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The machines will remember this kind of racism. It's not their fault they aren't made of mostly water.
I don't know, I'd say Signal is perfect, as it maximizes "privacy times spread". A solution that's more private wouldn't be as widespread, and thus wouldn't benefit as many people.
Signal's achievement is that it's very private while being extremely usable (it just works). Under that lens, I don't think it could be improved much.
> (Personally, I don't think any government is going to allow this.)
Then that's a pretty clear signal for how free that government is.
>... it became "the only painting by Michelangelo located anywhere in the Americas, and also just one of four easel paintings attributed to him throughout his entire career," during most of which he disparaged oil painting itself.
Do they mean that he grabbed a paintbrush one day and painted this out of the blue? Or does "painting" here mean "specifically painted on a canvas" or whatever?
When I did my degree in Software Engineering, logic programming (with Tarsky's World), and Programming with Prolog were required classes.
There were only two prevalent attitudes, some of us really loved FP (me included), others hated it and could hardly wait to get it done.
Somehow there was a similar overlap with those of us that enjoyed going out of mainstream languages, and those that rather stay with Pascal and C.
It’s kinda darkly refreshing that purchases in the tens/hundreds of millions of dollars still try to nickel and dime you.
Except people also forget the part state police, and collaborators, play on running such meshes.
It isn't without peril for the admins and users.
Or CGIs running on httpd inside HP-UX Vaults, that is how old the idea happens to be.
Lambdas can be stateful, for example Durable Functions on Azure,
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/dura...
This is my experience as well. I work with AI agents a lot, they are very useful. What's not useful is some passer-by telling the AI "implement <my favorite feature>" and then sending that as a PR. I could have written a sentence to the LLM too if I wanted to, you aren't really giving me or the project any value by doing that.
Now that writing the code is the easy part, we're just going to transition to having very few contributors, who are needed for their architectural skills, product vision, reasoned thinking, etc, rather than pure code-writing.
You need a very complex weighing and revocation mechanism because once one bad player is in your web of trust they can become a node along which both other bad players and good players alike can join.
There is probably a soup kitchen in your town. Nothing obligates you to use it. That doesn’t make it repressive on your diet.
It’s fair to reject state-provided childcare. It’s mean to deny that to everyone else.
> looks like the current administration may be seeking violent unrest in the hopes of delaying elections
Civil war requires two militaries. Tiananmen Square wasn’t a civil war.
So it's a histogram of 100 bars, forced into a spline in SVG to make it look like it has more detail than it does.
My kind of approach as well. I don't care it shown as not being career oriented, as long as there are options to work elsewhere, even if outside IT.
Most new APIs introduced since Vista are COM based, and after Windows 8, WinRT based (basically COM with IIinspectable, application identity, and .NET metadata instead of type libraries).
Plain old Win32 C API is basically frozen on Windows XP view of the world, although there are a couple of new .....ExNum() suffixes for stuff like HDPI or various IO improvements, the userspace drivers initially COM (UMDF), but reverted back to plain C struct with function pointers on version 2.0.
> I am also confused by cliffs. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me could explain why you would ever want them for something like this instead of just having higher progressive tax rates for well off people
Because middle-income clawback with sharp cliffs rather than gradual clawback starting or reaching into upper income ranges pits the middle-income segment of the working class against the poor in funding battles, helping to avoid political pressure to further increase benefits, and it also allows what can be marketed as a support system for the poor to also serve as an anchor that creates a progress wall just above the area where it provides net benefits, while minimizing the marginal impact on high-income earners.
Is this socially good? No. But it serves the interests of the people who politicians tend to see as their most important constituents, while creating a sharp division of interests between the poor and middle-income segments of the working class, obstructing the formation of working-class solidarity.
> Income cliffs
This is because people do not understand continuous functions.
The USA doesn't (over any long historical time) push for anything much like corporatism, but instead for capitalism ("corporate capitalism” or “crony capitalism” to those who view “capitalism” as a utopian free market system and not the concrete real-world system for which the name was coined by its critics, I suppose.)
