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For what it's worth, that whole thing is apparently bullshit.
Pretty sure Randy Fine thinks the US is part of Israel. He's such and ardent nationalist that some Israelis want to distance themselves from him: https://www.timesofisrael.com/randy-fines-anti-muslim-commen...
I expect it would have been a very dull job.
Highly biased opinion here since I'm the CEO of DBOS:
It'll be rare that the overhead actually has an effect, especially if you use a library like DBOS, which only adds a database write. You still have to write to and read from your queue, which is about as expensive as a database write/read.
I get the point, but this seems pretty out of date. Seems like it needs a [2025] (?) at least.
A couple of these are still valid with Prime, but most of them are Amazon Fresh items ($9.95 service fee for orders under $50), or out of stock, or the price is now way more.
Not unexpected.
- Google cutting off using search from other than their home page code. (At one time there was an official SOAP API for Google Search.)
- Apple cutting off non-Apple hardware in the Power PC era. ("We lost our license for speeding", from a third party seller of faster hardware.)
- Twitter cutting off external clients. (The end of TweetDeck.)
I wonder if we will see them take the final step and just make Gemini the default AI assistant on iPhone.
Might sound crazy but remember they did exactly this for web search. And Maps as well for many years.
This way they go from having to build and maintain Siri (which has negative brand value at this point) and pay Google's huge inference bills to actually charging Google for the privilege.
Will Apple and Google merge now? That would create a new #1, bigger than NVidia.
It would take US antitrust approval, but under Trump, that's for sale.
Because the internet blackout is being used to hide lethal force against protestors while the regime attempts to regain control.
Iran acknowledges mass protest deaths, but claims situation under control as Trump mulls response - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests-us-trump-death-to... - January 12th, 2026
Death toll from protests in Iran hits at least 544, activists say, as Trump says Iran wants to talk -https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nucle... - January 11th, 2025
> The Washington D.C.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said that, as of Sunday, the 15th day of protests, at least 544 people had been killed, including 483 protesters and 47 members of the security forces. HRANA said the unrest had manifested in 186 cities across all of Iran's 31 provinces.
> The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), which is also based in the U.S., said over the weekend that it had "eyewitness accounts and credible reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed across Iran during the current internet shutdown," accusing the regime of carrying out "a massacre."
> The Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization, based in Norway, said Saturday that it had confirmed at least 192 protesters were killed, but that the number could be over 2,000.
> "Unverified reports indicate that at least several hundreds, and according to some sources, more than 2,000 people may have been killed," IHR said in a statement, adding that according to its estimate, more than 2,600 protesters had been arrested.
(with that said, the US government is likely not impacted and has the intelligence they need for coordinating air strikes, if they elect to proceed with them)
Mostlymatter: A fork of Mattermost by Framasoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393817 - December 2025 (9 comments)
Mostlymatter is a fork of Mattermost without users limit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383963 - December 2025 (4 comments)
Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383675 - December 2025 (250 comments)
WEBP is no longer "unusual" as it now finally has downstream support for the most popular use cases. The anti-WEBP memes are out of date and it's generally better than even a highly-compressed PNG.
That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548
"The Revolution Wind project, intended to power hundreds of thousands of homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut, “would be irreparably harmed” unless work was allowed to continue during the legal fight, US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington concluded Monday. The project is almost 90% complete."
The Revolution Wind Farm is the second project by Ørsted and Eversource to be permitted off the Coast of Block Island. The project will produce 704MW of electricity (powering 250,000 homes), 304MW for Connecticut and 400MW for Rhode Island. It is located 15.5 miles off Block Island and will consist of 65 turbines reaching a maximum height of 873 feet. The project is expected to be operational by 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_Wind
https://www.gem.wiki/Revolution_Wind
https://www.newshorehamri.gov/428/Revolution-Wind-Farm
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71266768/revolution-win...
Transformer based language models are unreliable, hence the ask of a human based forum.
Claude Opus 4.5 can understand images: one thing I've done frequently in Claude Code and have had great success is just showing it an image of weird visual behavior (drag and drop into CC) and it finds the bug near-immediately.
The issue is that Claude Code won't automatically Read images by default as a part of its flow: you have to very explicitly prompt it to do so. I suspect a Skill may be more useful here.
I was hoping for a moment that this meant they had come up with a design that was safe against lethal trifecta / prompt injection attacks, maybe by running everything in a tight sandbox and shutting down any exfiltration vectors that could be used by a malicious prompt attack to steal data.
Sadly they haven't completely solved that yet. Instead their help page at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-using-cowork... tells users "Avoid granting access to local files with sensitive information, like financial documents" and "Monitor Claude for suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection".
(I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!)
Do you intend to replace your resistive heat with a heat pump?
Same concern (although the larger concern is that we've seen this movie before, and it doesn't end well for the protesters), but you can say this about literally every overthrow of every dictatorship. The only way out is through.
We are "just fine" with blurry details, on some level... but a lot of processing a movie holistically comes from that level of detail being present. Even if few people walking out of the theater could put their finger on why the world felt vibrant, it'll come down to the fact those details were there.
So much of movie making is like that. No normal person comes out of a theater saying "wow, the color grading on that movie really helped the drive the main themes along, I particularly appreciated the way it was used to amplify the alienation the main character felt at being betrayed by his life-long friend, and the lighting in that scene really sent that point home". That's all film nerd stuff. But it's the lighting, the color grading, the camera shots, all this subtle stuff that the casual consumer will never cite as their reason for liking or disliking the movie that results in the feelings that were experienced.
They aren't necessary. People still connect with the original Snow White, and while it may have been an absolute technical breakthrough masterstroke for the time, by modern standards it is simple. But used well the details we can muster for a modern production can still go into the general tone of the film; compare the two next to each other while looking for this effect and you may be able to "feel" what I'm talking about.
International equities: Global structural changes driving narrowing U.S. earnings growth exceptionalism - https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/... - November 19th, 2025
Where to Go as the US Exceptionalism Trade Ends - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-06/where-... | https://archive.today/PSw9B - June 6th, 2025
Remaking the World Through Exiting US Stocks - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-19/remaki... | https://archive.today/YqD5M - March 19th, 2025
Did capital outflows from the U.S. already start? - https://globalecon.substack.com/p/did-capital-outflows-from-... - March 17th, 2025
I guess it's hard to see oppression when it benefits you...
Related:
21GW of Solar for California Land That Can No Longer Be Used for Agriculture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488648 - January 2026
Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501605122 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501605122
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest. - https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compa... - April 25th, 2025
Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01546-4 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01546-4
(~60M acres of land in the US are in production for biofuels via corn and soybeans, arguably unnecessarily)
That doesn't make lighting it on fire a great option.
> What kind place were you eating at the puts sauce on steak?
You've never had a steak au poivre or a red wine reduction?
Sauce is good enough for Ruth's Chris. https://ruthschris.net/blog/choose-best-entree-complement-st...
Throwing an awful lot of maternal lives away for that one.
Similar story for lots of other unpopular issues, like the Civil Rights act.
Publishing the name of someone arrested and then later released without charge could constitute harm to them, even if you make it theoretically illegal to discriminate against them on that basis.
The US use of mugshots is exploitative.
i will go for ‘aint gonna happen for a 1000 dollars alex’
Nothing I've seen from the AI labs appears to indicate that they are worried about model collapse in the slightest.
That makes sense to me, because if their models start getting worse because there's slop in the training data they can detect that and take steps to fix it.
Their entire research pipeline is about finding what makes models that score better! Why would they keep going with a technique that scored worse?
Why is taking it for weight loss such a bad thing? It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed, etc., etc.
Why create a new account just to litigate how statistically relevant the grandparent comment's anecdote is?
Anyone seen a low-friction way to run prompts through this yet, either via a hosted API or chat UI or a convenient GGML or MLX build that runs in Ollama or llama.cpp or LM Studio?
It's clear they don't have the in-house expertise to do it themselves. They aren't an AI player. So it's not a mistake, just a necessity.
