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billnad··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Link works great for me on a mac. Not sure about Mobile
billnad··on Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay
Yikes, never looked at it that way. I always think of the people making things better, or that move the needle more worldwide but you are very right, the Nobel Prize is going to be awarded to someone who has been in war zones where there are tough decisions to be made
billnad··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
I remember years back, I was maybe 5 years into being a sysadmin and saw that Microsoft was hiring, at the time they said that they expected high proficiency in the following.... And listed every piece of software they produced. It was ridiculous then and probably the same thing is the case now.
billnad··on Mistral Large 4
Just tried M365 Copilot with a premium account. Petrichor
billnad··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
As a native English Speaker I can tell you that I would have some trouble talking out an email. I like the back and forth in my head of editing as I go. Text messaging may be fine but email is more difficult for me to just talk through.

I am loving the conversation here though of how people are using speech to talk to LLMs or not though, it is something that no one talks about much

billnad··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
I like the new tab as well. Otherwise I will forget what I went to. My process is to go through an interesting site, like HN, and then be able to see these interesting sites after that.

I guess it depends on a persons web workflow though

billnad··on What Being Ripped Off Taught Me
Yes, I guess also trust the situation when it looks completely wrong. your gut is not lying when it sees that as well
billnad··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Also in BC and I agree completel;y. The one hour offset seems strange. The trouble with any time change is that I still wake up a couple hours before the sun in the morning in the Winter in Vernon and in the Summer I couldn't get up early enough for a sunrise. I try to get out as much as often during the day in the Winter as I am sure I am starved for the Sun in the Winter. Was much tougher in Calgary
billnad··on Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
Back when I was first learning about Tech (early 2000's), I installed a mail server at home and configured it all wrong so I gave up on it. A few days later I noticed that my drive was getting full and didn't know why. This is how I learned about a honeypot, I had left it running, someone had used it for sending spam but since I screwed up the setup all the spam was stuck on my computer with nowhere to route out.

Last time I setup a mail server

billnad··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Gemini 3 Flash gave me a fun answer!

Since your goal is to wash the car, you should definitely drive it there.

As an IT guy, you can think of it like this: walking to the car wash is like remoting into a server to run a script, but forgetting to include the actual data payload. You'll arrive at the destination, but you won't have the "hardware" present to perform the intended task!

Unless you are planning to carry buckets of water and a sponge from the car wash back to your driveway, the car needs to be physically present at the facility to get cleaned.

Drive the 50 meters—it'll be the shortest commute of your day!

billnad··on Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea
The part of the article that caught me was that European Companies used to just drain nuclear waste (not sure what type), into the rivers in China and they would eventually flow into the sea
billnad··on X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
I also use https://spaceweathernews.com/ Lots of data in there for us to see the sources and effects
billnad··on Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Reminds me of Africam. Back in the day my kids were very young and we would check it out every morning to see if we could see animals live at the watering holes, probably back around 2005-2008 or so?
billnad··on The Dire Wolf Is Back
So disappointed that this isn't an article about the Grateful Dead
billnad··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
This makes me think of people that change two lanes very quickly to be able to turn at that next corner. We all see them, they piss us off through their bad planning but in the end I don't think an autonomous vehicle would ever try this, depending on programming of course.

Would also be nice to see all incidents, not just injury incidents to see what kind of unexpected "mistakes" these cars are making

billnad··on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
I do remember having a Blackberry and my IT Manager at the time thought it was crazy to have to reply to emails after work. So I guess there is quite a bit of freedom lost