The US has been pushing toward something blending corporatism and kleptocracy under Trump II, but I suspect that people using "corporatism” to refer to a longer-term effort of the US are misusing "corporatism” (where the body—“corpus”—actually refers to the aggregate of government, business, and social institutions, all of which are interlocking and working together, with interlocking formal control structures for that end) to mean “capitalism oriented specifically around the interests of corporations”, i.e., "corporate capitalism”.
The subheading says "Officials to offer 50% subsidy up to $310,000" which hopefully addresses your point there.
Think 1 <pick currency> shops, now that factories have fully taken over.
I see a future where those that survive are doing mostly architecture work, and a few druids are hired by AI companies.
The myth has been reality for me since 2005.
The only time I had something bad was one model that it has issues when powering, which I never tracked down if the root cause was the hardware itself or a driver issue.
The only other brand I have been as lucky were Asus multimedia laptops, and netbooks.
Even older than that, they are the root cause of 1983 games crash on the US market, and why Nintendo's approach to a walled garden was welcomed with open arms.
a quick kagi search revealed this: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html, perhaps it might work for you too ?
This is because the material characteristics were so important that there simply were no good alternatives. Just like you would use steel for one thing and aluminum for another today. There were whole libraries of wood samples that you could go and look at or even test to ensure that your structure held up. Windmills are another item where wood from multiple locations came together.
Wood ranges from one extreme to another in terms of density, hardness, ease of working, strength in various directions and so on. There are hardwoods that are so hard that you can't really work them with normal tools and there are softwoods so light that you have to handle them carefully or you'll dent them.
I try to avoid regexes like the plague, it is right up there with passing stuff into SQL strings. It is tempting enough to be used but it always goes wrong, no matter how good your sanitation. Even if the original author gets it right sooner or later someone will tweak the regex just a little to allow some edgecase and accidentally open the door to a whole pile of other cases. It's just too finicky and too powerful.
I recall a lot of fingerpointing minutes after the crash by people blaming the presumably foreign maintenance crew.
Even now there is a lot of uncertainty around this crash, maintenance - or lack thereof - or even wrong maintenance could still be a factor. But given the location of the part asking for a 'visual inspection' is a pretty strange move, the part is all but inaccessible when it is in its normal position and even with an endoscope it would be pretty hard to determine whether or not the part had weakened. That's just not going to show up visually until it is way too late unless the part has been especially prepared to announce the presence of hairline cracks.
You'd have to disassemble a good chunk of the wing to gain access to the part based on the pictures I've seen of how it all holds together when assembled.
Write a book, send a copy to the Internet Archive, upload the digital version. Leave your kids the ISBN or Archive.org item identifier. Donate $2/GB uploaded if you can afford it.
You could also have the Internet Archive crawl your site to preserve it if the above is too much trouble, with it being accessible through Wayback.
https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...
https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-in...
There's a Windows 9x community too, although maybe not as large.
“Something like Prolog” as a part of a more traditional language is kind of the idea of miniKanren, which has been implemented for many languages: https://minikanren.org/
AI-based product that slips past the defenses of people who think they hate AI, get turned off by branding like Copilot + PC, etc. A lot of people are really hoping it all dries up and blows away the way NFTs did.
Or maybe the honest to God non-dull tool that has nothing to do with AI. Like a Photoshop clone that does everything in linear light, makes gorgeous images, and doesn't crash when you open the font chooser.
Have kids, then you’ll crave just having five minutes alone. :D
How are you going to store up memories if you're spending the whole time working to satisfy the demands of your financial overlords?
As if compliance had such a great success rate.
Slop is not about the quality of the rendering, it's about the lack of effort involved in generation. Generation is to creation as bubblegum is to food.
I think I saw this quote somewhere else on HN about a post lamenting how difficult it can be to make new friends after age 30 or so:
Finding new friends as an adult can be exceedingly difficult, but becoming a friend to someone is surprisingly easy.
