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klooney··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
What about the kids they assault while not being expelled?
klooney··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Special Ed is a special case- those kids are specifically segregated because they cannot be taught at grade level or be expected to behave safely for their size.
klooney··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
We're talking about schools in the US, which means we're talking about black and latino students. This trips the culture war wires, so people get wink winky.
klooney··on An empirical study of harness design for coding agents
I'm not totally convinced that models are fungible, the claudes/gpts/Gemini all have pretty individual feels when you're working with them. I wouldn't be surprised if the approaches don't scale or even work the same in a poly model setup
klooney··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
They said that the current models could run a vending machine profitably, just not more complex things.
klooney··on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
Bring back wheel covers!
klooney··on Agents on Rails: Best model solves 35% of feature benchmark runs
Is this a proprietary harness? I feel like harnesses have a huge influence on how models behave
klooney··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
I wonder if the inference acceleration companies will ever produce a consumer product
klooney··on Letting AI Debug Production
> But you can’t just set an agent loose in production. It can easily corrupt the database, and all it can do afterwards is apologize and promise not to do it again.

More and more, people are just gonna do it. After all, the same statement is true if employees, and they're rapidly becoming less trustworthy that frontier models.

klooney··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
I don't know why we're jumping to conspiracy when incompetence is right there
klooney··on GPT-6 Astra
Laundry folding has become a doable demo for startups, and ChatGPT has been spitting out college essays for years.
klooney··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
> As an interviewer, I don't even know if the person I interview is a US citizen

I don't either, but my guess is almost none are

klooney··on Toddlers' Truce
Bring it back to Netflix
klooney··on Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s
> The reason is structural, not incidental

It's almost insulting

klooney··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
It's so easy- npm install, a little markdown boot camp, and you get great results.
klooney··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
I don't really want to do approvals though. Either I put stuff into a real sandbox, or #yolo
klooney··on Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
> Children and pregnant women should also limit the intake because it can disrupt development

Do farm raised fish still have elevated heavy metal levels? I figured that getting human controlled food would cut down on that.

klooney··on My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”
I preferred the Gemini 3-6 ones with all the extra kingly decorations
klooney··on FCC bans foreign-produced solar inverters, grid lockout begins today
We've finally imported European style technology regulation
klooney··on Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking
Averages aren't super useful for data centers, since local costs vary so much, and because siting decisions are often made around power generation (ie, they're deliberately getting lower than average costs).
klooney··on Texas factory cost $469M using old equipment, makes zero artillery shells
> A "high-risk" plan to use old machines to produce modern M795 artillery shells backfired, an Inspector General report found.

I would say that this indicates that the decision makers adequately appreciated the possibility this wouldn't work. This is generally what a high risk plan is.

klooney··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
If China/Taiwan kicks off, you're not getting new parts from Taiwan
klooney··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
Stuff like https://www.hadrian.co/ is pretty neat, but the whole "electric stack" is hopelessly Chinese from this perspective- batteries, motors, all kinds of small and crucial electrical things- and critical minerals, like Gallium for radar.
klooney··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
It's pretty big, too
klooney··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
SpaceX is good at building data centers in tough regulatory environments, in a way that other players have been unable to match
klooney··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
The thing people are worried about is "Seoul is a pile of rubble and so are all the factories". The people in Europe are probably going to stay for a little bit.
klooney··on Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room
Wizard spells more than engineering
klooney··on Building Pi with Pi
I mean, have you tried Pi? It's really good out of the box.
klooney··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
Ford's hybrids come from the Toyota tree, although they've diverged.

The new Honda hybrids are more like a generator + ev, which is also pretty interesting.

klooney··on OpenBSD 7.9
Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.
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