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It is full of these short sentences that AI writing loves, sort of to feel "punchy". Normally you would copy-edit that stuff, join them up, have the writing have some rhythm. I agree with GP, the article is hard to read because it seems to have a lot of https://tropes.fyi/

> if they wanted to switch to pumping out destroyers, missiles and drones

This is such a naive take. Nobody is coming to US to try to outgun you. The moment petrodollar wobbles, the moment US Dollar stops being the world reserve currency, the game will be over for you. You will discover what it really means to be competitive, once the world stops giving you goods essentially in exchange for glass beads.

That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".

> The Feds added methanol to bootlegged hooch

how did that work? did the Feds pose as some false flag bootleggers? do you have some sources I could read up on?

thing is, russia has a large tradition of home distillation (samogonka), and they too have tropes of people going blind. there have been a lot of cases of people dying because of bad alcohol, here's somewhat recent case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/contaminated-cider-deaths-russi...

Oh, it's Mandala effect now? I could swear it was Mandela before.

Says who? Trillionaire capitalist overlords?

Read Tonsky for that. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ a disgrace. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/writing_direction@2x.webp...

In 2010 I was paying 10 cents per kWh. In 2025 I am paying 36 cents per kWh. What ever happened in these 15 years, it is an absolute death spiral.

until the day you accidentally run it in your home directory without any arguments.

would you enjoy it if running "rm" in any folder recursively deleted all files in it?

Sounds to me that etcd has data handoff consistency issues, and is just flying by seat of its pants: in other words, the moment IO subsystem hiccups, it just shits the bed?

I ship 0 projects and now with AI I can ship thousand times more in the same time frame!

In other news, Project Gutenberg not completely censored in Germany. Well done, Germany. https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html

And the works that previously had lead to Project Gutenberg being unavailable from Germany IP addresses will go into public domain in 2027.

Unless I misunderstand your metaphor, there is nothing you can do about the steamroller, it is going to roll, no matter what.

Remember how long it took for them to give up on that stupid touchbar and "butterfly" keyboard. Don't hold your breath.

If, as another comment states, the countries with highest birth rates are Chad, Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan and Yemen, how does that square with your "Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe" assertion?

indeed: https://github.com/pouyathe/glang/blob/main/source/dub/sourc...

The author just wants to apply system update, and it should "just work". The DFU part is just a distraction, what happened to "just works", as they point out in the article. We should not even _know_ anything about DFU unless we actually _are_ updating firmware.

Does it bother anyone else that the author drops "MiniMax" there in the article without bothering to explain or footnote what that is? (I could look it up, but I think article authors should call out these things).

I do see how it does, in a way. That something the designer thought is "invalid state" turns out a valid and possible state in real world. In terms or UI/UX, it's the uncomfortable long pause before something happens and screen renders (lack of feedback, feeling that system hangs). Or, content flicker when window is resized or dragged. Just because somebody thought "oh, this clearly is invalid state and can be ignored".

The real world and user experience requirements have a way of intruding on these underspecified models of how the world "should" be.

I'll posit that the distinction does not matter: the whole Chinese Room line of discourse has been counterproductive to putting in actual work.

Very poor audio quality, not listenable. Why do folks insist screaming into microphone and overloading the recording where it just nasty clipping?

It's cute when somebody very smart pretends to be "grug brain" but loses it's appeal when somebody pretty obviously not smart at all is exposed for what they are.

Crack on with it and don't keep us in the dark!

sufficiently advanced troll becomes indistinguishable from the real thing. think about this as you gaze into the abyss.

If think the attention is in proportion, people are reacting just like when a body has an inflammation. If a person of _this_ calibre can be fired, and not even fired, disposed as a used-up tissue, it is a sign of times.

I find the comments Copilot proposes is better than average comment quality for the code base I routinely work on: maybe you are so great you don't need any help ever, but that's not true for the average software dev.

well, C# and TypeScript is thanks to Anders Hejlsberg who does have sense of style.

I hope they can do some reinforcement learning from Stack Overflow moderator decisions also

(2018). So it's 7 years later, nothing has changed. Same old.