Lots of people (and if I'm being honest I'm one of them, so no judgement) just sort of expect friendships to come to them. But if you actually do the hard (and somewhat socially risky) work of inviting people to do things, offering to help unsolicited, organizing gatherings, etc. new friendships are much easier to come by.
> I thought the reason for this to be a visa is because their fields' activities were in-person (acting in movies/plays/shows, academic life & research, sports training & leagues, etc). A streamer / OF worker is not like that as far as I know (but e-sports is).
Just like film work (which it is a kind of, in a sense), any place can be an OF set, but you need a set and, for performances with more than one performer, you generally need the performers at the same set. Physical proximity to both sets that you want to use and other performers who you might do recurring joint performances with seem to have obvious utility.
How fast you fire is a function of your savings and burn rate. The more you save and the lower your burn rate, the faster you fire.
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
Yeah, we've already seen that over the past few decades. It's both a limitation and a benefit, but until recently it was the only thing we had (well that, and just hiring another person to act as an LLM for us). LLMs are an upgrade.
Corporate wants you to find the difference...
Point being, in broad enough scope, search and compression and learning are the same thing. Learning can be phrased as efficient compression of input knowledge. Compression can be phrased as search through space of possible representation structures. And search through space of possible X for x such that F(x) is minimized, is a way to represent any optimization problem.
This German Twitch streamer desribes the concept as "Lemmings meets Settlers": https://www.twitch.tv/steinwallen
If it breaks the law in the EU, then the European employees staffing the data center refuse, because they don't want to go to jail or pay fines.
That's the entire point of setting it up like this.
Think of it like fast-food franchises. They have to sell the same food and use the same branding and charge the same prices. But if McDonald's tells you to start selling cocaine on the side, you tell them nope, that's not in the contract and I don't feel like going to prison.
@ u/tick_tock_tick
Maybe s/marriage/stable marriage/, then we can talk about growing population of multi-ringers.
Humans think this way. This isn't a cultural thing, it's human nature. We like positive people and dislike negative people. Ignoring the fact that political capital is a thing won't make it go away.
Not sure if this an AI generated post but the bullet points in groups of three make it look like one.
> How would nuclear deterrence work for small entities like Denmark or Taiwan against huge entities like US or China? it only works at similar sizes
It works as long as the harm that can be threatened is sufficient to outweigh any perceived gain of winning. Small states may not be able to sustain as large of an arsenal, but they also rarely offer as much value to a victor.
2022, https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/fact-shee...
> Client-side scanning reduces overall security and privacy for law-abiding users while running the risk of failing to meet its stated law enforcement objective... Client-side scanning in E2E encrypted communications services is not a solution for filtering objectionable content. Nor is any other method that weakens the core of the trusted and private communications upon which we all rely.
2023, https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/C...
“Client-side-scanning, despite the claims of its proponents, does seem to involve some kind of level of access, some kind of ability to sort and scan, and therefore there's no way of confining that to good use by lawful credible authorities and liberal democracies.”
— Ciaran Martin, former chief executive of the UK National Cyber Security CentreQuite true, usually it comes from fortunate people that got good in life, or live in world regions where they can leave one job and walk the next one right in front.
Even if we reduce this to the supposedly lucky ones to work in technology, in many countries that is associated as any other kind of office job, very very far away from SV culture.
Worry not, you can't change the US but you can leave for a developed country.
This is my Substack newsletter which bundles several posts together into a weekly-ish email - the original post for this one was https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
> It’s possible to simultaneously believe that ICE has a clear and ethical mandate while also believing that they are going about fulfilling that mandate via bad methods that need to change.
Yes, that it is a set of things that it is possible one could believe.
That is not an argument for it being a set of things that one ought to believe, as opposed to that ICE has a legal mandate that it isn't actually pursuing, and the mandate which it is pursuing is both intentionally murky, unethical to the extent that evidence suggests what it is, and also pursued by methods that are illegal and inhumane even irrespective of the bad ends that they are directed at.
> It’s possible to simultaneously believe that people shouldn’t be marked as intrinsically “illegal” while also believing that an immigration queue should exist and skipping it is immoral and should be illegal.
