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the lesson congress learned from the Hillary Clinton coronation getting derailed by Obama was to absolutely never ever vote on anything important

absolutely nothing in going to happen in the US congress until 2029

we're essentially one year of three into one of the least effective lame duck legislative bodies we'll ever see

I think owning GitHub is a prestige play, not necessarily thought of as a profit center.

Now however, it's competing for resources directly with the corporations core strategic plans.

GitHub having issues is embarrassing, but the shareholders don't really care.

When you're the uncontested market leader, you don't budget operations to be perfectly reliable, you budget to not be too unreliable. All those 9's are expensive after all.

The AI boom caught them napping though, and they're slipping well into the too unreliable category

cloudflares lack of spending caps and and usage alerts is a seriously unnerving approach

I shutdown all my little informational hobby projects this year that I've tinkered with for decades

They all shifted from mostly paying for themselves (or being so cheap it didn't matter), to essentially producing zero income while resource usage leapt up in magnitudes

I couldn't justify the stress and hassle of making sites, that a few dozen people a day might find useful, into some complex hyperscalable obligations just to feed the bots

the Tesla standard is 5 seconds, NHTSA says 30 seconds

Luckily, none of the Tesla data is available because they're currently getting away with redacting so much in their reports they're essentially useless

I expect a flavor of affiliate marketing where you can never trust if the LLM is giving you the best recommendations or the most highly bidded recommendations

The proposed build out will consume 9gw of electricity, all LNG fueled

The entire State of Utah, *combined* consumes less than half that much energy.

for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension

I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too

on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub

he literally paraphrased the 14 words after doing it

"It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured."

it's an absolute joke anyone disputes what he did

Yeah, the followup to that "censorship of conservative opinions" complaint is always "which opinions are those"

It's a perfect analogue for asking confederate fans, "state's rights to do what?"

New reporting that an A-10 ~was also shot down~ has also gone down (unconfirmed if it was shot down)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump...

> A second Air Force combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. The A-10 Warthog attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz about the same time that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the officials said. In that incident, one crew member was rescued and search-and-rescue operators are looking for the second airman. Officials provided scant details about the A-10 crash, including how and where it happened.

there's some additional osint rumor mill that a blackhawk helicopter involved in rescue operations was also shot down but claims that crew been recovered

The latest reporting is that only 50% of Iran's missile capacity has been destroyed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-mil...

Doesn't break out anti-air, but Iran absolutely has a lot of teeth left.

it's a race of parallel discoveries sprinting towards commoditization and indistinguishably

any real breakthrough will be instantaneously reverse engineered and replicated

none of the not-googles can win, because there is no win state

This quote is amazing

> “AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it,” Ajit Varma, Firefox’s vice president of product, writes in the announcement. “We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.”

some people want nothing to do with AI

other people just want the AI to actually do something

Amazon is so bad it's getting difficult to find the actual search results

There's basically nothing the American people can do short term.

The US government is entirely non-responsive and only nominally representative.

Barring a wave of Republican retirements in the House, the absolute soonest there are any guardrails are after the 2026 midterms when a new congress is seated in 2027.

I keep asking our product team what the plan is when our API/Infra costs eventually skyrocket and our AI features become unsustainable, but there's absolutely zero preparedness.

We throw in all these cute little AI features to fill out marketing bullet points because they're basically free, but if they had real cost we're going to have no choice but to take them away.

imagine Cloudflare saying, okie dokie then, guess we don't serve Wisconsin anymore

I wish I saw more people realizing the build out promising being made by the big AI are physically impossible

not only is it impossible to build that much power generation on those timelines

it's also not possible to build enough GPUs to fill a purported tripling of US datacenter capacity

what's the ROI on giant empty warehouses full of empty server racks and no electricity?

console ram isn't magically cheaper

somebody has to feed the airoboros

Today, in people who discover things that aren't banks don't act like banks

Tomorrow we'll have a double header featuring people who discover things that aren't hotels don't act like hotels and things that aren't taxis don't act like taxis.

If your business relies on the less-regulated "alternative" you're going to get burned eventually.

yep, it's all CYA checkbox busywork to send to insurance when something happens

they're not, it's a moat

there's a lot of new policy that seems to be intentionally inflicting severe brain drain

the US is no longer the clear destination for the best and brightest

the PE who bought the company I work for already have a large Indian subsidiary and effectively require a 1:1 ratio

it's effective nearly immediately too, and applies to all entries, not just applications

> the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025

anyone on a visa who happens to currently out of the country has ~24 hours to get back without a $100,000 bill

if you're in the states, you won't be removed, but you cannot leave and re-enter without paying up