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If my choice is between having the taxes I’ve paid weaponized against me or eliminating that agency and a reduction in my tax rate, at some point I’m going to choose the latter and push to have that function replicated at the state level.
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All over the US, the tracks are being upgraded to 110mph standards. It just a slow process: 5 miles here, 20 miles there. Whenever they can find the money they do a new section. Every single grade crossing must be upgraded, every single curve regraded, etc. Amtrak can run at 90mph on those sections with the locomotives they currently have.
Sometimes they string together enough upgraded rail. Essentially everything in Michigan has been running 110mph for 10+ years, with the newer Siemens locomotives that can handle it. Also, the Texas Eagle and Lincoln Service - the entire time they are in Illinois they are running 110mph.
Upgrading 5 miles of rail doesn't make the news. That doesn't mean it didn't happen :)
Come on, if you're going to spell "voilà" correctly, you might as well use it correctly too. "Et voilà!", not "And voilà!" :)
I found that the ship went through the Tsugaru Strait, so this is the appropriate great circle:
So, the NYT asked for this back in January and the court said no, but asked OpenAI if there was a way to accomplish the preservation goal in a privacy-preserving manner. OpenAI refused to engage for 5 f’ing months. The court said “fine, the NYT gets what they originally asked for”.
Nice job guys.
What is it doing 300 miles south of Adak, Alaska? (Yes I understand the curvature of the earth vs map projections causes the shortest route to appear to be a curve rather than a straight line). This should be passing within a few hundred miles of Hawaii, not Alaska, right?
Are these things incapable of sailing in open ocean? Do they always stay within a few days sail of land?
It’s a fresh change from your typical modern website.
If you’re wondering, it has to do with the temperature of the oil that they are cooked in. In the same sense that drinking too much water all at once is deadly, you’d have to eat a LOT of chips in a short amount of time for them to be dangerous.
Which is all to say that what you want is much more likely to come from Toyota or Ford or Hyundai or Kia than it is from Tesla.
I guess it’s good progress. But at best, this is only going to get them to parity with Cursor or VSCode or Zed, etc. And it is unlikely to be as flexible…
It’s ludicrous. If you follow his directions, you make it easier for people to catch up. So what’s the hurry?
Stealing others’ wind (or making it “dirty”) is a well-known and well-used tactic in sailboat racing. It is very effective.
One explanation of tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9Hz0TDFxE
I guess that’s what it takes to build new reactors in this day and age :/
The cat is out of the bag in terms of people passing around models that are “illegal” in your scenario, though such models would disappear from places like Huggingface. Running a commercial service that touches one of those models is off the table and will be blocked, at the IP level if need be, in essentially all the countries that matter economically to Chinese “exporters”.
Part of me wonders if this is related to the EU CRA. It mandates software support lifecycles. It’s a lot easier to say xxxOS 26 is supported until 2032, 27 until 2033, etc as opposed to iOS 19 is supported until 2032, macOS 15 is supported until 2033, etc etc
It’s really quite genius in that all the decision-making comes from people so far removed from the consequences of their actions that they’ll never see whether it works or not. The teachers have to deal with the BS whether they agree with the policy or not. And the negative outcomes get pushed on to someone else, a few years later.
Great gig if you can get it
You’re probably talking about TosLink cables (what else could you be talking about?).
They have the bandwidth to carry two channels of uncompressed digital audio. Which is what they were designed for.
If you’re using one to carry 5.1 or 7.1 audio from your TV to your soundbar, it’s compressed. An HDMI cable can carry that uncompressed. And so could an Ethernet cable.
I’ve heard there’s been somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 engine failures so far: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCRIT-25V274-6343.pdf
PS - don’t give GM too hard a time. Toyota’s new truck/suv engine is failing at a high rate too.
This seems to assume that all students are “discarding” the same quantity of items each year. It also assumes that the only student donations that occur are ones that are tracked by their university. It’s hard to believe that it is true.
A place like UChicago is not known for being a party school; I doubt Balenziaga or Valentino items are in high demand. I would assume that people aren’t all that into fashion that goes out of style quickly, thus they probably aren’t throwing as much away. But maybe that’s just an “unfair” stereotype I have about UChicago students ;)
One thing I do know, however, is that up in the area of Northwestern, there is a strong tradition of donating things to churches and synagogues, who then hold rummage sales. There is even a “rummage sale season” and a circuit - every weekend there is a different set holding sales. It seems that any such donations here would not show up in any data that this author has collected.
People who are eligible to vote but do not are giving an implicit vote in favor of whoever wins. There is no sense in thinking of it an any other way. (As an aside, you can also think of them as cowards who are unwilling to take a stand and choose the least bad option. Something all adults do on a regular basis).
So sure, if you count children and felons it may not be an absolute majority. On the other hand, you’re assuming that they would have voted for the person you voted for had they had that chance.
I’m starting a vibe-coding school that will offer vibe-coding certificates to prove your ability to employers. Soon, such certificates will be required to even land an interview!
Improvements that benefit only this piece of software are great, but not worth paying money for.
Typically, a public library is legally prevented from spending tax dollars to provide services outside the taxing area. This is a pretty reasonable limitation, but it does prevent the actual mechanics of operating interlibrary loans. It doesn’t really cost a lot of money - a van and a few part-time drivers can cover a pretty wide geographic area. But that money has to come from somewhere else. That’s where those federal grants came into play.
But there are plenty of cities that already experience this:
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Electric leaf blowers don't have the same top-end power as gas, but are so much more useful that you use them in unexpected places. Take them into your laundry room and blow out your dryer vent. Never sweep your garage again - just blow the dirt out. Want to get a small fire in your fire pit rip-roaring quickly? No need for gasoline or lighter fluid! Just point the leaf blower at it!
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Even Ferrari uses them when their hypercar comes into the pits during the distance races :)
PS, I also have an electric chain saw - it is truly awesome.
Better marketing around this would likely improve signups.
I've had one in my wallet since college; it has never been a primary card for me. But I recently needed to choose a new one and scrolled through the options on my phone. From the small photos, I chose something that looked like some sort of abstract painting. When it came in the mail, I realized that it was not a painting at all. It was way more interesting than I had imagined. And indeed, it is the only credit card I've ever had that has received compliments. Does that influence how often I pull it out of my wallet as opposed to the other cards in there? Perhaps...