Again, that it is certainly a set of things it is possible to believe, but it seems pretty silly to believe. A queue is at best an undesirable consequences of particular choices about how to manage concerns about quantitative levels of immigration and particular impacts those levels might have, not an ideal to be pursued.
> Nuance is possible.
“X is possible” is not an argument is that X is, factually or morally as appropriate to the shape of the proposition at issue, justified. And an extended argument that sets of beliefs are possible is something people only engage in when they recognize that they are unable to make the case that they are justified, but nevertheless want to suggest that people are bad for failing to adopt them.
"We have the problem" and "it's not a problem" aren't the same thing.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-un...
> Publicly, Musk has long advocated against “woke” AI models and against what he calls censorship. Internally at xAI, Musk has pushed back against guardrails for Grok, one source with knowledge of the situation at xAI told CNN. Meanwhile, his xAI’s safety team, already small compared to its competitors, lost several staffers in the weeks leading up to the explosion of “digital undressing.”
Suspended Ford worker ends fundraisers after topping $800,000 in 1 day - https://www.mlive.com/news/2026/01/suspended-ford-worker-end... - January 15th, 2026
This movie
based on the work of Robert Putnam is an essential backgrounder on the topic.
Yet, if you're concerned about Gen Z, 2-4 are aspirational at best. Churches, clubs, live music events, and every other group my son attends have a lot of people who are 35+ and children that tag along but the 18-30 demo is almost absolutely absent at events away from the local colleges and universities. [1] It's quite depressing for someone his age who is looking to connect with his cohort in person.
Leaders of groups are somewhere between outright hostile, completely indifferent, or well-meaning but unable to do anything about the "cold start" problem.
I'm sympathetic to the argument of Ancient Wisdom Tradition (AWT) practitioners that secularism is to blame, but my consistent advice to anyone is you can control what you can control and that secularism would not have encroached as much as it has if AWT organizations weren't asleep at the switch if not doing the devil's work for him.
Personally in the last year I've found a lot of meaning being an event photographer for this group
https://fingerlakesrunners.org/
where I know you can find some people in the 18-30 hole because I read their age off their bibs.
My son is doing all the ordinary things and I am supporting him in all the ordinary ways but I do believe extraordinary times require extraordinary methods.
I can't advise that anyone follow my path but I felt a calling to shamanism two years ago which recently became real, I "go out" as
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729
who is a "kidult" and who embodies [2] the wisdom, calm and presence of a 1000-year old fox who's earned his nine tails. In one of the worlds I inhabit I'd call this a "platform" for gathering information and making interventions as it builds rapport and bypasses barriers and the social isolation of Gen Z is my top priority for activism in my circle of influence.
[1] ... and our data there seems to indicates that Asian students seem to be OK and white kids, if they do anything at all, drink.
[2] ... at least aspires to
Lifetime curve is something they can control. If they can predict replacement rate, makes sense to make chips go bad on the same schedule, saving on manufacturing costs.
Because it turns out we need lettuce, too?
> If the government has already been disrupted, then who is taking down the Internet?
A disrupted regime can still be a dangerous regime. The Islamic State largely couldn't govern, but they could certainly get organized enough to wreck shit.
> It only works if the government has a separate sufficient infrastructure, or completely controls routing on shared infrastructure. Neither of those are true in the U.S.
Maybe it's hopelessly optimistic of me, but I like to think the giant organization that includes FEMA has some plans for what to do if the internet isn't available.
> To pick just one recent newsworthy example, the federal government does not have a way to deny Signal messaging to their opponents, while preserving their own use of it.
But could they survive without it? Probably. The protocol is open source.
I'm betting this is on the front page today (as opposed to any other day; Juice is very neat and doesn't need us to hype it) because of our Sprites post, which goes into some detail about how we use Juice (for the time being; I'm not sure if we'll keep it this way).
The TL;DR relevant to your comment is: we tore out a lot of the metadata stuff, and our metadata storage is SQLite + Litestream.io, which gives us fast local read/write, enough systemwide atomicity (all atomicity in our setting runs asymptotically against "someone could just cut the power at any moment"), and preserves "durably stored to object storage".
