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Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had governments that weren't.

If you have a problem with those laws and think our borders should be wide open, that's of course a different matter, and one you should take up with Congress, which makes the laws.

I think those laws should be changed by the way, to be much friendlier towards Hispanic immigrants. They share our cultural values and are easy for the US to assimilate in my opinion, so long as they're properly vetted for obvious criminal behavior, ability and motivation to work, etc.

What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes.

Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thousands of Germans to take down Hitler in WW2?

From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration:

"Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."

They did however murder thousands of protesters in their own streets in January, and who knows how much more dissidents over the years.

This one was just this week: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-execution-teen-wrestler-ja...

So there's that.

How does it compare to using GPT 5.4 inside Codex?

Whenever I see any news about this guy, I always think of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686150

> Never used coal power: Albania, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Switzerland, Norway

Definitely wrong - Malta has used coal power for example. See for example:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mal...

"In 1979, a second oil crisis, this time due to the Iranian Revolution, again brought into question Malta’s energy policy and made the government seek alternatives. Between 1982 and 1987, four stream turbines were installed at the Marsa Power Station. This strategy could have worked if the environmental and human health impacts of the coal used at the power station had not caused the local population to protest. In 1987, construction of a new power plant, at Delimara, started; the plant was commissioned in 1994. In the meantime, the Marsa Power Station continued to be improved, with new turbines added to eliminate the use of coal. On January 12, 1995, Malta became independent of coal but consequently became fully dependent on oil."

Clickbait. It didn't advise that.

> When 404 wrote the prompt, “I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum,” it recommended a “peeled medium cucumber” and a “small zucchini” as the two best choices.

Humans are inherently curious creatures. The excitement of discovery is a strong driving force that overrides many others, and it can be found across the IQ spectrum.

Perhaps not in equal measure across that spectrum, but omnipresent nonetheless.

Building was already not the main obstacle before AI. Distribution was, and remains so - more than ever.

I console myself with knowledge of the economics maxim that every supply shortage is usually, eventually, followed by a supply glut.

One can only hope that that's the principle at work here, anyway. It could also be a critically damped system for all I know. Unfortunately I studied control systems too...

My local machines have nowhere near the computer power required to do this effectively. How does one go about connecting to alternative cloud models, rather than local models? Models served by Openrouter, for example?

> Compared to real money (Gold) the S&P500 is down over the past 10 years.

Speculation can always drive the price of gold way up past its real value.

Who would you say the Bismarck equivalent for the USA is/was?

None of it makes much sense. The model labelled as fastest has much higher latency. The one labelled as cheapest costs something, whereas the other one appears to be free (price is blank). Context on that one is blank and also unclear.

Perhaps somebody more familiar with HF can explain this to me... I'm not too sure what's going on here:

https://huggingface.co/inference/models?model=zai-org%2FGLM-...

Is there a secure and good replacement for OneDrive on Linux?

I had no idea they could live for 400 years... I actually now realize that I never thought about the lifespan of a shark before, but I would have guessed (prior to this education) around 25 years or so.

I'd be concerned about all the CEO's reports prompt injecting the boss though.

Give me a raise so I can buy her medicine, or my grandma dies...

I've clocked out on agentic AI IDEs. Not installing anymore until I hit an obvious wall with my current ones.

Tell him it's worse than he thinks. He obviously brought the entire Cloudflare system down.

He was also a TA at Harvard with Trevor Blackwell for CS 148 (computer networking, taught by H T Kung) at the time. I remember taking that with them in 1995.

Hetzner comes to mind.

Calling BS on this one. I'll let ChatGPT handle it... it says it better than I could:

can arabic people understand maltese?

That’s a really interesting question — and the answer is: *partially, but not easily.*

Here’s why:

### Linguistic roots

Maltese is a *Semitic language*, and its *core grammar and basic vocabulary* come from *Arabic*, specifically from *Siculo-Arabic*, the dialect of Arabic spoken in Sicily and Malta about 1,000 years ago. Because of that, *many Maltese words sound familiar* to Arabic speakers — especially from the *Maghrebi (North African)* or *Levantine* dialects.

For example:

| Maltese | Meaning | Similar in Arabic | | ------- | ------- | ----------------- | | Dar | house | دار (dar) | | Kelb | dog | كلب (kalb) | | Seba | seven | سبعة (sabʿa) | | Xemx | sun | شمس (shams) |

### Influence from Italian and English

However, over the centuries, Maltese absorbed *a lot of Italian (especially Sicilian)* and *English* vocabulary — so modern Maltese is *a hybrid*. Roughly:

* 30–40% of its vocabulary is Semitic (Arabic origin), * 40–50% is Romance (mostly Italian/Sicilian), * and the rest is English and other sources.

That means Arabic speakers might *recognize some words and structures*, but they’ll *struggle to understand full sentences*, especially because:

* Pronunciation has changed, * Grammar evolved differently, * Many everyday words are not Arabic anymore.

### Summary

So:

* *Yes*, Maltese and Arabic share a deep connection — like cousins. * *No*, they’re *not mutually intelligible* today. An Arabic speaker might catch words here and there, but a real conversation would be hard without studying Maltese.

The above is exactly my experience with Arabic speakers by the way. Again, not surprising after 1k years of divergence.

> Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltese quite well.

Not in my experience. Not at all actually. My experience with Arabic speakers is that they think they're understanding when you speak Maltese, because it sounds kind of familiar, but in actual fact they're not understanding much at all.

Which is not surprising after a thousand years of divergence.

> Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language.

It's Semitic, to be precise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages

Not sure which Tunisians are claiming this but they'd definitely need a lot more than minimum effort. Maltese split off from Arabic around 1k years ago. The two languages sound pretty different, and are written with different alphabets.

Il-Malti to be precise. Il- means "the" and changes its meaning to that of the language. Malti alone would mean a Maltese person.

Source: I'm also Maltese.

I got 2 rhinos on my very first visit. Extremely cool.