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jibeon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

AI is solving mathematics problems (that nobody - including mathematicians - wanted it to solve)

This is an indictment of mathematicians, not AI.

jibeon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Bari Weiss is an American, not an Israeli. Calling American Jews “foreign adversaries” is just evil.

jibeon U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

There was no crime, prosecution, or conviction. It was a civil lawsuit, with a default judgement because defendant never responded.

jibeon Does Georgism work? Five years later

High density is more profitable for developers, they have no interest in supporting SFH zoning.

jibeon The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

“Elon Musk personally literally killing hundreds of thousands of children”

What’s that high quality news source you got that one from?

jibeon Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

First issue is you are conflating investment and subsidies.

jibeon The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

I’ve never worked anywhere where lack of work or projects was the bottleneck. Time, headcount, and budget were always the constraints.

Even in cost centers like IT or ops, there’s usually an endless backlog of work, technical debt, support requests, and improvements that never get prioritized because resources are limited.

jibeon A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

I'm with you!

jibeon GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

To be clear, the Texas law only applies to mobile app stores, not the operating system, and there is no requirement to scan photo ID, just the vague,” commercially reasonable method of verification.”

jibeon MacBook Air with M5

Happens on my ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, personal laptop frequently enough i do a full power down when not using it. Definitely a hardware/Windows problem.

jibeon Layoffs at Block

Have you worked at a big company? It makes sense to me that a small group would be much more productive than a large group, even without AI. Throw in some AI help, and it could be much better.

jibeon Layoffs at Block

He explains the rationale, smaller teams work faster.

we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

jibeon Layoffs at Block

Job openings are down, but total jobs are up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

jibeon FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

Hannah Natanson is not in prison though.

jibeon US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

jibeon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Drink a glass of whole milk, then drink a cup of skim milk and tell me there is no difference. Try the same with full fat yogurt and non-fat yogurt. Big difference in satiety, but more importantly blood sugar response. Roughly the same amount of fat in a glass of whole milk as 1/4 pound burger.

jibeon US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

Fake job listings, possibly, but doubt. Fake low unemployment too?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

OK, how about employment, if the jobs are fake, this should be down:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

"Cope" is ignoring every stat that disagree with what you want to believe. We aren't in a great economy, It looks like it is flattening, but not bad, not shrinking, and there is an abundance of jobs.

jibeon US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

We also have the unemployment numbers, and they are low. If job openings were largely ghost listings, and we were in a stealth recession, we'd see it in rising unemployment. Now unemployment HAS been creeping up, but still is low. If it hits 5% then I'd worry about a downturn.

jibeon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

When you take a high satiety, high fat item, and replace it with a non-fat, low satiety item, you are in effect replacing fat with sugar, because you will eat/drink more of it to get same number of calories, and same amount of fullness.

jibeon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Taking the cream out is (by some diet theories) bad. The fat in whole milk slows down the absorption of lactose, leading to a slower rise in blood glucose compared to skim milk. Whole milk is more satiating as well, because of the fat.

If you are trying to have some reasonable balance of fat, protein, and carbs in your diet, pushing kids from whole to skim milk is going to move the diet towards consuming more sugar/carbs, even if you have a seperate rule trying to tighten sugar consumption.

jibeon US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL

Job openings are still very high, ~30% higher than the average for the last few decades.

jibeon Unifi Travel Router

You are in a hotel, you have a wife two kids. So assume 4 phones, 3 laptops, an ipad, and maybe a chromecast. It is faster and easier and more private to use a travel router, connect to wifi, and create a private network than tp connect and authenticate (and possible pay fees) for every device.

jibeon Unifi Travel Router

$79 is so cheap that if it saves you 5 min in setup it pays for the difference to a GL.iNet/tailscale setup.

jibeon Unifi Travel Router

Unfortunately, iPhone can't bridge wifi networks, which makes travel routers particularly useful if you have an iphone, and a laptop, and are staying at a hotel with wifi.

jibeon In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution

Watch out for electricians who try to rip off new EV owners. Make sure you get a few estimates. When we added a charger, bids were $2000, $2000, and $500.

jibeon A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat

Hmm, apparently it would have been useful..

jibeon A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career

These days, software development

jibeon Being poor vs. being broke

What I meant was they fooled themselves. They had negative assumptions about how Native Americans live and are treated, then they see a photo of a dirt pit, and even though it is completely implausible, assume it is a school. It is so far off reality it is notable.

jibeon Being poor vs. being broke

This is what Cottonwood Day School on the Navajo reservation actually looks like.

https://cds.bie.edu/

Clean modern buildings, desks, air conditioning, running water, very nice. You were fooled by that photo into making a bigger assumption about the full school and situation.

jibeon 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

Given the rarity of celiac disease, the amount of shelf space dedicated to gluten free products suggest a lot of self diagnosis.