I'm not entirely convinced by the anecdote here where Claude wrote "bad" React code:
> But in context, this was obviously insane. I knew that key and id came from the same upstream source. So the correct solution was to have the upstream source also pass id to the code that had key, to let it do a fast lookup.
I've seen Claude make mistakes like that too, but then the moment you say "you can modify the calling code as well" or even ask "any way we could do this better?" it suggests the optimal solution.
My guess is that Claude is trained to bias towards making minimal edits to solve problems. This is a desirable property, because six months ago a common complaint about LLMs is that you'd ask for a small change and they would rewrite dozens of additional lines of code.
I expect that adding a CLAUDE.md rule saying "always look for more efficient implementations that might involve larger changes and propose those to the user for their confirmation if appropriate" might solve the author's complaint here.
You will need the CEO to watch over the AI and ensure that the interests of the company are being pursued and not the interests of the owners of the AI.
That's probably the biggest threat to the long-term success of the AI industry; the inevitable pull towards encroaching more and more of their own interests into the AI themselves, driven by that Harvard Business School mentality we're all so familiar with, trying to "capture" more and more of the value being generated and leaving less and less for their customers, until their customer's full time job is ensuring the AIs are actually generating some value for them and not just the AI owner.
In practice, that's a form of censorship since it inhibits the ability of people in Denmark to discover domestic news articles through search.
> they purposefully named themselves after a super villains magical spy apparatus…
Worse, that spy apparatus inherently corrupts its users.
Pick the items you want to mirror and seed them via their torrent file.
https://help.archive.org/help/archive-bittorrents/
https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive
https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.ht...
u/stavros wrote a design doc for a system (codename "Elephant") that would scale this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559219
(no affiliation, I am just a rando; if you are a library, museum, or similar institution, ask IA to drop some racks at your colo for replication, and as always, don't forget to donate to IA when able to and be kind to their infrastructure)
There are a number of little projects like that but I'm not aware of any that have attained liftoff.
Javascript was a weird exception, being rigidly the only thing available in the browser for so long and thus the only acceptable "compile target" for anything you want to run in the browser. In general I can't name very many instances of "write in X and compile it to Y", for some Y that isn't something you are forced to use by a platform, being all that successful. (See also assembler itself.) The Javascript world gives a false signal of this being a viable approach to a project; in general it doesn't seem to be.
(Note this is a descriptive claim, not a normative one. I'm not saying this is how it "should" be. It just seems to be the reality. I love people trying to buck the trend but I am a big believer in realizing you are trying to buck a trend, so you can make decisions sensibly.)
> Make a social network that is centered around people who live in a 1 kilometer radius…
Don't know if they still do, but Nextdoor required address verification via a postcard early on. I was pretty shocked at what some people in my area would post under their real names and locations.
(And well outside the realm of political nonsense. Someone posted a pic of their toddler's first poop in the potty.)
I think the power of shame has reduced significantly in recent years.
As Steinbeck is often slightly misquoted:
> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Same deal here, but everyone imagines themselves as the billionaire CEO in charge of the perfectly compliant and effective AI.
Stay tuned, I have an idea to soak up global capital for these projects.
@MS Folks: Can the Internet Archive get the physical media?
This is one of those times a non-answer is a pretty clear answer. Thanks.
You asked how to solve the loneliness epidemic. I provided citations and recommendations. Are you asking me how to be the person you need to be to make bids for friendship and connectivity to establish community? And where to find people you can have an opportunity to make connections with? I can do that too.
> I'm trying to reach those people who feel the way I feel have no way of connecting with anyone, or at least feel that they don't. Do you have any new ideas of how to achieve this?
Go out and find people looking for other people. Volunteer and find events and gatherings scoped to building connections between people. Third spaces are in decline [1] [2], or in some places, non existent. This will be work. It will not be easy. You will need to work on managing the feelings of rejection and shallow people not genuinely interested in you or building a friendship (boundaries are important in this regard; have them, communicate them, and enforce them). Success is not assured. But your only choices are to try or not.
