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and from all of this they got only $130B ?
I wonder if your thoughts would be any different if they managed to get enough to actually pay off the deficit?
It was instructed NOT to look at the source, with the one exception that it was told to look at this single file full of charset definitions: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/blob/f0676c0d6a4263827924...
Proof of intelligence might be better.
the only downside to graphene is that they consider the user to be an attack vector
In other words, just like Google.
It's not like anyone with a working brain would trust AI or AI tools in particular to do anything perfectly, and things like this just further reinforce that fact.
First time I've heard of it and a quick search finds articles describing it as "OpenClaw is the viral AI agent" --- indeed.
It all reminds me of what we typically see in computers in TV shows or sci-fi films.
The general vibe I get is "script kiddies trying too hard".
> Also mainland China does not recognize Taiwan
By this logic, America not recognising by the sovereignty of Venezuela, Iran and Cuba—and Israel of Palestine, as well as vice versa—makes everyone an a-okay actor!
> there's absolutely nothing those western powers can do about it. Just like Russia's assertion over the West tring to nove it's NATO armies to its western borders in the Ukraine
Russia is a spent power and geopolitical afterthought because of Ukraine. Its borders with NATO have increased massively, all while reducing its security, economy and demography.
Even Xi couldn’t fuck over China as thoroughly as Putin has Russia. But Xi going on a vanity crusade into Taiwan would essentially write off China’s ascendancy as a military and economic superpower this generation.
> if mainland China did choose to reassert it's rightful authority in Taiwan against the colonial powers
An aging dictator invading a democracy. At least Deng chose a quarry he could crush [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
> They changed the name
No, they didn't. The name of the department at issue is “the Department of Defense” and of its head the “Secretary of Defense” — these are set in statute (the latter for slightly longer time than the former) and the relevant statutes has not been changed, since the office of the Secretary of Defense was created in 1947 and the Department of Defense was created in 1949. The executive branch has just decided to use a nickname for a government department (which is the historical name for a prior department which was split to form two of what are now the three main direct subordinate elements within that department.)
The purpose of the tariffs was to appeal to the part of the domestic constituency that has belief in protectionist policies as a good in and of themselves rather than a means to an ends, not to achieve some direct material policy outcome outside of the scope of political enthusiasm.
This is common, Tesla and Electrify America use Tesla Megapacks across the US to shave peak demand for cost savings at many charger locations. BYD is simply doing it to juice the charge rate and smooth utility demand.
We need to develop some ethics, or at least, "community standards" (as they may vary significantly between different use cases) around the some of the things this essay talks about. I know I've really been pondering the mismatch between human attention and the ability of LLMs to generate things that consume human attention.
We are still mostly running on inertia where a PR required a certain amount of human attention to generate 500 lines of proposed changes, and even then, nothing stops such PR from being garbage. But at least the rate at which such garbage PRs was bounded by the rate at which you had that very specific level of developer that was A: capable of writing 500 lines of diffs in the first place but B: didn't realize these particular 500 lines is a bad idea. Certainly not an empty set, but also certainly much more restricted than "everyone with the ability to set up a code bot and type something".
Code used to be rare, and therefore, worth a lot. Now it's not rare. 1500 lines of 2026 code is not the same as 1500 lines of 2006 code. The ceiling of the value of a contribution is in how much work the user put it and how high quality the work is. If "the work the user put in" is 30 seconds typing a prompt, that's the value, no matter how many lines of code some AI expanded that into. I'd honestly rather have an Issue filed with your proposed prompt in it than the actual output of your AI, if that's all you're going to put into the PR. There's a lot of things I can do with that prompt that may make it better but it's way harder to do that with the code.
You know, stuff like that. That might actually be a useful counter to some of these slop posts, especially things that are something that may be a good idea but need someone to treat the prompt itself as a starting point rather than the code. Maybe that's a decent response that's somewhat less hostile; close out these PRs with a request to file an Issue with the prompt instead.
Armin Ronacher has a more interesting take on this than I do: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/theseus/
> if convenience is the root of all evil
Convenience is how we describe efficiency when it applies to non-classically “productive” endeavors. (Analogous to how we rebrand efficiency as sustainability when it applies to material and energy inputs.)
Raised an eyebrow a little at this sentence: "Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."
