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elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
"the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing"

if you dont understand what that is saying, i can't help you.

elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
Stallman deserves to be criticized for his own positions.

And the emacs community deserves the right to call him out to distance ourselves from them.

elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
victim blaming is categorically defense of the actual perpetrator.
elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
here's the quote you didn't want to include

“We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing,” Stallman added. “Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.”

elif··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
It is a proven commodity already. Just not in our behind-the-curve country.

Look at NTT Data or SoftBank.

https://www.softbank.jp/en/sbnews/entry/20250917_01

elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
I'll explain instead of just adding the easily discoverable quote.

He is assigning the blame to Epstein's victims.

elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
"argued in an email thread last week that Marvin Minskey, the late AI pioneer and longtime MIT professor, was unfairly accused of sexual assault and that one of the underage girls in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation likely presented herself as “entirely” willing to have sex"

MIT scientist Richard Stallman resigns in the wake of his Jeffrey Epstein remarks https://share.google/L9w5zAnDjbvnrWhex

elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
I am an emacs main. I boot straight into emacs fullscreen mode by default.

I'm literally describing the resilience of the emacs community exactly as you described.

elif··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
Yea I literally said long term but HN voters have such a hate boner for anything adjacent to AI
elif··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
As long as you can control for fire, electrical safety seems like a temporary condition as robots and intelligent machines are cheaper and more available long term solution to hot swap blades in datacenter racks.
elif··on A Eulogy for Vim
If emacs can live through Stallman's descent into absurd un-asked-for pedophilliac defense positions, not limited to defense of Jeffrey Epstein himself, Vim can survive the simple passing of its creator.
elif··on Goodbye to Sora
i think that's a mis-statement of the problem being addressed here. It's not a question of how useful AI video will be generally. It's a question of OpenAI doing it specifically. IMO it's two factors:

1) the intellectual property issues make commercializing freeform video generation impossible. The more popular your service becomes, the easier it is for lawyers to descend upon you. It's a self-defeating framework.

2) google and specialized video-only startups are simply doing a much better job than they were.

elif··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
Look at marinetraffic.com and then try to map a course across the Mediterranean that won't be seen by dozens of ships. It's impossible.
elif··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
An aircraft carrier can be seen with the naked eye from 10 meters above the shore for about 28 miles.

So the entire Spanish coast, Moroccan coast, Algerian coast, mallorca, sardegna, Sicily, tunesia, the Greek isles, and who knows how many cruise ships, fishing vessels, and commercial aircraft all saw this ship.

elif··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
I seriously doubt there is a country on earth which lacks the capability to detect an aircraft carrier's presence in the Mediterranean sea.

We are not talking about stealth vehicles.

elif··on Nvidia NemoClaw
alright so the git history goes back 4 days.

I learned about nemoclaw 5 days ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2lMpLjxWA

but it was reported 8 days ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345GsxnrHHg

I am not anyone special. I don't know anything about nvidia. I just know that the "4 day history" you think matters, is not a reasonable belief given that random youtubers have been reporting on it.

and by "we" i mean git users. people who used git for its usefulness before github existed, and understand the value of a clean history over an accurate history.

elif··on Nvidia NemoClaw
Then give your agent its own name, its own accounts, and let it push things out without your name.
elif··on Nvidia NemoClaw
Sorry to be the one to inform you that we edit history in git.

There has been reporting on nemoclaw for the last couple weeks. Are you supposing that journalists were writing about software that hadn't even been designed?

elif··on Nvidia NemoClaw
I kind of hope nemoclaw uptake and spark usage pushes ARM into the spotlight for LLM development, making it the primary release target rather than x86.

This could be the opening we need to wrangle a truly opensource-first ecosystem away from Microsoft and apple.

elif··on White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
People who did not like the situation in the middle east did not vote for trump thinking it would improve things.

Because we have a true dichotomy I don't think it's reasonable to assume that trump had any sort of "policy" win there

elif··on DARPA’s new X-76
More likely the primary purpose is production and support contracts.
elif··on GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano
Nano medium must have been run when the servers were on fire
elif··on White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
I don't think there was as much pushback about his policy as much as there was discontent with an economic slowdown and a somewhat ironic (considering where we find ourselves) frustration with his age.
elif··on DARPA’s new X-76
1000 lbs is not a lot of troops
elif··on DARPA’s new X-76
For 1000lb of payload

https://www.twz.com/air/new-hypersonic-strike-recon-aircraft...

elif··on DARPA’s new X-76
Not a substantial enough speed increase to powerfully deter air defenses.

I guess the idea is that you ground transport it past air defenses and accomplish objectives?

elif··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
"unexpected" only because the agencies responsible for forecasting are partisan yes men.
elif··on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
Agree with this take for the most part. Vibe coding is bad enough with an engineer in charge. Without a computer science background or engineering experience it's way too easy to go off the rails.

The exception would obviously be all the skilled coders who got turned into PM's over the years due to bad salary/title structures or poor organization structure.

elif··on When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
Users
elif··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
I'm all for upholding international law and holding tyrants to justice.

I am also in favor of the US Constitution's separation of powers.

I would be equally pissed if Netanyahu died at the expense of rule of law.

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