Maybe someday they'll build their own, the way they eventually replaced Google Maps with Apple Maps. But I think they recognize that that will be years away.
I has been served for several decades, however since the late-90's many decided reducing to only C and C++ was the way going forward, now the world is rediscovering it doesn't have to be like that.
It says in the body:
> while Apple Music reached all-time highs in both listenership and new subscribers.
I'm assuming listenership is total subscribers.
It doesn't need to be "astounding". But it is significant, given the competition from Spotify and YouTube and other streaming services. When you're not the most popular service, it's genuinely a challenge to be on the growing side of things rather than the shrinking side or stagnant side.
How can you tell? What's the thing that made you say "this is bad for her", and why is it not the same for you?
n=1, I pay $300/month for 2.5mg of Zepbound (tirzepatide) for cash pay direct via http://lilly.com/, shipped to my door.
(no affiliation, I just like the drug)
I can't speak for coke, but for bottled water, they often add minerals back in.
If it doesn't come with a XAML WinRT based framework stack, it is only half way there.
> These accessible food options come with a premium
On one hand, you a processing step. On the other hand, you can process 'ugly' produce into mince. (Mince also transports more compactly volume-wise.)
Acronym collisions are fun: https://public.support.unisys.com/mds/docs/Release5.0/860003...
This should be viewed like attempts to put the cocaine back in coca-cola. The industry may be able to get away with "our food is naturally delicious", but engineering it for superior addictiveness should be banned. Not going to get there under the current FDA, though.
> most "travel" is staying a week or so
Most reading is probably crap, too.
> what is learned from this kind of travel is generally trivial and superficial (and thus often wrong)
Someone can learn the wrong history of a dish while still being educated by it. Broadly speaking, I’m sceptical of new experiences not yielding education outside the irredeemably incurious.
After driving Gentoo for a while back in 2004, I decided I don't really want to wait compiling for everything.
The entire world would notice a nuke going off. Like we did with North Korea’s nuclear tests.
Well, there is enough knowledge on those SIGGRAPH papers, even if not everything can be directly applied to real time game rendering.
And use-after-free, when that arena's memory goes away.
They made some beautiful computers. I really want to, eventually, get an M20, or wait until 3D printers get good enough to print one. ;-)
> You have exactly the same burden trying to sell CN-manufactured hardware in the EU.
Not if you're a Chinese OEM: you just mail it in, and thanks to the arcane operation of international postage it's cheaper to post to Germany from China than from Germany. CE is such a European type of regulation, there's almost no enforcement, while at the same time it's so vague that simply working out what directives you might need to comply with is time-consuming.
Mind you as others have pointed out, there is still EU electronics. It's just not massive production runs for consumer electronics, much more of it is for defence, aerospace, and medical. And a bit of automotive, although that is definitely going to fall to Chinese car OEMs.
> it's amazing to me how gullible everyone was
I have some bad news for you.
Xfce is what I settled on, when still using GNU/Linux desktops.
I used a multitude of UNIX environments since 1994, starting with IBM X Windows terminals connected to DG/UX, and thanks to the way Unity got dropped, the way GNOME 3.0 went down, windowmaker no longer being actively developed, Xfce it was.
> how humans are going to maintain and validate the programs written by LLMs if we no longer know (intimately) how to program
Short answer: we wouldn’t be able to. Slightly-less short answer: unlikely to happen.
Most programmers today can’t explain the physics of computation. That’s fine. Someone else can. And if nobody can, someone else can work backwards to it.
Windows has a much better chance, alongside WSL, even with all its warts than Linux.
GNU/Linux isn't sold in shops like macOS and Windows for regular consumers, until it goes out from DYI and online ordering, it will remain a niche desktop system.
I know some that did move to the US for economic reasons only that have moved back to Canada because of the way the US has changed during their time there.
How do you link two crates together, each compiled with a distinct edition, whose public API is incompatible across editions?
I still remember the backslash Borland got when they had the clever idea to forbid writing compilers with Borland C++, and naturally had to rollback from.
