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g8ozon ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

Did the Palestinian children sniped in the head and chest have it coming as well?

Have you kept up with the improvements in the latest PHP versions?

g8ozon Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

I've always like reduce myself, didn't realize others had a negative attitude towards it.

g8ozon US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

This is ahistorical nonsense. White immigrants are perfectly capable of retaining native prejudices. Localized tensions among Eastern European immigrants in the earlier 20th century have been documented. And any immigrant group regardless of race will align with American culture a few generations in.

If by not fitting in you mean that they will continue to look different and retain some links to their ancestral culture then sure.

g8ozon Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU

Maybe Carney needs to post the kind of macho memes that Trump does for you to take him seriously.

g8ozon San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis, and nobody is talking about it

The AI is watching.

g8ozon I refuse to let SPICE die

100% agree. VNC is well past its prime.

g8ozon I resigned from Anthropic today

Sen. Bernie Sanders floats ban on superintelligent AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/bernie-sanders-superintelli...

g8ozon Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

Clicked on some his other posts...and yeah.

He essentially advocates for a society that has the attributes that he accuses oral culture of: conservative, repetitive, static, lacking innovation.

g8ozon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

A related essay with the same take:

https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...

g8ozon Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

For most people around the world America is more of a threat than China. Heck for most Americans the American government is more of a threat than the Chinese government.

g8ozon Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

Model serving and inference will be trivial in the long term, right now it's a real choke point. Being able to do that with domestic chips is an important win.

g8ozon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Mo Bitar over on YouTube does the grumpy AI skeptic routine in a much more entertaining fashion.

g8ozon Just say something people want

I hate everything this guy argues for.

g8ozon AWS Acquires DuckLabs

I fear this is the end of the rapid pace of innovation that we've seen from DuckDb.

"AWS has committed to supporting the continued development of DuckDB and its wider community for the long term."

Those are just words man.

g8ozon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

In general any deal with the other party is introducing last minute changes is one to walk away from.

And specifically any deal made with the U.S under Trump has no credibility, just ask Iran.

g8ozon Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

Progressive taxation.

g8ozon America's Colleges Are Hurtling Toward an Enrollment Cliff

For instance: developing citizens who demonstrate critical thinking, responsibility, organization, independence, collaboration, initiative and self-regulation.

Not all of these are easily measurable, but all contribute to a prosperous and free society.

g8ozon Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

"Red Plenty" the book being discussed in the article is well worth a read.

g8ozon Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?

Before giving up on Thunderbird I would suggest asking AI to help you debug the configuration.

g8ozon Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

Right. A lot of people have been fired for supporting Palestinians. Not just in America either.

g8ozon The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake

Likely very comfortable on a thermal basis.

g8ozon RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

When writing a spec, every single thing you make optional, you split the possible implementations into two incompatible groups. Do this enough times and you end up with your spec being meaningless.

I felt that.

g8ozon uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

If the Karrot buy/sell app has launched in your area, I recommend it. Think of it as Kijiji if eBay had not stopped investing in it.

g8ozon U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

America is a bimodal sort of place.

g8ozon The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses

Something I found interesting was that China and Mexico have a similar Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) per capita income (~$26000).

g8ozon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

I love Vivaldi, but it also uses Chromium. If an extension is not in the Chrome Web store Vivaldi will not be able to install it.

Firefox seems to be the only reasonably mainstream option for proper ad blocking.

g8ozon How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?

Is there some kind of extension to block their begging for donations banner?

g8ozon Kelly Criterion Simulator

A similar calculator created many years ago is at https://www.albionresearch.com/tools/kelly

g8ozon Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

Glad at least that you can understand America's aggression as being at Israel's behest. And that concerns over a nuclear weapon program were just a pretext.