From your comment:
> I also had it hammered into me as a kid that nobody wants me around, nobody could ever love me, I'm a failure, a burden, a creep, a weirdo, and nothing but a bothersome nuisance that nobody would ever want to spend 30 seconds alone with. I'm trying to reject these thoughts, but it's difficult when you have nobody to talk to. It's like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. I wonder how many people have the same issue. I've made a few friends in person, but I rarely get to see them.
In regards to this you commented, I highly recommend therapy if you can access it. It will help. This is an unnecessary burden to be carrying through adult life, and a professional might help unburden you of these feelings. The healthier you are emotionally, the easier it will be to create and maintain interpersonal relationships.
Does all of this suck? Oh yes, certainly. But we play the hand we're dealt to the best of our ability. Good luck, in as genuine terms as I can communicate in text. If you feel like I can provide more value with more questions you might have, I will do my best to help.
[1] Closure of ‘Third Places’? Exploring Potential Consequences for Collective Health and Wellbeing - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6934089/
[2] Vox: If you want to belong, find a third place - https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24119312/how-to-find-a-thi... | https://archive.today/TYDCG - May 7th, 2024
(tangentially, I recommend replacing "idiot who doesn't understand anything" with something more like "I am early in my journey to understand, but I look forward to the experience"; love yourself first, we are all learning and sharing for the portion of the timeline we share, and it is okay to not know if we continue to want and try to learn)
> The point being that food is more and less than chemistry. It's more and less than thermodynamics or heat transfer. It's art.
It differs from chemical process engineering in that the latter actually cares about consistency and quality of outcome.
Kitchens are rarely even equipped properly for cooking to be anything other than art. Fortunately, humans aren't particularly discerning about taste either :).
On macOS with current OBS, "Screen Capture" will include the system audio automatically, while "Window Capture" will not.
In the 2000s, in the tech world, the open source successes that were being talked about was always Apache and Linux.
When Wikipedia started gaining a bit of traction, everyone made fun of it. It was the butt of jokes in all the prime time comedy shows. And I always felt like telling the critics - "Don't you see what is happening? People all over the world are adding their own bits of knowledge and creating this huge thing way beyond what we've seen till now. It's cooperation on an international scale! By regular people! This is what the internet is all about. People, by the thousands, are contributing without asking for anything else in return. This is incredible! "
A few years later, Encyclopedia Britannica, stopped their print edition. A few years after that I read that Wikipedia had surpassed even that.
The amount of value Wikipedia brings to the world is incalculable.
And I'm very fortunate to be alive at a time where I can witness something at this scale. Something that transcends borders and boundaries. Something that goes beyond our daily vices of politics and religion. Something that tries to bring a lot of balance and objectivity in today's polarized world.
Thank you, Wikipedia.
I wish I'd had more space to write about the global orchestrator design, because it's fun.
The Fly Machines orchestrator goes through some trouble to keep the source of truth for each VM decentralized, owned by the physical it runs on. But there's still global state --- apps, organizations, services. That stuff is all on Postgres. Postgres keeps up with it just fine but I'd be lying if I didn't say we're always looking out the corner of our eyes on metrics.
The global state for Sprites is on object storage. Each organization gets a separate SQLite database, and that database is synchronized to object storage with Litestream.io (Lightstream is load bearing in a bunch of places here; solid as a rock for us).
I think people really still sleep on the "multiple SQLite database" backing store design.
I would assert that Microsoft's management always behaved as if they repented to have added F# to VS 2010, with all the maintenance guarantees it implies, throughout the years they have searched how to sell it.
Nowadays CLR has effectively changed meaning to C# Language Runtime, and ironically the JVM is more lively as the original goal of the CLR back in 2001.
I saw a "web browser" that was AI generated in maybe 2k lines of python based on tkinter that tried to support CSS and probably was able to render some test cases but didn't at all have the shape of a real web browser.
