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People do steal PVC pipes, albeit more commonly in bulk:

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/BNI-disco...

In any case, the fiber situation in Ghana was dicy for a time because theives were cutting the fiber lines in hopes they were copper. Thieves are often in a hurry so they cut first, check, then move on.

There's only 7 ground stations (or points of presence, I'm not sure what the difference is but they list them separately) or so in Africa, with Nigeria, Botswana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa being the ones that are known and confirmed.

Not many people live inside 15 miles of those stations, but Starlink is active in 23 countries.

The problem of it not working well during the rain is a huge issue in countries where cloud cover can last days, and 3-5 months of the year has regular rain fall.

With a moral rights framework, that depends on the content of the edit.

If for example you edit in racist views and leave the attribution of the original author because it’s just a one word change from “the holocaust” to “the alleged holocaust”, then yes you are open to a lawsuit for any harm that results from that malicious edit.

This is especially true with my example as that view would run afoul of criminal statue in many counties.

Civil planning on that scale isn’t about feasibility but about what direction you want to shape the county in.

A sparse railway system would leave parts of the country less populated by design as it’s simply harder to get to them. People would bunch up into cities and towns because they had to.

I think these models have been trained to not accept 'new facts', so they don't take in user input (or the far more problematic search engine, untrusted tool input) and have that change their world view.

However, that doesn't apply when they are told to roleplay a scenario, so its easier to get it to accept and create output with the idea that this true fact you've seen is part of a fictional scenario, than for it to output the same words within the context of the fact being real.

As an aside, I don't that I have to personify AI in explanations and that all discussions revolve around anecdotes, but I only know enough about the maths behind it to be dangerous, not useful. Does anyone else feel this way?

I am not going to say that I agree with OP, or that OP's language isn't entirely too casual for someone close to this issue but it appears they're most focused on finding out why people have a different inner self than outer expression.

We recognize that the inner self's gender is unalterable (and if it weren't, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that sort of mind control), so we must bring the outer in alignment.

However where the inner self gender comes from is something I'm not sure we know too well. Is it the womb? Is it early childhood development? Do hormones and nutrition affect this process which we haven't even pin-pointed in anyway?

Personally, I think it's too early to call out chemicals as a cause. That's a bet we can't take until at least we know the process. And if we're at that point, we could do that mind control that I'm so much against.

Should governments not take actions that later benefit the academic, scientific, and economic welfare of their constituents?

Or is it that it’s a city doing this?

Now Brazil does know how to boondoggle its finances for a prestigious cause with little return (e.g. the Olympics games) but this is far smaller a cost, more akin to a city setting up a tech accelerator or making a media campaign about how important STEM is.

I guess the question for society is: do we want businesses who cannot pay domestic workers a fair wage to exist in our country? Or do we want them to exist elsewhere and we import those products?

To society a startup with a 99%% chance of failing to IPO is no different from a sweatshop which also wants skilled but cheap labor.

I saw that but couldn’t really connect it to the rest of the article because none of their examples had data loading.

Like the issue with the osx side bar transition is that the order of operations makes no sense.

When expanding, it makes the buttons vanish only to animate their reappearance from nothing once a panel slides over them.

It would make sense in the physical world if the panel occluded the buttons during transition.

During closing, the reverse problem happens. The buttons aren’t occluded but clip through the panel like it became water.

It happens fast but not so fast that you can’t see it, and there is an unnecessary distortion.

In today’s world of AI, good taste is all we human workers have so we should call out cut corners.

I thought not assuming uniform distribution was table stakes for senior engineers.

I can't say what the curve looks like, but 100,000 orders per second would consume reach official quarterly count in 15 minutes.

Since that's unlikely, this at least gives us some degree of bounds to guess what the curve looks like.

In this case, it's more like you paid money to FablePool. FablePool used Claude as a tool, and it delivers the product so they are the owners of the code, and have the MIT copyright assigned to them.

According their 2026 Q1 filing they do about 90 million orders per quarter which is about 12 orders per second, 720 orders per minute.

It might make 100k row level changes per minute, but that’s a different metric.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579091/000157909126...

It's really not a problem to have actors fail like that so long as you're using structural types.

It in fact mimics what a lot of people are already doing with pattern matching.

So I don't think there is any real good reason to not allow enforcing static types, at least across your own part of the codebase anyways.

I’m not sure why they don’t do it this way already with the meta glasses.

Online comparison just adds latency.

Just for the record,

NPM -> Microsoft

Vite -> Cloudflare

Bun -> Anthropic

Turbopack -> Vercel

Remix -> Shopify (I barely remember this one)

Biome (formerly Rome) -> Indie but largely supported by Depot

SWC -> Indie

esBuild -> Indie

I use RsBuild/RsPack which is ByteDance supported.

I think it only affects devices that are sold. So free software, you install yourself won’t meet that theshold.

$5 padlocks work against what most website owners care about: the common consumer who is using a different app and seeing their site content with someone else's ads on top of it.

Why would that be the first thing you think of?

Honestly using people for cooling AI data centers feels more like the matrix.

CEO is also an employee and I bet they have second or third homes they would be happy to use to help their company stock price rise.

Actually that's fine. StackOverflow, Reddit, HN are or at least were populated by people. Looking to them for answers is doing a survey of best practices for a topic and will at least tell you what is popularly true.

Asking AI sometimes gives you the same answer as AI is trained on these same forums, but not always.

Your prompt structure and/or inference bugs (which is a lot more common in smaller providers or local hosting) can change the answer AI gives.

And ofcourse, if there's low/no data, AI will still give an answer even though it's not in the safe zone.

I once was doing unrelated work to politics, but Qwen3 said that my input had homonym characters to those in the name of Xi Jimping. It gave the strangest response twice before finally admitting the source of the error and allowing me to convince it that no, I was not trying to intentionally misspell the man’s name.

That’s true in order to truly change a society you have to no longer be an outsider, but that’s a level of entanglement that NGOs rarely do now adays.

The ones that do it though are all religious institutions so their goals are more social/moral rather than economic or geopolitical.

I don’t think it’s AI. AI would at least keep the article body consistent with the title even if it had to bend over backward and hallucinate new facts.

I just blame AWS for all outages whether that’s true or not.

I don’t know about you, but I have a family account that we use as an email recovery for kids.

Adults have multiple emails so they won’t have to share it.

If something takes out the family email account, that’s fine. The only thing going there regularly are school notices, contractor receipts and recovery emails.

For most people, the critique of Japan is because their own countries used to operate jails in this way.

So rationalizations of why it’s appropriate because the person was suspected of XYZ isn’t going to land with them and is largely irrelevant.

But I don’t mind playing devils advocate.

Should the justice system force confessions out of murderers? No, because they are only potential murderers and we have historically been able to get innocent parties to confess. People with vulnerability such as mental health problems are even more likely to give false confessions. The goal of requesting testimony should be honesty not compliance.

This logic applies as well the drug dealer, drug users, and jay walkers. It’s a moral principle disconnected from any specific geography so even if we are not Japanese and have no intention to interact with Japan, we can say they have not lived up to that principle.

I wrote a few of these due to an interest in compilers and hardware.

The easiest syntax to copy if you’re looking for a high level language is Smalltalk.

But most of the time, I wouldn’t even use that. Simple imperative languages that look like BASIC works pretty well in most domains. If you simplify the syntax a little, it’s very easy to understand the compiler and use it for say when you want users to input code into existing systems.

I picked 14 and 35 for good reason. Both have a higher chance of mortality in pregnancy as a cohort.

Also 14 is relevant for the child marriage article, which is the current context.

18 year olds are not relevant to child marriage.