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As a reasonably impartial observer, I think the truth here is somewhere in the middle. Like almost any large American factory, there are going to be some handful of people who are illegal immigrants through some means or other (if I understand correctly they had a warrant for 4 Latina people). Sweeping up anyone there who didn't have an iron clad visa, I imagine that was just a political play.

The crackdown is certainly being done for the wrong reasons but it does seem strange to me just how much of the US is built around the idea of a second class of citizens who don't have documentation. It seems like a significant portion of farmworkers, construction, hospitality and childcare are routinely done by people who aren't legally in the country.

I'm sure there is more of this than in Europe than I'm aware of (food delivery is one example we're recently had a lot of focus on in the UK) but it's certainly not at the point that it's routine and expected.

How does this work? Are these people somehow paying taxes regardless of their immigration status?

If LLMs are ever perfect we'll be able to say things like "build me a Fusion 360 alternative written in Rust. Skip all of the collaboration stuff though, I just want to store files locally."

This seems unlikely to me. However, the disruption this would cause for developers would be very much secondary to the disruption it would cause for several multinational companies who produce software as their primary product.

I think the Tesla looking like a normal car is because their design language hasn't changed in forever.

I've found myself taking a second look at a bunch of ICE cars recently as they've all started trying to copy elements from electric car design...

Certainly from an entrepreneurial stand point it's beneficial. On the other side, it's current descent in to an authoritarian police state is kinda hard to ignore.

Isn't this an argument for why you should allow open book tests rather than why you shouldn't? It certainly removes some pressure to remember some obscure detail or formula.

The on the ground part of flying has certainly gotten worse (honourable mention to Brexit). Which for flights of modest length is actually the longest part of the process. People keep coming up with creative ways of making it more painful.

Flying out of Cyprus was a good example, they have some crazy system where you have to print off a bit of paper at a kiosk to...well I really don't know what it did to be honest, verified your passport?

Yeah, to be honest I agree. I've worked with senior people who couldn't give a crap, "it works" is the only barrier to shipping it.

I've also worked with juniors who are technically much better than most of the senior people around them.

Now do Junior Devs...

> I'm from the UK and travel in the US a lot and US service is much better. I've never had to chase up the check or had to go and search for staff to serve me after sitting there for ten minutes. These are common occurrences in the UK for me.

I've had these things in the US. In fact the service generally I've had is all for show, people being really "fake nice" and / or overbearing but then forgetting drinks or food items you ordered.

At least in the UK you can genuinely not tip someone without worrying about them being unable make rent..

A container root exploit isn't a critical security vulnerability either, describing it as moderate seems fair, but it's a reasonable step towards one.

Presumably someone with mal-intent would sit on the root vulnerability waiting for a container breakout bug to come around.

Funny enough, with LLMs this trade off may well have flipped. For simple tasks like given a string like X, format it like Y, they work amazingly well.

Yeah, there are both free NHS versions of the app and the podcasts. Fwiw I preferred the podcast form as I found the app unreliable (it's hard to keep an app running in the background using GPS and suddenly playing the next blurb). Though you do have to put up with the royalty free music (to be fair it's not awful).

My employer regularly sends out phishing honey pot emails. Which is great but they then will send out legitimate emails which are genuinely difficult to separate from actual phishing (using novel new email addresses and domain names in links). They also like to use some email filtering which has a habit of mutilating URLs.

In the UK there is a program called couch to 5km. It's possible for anyone to follow and get to running for 30 minutes. It mostly emphasises running at a sustainable pace - even if that is just above walking.

Not sure if I've slipped a 0 here but 500w taken over the year, at say a 10% capacity factor, is still over 3500 miles of range per year. A fair bit short of the average mileage (in the UK somewhere around 10k) but still more significant than I expected. Of course 500w is a lot of solar for a car and 4 miles / kWh is also quite efficient.

You make it sound like some 4D chess ploy to "own the libs". Everything I've seen is that it's just a natural consequence of electing an 80 year old half senile grandpa to arguably the most important role in the world.

Can I just point out the irony of this statement in the context of my comment up thread.

I made an off hand comment here that has got a lot of great response while I slept. I do wonder though if I'd have mentioned a handful of other issues whether the trans one would still have been the one to stir most controversy.

The fact is trans people are a tiny minority who are abused for political gain. I don't have hard numbers but it's probably not an exaggeration to say that to grant or withhold puberty blockers is probably no more common than a smorgasbord of other agonising medical decisions you may have to make.

Personally I don't like the idea of puberty blockers but if my 7 year old decided tomorrow that she was a boy, and lived that as authentically as they were able for years, then I think long and hard about it.

The slippery slope from here to banning under 18s looking at websites discussing suicidal thoughts, transgender issues, homosexually and onto anything some group of middle age mothers decide isn't appropriate seems dangerously anti-fallacitical.

The avherald is reporting second hand reports of the Indian media. The EEC MN4 microcontroller is located on a control board on each engine. A dual failure seems improbable.

The fuel cutoff switches are of a similar design to the 737 and most other Boeing aircraft. A failure in that design seems less likely than the most charitable explanation, that the copilot inadvertently went into the wrong mode of muscle memory.

The interim report does mention the SIAB NM-18-33. If you read that document it specifically says that the fuel cut-offs were installed with the locking feature deactivated on some 737 aircraft. It's a pretty big leap to that causing this incident. Someone or some thing would still need to have touched the switches to move them.

My concern would be that the investigation in this case is more likely to be biased towards a system failure. Disgracing a major flag carrier is something very few regulars have the independence and courage to get away with.

In older turbine aircraft this would cause a hot start or worse. It would be interesting to know what the FADEC systems do in this case.

It feels quite uncomfortable to me. I remember using this exact example of why the changes after the German wings crash wouldn't prevent a murder suicide in the future.

The idea that we'll have huge excesses of clean energy seems like wishful thinking. We may have issues with excess energy at certain times of day for sure. But intermittent excesses like that are difficult to make use of economically because of capital costs and low utilisation. A general excess would be countered by falling energy prices to the point that it's difficult to make a business case for new installations.

I don't see a future where technologies which are massively inefficient reach their break even cost before other energy intensive activities or more efficient grid scale storage soak up the excess.

I'm not going to argue over the numbers but any business which ignores such an obvious upside / upside scenario is not really serious about achieving economic criticality. It would allow a power plant, iron ore plant, cement producer, what have you, to make claims about their environmental credentials while simultaneously improving the efficiency of the process.

You could make the same argument about AGI. Just because nature does it doesn't mean it's easy for us to replicate in an industrial setting.

Terraform Industries (and others); I'd seriously consider taking a long bet that these companies turn out to be better at converting investor capital into employee salaries, for a finite period of time, than they are at converting atmospheric CO2 into natural gas.

If such a technology was possible then it would be far better to start with carbon capture from existing emitters. The concentration of CO2 being easily 3 orders of magnitude higher.

Do you have any source for this extraordinary claim? It's practically a claim of perpetual motion.

Carbon dioxide a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, even in concentrations which are immediately harmful to human life.

At the moment it's 400 parts per million. So in order to extract 1kg of Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere you have to pump 2500kg of air through the system. This alone makes it unlikely we can do this profitability.

You then need to extract the carbon dioxide using some technique which will probably involve cooling or pressuring that volume of air. Before finally transforming carbon dioxide, a very stable chemical compound, into a reagent which is actually useful (probably carbon monoxide).