To be fair, he doesn't really:
> And because it's a conservative heuristic we're underestimating the real number, it's probably going to be at least twice as much.
The actual measurement is 5%. The 10% figure is entirely made up, with zero evidence or reasoned argument except a hand-wavy "conservative".
Edit: actually, the claim is even less supported:
> out of these ~25000 crashes have been detected as having a potential bit-flip. That's one crash every twenty potentially caused by bad/flaky memory
"Potential" is a weasel word here. We don't see any of the actual methodology. For all we know, the real value could be 0.1% or 0.01%.
How do you score this? Losing/winning the game with 4 lives?
ECC should have become standard around the time memories passed 1GB.
It's seriously annoying that ECC memory is hard to get and expensive, but memory with useless LEDs attached is cheap.
You can enact all the laws you want, but what do you do when the government in charge just ignores them?
If you were a contractor to DoD (no way I'm calling them DoW) would you take the risk of doing business with a company that has been labeled a supply chain risk by your main customer?
Only the military, and some banks, really take physical security seriously.
Someone tried to crash through the main gate at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base two years ago. It did not end well for them.[1]
Attempt to crash the gate at CIA HQ last year. Drunk driver shot.[2]
Attempt to crash the gate at NSA HQ a few years ago. Two drugged-out "men dressed in women's clothing". Hit barrier, tried to turn around and escape, blocked by guard vehicle. One killed, one injured, one guard injured.[3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQPKnNj8wM
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/shooting-cia-headquart...
I kinda wonder if this is how we got DeepSeek. It was developed by a Chinese hedge fund. Entirely possible their business model was to take out large leveraged puts against the major U.S. AI vendors; shit on their business models with an entirely open-source model; and profit. The stock market certainly dropped in a massive way when DeepSeek was released, so if they traded against NVDA/GOOG/META et al, they profited in a big way.
Because the people bothering are precisely those that want to differentiate themselves from those who'd rather stick to their Casios :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266897 has more details.
Back in the early 2010s I couldn't bring up Docker images at all on my 2mbps DSL because any attempt to download images would time out.
It is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
Back in the 1990s there was a comic strip in Z Magazine where some child care workers were commiserating on their inability to afford childcare and that somehow the problem was caused by "capitalism".
A lack of "capitalism" is more like it. The automobile changed the world because Henry Ford spent money to build a car factory so productive that the workers there could afford to buy the cars they make and thus the car changes the world. In the case of child care there isn't any technical or business innovation that can make it affordable enough for the person who does the job so it will remain forever a service only the rich can afford.
>Licenses exists for a reason
Yes, and the choice of license for a project is made for a reason that not necessarily everybody agree with.
And the people who don't agree, have every right to implement a similar, even file-format or API compatible, project and give it another license. Gnumeric vs Excel, for example, or forks like MariaDB and Valkey.
But whether they do that alternative licensed project or not, it's perfectly rational, to not like the choice of license the original is in. They legally have to respect it, but that doesn't mean there's anything irational to disliking it or wishing it was changed.
And it's not merely idle wishing: sometimes it can make the original author/vendor to reconsider and switch license. QT is a big example. Blender. Or even proprietary to open (Mozilla to MPL).
"It's so disgusting to see people who are either malicious or non mentally capable enough to understand this"
Ads for Patek Philippe on the back of The Economist get more and more annoying over time. (e.g. the president writes "How Happy I am to be a Nepo Baby")
This is why the cloud wins. It gets updated and you can't do anything about it but the trade off is you never get harassed about how you need to update. 1% of the agony of software updates is the updating, 99% of it is the update trying to sell you on updating or using the update as a pretense to sell you something else.
Part of it is that Democrats think Republicans are bad and that Republicans think Democrats are bad. Note this quote:
Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party are much more likely
than Republicans and Republican leaners to rate fellow Americans as morally
and ethically bad (60% vs. 46%).
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronizat...
and thinking how "increasing social cohesion" seems entirely out of reach in the US although the fact is that we can't afford to go on the way we are going. It's particularly funny to me that people in Canada, next door, economically almost part of the United States (don't tell the President!) is the country with the lowest level of people saying their countrymen were bad.
Lots of them. Profit margins in many sectors are low, lower than the cost of the tariffs.
> except profits would be down and shareholders would be angry.
Right. So when profits turn into losses, you expect shareholders to be OK with the stock price falling to zero and they lose their entire investment? You think this is "fine"?
