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Somehow, “euroyuan” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

> If the meetings are open to the public then anyone can attend (i.e., "spy") on them.

It’s the systematic, motivated, and targeted collection of data that makes it spying. When the KGB takes photos of licence plates of people leaving a military base, we call it “spying”. Replace this with Homeland Security and a neighborhood organizing meeting.

It's hilarious how this dispute captures the assumptions of each period... the 19th-century debate is completely unrecognizable.

Watch out for the scare quotes though - it actually did give me the opportunity to check: Finder 1.0 shipped with System file .97, and Finder 1.1 shipped with System file 1.1g - and it looks like “System Software 1.0” actually refers to Finder 5.2/System file 3.1!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#System_1,_2,_3,...

If we’re going to be really pedantic, there was no “System 1” as TFA says as well anyway - I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1, and most of the routines at that point were in ROM.

But an LLM would have caught that. Signs of a human touch?

> E.g. we can build a board around a MC68000 where we make it lock up forever in a bus cycle, waiting for a DTACK that doesn't arrive.

IIRC, early 68k Macs had processor upgrades hooked onto the 68k bus and did exactly this - an early boot driver run by the “actual” CPU coordinated handoff with the expansion CPU’s bootstrap ROM.

If you’re in the weird position of knowing more about the national labs than the AI lab scene (like I am), link to a TechCrunch profile:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny-startup-arcee-ai-buil...

My question is: why is this being run out of Argonne? Why not NERSC proper?

I’d really encourage you with Unicode support, as frustrating as of a side track it may be - I’ve had fun dogfooding my hobby languages by writing small web servers and CLI utilities. Even if it just generates part of your shell prompt!

Re: Bayer - the non-health industry side? I'm surprised NIH hasn't rolled out something like this earlier, to be honest, with their increasing emphasis on commercialisation.

Thanks - the program guide at the very bottom seems to have the most detail.

https://uidp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/UIDP-I-PhD-Schol...

Looking at the $$$ awarded -- that's interesting: $37k/year, and while there's a $22,000 "ancillary expenses" component, institutions administer it, and can use it like any other indirect cost $$$. Conversely, industry funders have to stump up at least $100,000/year per student.

If you want to skip the fluff, the actual funded program abstract here:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2624416

Appropriately enough for a pilot, there's a structured usual cohort-mentoring and outcomes evaluation component.

(NSF brings 3 years of $$$, but as it is, it doesn't seem like attempt to nudge people screwed over by GRFP restrictions towards industry.)

Notoriously after Halo for Macintosh was canned, too...

This is incredibly superficial, but that’s the most thoughtfully laid out and typeset official report I’ve read in ages.

Better than a 2026 human, worse than a 2016 machine. You win some, you lose some, I guess...

This is a sleeper option, but 'xonsh' as a Python superset is a very pleasant experience, especially when you just don't feel like learning another bespoke language for the complex stuff.

I once had to scrape the output out of something hacked together by a grad student 10 years before me, scrape yet another hacked together application, do some fancy numerics, and then plonk it into a database. I did it without tears!

We’re at the gamification stage of motivating people to use your product, eh?

> It sounds like, in this case, Apple has hard proof that documents were stolen.

Honestly, the proof is the least surprising part -- Apple's been paranoid about leaks for decades, even when the stakes have been lower.

> AI model providers have zero "moat", clients change them as they see fit.

That might be true in tech-savvy industries -- but in non-tech industries where the biggest software purchase might be the office suite or the ERP, inertia means the GSuite shops stick with Gemini, and the Exchange/Office 365 shops stick with Copilot.

The "curb cut effect", right? I'm sure there's a human-friendly interface to MCPs myself. I think we're reinventing application scripting that way.

i.e., welcome to Constitutional law, where divining the effect of a amendment written in 19th century prose lives and dies on jurisprudential philosophy, rather than decided case law. (Is that what you mean by the “(and common law?)” parenthetical?)

Fascinating to think about the logistics with avoiding ROM – model compatiblity must've been a PITA! I'm even thinking about how to identify models – I know there's a pre-Gestalt Toolbox routine that doesn't need any Toolboxes, I guess?

Yes, OP started the sentence with that. But, you do make me wonder if floating-point imprecision would eventually lead to material issues...

I would give my left leg to learn how the permissions system worked – do end users (and PHBs) get to edit the rules directly? I fully expect some HR ass to go:

  can_view(Person) :- didPITAOnlineTraining(Person), ...

> Also...these things tend to have fuckin terrible documentation. Good luck figuring any of this out. And you can't google it and your AI is just as lost as you

I convinced my boss to hire an intern for the summer to do this. They said: "wouldn't internship projects that involved actual coding be more attractive?"

I replied: "Well, they'll be having to do a lot of experimenting to figure things out..."

I can't wait for the development postmortem ;)

Any hunches on why the iBook might not be working? I've been having hell with PRAM watch batteries recently.

> I do not like the R language at all myself, but to be fair there are reasons it is widely used in higher ed.

In the same boat... from a PL perspective, yikes (especially the macro mechanism that somehow never seemed to be planned, but somehow exists). As a working statistician? It really does get work done quickly.

To pass inputs with complex unevaluated syntax, I've seen...

– ad-hoc string parsing (lavaan etc.)

– formulas (which somehow the tidyverse doesn't use),

– base R syntax manipulation by round-tripping between as.list and as.call;

– and whatever wheel reinvention with bizarre semantics that the tidyverse uses.

Even though I've dealt with this, I'm genuinely appreciative of requirements: out of many stipulations, packages that monkeypatch are prohibited (I have a few ones that add diagnostics to advance analyses), online API access needs robust error handling... and there is a conformance/diagnostic suite.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

The other half is: "What combination of packages and task views do I actually need to not reinvent the wheel for this particular type of analysis?"

Gloriously boring WordPress, too.