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I think it's fair to assume things like these are location dependent.

Don’t billionaires normally buy newspapers, media and even politicians and let their voice be heard that way? By contrast this is refreshing, vulnerable and…kind of cute.

Oh that all billionaires were this undevious.

If committing genocide puts the genociders in a tough spot, then I’m actually cool with that

Pair programming is a form of communication, it's a way for people to teach each other. Some people really work well with this learning style, and if you're one of those people, I would absolutely find ways to do it regularly.

When you become a senior dev, you should be taking time to help juniors build their skills. You will need to involve them in architectural discussions, pair programming for complex PRs, etc. So these are skills you need to have, IMO.

One technique I've seen work well is, build a PR for a specific feature, then ask someone if you can do a quick "pair programming" / demo session where you outline the architecture, show the code, maybe debug and step through some stuff. Like a highly developer-oriented demo, as a preliminary step for the other dev hitting Approve on your PR.

This has a lot of benefits:

- It can morph into pair programming

- A lot of questions that are raised in a good PR will be answered synchronously

- The PR feedback you get will be much, much better--in fact, it'll be the kind of feedback that you turn you into a mid-level and eventually senior dev.

The proper way to solve this would be to have a cloud provider (possibly based on AWS or Azure) whose UI simply edits an auto-generated IaaC script. That way ALL changes go through the code. And if there's a need to do a 3-way merge, it's obvious, because you're having to do a 3-way merge in git.

I've been wondering if enough people would be single issue voters on the Israel question that we could actually get some sort of candidate who attracts a ton of voters from both traditional parties.

It's ironic because (IMO) people like Ben Shapiro and other pro-Israel people deliberately divide us to prevent us from uniting against them, but the genocide has actually united us[1]. Just the other day I saw a Twitter post from one Cenk Ugyur reaching across the aisle and saying "good job" to right wingers who objected to hate speech laws against people who celebrated Kirk's assassination.

Admittedly, if 68% of Americans are opposed to Israel that doesn't necessarily mean all of them are single issue voters... but I think this is the first issue I've seen in my lifetime that gets this close to uniting Americans.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-militar...

Obviously, but Hamas needed Israel's help to maintain power, which Israel was happy to do. This happened recently, like in the 2020s. In case there's a paywall preventing people from reading my sources, here you go:

> Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015.

> According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

Netanyahu literally propped up Hamas at the expense of other options, which you would know if you even just read the headline on the first source I linked. So you disagree with the Times of Israel? Care to elaborate on why you disagree other than just make assertions?

Not all evangelical Christians are like this. There are two main branches: covenantal and dispensational. Dispensational theology is basically the same thing as Christian Zionism, and was invented in the 1800s by John Darby and his followers[1]. Covenantal theology goes way further back and is still popular today. For example Presbyterians are a major covenantal denomination.

[1] https://aish.com/unlikely-zionists-the-fascinating-story-of-...

Also, Biden explicitly stated that he is a Zionist[1].

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/12/j...

Israel interfered in Gaza politics to ensure they had no option but Hamas[1] [2] [3] [4]. If you screw yourself, you shouldn't blame anyone else when you get fucked.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

[3] https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-netanyahu-bolste...

[4] https://theintercept.com/2023/10/14/hamas-israel-palestinian...

Because they aren't buying off Western politicians in bulk, but that's exactly what Israel is clearly doing

The vast majority of Germans had no idea about the holocaust. It wasn't even well known outside Germany until a decade later IIRC.

What's happening in Gaza is different because now we have cell phones and the Internet, and AI isn't quite good enough yet to fake a genocide.

“Subsidized” is inaccurate. A more accurate way to describe what’s been happening is that international students drove up the cost of tuition, forcing American students into debt or out of college.

The reason I characterize it this way is college tuition has skyrocketed. The same thing happens in private schools—wealthy grandparents are common enough that children without wealthy grandparents are much less likely to be able to go to private school.

WebAssembly is about an improved Developer Experience. It lets us write in the languages we like :)

I can't say how many times I've reinvented pieces of Common Lisp to do my job. Now I want to start a side project with this.

Anecdotally, I had a Hispanic friend once who had been a professional thief (not when I knew him but before). His grandfather had won the lottery so he had a guaranteed income, but he did it for fun and because that’s what the cool people did.

The etymology of the word 'pagan' originally meant hillbillies / dumb country people. It was a slur because the towns and cities adopted Christianity before the country people did. So, 'pagan' typically means the pre-Christian religions of Europe.

I was listening to a podcast the other day where Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed about Gen AI, and his take on Gen AI is that it will make the Internet a lot funnier[1].

I guess he finds this funny.

Edit:

Also, it looks like this was originally deliberate:

> Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children.

[1] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2

There's a resurgence of patriotism in the political right in Britain from what I hear. They have a few years yet before the next election so we'll see where this goes, but I wouldn't count out the English people yet.

Democracy is like Communism. Every time you point out a problem with Democracy, someone else can point out how it isn't True Democracy(R). For example, in the West there are massive support for applying pressure to Israel to stop the genocide. But very little actually happens because, at least in my country, Israel has literally bought off the key politicians[1]. This isn't True Democracy(R) because the people's representatives have been paid to represent a foreign nation.

[1] https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-100-million

Because they're English, presumably. Homelands aren't interchangeable cogs anymore than people are.

Police track crime stats. By your own admission they are corrupt. Do you think there might be a conflict of interest here?

> The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

> Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.[1]

[1] https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander...

Yeah I’ve heard that you can legally use corn with alcohol poured over it as bait for wild pigs in some states. When they’re good and drunk, you turn your headlights on and start shooting. Playing the national anthem while doing it helps disorient them as well.

I’d like to constrain the output of the LLM by accessing the probabilities for the next token, pick the next token that has the highest probability and also is valid in the type system, and use that. Originally OpenAI did give you the probabilities for the next token, but apparently that made it easy to steal the weights, so they turned that feature off.

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Then it's an investment in future war profits. Ka-ching!

Calling it "extremely idiosyncratic" is not indicative of reality:

> Black people are the most likely to experience domestic violence—either male-to-female or female-to-male—followed by Hispanic people and White people.2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey: 2010-2012 state report.

> Asian people are the least likely to experience intimate partner violence.[1]

[1] https://www.verywellmind.com/domestic-violence-varies-by-eth...

The article doesn’t say, but I assume these are SOTA AI chips? If so, it’s a huge deal that American can build them.

Another interesting point:

> AMD and larger rival Nvidia Corp. recently gained a reprieve on restrictions imposed on shipments of some types of artificial intelligence accelerators to China. It’s still not clear how many licenses will be granted — or how long the companies will be allowed to ship the chips to the country, the biggest market for semiconductors.

It sounds like they’re trying to give China some chips but not as many as American allied countries. I wonder if they’re trying to get China “addicted” to western AI chips to hurt Chinese chip manufacturing development?

Double plot twist, I need to VPN into a remote network and now all the CI network activity goes through the VPN as well, and some of it gets blocked (true story)