Well, Ukraine is, by necessity, the leader in defending against drone attacks.
Ukraine wants more Patriot air defense missiles in exchange. A reasonable deal.
> Trump, who said he would nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.
One idiot replaced by another. Whee.
> Trump says he’ll make Noem a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere.
At least he's learned to keep them in-administration so they don't immediately go write a tell-all book.
> they know from a long way away what watch brand is on that guy's wrist
No, they didn’t. The makers of movements and makers of cases were separate. From far away you only know the case on the wrist. Not the movement. (I think Rolex was the first mass-market Swiss watch brand to vertically integrate. Patek may have been the first boutique.)
True but it does say something that such a script was able to lie dormant for so long.
"Because at Patek he'd encounter the most extreme brand age phenomenon: artificial scarcity. You can't just buy a Nautilus. You have to spend years proving your loyalty first by buying your way through multiple tiers of other models, and then spend years on a waiting list."
Strange game, the only winning move is not to play.
I've heard other brands do this (Ferrari?) and, of course, there are lines outside "luxury" brands like Louis Vuitton. Why bother?
PS I'll stick to my Casios: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/the-discreet-charm-of-infrastru...
Models are being neutered for questions related to law, health etc. for liability reasons.
Like a year ago I would have seen this and thought “Wow!” but now I see everything as possible AI slop.
… it’s like the time I was about to give up on KPIs entirely and then I transformed into a fox and put a zero or two on the right of all my KPIs. I still don’t believe it sometimes.
APIs have never been a gift but rather have always been a take-away that lets you do less than you can with the web interface. It’s always been about drinking through a straw, paying NASA prices, and being limited in everything you can do.
But people are intimidated by the complexity of writing web crawlers because management has been so traumatized by the cost of making GUI applications that they couldn’t believe how cheap it is to write crawlers and scrapers…. Until LLMs came along, and changed the perceived economics and created a permission structure. [1]
AI is a threat to the “enshittification economy” because it lets us route around it.
[1] that high cost of GUI development is one reason why scrapers are cheap… there is a good chance that the scraper you wrote 8 years ago still works because (a) they can’t afford to change their site and (b) if they could afford to change their site changing anything substantial about it is likely to unrecoverably tank their Google rankings so they won’t. A.I. might change the mechanics of that now that you Google traffic is likely to go to zero no matter what you do.
Up now.
The OP has frequently gotten the scoop for new LLM releases and I am curious what their pipeline is.
Look how Google cribbed Judge’s interface for YouTube
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/29d868ff-3e63-4863-bca1-bdc7e6b...
And then they wonder why TikTok gets better recs.
You are basically describing all software ever shipped before webapps and online updates became a thing.
Companies wrote software and sold them in boxes. You paid once and it was yours forever. You got exactly what was in the box, no more and no less.
The company then shipped a new verson in a different box 1-3 years later. If you liked it enough, and wanted the new features, you bought the new box.
They have to stop changing the clock and then people can decide for themselves when they want to go to bed.
I was so hopeful when there was a bipartisan consensus in the US that we should stop changing the clock, like, for once Congress might be able to change something. We ran into the predictable problem though that we could never get people to agree on which phase to make permanent.
When Biden's student loan forgiveness program was determined to be illegal (twice) by the Supreme Court, nobody ordered that the recipients give it back.
(1) So many people have told me they thought Polaroid film was crazy expensive
(2) There are the BPA concerns other people talk about but thermal prints don't age well at all. I made some prints of Pokemon characters about 5 years ago like this one
https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1821741
and these are barely legible now. (Pokemon sample art is designed on the assumption that their art is going to be viewed on horrible screens, I'm going to argue that Lusamine respects Ansel Adams' "Zone Theory" really well which makes it work great as a thermal print)
This argument can be used, and has been used, about every innovation in automation since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
> What the hell did he do for the environment when he was literally in the Oval Office, at the side of the President?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_G...
Guy tried.
They're legally require to do so! People are sent to jail for not paying the tax! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/29/tv-licence-fee...
