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Exactly my thoughts. There are people out there claiming code itself has become disposable, and maintenance and refactoring are cheap now. Which escapes the fact that a. all these are heavily subsidized now and unsustainable in the long run and b. when it comes to critical software and code, it's not really disposable and maintaining a vibe-coded codebase is going to be more costly.

He's done the math- this kind of moves is exactly what retains support from 30% of the US population - enough to sway elections.

Tariff has already proven to be a bad thing.

Prices have increased due to tariff.

Government lost a case and refunded money to corporations. Consumers got nothing.

Tariff induced inflation has caused volatility in the bond market. I was forced to refinance our mortgage at 7% when it could've been less than 6%, had it not been for the volatility and uncertainty. As a result I'm $900 poorer every month.

And the whole argument about bringing manufacturing jobs back- never materialized.

I see it's changed in Google maps. Really lame from Google.

I respected Terence Tao but since listening to his "Mathematics in the age of AI" talk, I've become a fan. I have had nobody else explain so succinctly what is the purpose of Mathematical research, why it matters, and why it is so important to preserve the ways we do math. Even more importantly, I feel it resonates so well with every other field AI is taking over.

There was a period in time, few years ago, when I was going back and forth between Firefox and Chrome, driven by alternate paranoia about privacy vs performance. These days I don't really have to. Firefox on Android, at least for the phones I regularly used, like several OnePlus from 7T up and now razr ultra, has been very stable. Only blip was the one month I was on Pixel 10- turns out they have special hardware optimization for Chrome that cripples Firefox on Pixel 10 otherwise. All the more reason to (return the phone and) stick to Firefox.

Well, shut up and take my money haha!

I'm sold as well!

Definitely. This is great considering our family Google One plan has 100GB storage which is more than 60% full, but I don't really need to sweat it because I can back up most things on this phone and ignore Google photos backup alerts.

Actually, because it's a fold and the external screen is very good, I end up checking notifications and stuff without having to open the phone, which results in less distraction and screen time.

Can confirm, pixel 10 is esim only.

Pixel 10 was so bad I had to trade it in after using for a month. The version I got was 128GB for a whopping $600. This was my first Google device after Nexus days and I was bitterly disappointed with weird performance bugs and battery drain issues. The software does little to make up for the issues.

The replacement I got is a Motorola razr ultra folding phone.. similar perf point with 16G RAM and 512G storage. This phone is legit.

But they don't/didn't have the same level of market share as Nvidia, particularly in the PC gaming market. Nvidia had 65%-85% market share, and still worked with game studios to make sure their competitions failed. That's the opposite of good stewardship that's all I'm saying.

NVIDIA introduced programs like The Way It's Meant to be Played, optimizing major game titles specifically for NVIDIA architecture, which made competitions like AMD cards underperform in critical releases.

I'm old enough to remember.

What I've learned in last week is that a harness is basically a while loop.

In each iteration you make an LLM call, perform some work (e.g. tool call), augment the prompt (append or compact etc.)- not necessarily in that other- and continue.

Until an end condition is satisfied. Then you break out.

As someone who've played video games and obsessed over graphics cards long before this all started, don't get your hopes up.

This is so wholesome. Eminem is a legend on his own right. As a non-american I heard about Eminem before Dolly.

Costco has a standalone gas station in Mission Viejo, CA - https://www.costco.com/w/-/gas-station/ca/mission-viejo/1772

I think this is the only one in US without a warehouse.

The prices are at least $0.40 cheaper than nearby gas stations.

> it's easier for organizations to work with.

I can see that.

I am developing my first custom agents. I am finding that if I offload some workflow to another agent (e.g. Claude Code), the simplest way to control what it can or cannot do is via an MCP server (which only lets it access tools that I develop/approve myself). I do need that control in the corporate environment.

Maybe there are easier ways to do it, just learning and exploring now.

It's probably not coming across because you're looking up too many synonyms.

So it's a problem when a poverty striken nation expect aid to combat child mortality, but shelling out $150m on Juicero or $500m on Theranos is fine? Please try to answer without sounding like a psychopath.

2025 ultra is almost the same spec as 2026, and it's like $600.

Inflation is high because interest rates are high. Interest rates are high because top holders of US Treasury bonds like Japan, UK, China, are all dumping bonds. Why do you think they're doing that?

Let me give you an example of the money laundering operation. Due to USAID shutdown, Bangladesh went from ~$500M in US assistance to ~$71M, with bilateral health funding dropping ~97% in some analyses. Over 100 projects (~$550M) suspended overnight. 20k–50k development workers laid off (1,000+ at icddr,b, an award winning health research institution alone). TB programs (major USAID focus) largely halted. Bangladesh is high-burden; prior gains in case detection and falling death rates are at risk of reversing, plus higher chance of drug resistance from incomplete treatment. Immunization, maternal/child health, community clinics, nutrition, water/sanitation, and gender-based violence services sharply reduced. Child protection funding down ~36%. Food rations in Rohinhya camp, the largest refugee camp in the world, halved for >1M people; health and education services cut.

Now you can argue that US does not have any kind of obligation to send 500M to Bangladesh. But it sent it anyway, for years, and then DJT came and broke promises.

The inflated price you pay at gas station, groceries, and in interest when you're borrowing money, is a result of those broken promises.

Not everyone should have an impact website because not everyone is capable of causing 88 deaths per hour. Scale matters.

Take Flock for example. Reading license plate is legal. But when at done at scale, it's a massive loophole into violation of 4th amendment.

Based on how much energy average Americans use, maybe they are responsible for causing adverse effects elsewhere in the world. USAID could exist as a means to undo some of that. It does not anymore.

It really depends on the company culture. Where I work (in the bay area) people come to the office two days a week, but those days are when everybody schedule the important in person meetings. Focused work happens rest of the weekdays at home.

-1/12 is the finite offset after isolating the divergent series. Try something more baffling.

They're not, according to "Authorities".

> Authorities believe the at-large criminals snuck up behind the cameras with spray foam canisters and sprayed the lenses before the cameras had a chance to ID them.

https://www.facebook.com/100064614555569/posts/1467922555371...

You search for Toyota RAV4, and you get an ad for whoever paid Google the most money to fingerprint your profile and bias your purchase decision. Since when did we start trusting everything we see on the Internet?