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He’s not claiming the rewrite is a clean room implementation. In fact he’s explicitly saying it is not:

> However, the purpose of clean-room methodology is to ensure the resulting code is not a derivative work of the original. It is a means to an end, not the end itself. In this case, I can demonstrate that the end result is the same — the new code is structurally independent of the old code — through direct measurement rather than process guarantees alone.

I was unaware that the secretary of defence was a combat role?

He (and his allies) have referred to him as "warfighter": https://www.radiofree.org/2025/04/23/look-ma-im-a-warfighter...

> Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply chain.

Is the only sentence in that article related to the title and there’s no information to back up the statement? How is this a news article?

The rest of the page rehashes last week.

You have a car (I assume, replace “car” with whatever else if not).

The government asks if they can rent your car. I hope we agree that you don’t have to say yes. (Specific exceptions exist to places of lodging etc.)

Anthropic is exercising their right to say no in the same way.

This is another example of Goodhart's law in action, right?

Weirdly Pediatrics (chart 7) skews the other way (less publications tended to get into residency programs)? Are those doctors/administrators/programs somehow seeing through the nonsense?

Amazon had the concept of terminal role (SDE2, but I’ve heard it has changed) long before facebook existed.

The updated text still says:

> For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities.

Isn't the "... as consistent with these authorities" phrase the problem as it allows their interpretation to contractually hold?

> Setting AI aside for a moment, this reflects a broader issue in India and elsewhere. When institutions respond to new technologies with anger or threats rather than systemic thinking, it signals a deeper problem.

No, especially in this case when the first appeal to the high court resulted in the high court brushing it off as if nothing happened.

It was a reprimand two to institutes (the trial court and the high court) they have a job to do and they can't shirk that responsibility.

Is this just an ad for Delta? I couldn't find the answer to "Why Delta Air Lines Doesn't Want Blended Winglets on Most Aircraft Anymore" (just that they seem to have switched to the split-scimitar, not why) but I could find out a tonne of details about their "new first class seats, which debuted in 2022..."

You open with

> Every driver in the UK has experienced this. Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate.

But then go on to explain how that is exactly true. The truck driver is taking time from *all* drivers on "roughly 4.5 miles of dual carriageway", just so that they can end the day 5 miles ahead.

> The five minutes of inconvenience to you saves them meaningful time and money over the course of a day.

It's five minutes of inconvenience to *everyone* on that 4.5 mile stretch of highway that nets the truck 5 minutes (5 miles ahead at ~60 mph). That's a very selfish and inconsiderate outcome.

Have you tried renting recently?

New CEO will be Asha Sharma, who was the president of CoreAI at Microsoft.

It’s a little worrying that she has to include this preemptively in her statement:

"We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop."

> Autopilots in airplanes are kind of dumb (keep heading, speed, and altitude, they won’t do much anything else)

That is absolutely false.

A 20 year old avionics suite in General Aviation (GTN 450) does much more than maintain altitude, speed & heading - you input a flight plan including an approach, it will fly the flight plan, capture the approach signals (VOR/localiser/whatever - which is far more complex than “keeping course”) all the way down to approach minimums.

It can go down to 200ft for an LPV approach.

The trend is to include as much as the aircraft’s capabilities in the checkride now.

For an IFR checkride, if you do it in an aircraft equipped with autopilot, at least one approach will have to be flown with the autopilot.

Not sure if that’s made it’s way to the PPL checkride (or been codified) but it’s inevitable.

He (Rick Song, Persona CEO) is verified:

   > Identity
   > 
   > Verified using government ID in March 2025

Not that I would necessarily trust a verification badge for someone who controls the company with the responsibility for generating verification badges.

There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.):

    class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300"

and semantic names which use the CSS cascade:

    class="main-content subheading"

Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse.

Isn’t that what utility classes are? Shorthand for inline styles?

Not saying it’s good/bad, but it feels like that’s the use case

Also used incorrectly most of the time. They meant to use “debatably”.

Arguably:

- used to say that a statement is very possibly true even if it is not certain (merriam-webster)

- in a way that can be shown to be true (cambridge)

ie. you can be prove it through argument, not “you can make the argument”

You are confident that I am wrong - why don't you share your source?

I'm giving ballpark numbers because I am in this space and don't want to dox myself.

Then you should be asking them instead of arguing with random internet people

No, I know how much each honeycomb costs (BOM cost, that is); pretty confident on the radars; and I can guess at the cameras and compute.

$50k? The sensor kit on the Waymo’s ipace is north of $300k. (Which completely inverts that calculation)

Right, but you do stuff other than work 24 hours a day, right? You have fun, relax, etc.

Counting the 100w for 24 hours for a human doesn’t match up with counting the power usage from “AI” for only the 10 minutes it’s doing a task.

Also - units issue: 100 watts for a day is 2400 watt-hours. It’s a moot point anyway because the power draw for the frontier models is an order of magnitude off that the division by 24 is basically meaningless.

If you as a human are coding for 24 hours a day as the benchmark for LLM efficiency we have other problems.

A human consumes about 100 watts when not doing any physical exertion (round number, rule of thumb). So unless you can show an LLM running on 100w compute with capabilities similar to a human, they’re less efficient.

The CVE referenced is caused by this commit:

https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fa3245ac8c28...

One of the changes is:

    -  getterminaltype (char *user_name, size_t len)
    +  getterminaltype (char *uname, size_t len)

What is the reason for a rename these days? If I saw that in a code review I’d immediately get annoyed (and probably pay more attention)

Betteridge's law done right! Answer then explanation

I think Publisher would be the equivalent to FrameMaker from the Office suite. Publisher from Office ~2016 could definitely do that.

Unfortunately I think Publisher has faired even worse than Word in terms of stagnation, and now looks to be discontinued?

I’m confused, the statement is that SQLite has a proprietary test suite? It does. Where’s the FUD?

Turso tried to add features to SQLite in libsqlite but there were bugs/divergent behaviour that they couldn’t reconcile without the full test suite.

The next bullet point:

> 2. The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests…