtering is a major part of the process.
Should share this with the Strong Towns folks.
That's not why they got this.
In fact they precisely voted someone promising no more wars, no more foreign meddling, and so on.
And they'll get wars and the same shit after they vote the other way too. Just like they got wars under Obama.
No matter who they vote, the bastards always win.
>I was delighted to discover the hassle-free simplicity and dependability of digital photography, so it is a bit mind-boggling that people want to go back to the old way of doing things for their everyday snaps.
The OP didn't go "the old way". They made it even more about "hassle-free simplicity", with a digital Fuji that shoots great out-of-the-box colors that they don't correct.
That said, the problem with the "hassle-free simplicity and dependability of digital photography" is that it cheapens everything and takes the fun and skill out of it.
>LLMs 'learned' a lot of math and science in this way.
Did they? Or is it begging the question?
...and that passenger should also be actively looking around.
Original title “Britain responds to Iran war energy shock by requiring solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes” compressed to fit within title limits.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-i...
Tried to install a package with it, it failed.
Tried the same package with brew. Worked like a charm.
Uninstalled nanobrew.
Msot do, but Anthropic indicates that theirs is "is not considered a long-term or production-ready solution for most use cases" [0]; in any case, where the OpenAI-compatible API isn't the native API, both for cloud vendors other than OpenAI and for self-hosting software, the OpenAI-compatible API is often limited, both because the native API offers features that don't map to the OpenAI API (which a wrapper that presents an OpenAI-compatible API is not going to solve) and because the vendor often lags in implementing support for features in the OpenAI-compatible API—including things like new OpenAI endpoints that may support features that the native API already supports (e.g., adding support for chat completions when completions were the norm, or responses when chat completions were.) A wrapper that used the native API and did its own mapping to OpenAI could, in principle, address that.
>at least as far as how courts are concerned.
Courts would be the last place to understand something like code quality or software project value....
Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Virginia_Offshore_Wind
https://www.gem.wiki/Coastal_Virginia_Offshore_Wind_(CVOW)_C...