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Were they actually not breaking Dutch laws? Around terrorism-related activities I would guess the laws are fairly similar across Western countries, partly due to 9/11. Speech regulation has been consistently different between the US and Europe, including the UK - the US even passed laws to refuse to enforce UK libel judgments 15 years ago after Americans became aware of their abusive effects.

If European countries banded together to direct their banks to offer services to the sanctioned ICC judges, for example, I think the US would back down on that - yes even under Trump, although there would be some bluster first.

Paella is commonly made with rabbit in Spain.

Have you seen who the previous president of Stanford was ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier-Lavigne

Source?

It is sad that consoles much newer than the PS2 will be very hard to preserve. On the other hand, I feel that the classic video game era ended by the 2010s or so. So maybe there won’t be that much interest in preserving the newer games, partly because they had so much DRM, required online play, and such, such that they’re harder to preserve.

This may seem a little bit arbitrary, but this is not uncommon throughout history. For example, in a normal English literature class, you’re going to be assigned Shakespeare. You will be assigned a bunch of novels from the 19th century, but not very much in between. Yeah, sure, there are a few works, probably, from the 1600s and 1700s, but not many compared to those other ones that I mentioned.

Video games might be the same way, where the games that were made from the NES to around 2010 are the ones that people care about far into the future.

> just 20 years ago, all the most popular software shipped with NO tests

Are you getting older? A lot of people anchor their intuition of time and history to a certain year. There are probably still lots of people who think the 1990s is not that long ago even though it’s now over a quarter century since it ended. Maybe you mentally default to 2012 or so, when it might be true that most popular software shipped without automated tests (although manual QA was a lot more extensive in 1992).

But 20 years ago is now 2006, and unit tests were well established as a best practice. Perl had extensive automated tests in the late 1990s that everyone who ever compiled Perl would have noticed, since they were run by default and produced obvious output. Kent Beck’s “Test Driven Development: By Example” was released in 2002, and popularized both the name and practice.

I’m guessing that the knowledge of the techniques to support large-scale web search have diffused out of Google - it has been a few decades after all. Not to mention that the distributed system knowledge that used to live only in Google was either published by Google or cloned in other projects, usually made by ex-Googlers. And you can now rent capacity at scales that 20 years ago required Google to build lots of their own data centers.

Also, there is now a use case for paid search APIs - LLMs and agents - that essentially didn’t exist a few years ago. Not sure why Google hasn’t leaned more into this, but probably a combination of Gemini and Ads interests have combined to view their search index as an increasingly valuable asset, when if anything it might be corrupted already by these interests and therefore be less valuable.

But the fact that she went on leave just as it became clear that Anthropic looked to be hitting escape velocity is suspicious, although not dispositive. When she was hired, her health issues also stopped her from coming into the office, but she still worked from home.

Those phrases often imply that they were fired or asked to resign - although the deniability can be useful, which is why they’re so often used. As a recent example, Fidji Simo went on leave from her role at OpenAI several months before leaving. Although I don’t know for sure, I would suppose that she was essentially fired when she went on leave, and the subsequent success of Codex after she went on leave confirmed the decision to fire her. It’s possible that, if Codex hadn’t been a success, she might have been brought back, so putting her on leave was useful for optionality.

GPT-6 Astra (low reasoning, fast mode) in codex-cli, using a basic harness to send commands to play and reads frames as images. Beats the game in real time

Amicus brief PDF: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwzqxzbpw/...

I have a skill that instructs ChatGPT/Codex to verify the rendering using the Mac versions of Microsoft Office. Even without registering, you still can open files read-only, which is enough. Apparently Office refuses to open some Open Office XML documents that LibreOffice is fine with, so that's another reason to use this. After a few times, Codex ended up storing some memories to stop producing broken files in the first place.

I generated the skill originally for ChatGPT 5.5, so some of these may not strictly be necessary anymore with later models. But posting here in case others find it useful: https://gist.github.com/telotortium/844386f762c4b3bab49999ba...

You can use ChatGPT without being logged in

Hence why USAID was (allegedly) co-opted to perform the same role.

The right-wing areas of the internet, even now, say the decline of whatever progressive or left-wing phenomenon they’re talking about is because they ran out of money after USAID was defunded.

Hmm, I guess everyone here is using Claude? I find that Sol is much more restrained, to the point where I have a prompt to tell it to add short comments for things that are not obvious. Really, I find the verbosity problem to be worse in tests. I regularly prompt my review agent to remove tests used only for scaffolding to write the code in the first place. The agent is in a way following strict TDD, which reminds me why I don’t like TDD, even though some of the generated tests can be useful.

Here it doesn’t mean “digital rights management”, but “Direct Rendering Manager”, a component of the kernel’s graphics stack: https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I mean, compared to a lot of other states Texas is fairly well run for its budget.

So you want it to end with Norway essentially coerced out of financial stress to join the US as a junior partner?

The author does have this bio at the bottom:

A guest post by Zachary Jones “My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”

Gitlab does exist

The initial reporting implied it was some catastrophic data loss, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire. The truth, while concerning, is a lot more boring.

Also some articles and people on social media were unclear that it was just a single PBS station involved, rather than all PBS content. I saw comments that thought that all the archives for Sesame Street were lost.

It’s “The Physics of Dissonance”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag

It’s here: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/remote-connections

But I can’t tell from these docs if the ChatGPT desktop app needs to remain running on your macOS/Windows host as a proxy, or if you can directly SSH from your phone to your Linux box with just Codex CLI.

That was already supported from your phone by using SSH, using the app server feature of the Codex CLI. The Codex desktop app is more for computer use, browser control, and the UI paradigm of GUI, which is overall just richer and better than a TUI, albeit more heavyweight.

Bending Spoons must be watching Dropbox closely. Like the other companies that have been acquired by them, Dropbox has reached its final stage of stability.

They need to be able to serve their market. The price increase is partly load shedding. If they improve their ability to serve their load, they can always drop it again, as OpenAI did with Luna recently.

1. George Hotz exhibits strong signs of Dunning-Kruger in most things he does nowadays.

2. Even in exploit development, his original field, he might be able to find vulnerabilities in mature, well-maintained software with security programs. But would he charge $20k or more for that service? Say it with me, Claude: “Absolutely!”

But if you have proper risk-based vulnerability management, you should already have classified that CVE as a lesser priority. This is something that modern LLMs should in theory make a lot easier, although I’m unsure if workflows exist to continuously build a proper architectural understanding of your systems, at least at a feasible cost.

Is "Take Five" sad-sounding even though it's written in a minor key? Maybe it sounds somewhat "cooler", not as bright as a major key piece of the same tempo and energy would be, but it doesn't sound sad.

Also enterprises have to pay per-token.