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A few years ago I wrote a script to compare my numbers against all previous drawings. Still didn’t “win”!

Are folks not using migration assistant when they get a new Mac? I’ve had the “same” macOS install for almost 20 years, across 6 or 7 machines, and it’s fine. I see the value of nix-darwin if you use multiple Macs and change them frequently, but that’s never been me.

My understanding is Apple will be hosting Gemini models themselves on the private compute system they announced a while back.

This basically never happens, about 100 people die a year in the US during a “burglary gone wrong”. People think it’s common, though; it’s the go-to cover story in almost any Dateline episode.

Not the nicest thing, but when I was grocery shopping for Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, a stranger shared their “secret” for picking out good sweet potatoes (she was making sweet potato pie). She picked out a few for me. Just one of those warm fuzzy moments that we never get enough of.

A few years ago, I was in the drive through of a Starbucks on the east side of Seattle. A very shiny Porsche 911 was in front of me, and I was kind of rolling my eyes. Who needs to drive a Porsche to Starbucks? Douchebag.

Whoever it was paid for my order. Kind of a record-scratch moment, just completely changed my mood and was a good reminder to not be negative for no reason.

AGENTS.md as a “project” is hilarious to me. Thank you so much OpenAI for “donating” the concept of describing how to interact with software in a markdown file. Cutting edge stuff!

Sounds like a lot of waiting around, versus just browsing the aisles. Maybe today’s consumers need to rediscover cash-and-carry, though.

> in the car on his commute to Redmond

This was funny to me, because he lives like 8 minutes away.

In September, there was a bipartisan bill in the House to ban individual stock trading. Members of Congress must divest before being sworn in under this proposal: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5485340/congress-stock-...

I think that one died in committee: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5106

There’s another from earlier this year (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1908...) that is currently being pushed by a Republican member from Florida. It was blocked by the Speaker. There’s currently a discharge petition: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...

Over the summer, Josh Hawley of all people introduced a similar bill in the Senate.

Reinforcement learning, I believe

I think ChatGPT’s moat is mostly “it’s the first AI thing I used/heard about”. It’s not clear to me that’s enough to maintain their market share if OpenAI is the only one mixing in ads. It does seem to work elsewhere, though; consumers have brand loyalty to a fault, and often for the brand they started with.

Even with the same approach, I imagine the implementation could differ enough to still meet the goal. But I’m also curious if the differences were actually quantified after the fact, it seems an important step.

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Sort of. AWS operates the China regions more or less like any other region, with oversight by the Chinese holding companies.

The EUSC will be more restricted, similar to GovCloud. Only EU citizens can access/operate it.

Specific example: an alarm fires for your service. If it’s in China, anyone on the team can go look at the logs. If it’s in GovCloud, only teammates who are American can look at the logs. In the EUSC, only Europeans can.

Happy birthday! I hope you have (at least) another 40 of health and hackery :)

Yeah, I don’t know how fast “fast” needs to be in this system; but my understanding is this particular failure would have been seen immediately on the first replica. The progression could still be aggressive after verifying the first wave.

I agree it should not have happened, but I don’t agree that the database schema is the core problem. The “logical single point of failure” here was created by the rapid, global deployment process. If you don’t want to take down all of prod, you can’t update all of prod at the same time. Gradual deployments are a more reliable defense against bugs than careful programming.

Agreed the interface is clunky.

> you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame

You can press up on the D-pad to dismiss that overlay, if you want to see the full paused frame.

> How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up.

Maybe we have different remotes? On the latest model, you play/pause with the same button.

One issue I’ve noticed in the app is there seems to be no way to move the cursor “up” to the channel button when the video is in the last 10% of the playback bar. If you rewind it a bit, then you’re able to move the cursor up there.

Only in the last few days have Shorts appeared at the top of my home page. I fear it may be the end for me.

The search console for domains allows you to put in a URL and test-scrape it to see how things look to the bot. Could be some reverse-engineering/abuse of that API.

I don’t think it’s bad advice, it really just depends on the project, its dependencies, and your attack surface. I so badly want this era of mindlessly ticking boxes to end. Security is a contact sport! “Best practices” won’t get you to the promised land, you have to actually think critically about the details day to day.

You just get a *.bsky.social handle.

You sure are: https://www.theverge.com/news/799312/openai-chatgpt-erotica-...

Not the lattes! The horror!

The Ingress API has been on ice for like 5 years. The core Kubernetes API doesn't change that much, at least these days. There's an infinite number of (questionable) add-ons you can deploy in your cluster, and I think that's mostly where folks get stuck in the mud.

> you can't really get around maintaining some sort of fall-back poll.

This has been my experience with GitHub Actions as well, which I imagine rely on the same underlying event system as webhooks.

Every so often, an Action will not be triggered or otherwise go into the void. So for Actions that trigger on push, I usually just add a cron schedule to them as well.

Man, I loved those. A Kubuntu CD felt like such a treat to 10 year old me.

Where will you go? The alternatives seem worse in almost every way.

> and I think for many Apple customers

Unfortunately, I think people who care about this enough to leave are a rounding error. It’s why the entire consumer product market looks the way it does.

> It's implementation of cri plugin.

Right, that’s the point. A user of the CRI should not have to care about this implementation detail.

> containerd is not the only CRI runtime out there.

Any CRI that needs a pause executable should come with one.

We removed the image registry dependency on AL2023 as well. :)

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/pull/2000