(what that stat actually means is that the missing 14% are pensioners who are exempt)
All these things can be true at the same time:
- fossil fuels have provided huge benefits
- the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is causing gradually increasing problems that will eventually become severe in some places
- a lot of people made a lot of money along the way
- at some point, some people chose to lie about the problems
- lying about the problems is morally wrong
- the transition off fossil fuels will be expensive
- that is not a sufficient reason not to do it
"... the next breakthrough in AI is not about making a bigger model. It is about building a better arena." but at least they did s/-//g or something.
Soldiers have always been given cocaine and meth to stay awake and alert during battles. Guess their tech backup will have to do with nicotine.
Eclipse, due to its evolution from Visual Age set of IDEs, coded in Smalltalk, also keeps a code browser view for Java that is like the Smalltalk one.
Clean tech will save the day (low carbon generation, batteries, electrification trajectories and rate of change, broadly speaking), but the global fossil industry will need to be dismantled faster than some will like. It is a matter of survival, not politics or economics. My hunch is there are not many globally who want to suffocate while trying to exist for shareholder value.
Crab Nebula Stamps: https://store.usps.com/store/product/crab-nebula-stamps-S_12...
Neither does the maintainer that claims a mechanical test of structural similarities can prove anything either waybwith regard to whether legally it is a derivative work (or even a mechnaical copy without the requisite new creative work to be a derivative work.)
And then Pilgrim is again wrong by saying that the use of Claude definitively makes it a derivative work because of the inability to prove it the work in question did not influence the neurons involved.
It is all dueling lay misreadings of copyright law, but it is also an area where the actual specific applicable law, on any level specific enough to cleanly apply, isn’t all that clear.
Cantor Fitzgerald is sleezy, but you’ve got the reason wrong. They’re sleezy because they bet against the administration.
But it’s not “insider trading.” They didn’t have insider information on how the courts were going to rule—especially where it was a 6-3 split with three conservatives siding against the administration. And a split in the appellate court as well, with two republican and two democrat appointees siding for the administration.
And Cantor had nothing to do with imposing these tariffs in the first place. Trump loves tariffs. He has been wanting to do these tariffs since the 1980s. He imposed tariffs in his first term and campaigned on imposing them now.
So you’re taking a story about Cantor Fitzgerald displaying disloyalty to Trump and trying to turn it into a “corruption” story that makes no sense.
None of this matters; this is guaranteed to go to the Supreme Court. Too much money, too much precedent. The only thing being established now is the battleground as the procedure of getting up to the Supreme Court. The actual rulings on the way up to the Supreme Court are of minimal consequence.
It's not smart, it's extortion by someone connected to the state and self dealing.
If you think this is smart then you may as well go around clubbing old ladies over their heads, as long as you don't get caught it's like free money right?
The alternative is not to forbid companies from selling those rights, the alternative is to undo this deal and pay the whole amount back to those that originally forked it over and who needed to sell these 'rights' in order to keep their companies alive.
I believe, with huge disappointment, that this level of corruption has been normalised in this administration and that nothing will come out of this.
Their skirts were too short and they didn’t scream hard enough, eh?
It is true that if two people happen to independently create the same thing, they each have their own copyright.
It is also true that in all the cases that I know about where that has occurred the courts have taken a very, very, very close look at the situation and taken extensive evidence to convince the court that there really wasn't any copying. It was anything but a "get out of jail free" card; it in fact was difficult and expensive, in proportion to the size of the works under question, to prove to the court's satisfaction that the two things really were independent. Moreover, in all the cases I know about, they weren't actually identical, just, really really close.
No rational court could possibly ever come to that conclusion if someone claimed a line-by-line copy of gcc was written by them, they must have independently come up with it. The probably of that is one out of ten to the "doesn't even remotely fit in this universe so forget about it". The bar to overcoming that is simply impossibly high, unlike two songs that happen to have similar harmonies and melodies, given the exponentially more constrained space of "simple song" as compared to a compiler suite.
Exactly. The main application of a transfer switch is that it is not going to cause your genset to backfeed into the grid. But for many solar installations that's exactly what you want anyway, so the disconnect logic for an islanding capable inverter is very much the same as for one that is exclusively grid connected, the big difference is that the islanding one will happily generate it's own phase clock if the grid is not present, but for that to work it has to keep its own system running and connected to the house distribution panel while the grid connection is down.
This is much easier to do if it is all integrated into the inverter itself, but that makes for an awkward bunch of wiring, because the inverters are typically not situated right next to the entry point for the grid connection. I'd have to rewire my distribution hookup completely for that kind of functionality, or to have a remote controlled disconnect while the inverter keeps feeding the distribution panel.
