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Oh, agreed this sounds like a terrible migration path and shouldn't really be needed in the first place.

What I'm missing in the article is whether any Git server accepts replacing a SHA-1 identified object it already has. If it doesn't, then the distribution trust discussed holds, and keeping SHA-1 seems fine. Adding additional signatures seems fine for those who need transitive trust.

The news is that lethal injections are legal, but required a retry. GP asked: So why not a firing squad? Them retrying might be less cruel than reinjection.

It would be funny if the solution is for Greenland/Denmark to annex Canada as a workaround on paper.

Proposed new rule:

If there's no technical reason to fuck with the product I have already purchased access to, don't fuck with the product I have already received.

The nice thing about others taking photos, is that I can focus on the odd ones. I have photos of really well made knots on a guiding rope, and street gutter stones.

You wanna see what Venice looks like in general? Just go on Tiktok; they have better equipment anyway. You wanna see, up close, the nicely carved gutter stones that handles water without breaking the stone pattern? I'm your photographer.

> the doctor will be glad too.

So even the doctor forgot what they had talked about, and assumed the transcription was right? Crikey.

I wouldn't expect the light I emit or reflect to be private, except where I build walls. Why would I expect any other wavelengths to be so, if I haven't taken precautions to shield my house for WiFi wavelengths?

Foods that claim to lower weight or fix your heart disease risk.

You always end up with the people pushing these foods being those who sell them. And then others start selling fake foods with similar claims.

For the "eat to get slimmer" claim, I think we're at the point where "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

So the metric GP is after is credit used per credit user? Normalizing the effect of an increase in credit users, and not assuming it's uniformly distributed.

Seems simpler to just publish the delinquent debt separately.

If there's no explanation of why the 70+ bucket has so much larger CI band, having that dominate the totals seems like very fair critique. At the very least, they should have presented another totals with the outlier removed to show the impact.

It builds corporate value. If you end up with a portfolio of patents that someone might want to acquire, you've just created a new market for your company. Individual software patents of common quality probably don't matter.

Barely. There are import duties on everything. Seems the old agreements that expired were hard to replace. At least they got the academic research funding sorted last year.

Part of EEA and Schengen, but those are not the EU.

The same goes for all reporting on YouTube. Many publishers jumpers the gun without looking at context.

It's also interesting that Citadel is mentioned everywhere as the buyer, as if it's strange that a huge market maker firm would be involved in a large forced sale.

Seems the fund also has Anthropic shares, so it's not like their entire portfolio got margin called.

Although, you don't know how many species before us caused their own suffering and destruction. Perhaps it's normal and expected. There's a slight chance we'll leave documentation to whatever species comes after us, but they'll probably ignore it, because they know best and it's different that time.

The Epstein affair was eventually successfully forgotten. I still pretend to be surprised, to keep my decency.

I'm the same. Though I still think they could have made USB much neater as a protocol, USB-C now does everything I need for goto-connectivity.

I recently looked at the connector and reflected on how insanely small it is. It's no wonder it took decades to get to this point, and it's a very neat physical design at a great price. 16 pins and 10A in that little thing. Amazing.

Getting rid of ARC would be so nice, but of course this just means I need to add DKIM2 and need ARC for backwards compatibility.

I find his way of talking funny and entertaining. I can't say why, but it's a nice way to waste a few minutes. It's very boring if you're only there for the information.

Fire first, ask questions later.

Is anyone using LLM on the other side, to vet incoming PRs for quality and whether it's worth reviewing?

Elon is missing the bigger TAM here. Once they've created a time machine, they can not only sell all these things backwards and forwards in time, they can also start making industrialization come way earlier, which will lead to exponentially turbo charged growth. Plus importing future designs into the now.

It makes sense to focus all effort into building a time machine.

North of Sweden too, from the same mountains.

Switzerland could probably extend their hydro if they wanted to, but it's NIMBY rich. Wind and solar has stalled, though there's plenty of both in the Alps.

And the more uselessly amusing thing is that the manager who requests higher tokens usage probably also doesn't care whether it's producing slop or not. Metric goes up; managers happy until CFO is reported income hasn't gone up as quickly as costs, and that makes the CEO optimistically concerned. Never expect underlying thought from a messenger.

It's interesting that LLM barely had any vetting period or experimentation phase. Suddenly everyone was supposed to test it in production, it seems.

The unsung heros we need. Thank you.

If Anthropic tanks in the public markets, that will cause a revaluation of OpenAI in the private markets. If they delay IPO to try another private round, they also want to sign that round early.

Perhaps that's Anthropic's plan, is they believe OpenAI is weak. If the IPO is good they win. If it's bad OpenAI loses.

I wonder which of the management consulting companies caused this fire/rehire experiment.

Yes. That's not an argument against my point: they could achieve the same biased result using recordings of real bets. Be happy they (maybe) haven't yet, because that conartistry is much harder to show.

Don't trust anything anyone says about probabilities of real-world future events. We still can't even predict the weather a week in advance, despite huge computational resources being thrown at it.

The alternative would be to ask both sides of the bets to record a video, and tell them to only post winning bids, but to pay out to both sides. Is that really better? Classic tactic by the bet picking gambler gurus and is impossible to confirm.

I guess Polymarket too will learn to be more subtle now.

I think this has been Musk's play for more than a decade. Except the Twitter purchase, which was just weird. It's possible the AI play is for data center subsidies/tax breaks. TBC didn't go too well in terms of California rail expansion contracts, I think, but perhaps he can get some Pentagon money for building military DCs.