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bootsmann··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Less time on sick leave would be measurable…
bootsmann··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
You are absolutely right :)
bootsmann··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
I don’t think this is true at all. Maybe if you have an agent writing some of your code it will be 99% because its so verbose but I don’t think the modal software engineer is a vibecoder.
bootsmann··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
Most of this is googleable but there are thousands of traders that make sure the gold price is the same globally so nobody had to “move” their gold in the reverse for this trade to work.

The difference between London and the US is that the bars are of different size (12.5 vs 1kg).

bootsmann··on How to read more books
An easy trick nowadays is to simply log out of the accounts. Most social media websites really want you to log in so they become unusable when you log out. Its a good defense in depth strategy.
bootsmann··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
Its also an interesting way to discover what that part of the brain is for, right.
bootsmann··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
The US doesn’t have this leverage either, Trump is just uniquely willing to hurt his own country for his own idiosyncrasies. It is pretty established at this point that Americans were the most hurt by his tariffs.
bootsmann··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Their options are probably insane sunk cost, hard to steal an engineer who has Xm in potential gains if they choose to stay.
bootsmann··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
DMA is killing innovation by, checks notes, not allowing Apple to lock out competitor products from competing on an even playing field?
bootsmann··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Its honestly so annoying, every 3 years we have to vote against the same garbage proposal because the SVP is unwilling to accept the will of the electorate.
bootsmann··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Immigration is being controlled, EU immigrants require a work contract to come here (and consequentially 80% are employed with the rest split between spouses, kids and students). I strongly prefer this system over having some random bureaucrat in Berne decide who is "valuable" and who isn't.
bootsmann··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
It is a population cap, you can read this proposal its like 5 lines of text.
bootsmann··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
> more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that)

This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so rich.

bootsmann··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
I can sell the tomatoes in my garden for twice the price of those in the supermarket and still make massive loses.
bootsmann··on Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years
> the research doesn't mention anything about the socioeconomic environment in which each of the children grew in.

The main trick behind randomized control trials is that you can disregard factors like this because these effects would be randomly distributed as well.

bootsmann··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX needs 4 profitable consecutive quarters to be included. If you have a lot of faith that they will achieve this I recommend you buy day 1 so you can ride the highs when the passive money eventually pours in.
bootsmann··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Read the quote you posted again
bootsmann··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
S3 is strongly consistent, if you need it anyways you can just use s3 keys to deconflict and store the workflow state.
bootsmann··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
Advisory locks are preferred for this anyways because holding a lot of SELECT FOR UPDATE doesn’t scale too well.

Edit: Actually I checked this again and apparently the advice has now changed to the inverse.

bootsmann··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
You’re going to need to strongly source this one, sounds completely made up.
bootsmann··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
Is it really a false positive if railway lets people run abusive services on GCP and then GCP consequently shuts them down?
bootsmann··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
You need a separate pin because windows lives on the encrypted disk so you need to decrypt it before you can boot completely.
bootsmann··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
fTPMs also have similar issues. The real takeaway is that if your threat model includes actors capable of executing attacks against BitLocker you need to put a password/pin on it in addition to the TPM.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14717

bootsmann··on Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
This is what the Digital Euro is supposed to be.
bootsmann··on Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
I think Mastercard and Visa are deathly afraid of having their nice duopoly regulated more tightly (as is already done in the EU) and therefore they consequentially put in a lot of effort to steer clear of topics that would give politicians a good excuse to do so.
bootsmann··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
The reason why it is done this way is that “social media” is much harder to delineate and also not what is generally considered harmful.
bootsmann··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
The price you pay for anthropic must include the price of training new and better models which is incredibly costly. If you use the models someone else already spend money to develop you don’t need to pay this price.
bootsmann··on EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
Can you model the flow of the attack you want to mount here?

Is it the following:

Issuer revokes the wallet of Alice and then publicly says “This ID is Alice btw” and then verifiers can check their lists to see whether any of their received signatures are revoked (in which case they must be Alice)

bootsmann··on EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
What surveillance capacity? In what way does the spec build surveillance capacity?
bootsmann··on EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
> for example disallowing blocking/removing someone’s id

If I lose my passport I am obliged to call the police so that they revoke it, if I lose my phone with my digital ID on it they also need to be able to revoke that ID.

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