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ajcp··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
It's not more solid, it's just had 80 years of corrections.
ajcp··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
100%

While I have no doubt these complaints are real this feels like it's trying to gin up evidence for a position more than anything

ajcp··on Steam Machine launches today
And all those consoles (save the Switch maybe) are heavily subsidized by those companies to compete at that artificial price point.

According to LTT Valve made the conscious decision NOT to subsidize the Steam Machine to let the market compete. I very much respect that and will be willing to pay the premium because of that and:

- using my purchase to vote for/encourage the growth of the Linux ecosystem.

- as a PC gamer I'm already highly invested in the Steam platform with all of my other gaming purchases.

ajcp··on Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography
Be interested to know if this is related to the same process/technology that Midjourney announced last week[0]

0. https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

ajcp··on DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List
one core tenant of Christianity is that Christ the Messiah obviates prophecy. No denomination of Christianity (AFAIK) considers the LDS as true Christians...except for the LDS themselves
ajcp··on Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant
It's technically called Autopilot* Scout if you can believe it...
ajcp··on Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter
The comment you are replying to is correct. The Soviet Union had massive amounts of resources and capital (both human and economic) to be able to develop and support technical innovations. The wider-Soviet bloc itself was of such a scale as to be able to completely support their own divergent technologies and innovations. The higher education systems themselves were sufficient to provide and foster the talent, even if they were overly-politicized.

Of issue, especially as time went on, was the overly-centralized nature of national resource and economic strategy and planning. Especially ESPECIALLY constraining was the dual-circuit monetary system of its economy, which literally prevented half of its "capital" to follow innovation or market forces outside of centralized allocation.

I highly recommend the book Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok

ajcp··on Talking to strangers at the gym
"I did the same thing; whoever designed these doors was a sadist." -

"Do you like that bag? I've been meaning to get a new one, I'm so tired of this one." -

"Now see, if we were as good looking/rich/smart as him we could have figured that out." -

"Is that thing broken again? I'm telling you, we're in the wrong business man." -

"Nothing to do with talent, it's a money and equipment problem, we're awesome at this." -

I've used each one of these in the past week with complete strangers, in neutral-to-unfamiliar surroundings, in passing, and the most hostile reaction I've gotten is "hahaha, I know right?" :)

ajcp··on Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown
> Despite working at a terrible school

Literally zero need for that; none. And it's that kind of language that calls into question the authors motives. I went from "Excellent reporting here" to "This guy is emotional and not a reliable source of information" in 6 words.

ajcp··on HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X
That too makes sense.
ajcp··on HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X
Apparently it was video clips originally posted, but it seems like posting unpublished(?) copy of any type can fall under DMCA, which I guess makes sense.

-> [HBO Lawyer] classifies the infringing content as 'summaries of unpublished, character, setting, and plots of a forthcoming series'

ajcp··on The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright
100% that's actually what we found missing/were disappointed in from the Taliesin West "self-guided" audio tour was it was more social/artistic approach of his architectural style, and not at all on the actual architecture and it's effects.
ajcp··on The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright
-> which [is?] pretty bland

That's a shame to hear, as Taliesin West in Arizona is very fascinating and interesting, but rather poorly curated and run.

ajcp··on OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it
For what it's worth I found Oslo Airport to be one of the best airport experiences I've ever had. 5 stars.
ajcp··on 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
Just select one of the 5 successor states to Yugoslavia, forward all traffic to their ministry of foreign affairs, and then enjoy the heartfelt exchange of brotherly love and munitions that ensues!
ajcp··on Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
> $800k doesn't sound like that much of money for someone that has access to that kind of insider knowledge

I think you over-estimate by a large margin how much congressional staffers and/or Pentagon employees make, many of whom could have access to this kind of information in the course of their duties.

ajcp··on How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers
And conversely having all of your teeth, and straight ones at that, help prevent jaw wasting.
ajcp··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
While it has many many amazing scenes, I think Patriot's "cover" of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator is absolutely top notch.

https://youtu.be/FFK7RHYdWCc?si=w8R0eO6W3uGgXt3R

ajcp··on CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'
Putting a rock in your shoe instantly changes your gait signature.
ajcp··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Yes, I believe a person on a hacker forum who has said, through their own evaluations, that they have observed LLM driven agents exhibiting illegal behavior, such as when they have asked an agent to complete certain tasks with what sounds like abstracted levels of context. I believe them because I know I can get an agent to do that myself by simply installing OpenClaw and telling it to apply for as many mortgage loans as possible at the best rate possible.
ajcp··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Fraud is a real thing. Lying or misrepresenting information on financial applications is illegal in most jurisdictions the world over. I have no trouble believing that a sub-agent of enough specificity would attempt to commit fraud in the pursuit of it's instructions.
ajcp··on Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy
-> Its e-commerce and wholesale operations are not affected by the filing because they are operated separately.

Eddie Bauer the brand is not going bankrupt; the company that runs the brick-and-mortor stores in North America as Eddie Bauer is. So if you get your Eddie Bauer from anywhere that isn't an Eddie Bauer store you should be fine.

ajcp··on The Waymo World Model
Not at all. It's not the counter-factual they're generating, it's the "too rare to capture often enough to train a response to" they're generating.

They're implying that without the model having knowledge, even approximate, of a scene to react to, it simply doesn't react at all; it simply "yields" to the situation until it passes. In my experience taking Waymo's almost daily this holds.

I would rather not have the Waymo yield to a tornado, rising flood-waters, or charging elephant...

ajcp··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
As someone who has spent a good portion of my career in the RPA/intelligent automation field this take was a spit-coffee-close-laptop moment.
ajcp··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Mac-Minis
ajcp··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
-> ask your non technical (or even most of your technical) friends what SAP does and you will get blank stares.

There is not ONE person that works in Finance or Accounting, at least in the US and Europe, that doesn't know "what SAP does", even if they have never used one of their products.

ajcp··on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale
> He also provided a fake email for my brother: alexanderedwardenenson@out-look.com. Notice the subtle misspelling — “Benenson” without the second “n” in the email, and the hyphenated “out-look.com” domain.

Surely you meant "'Benenson' without the “b” in the email, and the hyphenated 'out-look.com' domain"?

ajcp··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Databricks Genie is excellent from my experience, and provides for all your listed requirements.
ajcp··on Self Driving Car Insurance
Yup! Two or three times at this point, and haven't had an issue.

When I've filed they just process it straight through, and then one of their actual reps emails within x hours to just check in, give an update or clarifications, etc, but that's it really.

IIRC their whole approach to competitive pricing is doing away with manual claims investigations below a certain threshold, so this tracks.

ajcp··on Self Driving Car Insurance
I've had their Home Insurance since they started up and grabbed their car insurance a couple years ago. Competitive price, excellent customer service, no notes.
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