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blks··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Hopefully it won’t be leaking fuel anymore with modern engines
blks··on It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
People are people, LLMs are a commercial product. IP in question wasn’t not used according to its license, while researchers in general access it within licensing agreement terms.

Here we have a commercial product that is produced using IP against its licensing agreement, contains said IP within it, and can (closely) reproduce this IP.

blks··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Doesn’t mean we have to eat people or murdering animals. A rare person beats himself up for eating salad, but I promise you majority of people around you have various reservations about murdering and hurting animals and people. Growing up in some cultures and being fed abstract clean pieces of flesh just allows people to compartmentalize.
blks··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
We got? We didn’t get anything last time I checked, we are offered to pay rent to access this intelligence, at a discount
blks··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Do what? Customer searching for a physical book will do print-on-demand or what do you mean? Most customers will go with a cheap and convenient option
blks··on A note on subscription prices from LWN
I’m occasional lwn reader and I had no idea there are subscriptions there!
blks··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Why not? It’s the same as everywhere else, it has men. Just knowing that places like Kiwi Farms exists is enough evidence of good number of garbage people
blks··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Really depends if company has some spyware installed. My work MacBook was just given me as plain new MacBook that I installed everything myself. Personal iCloud, work OneDrive, no corporate spyware
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Don’t be mistaken, climate refugees will be white as well
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
I imagine huge fake monoculture forests are partially to blame, besides climate change
blks··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Removing copyright will benefit parasites and big players more than small artists and businesses. Big businesses won’t have to eg obtain any licensing to publish someone else’s novel or technical book.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
This reads like a very good dramatic catastrophy movie. This is very alarming.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
How much water usually cost in dryer regions of USA?
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Trees don’t grow otherwise in that area? Like if you would stop watering, will they die? Future proof solution could be selling and buying somewhere where climate change won’t hit as hard, eg north, but I guess not everyone can afford that, and cooler regions may not offer sufficient sustenance or infrastructure like schools and jobs.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Better solution would be migration and building and expanding cities. I have huge doubts current systems will be able to or even consider to tackle catastrophic problems that are 10-20-30 years ahead, huge public investments, forcing capital to share too, drain dry all the oil biz. Instead it will be free for all
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Especially when he hires too little people, makes them work 80hrs a week and expect big and fast results
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
How exactly other websites “gave it all away”? Also examples you list are websites putting some explicit rule eg in their robots.txt or filtering web crawlers. This is all a reaction to existing situation, so Reddit for sure has been scrapped before Reddit realised what was happening.
blks··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Accessing the site may already mean that you agree to TOS. Also if you don’t see an explicit copyright terms on some text on the internet it doesn’t mean that it’s public domain. Same as checking a checkbox. Text being small and somewhere is not an excuse for a corporation to steal and sell other people’s work.
blks··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Somehow it still lead to two deaths. Maybe GPs didn’t ask/didn’t know about airport malaria, or airport workers were some subcontractors and never gotten instructed.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Just checked my phone, and yea there is an option to do it via Wallet, even easier. I’ll show this to my colleagues if I go there again someday.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
And here I was all this time double pressing power button to open wallet like a fool. The more you know.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Some googling revealed that apparently all iphones starting from version 8 support nfc-f/felica.
blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Not sure about android, but first time I went to Japan I managed to install Suica app on my iPhone, that added Suica card to the wallet. So now I can pay with Suica and also top it up using apple pay. Only downside is that Suica app is all in Japanese, but there are guides online that explain what to press.
blks··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
In my experience it’s quite uncommon for immigration visas/residence permits to require to leave
blks··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Are these rules actually that destructive, or are we witnessing astroturfing campaign?
blks··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
Even two minutes is crazy long. Does it really takes this long to make small edits with agentic LLMs?
blks··on Bun 1.4
The author didn’t care to himself, just merging enormous PRs with “lol” tweets about how github doesn’t display all the changes because there are too many.

This is unmaintable mess, and the author himself is struggling already, given how he pushed the release date ten times.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
That too, I’m sure that all big players constantly adjust their offerings: change token limits, system prompts, various filters/other auxiliary systems.
blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
> I spent a day's worth of tokens (5x) rephrasing and eliminating comments.

Surely it would be trivial to do it yourself, and it would have a side effect of making you more familiar with your project.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Nth post about another model suddenly feeling “worse” or “off”. Seems like active users of these models can only judge it based on a vibe and a feel.
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