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WillPostForFoodon Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

That's near the opposite of what Aristotle intended. He wrote about happiness as virtuous action, living well. He wasn't so internally oriented.

WillPostForFoodon Writing by hand is good for your brain

Riding a unicycle and coding are not complementary activities - you are multitasking. Writing is aligning different parts of your brain to the same task, perhaps it is just creating additional focus.

WillPostForFoodon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

But the idea of a blanket ban on Chinese open-weight models was not seriously discussed.

Article should probably put the above higher in the story.

WillPostForFoodon Qwen 3.8

It will be a great day for China and the world when the Chinese people are free from a totalitarian dictatorship. But until then we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China, even if many, or most disagree with those policies.

WillPostForFoodon Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes

It is 4 trucks for the state police, and it is a big state.

WillPostForFoodon Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

Allowing states to force ISPs to block websites might be an even bigger can of worms.

WillPostForFoodon Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development

Sane take getting zero traction on HN, meanwhile every dumb EA/doomer post rockets to the top.

WillPostForFoodon The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

Without diminishing the huge cost Iran has been able to inflict on US radar, quarter of a trillion is off by more than two orders of magnitude, maybe three. There are 1-2 confirmed radar system confirmed hit, a couple more suspected hit or damaged. But that is going to be hundreds of millions in damage, nowhere close to 250 billion,

WillPostForFoodon Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

2 years, and 6 days later.

WillPostForFoodon Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_6#Games_using_id_Tech_...

It may have been great, and lapped the entire industry, but it wasn't getting used very much, even internally at Microsoft. So how much value was really bringing?

WillPostForFoodon Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

Like the evil Republicans running San Francisco!

https://www.sf.gov/news--san-franciscos-new-public-safety-ca...

WillPostForFoodon AI has torched the market for junior programmers

I'd like to see a larger date range. The Stanford dataset starts in 2021 (covid, work from home, low interest rates, govt stimulus), which is one of the weirdest economic times in the last 100 years. It would be useful to see how Jrs are doing compared to ~10 years ago.

WillPostForFoodon We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

pedantic. You can use lawsuits, within the law, to thwart the law. You can do it knowing you will lose, just to cause delays, like Califorinia and the 9th circuit are ACTIVELY doing to slowdown gun control cases from reaching the supreme court where they 100% will be struck down. Refusing notification is an action.

WillPostForFoodon We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

Some states, like California, and New York (which recently passed the first 3d printer ban), have restrictive gun control. These laws are in conflict with Supreme Court rulings supporting the 2nd Amendment, but the litigation and appeal process is very slow. It is 9 years into the Duncan case in California challenging magazine capacity limits, 7 years into the Miller case challenging California's Assault rifle ban.

WillPostForFoodon We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

It looks even closer to a California banned "large-capacity" magazine.

https://dpmsinc.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7217d38013ee...

WillPostForFoodon We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

Offline printing would be illegal in printers sold after the law goes into effect.

*printers will accept print jobs exclusively through authorized and validated software systems and will not accept print jobs from unauthorized software pathways, including attempts by users seeking to evade a detection algorithm.*

WillPostForFoodon We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

Looks even more draconian than the New York law. For example, it seems to mandate proprietary, locked down slicers from the printer manufacturer.

For integrated preprint software [slicer] design, guidance for how vendors shall demonstrate that printers will accept print jobs exclusively through authorized and validated software systems and will not accept print jobs from unauthorized software pathways, including attempts by users seeking to evade a detection algorithm.

WillPostForFoodon AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

I had read there was a ~5% slowdown with it enabled.

WillPostForFoodon AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

So my PC runs 5% slower because someone could break into my house to get physical access to decrypt memory? OK sure, but not my top concern, and a bad tradeoff for the lost performance. And not only fair, but completely accurate to describe TSME as non-critical for *most* consumer desktops. I'd go as far as to say useless and counter-productive for most, but not all, consumer desktops.

WillPostForFoodon Epic Games announces Lore version control system

Citizen Sleeper, the game that is going free tomorrow on the Epic store is really good. Space Cyberpunk themed RPG/Survival Sim.

It is interesting that people are so cynical about Epic giving out free games. I get that people love Steam, but competition in the storefront market is not bad.

WillPostForFoodon Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

Asking about your religion on the census is against the law in the US:

no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.

https://www.congress.gov/94/statute/STATUTE-90/STATUTE-90-Pg...

WillPostForFoodon Where is the AI jobs crisis?

Median is also up:

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.0 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,235 in the first quarter of 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 3.4 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

WillPostForFoodon Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

Average price is $0.19 in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

WillPostForFoodon Scott Aaronson won't collaborate with the New York Times anymore

You are shockingly gullible if you think Romans trained giraffes to rape.. come on, get out of the house and check out the real world.

WillPostForFoodon The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

Why would you only rollback to the 90s. Pretty sure TV was evil and destroying culture. And Rock and roll that was devastating, so we gotta roll back at least to the 1930's. That would be a fitting era to recreate.

WillPostForFoodon Colossus: The Forbin Project

why?

WillPostForFoodon Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

Are they being honest? Did Princeton students not need proctoring in the past because the had no means to cheat, or they both maintained some honor, and fear of the institution.

WillPostForFoodon Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

Or it is a dilution of the culture through mass media, social media, and immigration from countries with different values.

WillPostForFoodon Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

Cash is not the real cost; the cost is by agreeing to continue printing ransom money, you cause more individuals to be kidnapped.