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I’ve been thinking about something similar using a pizero2w on a little rover thing i have. Turn cc loose writing the software to drive it around while reading sensors for obstacle avoidance. It would be cool to prompt “drive to the wall, turn around, and come back” and see if it could figure it out.

Cruise missiles still costing multiple millions each is a rip off of American taxpayers. Weapon systems is a market ripe for “creative destruction” and you’re, ever so slowly, starting to see it with companies like Anduril.

If you live in an area covered by an HOA then you signed up for it, literally, like your signature is on the paperwork. I have zero sympathy.

If you don’t want to be a part of the HOA then don’t sign the contract. If you have to sign to buy the house then either sign or find another house. If they’re that bad then there ought to be lots of homes for sale that don’t come with an HOA contract.

> I can’t trust anybody

I don't know this Nick fellow but i don't think he's asking you to take anything on faith. Either it works out or it doesn't, he's just saying "it's looking good so far".

> gatekeepers bemoaning their gates being blasted off the hinges.

i think that's 85% of the response from software devs if not more. All of the devs I know who actually like to build have embraced AI and the new capabilities that come with it. The ones that guarded their little corner of code proclaiming only they, and their inner circle, have the power to comprehend it are the ones crying in the corner.

> just deserts for the STEM people

it is a little ironic that after the "creative destruction" of industry after industry all of a sudden now it's unfair and we weep. I say this as a software dev with his neck on the line like everyon else.

heh these models should be turned loose on all the proofs paid for and sitting on the shelf and see if they can find an actual application useful to mankind.

> Well done, mathematicians. You can now rest from your labors.

well i think the grieving is because they still have to make rent somehow.

To make senes of the drop we need to know how much they expected to raise in September. Were the expecting to raise $50B but only raised $23B? Or were they expecting to raise $25B but only raised $23B? That's an important detail. Further, "bond issuance stopped"... was that intentional or not? It's like we're getting half the story and then have to use our imagination and biases to make the story as bad as possible.

ftfa "Morgan Stanley attributed the decline to the large amount of debt already raised earlier this year."

ok, is that good or bad? They never say.

> Or, as I suspect, is “AI Data Center” simply a fake media buzzword that really means “Normal Data Centers” but with political baggage and stigma built-in.

No you're absolutely right. The only difference that I can tell is power requirements are legitimately higher because GPUs consume more electricity. More cooling is also needed because there's more heat generated. Aside from those two things, it's a plain old datacenter that companies have been building at break neck speeds since like 1996. Now that I think about it, how come there's no panic about additional Internet backbone capacity needed to support these "AI datacenters"?

> The problem wasn't the CDO, it was the obfuscation.

yes, i specificly remember when Lehman went under the banks stopped trusting each other's ability to assess their own exposure. The banks stopped lending to other banks and that's when Paulson got on his knees (literally, i think there's a picture of him on his knees in front of Nancy Pelosi) asking congress for cash to guarantee loans. The side effects started squirting out everywhere i think even Mcdonald's was hours away from bankruptcy because the corporate paper market suddenly ceased to exist. Also, money market returns turned negative briefly, that's like a negative interest rate on a traditional savings account bad. It was bizarro world for maybe 72hrs.

The movies don't really do justice to just how upside down and nonsensical the financial world became. It was a knife's edge for 2 or 3 days.

An engine built to yield 3x the required horsepower is bad engineering. That's what I mean.

Engineering is the science of “good enough“.

> automatically reset to the current date, every day

passes the password expiration policy, if they used the full month name and spaces then that would be a combination of upper/lower case letters, numbers, and "special chars". "1 May 2026" is the shortest date i can think of and it's 10 chars in length. not bad, not bad, possible dailywtf material.

I’m visiting Austin tx and was in a restaurant last night. On the menu it said party of 4 means automatic 20% tip added plus a 4% “administrative fee”. So 24% tip automatically added to the bill. Fortunately only had two people with me. They got zero from me.

> Because Maria..

Don’t be racist

I think it’s worth pointing out that you and your neighbors actually do have a voice in local government. You don’t just have to sit there and take it. NIMBYs have realized this and actually show up to be counted. You can too.

> that nobody has ever adequately explained to me.

Jesus it’s not rocket surgery. People want to live in a nice area, as more people show up and want to live in a nice area prices rise with rising demand accordingly. For the counter example, there are very large houses basically for free in Detroit. No one wants them.

> We gotta eat the pain up front to find a better collective tomorrow for everyone

And by “we” you mean not you.

They don’t evict you but put a lien on your home. When it’s sold the gov gets their taxes then. Also, a sheriff is an elected official and evicting an 80 year old because they can’t pay their taxes is not good for their career.

They read the contract before moving in though right?

You’re stilling paying taxes for nothing in addition to HOA fees. Another fee isn’t the answer.

People do this out in rural areas, it would be interesting ot do the same in an urban setting. For example, start in the middle of a city foreign to you with only the clothes on your back and, to spice it up, no shoes. No phone, no contacts, nothing else. How would you survive and thrive?

Didn't bother with the article, if you're reading about it here then it most definitely is not off grid. you'll never hear or read about people off grid because they're... off grid.

:shrug: LLMs understand those too.

Just give the LLM requirements and have it output rust. Just like giving a compiler a text file and it outputs machine code.

He didn’t spend that much either. That’s the equivalent API cost using his $200/month subscription. It took less than a day so I guess it cost about $7 in actual money.

> Ted Chiang's remark that Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off

but that's every economic model and every government model. That remark says nothing.

this makes me think of roku's bassilisk or whatever it was called. Maybe you're all in a simulation run by an AI and being punished as a warning to others.