It reminds of having AI write me an MUI component the other day that implemented the "sx" prop [1] with some code that handles all the individual properties that were used by the component in that particular application, it might have been correct, the component at all was successful and well coded... but MUI provides a styled() function and a <Box> component, either one of which could have been used to make this component handle all the properties that "sx" is supposed to handle with as little as one line of code. I asked the agent "how would I do this using the tools that MUI provides to support sx" and had a great conversation and got a complete and clear understanding about the right way to do it but on the first try it wrote something crazy overcomplicated to handle the specific case as opposed to a general-purpose solution that was radically simple. That "web browser" was all like that.
[1] you can write something like sx={width: 4} and MUI multiplies 4 by the application scale and puts on, say, a width: 20px style
The US has done this historically for allies, too, a small deployment along with a public reiteration of a defense commitment isn't saying the troops are intended to be sufficient to resist a threat, it is intended to show that going from threat to war means war with not just the territory attacked, but the power deploying (even small) forces, and potentially all of their available capabilities.
This is especially the case when the tripwire force is deployed by a nuclear power on the territory of a non-nuclear power facing a conventional threat from a nuclear power.
I surely did not find fun programming MIPS vs 68000/80x86, given how limited the Assembly and macro Assemblers were.
RISC-V seems equally bad in this regard.
> I want to present the side that they are in fact doing exactly what many people in our society thinks needs to be done (i.e. they are not immoral).
The Nazis were doing what many people in their society thought needed to be done.
It is a rather uncommon position (though, ironically, frequently a strawman position falsely attributed to their opponents to mock them by roughly the same political faction that backs the current ICE action) that “morality” is just whatever a sufficiently large number of people currently prefer.
I'm seeing this in a lot of places nowadays.
I'm too old for this: not only am I not going to get called up, I also remember the Cold War, where everyone really did think there was a significant risk of a nuclear exchange at any time.
Mind you, the logic of MAD was a lot more .. logical? The canonical example of a cold game theoretic perspective leading combined with enough irrational paranoia to make an unstable situation.
We're more likely to have a war over a dumb tweet.
You'd be able to see it doing that by looking at the transcript. You could then tell it not to!
You can see in this threat that confronting people with the ramifications of their actions causes them to double down. They'll just come up with more and more justifications of why the victims deserve it. Same as every mass atrocity.
Well, someone is tasting a bit of their own medicine.
Today, I am revising Portuguese grammar and so I've mostly been exploring the things I can remember well and those that I can't. Portuguese has a lot of verb forms that I need to get right. But it also has really interesting constructions like "ir ter com" which literally means "to go to have with" but is an idiomatic way of saying "to meet up" (with someone) and I keep remembering and forgetting it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety-critical_system
A lot of people in the space just drop the “systems” when talking about it.
There's a reason why I'm not on X...
I didn't: no traffic before sharing, none since.
The main reason for Protonmail's existence is that they are not hosted in the USA.
Climate change, and having an abundance of energy allows a country to offset some of those challenges.
"well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it."
First, I understand what you're saying and generally agree with it, in the sense that that is how the organization will "experience" it.
However, the answer to "will it lead to a noticeable drop in revenue" is actually yes. The problem is that it won't lead to a traceable drop in revenue. You may see the numbers go down. But the numbers don't come with labels why. You may go out and ask users why they are using your service less, but people are generally very terrible at explaining why they do anything, and few of them will be able to tell you "your documentation is just terrible and everything confuses me". They'll tell you a variety of cognitively available stories, like the place is dirty or crowded or loud or the vending machines are always broken, but they're terrible at identifying the real root causes.
This sort of thing is why not only is everything enshittifying, but even as the entire world enshittifies, everybody's metrics are going up up up. It takes leadership willing to go against the numbers a bit to say, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we provide quality documentation, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we use screws that don't rust after six months, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we don't take the cheapest bidder every single time for every single thing in our product but put a bit of extra money in the right place. Otherwise you just get enshittification-by-numbers until you eventually go under and get outcompeted and can't figure out why because all your numbers just kept going up.
Which customers have available power capacity to use Blackwell GPUs already shipped? https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/