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This is why the President should not have the power to pardon. If it turns out the justice system is sending people to jail who should not be there, we need to reform the justice system, not provide the President with a veto that keeps the bad system intact.

The danger is that we give good leaders too much power, and they’re then replaced by someone who abuses it. And that’s why we need to be careful how much power we give someone, even if we’re sure they will use it wisely.

Is distillation fair use then?

I currently pay $0.005/GB for bandwidth, which works out to a similar amount in Euros. So this tax would constitute a tenfold cost increase to deliver data to France.

Universal basic income is the new trickle-down economics. What it means is the wealthy get most of the money in the economy and they give everyone else a few scraps - the minimum amount possible to avoid pitchforks at their door.

I’ve never encountered in my life a new technology that was adopted this quickly. In just a few years AI is being used in some way by almost everyone, no matter if they’re tech-savvy or not. It’s also interesting that everyone uses it but it’s also pretty widely hated at the same time.

The demand is there - I just don’t think the revenue streams have been fully figured out yet. Ultimately I think the AI providers will converge on allowing their AI to respond to queries with sponsored suggestions, quite simply because there’s too much money being left on the table to not do that.

Google is making these massive investments because they’re terrified that they’re going to be eclipsed or turn into IBM. But Google has way more of a buffer to play the long game than OpenAI or Anthropic.

There’s a lot of focus on the price of Chinese cars but they’re also beating US cars on specs too. Many have fast charging in less than 10 mins - provided the charger is powerful enough. And China is building the charging infrastructure to support that too, with 480KW, 600KW and even 1MW chargers.

I would like to see Chinese EVs allowed into the US market to compete if not on price, at least on specs.

This might be the evidence Republicans were looking for to enact onerous voting restrictions. And they probably didn’t need to do it either: voters are extremely angry right now and Democrats probably could have won the Senate without this. Once again I’m reminded of a Jon Stewart quote: (to the effect of) “Democrats have America behind them…. how will they screw it up?”

Luckily Elon was born in South Africa and is therefore ineligible to be president. Although he has enough money to pull the strings of whoever’s in power, so it probably doesn’t make much difference.

They don’t have a right to privacy when they’re at work. The Supreme Court has said it is legal to film officers, including their faces, while carrying out their duties.

Part of the problem is that the justice system is as slow as molasses. They tried to hold him accountable for things he did in his first term and four years wasn’t long enough.

Yeah, piano playing was a bad example. There’s a reason MIDI keyboard manufacturers try so hard to replicate the weighted feel of a real piano. Your fingers need feedback.

Kids will grow into the next generation of adults and having a screen you can’t touch will probably feel like an anachronism to them.

I personally don’t think there’s such a thing as user error. If a user can’t figure out how to use your product correctly, that’s a problem with how the product is designed.

Built-in chatbots that you can ask how to do something make things easier for users but they may be masking UX problems.

Why post at all if you don’t consider it important enough to spend time writing yourself?

Isn’t it bad if it doesn’t upload to the cloud? The officer can just seize it and you don’t have another copy.

Flavio promised to pardon his father, so the other effect of this is that Bolsonaro stays in jail. Although by jail I mean house arrest, which is something that rich, powerful people manage to get somehow and is barely a punishment.

The bigger issue here is that even if they don’t cheat and work hard to get all As, there may be no career for them at the end of it.

If you take away all regulation you’d probably end up with a monopoly anyway, as companies would no longer be prevented from merging with their competitors or using underhand tactics to gain market share.

This is comparatively a bargain compared to what the DoD wanted to charge:

> In 2015, the Department of Defense told a Freedom of Information Act requester, who was asking for records on tools used to preserve data on seized devices, that fulfilling their request would take 15 million hours and cost $660 million.

(15 million hours = over 1700 years)

I agree - it is easier to prove that a software implementation is correct. In many other industries the definition of what’s good work is less tangible. There are also jobs where the liability for mistakes is extremely high.

China also deployed over 300 GW of solar last year, not to mention that EVs are really taking off there. I’d prefer if if they deployed zero coal, but I don’t think it’s the same as “building like we did”.

I don’t know if embargoes have much effect anymore. They used AI to find this issue, meaning anyone else could also find the issue with time and the right model. The clock is always ticking after a CVE but now it ticks faster. I am certain that companies like Cellebrite are pointing a bunch of models at popular repos and filing away all the exploits they find in a database.

My favorite part of this fiasco is mainstream news outlets trying to explain to non-technical viewers what PHP is.

From the BBC:

> Think of going online to visit a website like ordering some food.

> When you enter the site, the web server takes your request and runs the PHP code - like a waiter taking your order to the kitchen.

> The PHP code searches the site's database and follows a script to prepare the page - like a chef following a recipe to make a meal.

> When complete, the web server then delivers the page to the browser, and it appears on screen - that’s your waiter bringing you your dish.

> Either way, memory leaks here aren’t too relevant.

Why would memory leaks in a long-running service not be relevant?

Trying to install this update but it appears that Launchpad doesn’t have the bandwidth for half the world to all update at the same time.

I recently learned how much some of the top OnlyFans creators make. I was expecting it to be a couple of million a year, but it’s more like a couple of million a day. There are some OnlyFans creators that make more money than LeBron James.

This is what bothers me about all the vibe-coded Rust ports. The LLMs are mostly porting the existing architecture and code as-is, which was intended for a different language with different features and tradeoffs. A port that actually uses Rust’s features and is architected in a way that makes sense for Rust code would be a lot better, more maintainable (if that matters anymore) and probably faster too.

Another advantage human ports have is the opportunity to reconsider earlier architectural decisions and change them, instead of just enshrining them in the new language.

It can be very difficult to walk away from things you’ve poured time, money and hard work into for a decade, irrespective of how many users you have.

Because they want it to be true.