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> That workstation on your desk should

Under your desk, right? Right?!

> There is an idea of the world hating the Jews as being a pre-condition within Jewish religion for them to win within the end-times theology of the jewish faith.

Just so we're clear, this is religious fundamentalism.

Or "... to collect all the data". I even forgot they made a browser. No one's using it, I gather?

Who turned on whom again?

The D stands for "dependency", the R stands for "regret" and I'm not sure what the Y stands for yet.

Everything points to solid-state batteries being quite expensive and prioritized in higher end cars, think iX3/GLB/GLC/EX60, where people want more range and care less about weight (these cars get 100+ kWh batteries today). It will take time for these batteries to trickle down to lower range cars, I think.

Those numbers include PHEV cars. As a BEV owner, I consider PHEV to be more ICE than BEV. BEV numbers are not as impressive, but we're getting there, slowly but surely. A bit slower than I would've hoped.

I feel xAI is just a very big version of the Boring Co. "flamethrower": an unserious endeavor which is just a reskinned existing tool (it was a reskinned weed burner), but people were wowed by it anyway, since Musk was behind it, and they all pretended it was something new and notable.

The burning (heh) question is which SpaceX subsidiary will fail first, xAI or Tesla (not yet a subsidiary, but it's written in the stars (heh))?

Then again SpaceX is also jumping the shark what with their orbital data centers (remember those?).

Might be time to start a new Musk company soon.

I'd read Masters of Doom (the psych eval/juvie story and the cat story stand out). You might think "oh he was so young back then", and it's true, but keep in mind that book details id Software up to and including Doom 3 development, and he was in his early 30s there. I'm sure you can find excerpts if you don't want to read the whole thing. It's an interesting book though; great glimpse into trenches of 90s game development.

I've (unoriginally) always been impressed by his technical ability and work ethic, and while I used to religiously read his .plan updates (you might not know what that is, because I'm an old, OK? It's the precursor to blogs) and also follow the old Armadillo Aerospace development blogs, and watch the very long QuakeCon talks, I haven't kept up much as I got older, just come across things here and there (like this Twitter post), and I have not picked up a big change in demeanor or humility in regards to labor, political and societal issues from back then, and those are things he's written about. It's very much objectivism, the criticism of which is beyond this topic, but suffice it to say it's not a philosophy conducive to empathy. I seem to recall he made a bunch of libertarian rants on Facebook when he worked there too, but I'm not going to give Zuck the traffic. I'm sure you can find some.

Anyone who knows anything about Carmack knows that he has trouble empathizing. I don't even think it's his fault per se. I'm fairly sure he would actually agree with the assessment. His raw intelligence is sky-high.

And that is a big reason why he's making this post, is what I'm saying. It doesn't excuse him, but it's not surprising in the least.

One of the most baffling things in modern history for sure. But some people did believe he would "bring peace to the Middle East".

> I'm american and I've never heard that.

It's been in the news for a while.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaz...

I am not a Kiwi and I didn't know this was a thing until I read this article.

Easier and cheaper to just say "they were Hamas/Hezbollah".

I would be fine if LLMs disappeared tomorrow, but if I couldn't heat my house, I'd freeze to death. But I guess some would argue that everyone needs to live in a city with district heating.

You're quite right that there are degrees in hell.

> My, the world has changed.

Has it though? I'd say it's morphed, not changed. This is still, underneath it all, Hanseatic League and East India Company domination style colonialism, but adapted to and shaped by the digital age.

The US has pretty much all throughout its history had its military-industrial complex and warfare as an economic motor too, and in view of this, it's inevitable that software gets integrated.

Israel, the most recent settler-colonial state (of course some people try to claim it's not using various mental gymnastics, but I'm not fooled), was the experiment and has become a model for how to intermingle the industrial-military complex with society to the degree they two become indistinguishable, and with backing of the West it's been a very profitable and, I hate to say it, successful model.

Here's[1] a review of a book about the subject, talking about the state incubating start-ups and spawning a tech sector for the sole purpose of warmongering.

[1]: https://theconversation.com/the-harvard-of-anti-terrorism-ho...

Will they dance? I've yet to see someone demo a humanoid robot doing something useful. Clearly, making them dance can't be that difficult.

I have also used Tauri for one of my private apps, and using the OS's webview just doesn't work for me, so for my next stuff I'm probably going to use Electron as well since you can embed the webview. Yeah, it's bloated, but I'm so tired of things not working properly on Wayland without disabling this and that with random env vars and not able to do a fully OOTB single portable AppImage build on Linux. I can either make it work in Kubuntu + Arch (building on Ubuntu), or Arch + Fedora (building on Arch), but not all 3.

I tried Uno Platform and AvaloniaUI last year but I had similar problems there with external drag 'n' drop not working on Wayland and the difficulty in writing your own advanced components of which there are oodles to choose from using React/Vue/Solid/Svelte.

I'm not rewriting that other app in Electron, so for Tauri (the development of which largely seems to have stalled?) I'm hoping this[1] will solve my Linux hurdles. Going to try that branch out.

[1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/12491

And this is just desktop Linux. I used to care about Windows but stopped building for that.

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I'd argue this damage control could be construed as a piece of evidence.

When did Altman start using capitals in his writing? Wasn't this guy famous for being a lower-case guy?

Turns out both companies ran the agreement through their legal departments (Claude and GPT), and one of them did a poor summary. I (think I) jest, but this is probably going to be a thing as more and more companies use LLMs for legal work.

Looks like losing subscribers actually does work. Definitely gets a damage control response, at least.

    [T]he War Department will not be distracted by democracy building interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing and feckless nation building.
    
    - Pete Hegseth, December 6, 2025[1]

[1]: https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4354431/rem...

This endless self-victimization is so unbecoming.

Israel has even killed a Hamas negotiator in 2024 during deliberations, and attempted to kill another one in 2025.

I'm not insinuating anything. That's what Netanyahu calls the IDF.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wUIUVCWyecU

> he can get Zohran Mamdani in the room and say "it's fine; say you think I'm a fascist" and then nonetheless get what he wants.

Is your perception that warped? Mamdani is the one who knows how to play Trump as a fiddle, and the one who walks away with something from the exchange.

> We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can.

Serve Palestinians volleys of rockets, that is.