Some people never learn from history, it seems.
This is painful. They got a used solder mask holder, a Lumen pick and place machine, a bunch of old Siemens feeders, and a small automatic reflow oven. All these tools needed major work. Everything with firmware needed firmware mods. Everything else needed assembly or major cleaning. Everything needed adjustment. They had to 3D print their own solder paste squeegee. They're six months in and still trying to produce one simple board.
I've been down this road of populating a surface mount board. There is a minimum size for a practical board-stuffing operation, and they are below it. They are using prototype techniques for 100 units or so, not techniques that scale.
Surface mount soldering requires applying hot air in a very controlled way, with the temperature ramping up, holding at the high temp for a few seconds, and then ramping down. On a small scale, you have a programmable oven which tries to do that. Those always have heat distribution problems. For production, you have a tunnel oven, with about six sections at different temperatures and a chain conveyor to take the boards through the tunnel. With the tunnel oven, you let the whole thing warm up and stabilize, and when all zones are at the right temperature, you can repeatably solder boards successfully.
They're using a hobbyist-grade pick and place machine. Slow, but cheap. Plus the software isn't ready for prime time. They looked at a used production machine. Runs Windows XP and wouldn't fit through the door. Rejected that.
They're about EUR 30,000 into this, not counting their own labor. This approach is not going to revive electronics in Europe.
What I had with Linux did also worked fine, provided I was happy with randomly dropping wlan sessions when doing heavy downloads, using OpenGL 3.3 instead of the OpenGL 4.1, watching YouTube without hardware decoding, and having to take out the battery when it hang during a reboot.
Other than that, it was a great Linux laptop, 2009 - 2024.
It's funny you should ask this. When I started out, 30 years ago, here were the answers you'd get from most people:
> Am I supposed to want to code all the time?
Yes.
> When can I pursue hobbies,
Your hobby should be coding fun apps for yourself
> a social life, etc.
You social life should be hanging out with other engineers talking about engineering things.
And the most successful people I know basically did exactly that.
I'm not saying y'all should be doing that now, I'm just saying, that is in fact how it used to be.
This is just a link to the Penguin book site.
Is there something I'm missing?
Probably a different type of sugar too.
> used by Celtic tribes ... to intimidate their enemies
Hmmm. I need to get me one of those!
He's obviously right about the noun/verb thing. You can just look this up on Google Scholar. I think you're sort of broadly wrong about how fussy the definition of a "sandbox" is, but you're at least saying something coherent there, even if it's an idiosyncratic definition.
You can not test that which you do not understand.
That's the reason why it will never be allowed to come to the US.
Narrow field of view LIDAR units have been moderately priced for years. Forward looking LIDAR is useful for anti-collision systems. It doesn't yield the situational awareness of full coverage needed for full autonomy, but it's good for putting on the brakes.
So, better face his rage then. If those are the options the choice is clear and easy.
Facts matter, as does telling people it is on them to understand them. Otherwise, we will spin in perpetuity refuting people who are not discussing in good faith. I stand by my assertions. I do not believe it is impolite to call out a potential lack of education, or ignoring of facts and reality. Without shared facts and reality, discussion and debate is impossible.
> He thinks he knows better than the experts
It’s a kleptocracy. He doesn’t care. He just wants cheap money from the Fed as patronage.
Nothing? Trump is playing freeway chicken with Powell, he's driving a Pontiac Fiero and Powell is driving a bulldozer. The Supreme Court has already signaled that they're not on board fucking with the Fed. This will potentially cost Trump his next Fed nomination for awhile, because GOP Senators are putting a hold on his nominations until the legal stuff resolves.
Lately I've been interesting in biosignals, biofeedback and biosynchronization.
I've been really frustrated with the state of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) research and HRV apps, particularly those that claim to be "biofeedback" but are really just guided breathing exercises by people who seem to have the lights on and nobody home. [1]
I could have spent a lot of time reading the docs to understand the Web Bluetooth API and facing up to the stress that getting anything with Bluetooth working with a PC is super hit and miss so estimating the time I'd expect a high risk of spending hours rebooting my computer and otherwise futzing around to debug connection problems.