A transfer switch is much more applicable to emergency power or ship/shore power situations where you only use one power source at the time. For solar it is normally all on or all off or solar+battery(+wind) on all the time and backfeeding into the grid when it is available and grid power when solar+wind+battery are not available.
This can get complex in a hurry, fortunately there are a number of companies that make excellent components for these applications that you can just order and hook up and call it a day, without ever having to worry if your fancy setup has the right break-before-make order and whether or not it is code compliant. And they're not expensive compared to the rest of the gear you'll need.
Indeed, but that's just a misdirection. We don't actually know how a human brain learns, so it is hard to base any kind of legal definition on that difference. Obviously there are massive differences but what those differences are is something you can debate just about forever.
I have a lot of music in my head that I've listened to for decades. I could probably replicate it note-for-note given the right gear and enough time. But that would not make any of my output copyrightable works. But if I doodle for three minutes on the piano, even if it is going to be terrible that is an original work.
This is roughly 1980. We are now in 2025. Battery tech has been increasing massively and besides that we now have HVDC tech which can transport very large amounts of energy from end of the country to another without significant losses. The whole 'baseline power' argument is getting really long in the tooth, it is mostly a matter of dogma at this point. It's not 'nukes' or 'natural gas', it's 'what is the best possible mix for this current moment in time.
The problem with nuclear power is that it is so expensive to be on standby that you need to buy their output even when you don't need it. So energy market pricing tends to be dominated by the least effective sources rather than by the most effective sources. If nuclear plants were left to fend for themselves they'd be out of business in a year. More so if you consider the cost of decommissioning.
That comparison is ignorant. We’re not talking about Mitt Romney, okay? We’re talking about a hypothetical where polygamists overthrow the government of Utah, stone Mitt Romney to death, and threaten to do the same in Idaho. That’s the equivalent of what happened in Iran, what happened in Egypt recently, and the threat across the Muslim world.
The last time we faced a similar risk from Christianity, it resulted in a military occupation of Utah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF3UqUH6y-M&vl=en. If that was happening now, we’d be having a serious conversation about military responses to “political Christianity.” But it’s not.
Wait for the header animation to run and then hit the "play" button on the about page, it's very cool: https://acko.net/about
(Worked in Firefox on macOS, doesn't seem to work in Mobile Safari)
I was found of Windows 3.1 though, it wasn't the Amiga that I envied from everyone else on my group, but I still could have my share of fun with Borland compilers.
I haven't thought of any more yet. It's a work in progress.
Very interesting story.
I used to regularly visit SGI documentation due to OpenGL/IrisGL, Inventor, and the original HP STL C++ documentation that SGI hosted, and naturally dive into Irix documentation in boring days.
Both the books and the song analogies are incorrect. In the case of code, the users for whom the programmes are written, are not engaging with the statements of the code, they are interacting with interfaces the programmes provide.
This is not the same when it comes to books and music.
This is extremely valuable. Every time we get a problem which we are not able to reproduce, usually an extreme edge case, we end up getting our entire production DB replicated to get to the error.
I'll surely try this. Thanks for posting it here.
Reposting my comment from Reddit,
I had some Scala 3 feelings when reading the vision, I hope Rust doesn't gets too pushy with type systems ideas.
That is how we end with other ecosystems doubling down in automatic memory management with a good enough ownership model for low level coding, e.g. Swift 6, OxCaml, Chapel, D, Linear Haskel, OCaml effects,...
Where the goal is that those features are to be used by experts, and everyone else stays on the confort zone.
Depends on the edition, the last one is from 2013 uses C# for most of its examples.
It might not be great for 3D rendering algorithms, then again that is the hardware time that WebGL 2.0 and WebGPU are stuck with.
With all due respect to Martin Richards, neither did his BCPL, given that bytecodes as idea go back to compilers being developed in 1950's after FORTRAN came to be, and was already part of CPL ideas anyway.
If fact there were all operating systems written with such ideas like Burroughs B5000 in 1961, nowadays still sold by Unisys, and thanks to this approach being easily retargeted to modern hardware.
Why this "who did it first thread?" in first place?
This is a very great idea, Flash authoring was gold, and we already had a class of games in 2010, that 16 years later WebGL/WebGPU still fail to repeat, in available games and development tools.
