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penguin_boozeon ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

Unless ICE was also collecting young children, it should say: "... including that of young children".

penguin_boozeon How the words we teach English language learners changed

We have america to thank for that.

penguin_boozeon RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

> for whoever

Whomever.

penguin_boozeon EU now fears US interference in European elections

Fear? The American circus went to Hungary to prop-up Orban. Thankfully, the people of Hungary gave the clowns an emphatic whack across the face, and kept them in their place.

penguin_boozeon A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

"you could have..." is among the top insulting phrases used by maths-adjacent people. Others in that league are "it should now be obvious...", "it's abundantly clear...", "it can be easily shown that...", "this is nothing but..." etc.

The rest of us reading this are like, holy batman, what the fuck was that?!

penguin_boozeon Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

Got needs? Call 1800-CORRUPT right now.

penguin_boozeon IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

No-one in their right mind wants to support IRGC. But, to see an egotistic, deranged, clown and the entire circus getting slapped in the face, is very satisfying to watch.

penguin_boozeon If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

A garden needs a gardener. It's the end when people stop caring or when starts chasing superficial metrics and tawdry toys.

penguin_boozeon Everyone should know SIMD

Does anyone know of a good hands-on introductory and practical tutorial on SIMD? I know that SIMD doesn't imply particular instruction set but a pattern of concurrent data transformation.

I guess what I'm looking for is something that addresses the common idioms in SIMD. For example, want to do concurrent data look up? This is how you do it in SIMD; this is how you search; this is how to prepare your data in a manner conducive to SIMD operations; these are the data types you typically find in programming languages, like __mm128; so on and so forth.

penguin_boozeon Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

So, continuing to profit--forever--from someone's else work, at scale, without their prior consent, is fair use?

It's funny that crimes can be settled in cash. IOW, everything has a price; and the price is always right. Settlement ought to be the euphemism for blood money.

In addition to the settlement, what I'd consider fair is to have these companies pay royalties in perpetuity. Of course, that's not tractable.

penguin_boozeon My falling-out with the rationalist community

> couple rationalist events

Was this run by match.com?

penguin_boozeon 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

I can't imagine anything worse that could happen to an animal than getting discovered by humans. Dear monkey, please run, and run far!

penguin_boozeon How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

Imagine how it'd be if BigConcrete were to make concrete. Every year at ConcreteCon, yet another release that lasts for... one year!

penguin_boozeon Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts

The grift that keeps on grifting. To put it poetically, everyday discovering something brand new.

penguin_boozeon Guide to data tools landscape for developers

> Who is this article for

WHOM

penguin_boozeon Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

I'm wondering if anyone's attempting to revitalise the old Minix. Minix started out an educational software, from which, Torvalds admitted, he drew inspiration. Since then, they had higher ambitions. And now, from the last I heard, it has evolved into neither here nor there.

penguin_boozeon The git history command

Might as well go back to the tar.gz days, eh?

penguin_boozeon Who Does Anubis Stop?

Whom does Anubis stop.

penguin_boozeon How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

People should more than one book. Even better, people should know when to stop reading a book.

penguin_boozeon China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

Too bad China doesn't have a president fit for pardoning thugs.

penguin_boozeon Aluminum foil (2021)

The name of the metal is Aluminium. Of course, America had to introduce yet another typo.

penguin_boozeon EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track

By WHOM!!

penguin_boozeon This blog is written in en-GB

> It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe

Everywhere sane uses a monotonic order: either increasing or decreasing units. Americans had to be different, somehow - it's a compulsion.

penguin_boozeon Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

See also the deranged post from the CEO, gloating about firing employees: https://archive.is/gSrfU.

penguin_boozeon The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

> attempts at American cultural exports

To those who haven't realised yet, there lies the problem.

penguin_boozeon US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers

As long as US dollar remains the reserve currency, others will have to suck up to the US. This is why moving away from the USD is critical. Beyond that, people should pull their investments away from the US. This is difficult, however: US is the market that offers most returns (as to for how long, that remains to be seen), but it takes only a initial dominos falling.

penguin_boozeon Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

Allies? What allies?

penguin_boozeon Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

See also the Myths and Legends podcast: https://www.mythpodcast.com/.

penguin_boozeon Fintech Engineering Handbook

> For whom?

It's refreshing to see someone using the correct phrasing.

The often-seen, stupid way is 'who is this book for'.