Although it's supposedly really easy to do this with the Web Bluetooth API I amazingly couldn't find any examples which made all the more apprehensive that there was some reason it doesn't work. [2]
As it was Junie coded me a simple webapp that pulled R-R intervals from my Polar H10 heart rate monitor in 20 minutes and it worked the first time. And in a few days, I've already got an HRV demo app that is superior to the commercial ones in numerous ways... And I understand how it works 100%.
I wouldn't call it vibe coding because I had my feet on the ground the whole time.
[1] for instance I am used to doing meditation practices with my eyes closed and not holding a 'freakin phone in my hand. why they expect me to look at a phone to pace my breathing when it could talk to be or beep at me is beyond me. for that matter why they try to estimate respiration by looking at my face when they could get if off the accelerometer if i put in on my chest when i am lying down is also beyond me.
[2] let's see, people don't think anything is meaningful if it doesn't involve an app, nobody's gotten a grant to do biofeedback research since 1979 so the last grad student to take a class on the subject is retiring right about now...
They chanted “lock her up” en masse as a campaign slogan. The desire to imprison is quite evident.
I missed that somehow. Upvoted.
Agreed (mostly, but going into the Electoral College debate is a whole other rabbit hole, and regardless a majority voted for these people at least once, with full prior knowledge), and in a democracy we get the government we deserve.
But still, I saw a good clip from Bernie Sanders arguing that when people voted for Trump, they weren't really voting for giant tax breaks for billionaires, or making health care much more expensive, or kicking lots of people off food stamps (though I'd argue they should have realized these things were coming if they had paid attention). What they were voting for was a fundamental shake up of the system, and (for better or worse) Trump was the only one offering fundamental change, vs. the incremental anodyne "can't we all just get along" milquetoast plans from the Democrats (or at least the "elite" Democrats).
Also, for this imperial expansionism issue in particular, I'd argue that this really does feel like a 180 flip flop from Trump after all his "America First" and isolationist rhetoric. For a lot of other issues, for example the immigration crackdown or tariffs, I was truly baffled that some people were surprised how dumb or extreme his policies were, as he basically laid out that this was exactly what he was going to do in the campaign. But putting us in the path of more global conflict and territorial expansionism was actually the exact opposite of what he said he'd do. I'm not that surprised because he's such a transparent malignant narcissist, but again, at least on this issue he flip flopped.
Getting things I voted for that I didn’t even know about. https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-replaces-nrc-chair-as-...
Anyone could’ve picked up the mantle of fixing the NRC, which is an obviously broken agency. France transitioned the majority of its grid to nuclear back in the 80s. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, anyone could have picked up this low hanging fruit and fixed the problem. Nobody even tried.
It’s such an utter piece of crap.
> advanced trigonometry
There's a ratio involving pi between the base lengths of the pyramid and its height. This is been interpreted by enthusiasts that the Egyptians knew about pi.
But, consider a measuring wheel, where you can mark off distances very accurately by counting revolutions of the wheel, say, 1 cubit in diameter (I know, I know, what's a cubit?). Then, if the height is laid out in cubits, the ratio of pi is there while being completely ignorant of it.
I appreciate your frustration, but at the same time what is Apple supposed to do? If it's affecting only a tiny number of users, and you just happen to be an unlucky one, and they don't know how to reproduce it, and you can't help them reproduce it, then what? I think they just have to wait until somebody (such as yourself) is able to figure out with some kind of logging what is happening. E.g. the first question to answer is probably what actually gets the focus, if anything? To produce a bug report that at least suggests which area of code might be responsible.
I had a similar problem at one point, then finally figured out it was when I accidentally hit the fn button which triggered the emoji picker window and moved focus to it (IIRC), but it was off-screen because I'd previously used it on a secondary monitor. Reconnecting the monitor and moving the window back to my primary display fixed it. (Obviously, it's a bug to show a picker window outside of visible coordinates, and I think it got fixed eventually.)
