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This is about budget caps (“I don’t want to spend more than $100, cut me off once I spend that much”) not price caps (“no one is allowed to charge more than this price per token”).

If you just need to receive an SMS but don’t actually need a cellular network, Google Voice is free.

If you can stomach $3/mo + tax (totaling a little over $40/year), UltraMobile PayGo is the cheapest consumer option I’ve seen. It’s a T-Mobile owned MVNO. It comes with 100MB, 100 minutes and 100 text messages per month, and is pay as you go after that.

Past that, I’d look into IoT cellular options.

What kind of software are you talking about? Test harnesses were commonly used in 2006. JUnit was created in 1997.

Or it does make economic sense, but the people drawn to power are too deluded to understand.

I don’t mean for one data center, I mean globally. There are resource limits to this planet, and we’ve been stretching past them in the short term, and are starting to see the long term consequences. The problem is people think “oh, it’s ok if I pollute a little more because the world is large, and the god we’ll create in our image with these machines will figure it all out for us.” That’s an unsustainable business model based on impressive technology managed by people stuck in childlike fantasies.

More likely all they’ll pull ahead in is making an even bigger mess.

Winners don’t decide what is sustainable, the reality of the planet does.

It’s not just a feel good thing. There are real resource limits, even if someone chooses to foolishly not believe that. If you can get more done with a given level of power and other resources, you get more out of your data centers.

There is a huge business opportunity to become the world leader in sustainable data center design. Whoever wins could one day have immense influence over every single data center in the world (or even out of this world, where efficient resource utilization would likely be essential). It’s disappointing to see the United States miss out: US companies and research institutions would actually be extremely competitive in this field with the right government incentives.

There once was a time when tech companies mostly stayed out of SF. People who worked in the valley but hated it lived in SF amongst mostly people who had nothing to do with the tech industry. Then someone had the bright idea to put branch offices or even whole companies in SF. Convenient for the commute (and you could move to the East or North Bay), but then SF got overrun by the tech monoculture + NIMBYs trying to “keep it the same” by preventing construction, effectively kicking out so many of the people who were the reason why valleyphobic tech workers sought out the City of Saffron in the first place.

Or is it a transition to truly declarative programming?

Yes, and your second paragraph above is the interesting part that I would want the reader to focus on, starting from the title.

But a language being “typed” doesn’t tell us anything useful. Untyped languages are typed too: they’re uni-typed (every expression is an expression).

I think you do your analysis a disservice by focusing on “is assembly language typed?” as the top line question. The more interesting question you examine is what do the type constraints in inline asm offer, and how do they interact with the host language’s type system?

The only shaming I’ve seen are for people using AI badly or not at all.

I also think we should differentiate between programming to get a program you can do something else with, programming to understand the machine, and programming to give the programmer a logical challenge to keep their skills sharp.

And their team, if they treat them well.

Yeah, the car is significantly older than that, and I last tried the FSD trial a couple years ago.

I’m glad to hear it’s gotten better. This was a couple of years ago, when they were pushing the free trials. It’s an earlier Model 3, and I barely drive it.

I’m clearly not a typical driver. I love keeping the camera views all on screen for situational awareness. I don’t use cruise control and rarely use GPS navigation, even back when I used to drive cross country in previous cars. I guess I just got used to memorizing entire routes in my long distance biking days. Google Maps Street View really helps me understand exactly where I’ll be going.

Maybe just a motherboard if it would be compatible with standard drives, power supply, etc?

Tried FSD once. It was very confused about a traffic circle, cruised up to it & slammed on the brakes. Got rear ended (at low speed).

The incomplete, miscategorizing and glitching display of other vehicles and obstacles does not give me confidence that the car is able to correctly identify what’s around it, let alone drive accordingly.

Even the lane departure warnings are 90% false positives (but I’d rather be warned than not).

Just driving normally is much less stressful and more fun than supervising the car’s attempt at driving like a teenager.

Were Roland MIDI keyboards used by the developers to capture game audio tracks as played by musicians? Maybe they already had the driver code from that.

Including Windows 11 on T2 Macs, even though there are places online that claim it doesn’t work. It’s much easier to set up Linux, though.

I feel like Apple got a lot of devs who would otherwise be Linux users on board circa 2005 due to solid-feeling laptop hardware with drivers and power management that just worked. That pattern became self-propagating as startups scaled up, bought a lot of Macs and hired Mac IT people.

But Linux has gotten better in that time period, too. I wouldn’t say it’s quite as refined out of the box. But Linux is ahead in the ability to do whatever you want and keep using your old hardware.

For people who care about how computers work, I think Linux is a more stimulating environment than macOS to work in. Even though—or partly because—you may have to dig in a little deeper to get things working the ways you want.

I second that. I wouldn’t buy an Intel Mac specifically to run Linux, but my T2 Mac Minis work well for me on Linux. I did have to copy some Broadcom firmware from macOS, and I keep a small macOS installation in order to access recovery mode settings.

It gets tricky when you want to say “allow this particular tool to have a little more access.” Like allow the codex client to access the GPT API but not some random other site the LLM learned about. Or like letting git write to .git to commit changes but don’t let something install git hooks. Or allow downloading certain packages/versions from a site like PyPI, or allow certain operations on certain GitHub repos in a way that doesn’t line up with how you can configure an access token.

Sorry, I meant that’s not desirable behavior that the user might expect. I understand that coding agent tools tend to play fast and loose with access because it’s not their own privacy/security at stake.

The repo you’re working on, sure. But all files?

Third option: realize the effect of the policy is undesirable and change it.

Real police are trained not to stand in front of or reach into vehicles.

What a mess.

There is something fishy about where someone happened to be born (or looks/sounds like they’re from), where they are, and the relationships between different government blowhards having a bigger impact on their life than just being a decent person trying to get by.