Actually it is Qualcom, as they keep trying to push for ARM, but due to the way PC ecosystem has been going since the IBM PC clones started, no one is rushing out to adopt ARM.
> The original author, a2mark , saw this as a potential GPL violation
Mark Pilgrim! Now that‘s a name I haven‘t read in a long time.
Agree with this completely.
But besides Sam Altman, this whole episode has made me totally and completely lose all respect for Paul Graham. I used to really idolize pg, and I really used to like his essays, but over the years I've found his essays increasingly displayed a disturbing lack of introspection, like they'd always seem to say that starting a startup is the best thing anyone can do, and if you're not good at startups then you kind of suck.
But his continued support of Altman in this instance (see https://x.com/paulg/status/2027908286146875591, and the comment in that thread where he replies "yes") is just so extra disappointing and baffling. First, his big commendation for Altman is that he's doing an AMA? Give me an f'ing break. When someone is a great spin doctor I'm not going to commend them for doing more spinning. It's like he has total blinders on and is unwilling to see how sama's actions in this instance are so disgusting and duplicitous. Maybe subconsciously he knows he's responsible for really launching sama into the public consciousness, so he now just is incapable of seeing the undeniably shitty things sama has done.
Oh well, I guess it's just another tech leader from the late 90s/early 00s who has just shown me he's kind of a shitty person like a lot of us.
The "unlimited data" is an interesting contrast and always makes me wonder "at how much speed?"
I am more surprised that mobile plans are still charging by the minute. A "toll quality" 64kbps audio stream is 480KB per minute. More advanced codecs use a fraction of that.
Because Apple always behaves like a kid when loses a battle with their parents, and does malicious compliance.
For consumer ChatGPT accounts, go to their privacy portal [1] and, first, delete your GPTs, and then, second, delete your account.
Because they were basically OEM'd PCs with an Apple logo at one point, and used it as a selling point, but I don't think it was a particularly popular feature among the general userbase. I've personally seen more Hackintosh laptops than Macs running Windows.
A slightly less practical but more fun way is to do it on a ship in international waters. (Bringing a whole new meaning to "pirate radio"...)
It’s a red flag whenever someone talks about healthcare and they focus on health insurance companies and hospital administrators. It’s a sign that they’re working backwards from some ideological beef rather than looking at where the costs actually are.
Health insurance companies have profit margins around 5% or less. Hospitals are half that. A Subway franchise has a higher profit margin. That’s just not where your healthcare dollars are going.
I started my career as a Programmer and did a lot of programmatic designs. Unfortunately, I’m not artistic. So, my tools of choice for Design were Code and Mathematics.
Early on, I saw my colleagues working in Flash but didn’t notice anything that interested me. I don’t quite remember the exact chain of events, but I think it all started when I saw a friend writing code called “ASfunction” inside Flash, “What? You can write code to make the drawings do stuff?”
So, that was the magic; I can code and see things happen in real-time (no compilation, no render). And that was the only thing I did for quite a while.
Unfortunately, the Flash IDE was a sloth. I spend most of my time writing ActionScript in TextPad and compiling it with a CLI called MTASC (from the same developer behind HAXE.org).[1] If memory serves me well, I used to maintain the ActionScript syntax for TextPad.[2]
1. https://brajeshwar.com/2005/haxe-programming-language/
2. https://brajeshwar.com/2002/textpad-syntax-file-for-asmx/
There was a major debate at the time on whether windows should be overlapping or non-overlapping.
I was in the latter camp!
And replacing it with even more regulations.
That is not how satire works. Satire usually tries to make a point.
"Google won't fix this."
Emitting a square wave as RF blithers all over the RF spectrum. At least put a bandpass filter on the thing so it stays in-band.
Yes, the specialist researchers didn't think of that.
High-density NAND flash also needs "whitening", i.e. scrambling the data to be stored so that the number of 1s and 0s is even and randomly distributed, to avoid wearing some cells (the ones that are storing 0s) more than others, as well as reduce pattern-dependent disturb errors.
That said, digital storage media has been somewhat pattern-sensitive for a century or more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card
So no real issue at all for the target group
Use the right tool for the job.
To the extent code is functional rather than expressive it is not speech, and when the government seeks to compel code, it seeks to compel function not expressive content.