But it also might not be Apple at all, if it's some third-party background utility with a bug. E.g. if that were happening to me, my first thought would be that it might be a Logitech bug or a Karabiner-Elements bug. Uninstalling any non-Apple background processes or utilities seems like a necessary first step.
Lidar is incredibly low power and fast scanning, the retinal risk is probably much less than having to drive when the sun is near the horizon.
>Yes, maybe you think that you worked so hard to learn coding, and now machines are doing it for you. But what was the fire inside you, when you coded till night to see your project working? It was building.
Nope. It was coding. Enjoying the process itself.
If I wanted to hand out specs and review code (which is what an AI jockey does), I'd be having fucking project managers as role models, not coders...
I like Partners In Health, myself. https://www.pih.org/
Between anti-Musk sentiment, competition in self driving and the proven track record of Lidar, I think we’ll start seeing jurisdictions from Europe to New York and California banning camera-only self-driving beyond Level 3.
Does Photos have features you use that Immich doesn't? I've switched to the latter fully and love it (though I have an Android).
> Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy
What bearing does this have on any of this?
> Mars concept was absolutely grounded in the same strategic goals for global missile defense
No shit. A launch vehicle is a launch vehicle.
Not your parent, but there are two ways:
1. If you use a custom deleter, then there's extra stuff to store that. this isn't common, and this API isn't available in Rust, so... not the best argument here.
2. There's ABI requirements that cause it to be passed in memory, see here for details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58339165/why-can-a-t-be-...
> The sheer brazenness of calling legitimate congressional oversight 'circus-like publicity stunts' is on a whole new level
Is it? I feel like the mud slinging has been in vogue for a few decades.
The willful lawbreaking is new. But the rhetoric feels familiar.
> point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing
None of them do. (To be fair, administrations have been expanding the Presidenxy since WWII. We never had a Constitutional discussion of strategic nuclear command or a standing superpower’s army.)
My pet projects are shredding federal student loan records, tearing the turbines out of coal plants and ceasing enforcement on tariffs and duties on all imported food on day one.
Rounded corners are ironically symbolic of the dumbing-down that's affected the software industry. Instead of the sharp precision of 90-degree corners, we get vague curves that don't make sense anymore as though the corners have been worn away.
> Tiger to Snow Leopard era was fantastic. Things were simple and worked
Was it also great for developers? (Genuine question.)
I think the absurdity is the whole point.
It‘s "remove". A common word, but many words are common and not on the list. Lesswrong also lists "prüf" (check), another common word.
> hardware you can buy with $2000
Including how much RAM?
Right. Meta wants big enough plants that an AP1000 or two would be the right size. They're known to work. There are four in operation, two in the US, and another dozen or so under construction.
Most of the small nuclear reactor startups hand-wave the failure modes and argue that they don't need the hulking big expensive containment building. NuScale claimed that. They wanted multiple reactors sharing the same cooling pool. If they ever had a leak, the whole set of reactors would be contaminated, even without a meltdown.
If we look at the big reactor accidents so far, there's Chernobyl, with no containment building. There's Fukushima, with too small a containment unable to contain the pressure. And there's Three Mile Island, where a large, strong containment building contained a meltdown. Three Mile Island was an expensive disaster, but not hazardous outside the plant. That's the failure mode you want.
We might be better off at developing better techniques for welding thick sections to make hulking big, strong containment vessels. There's been progress with robotic welding of thick sections.[1]
[1] https://www.agrrobotics.com/trends-s-industry-analysis/roadm...
The pain I’ve experienced running ComfyUI on windows is from (1) pytorch and the complexities of managing it through pip when python’s platform concept doesn't encompass CUDA versions, (2) dependency conflicts between custom nodes (some of which also involve #1 because they pin a specific pytorch version as a dependency), and (3) gratuitous breakage in ComfyUI updates.
None of which Linux makes any better.
Not to mention, there's something like 25,000 people working at the Pentagon.
There are so many potential late-night work things happening that would need food, the idea that pizza orders can be used to identify high-profile military missions specifically doesn't make a lot of sense...