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yakz··on US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four
They had a firm belief that the reports and statistics were fake. Let's see how this turns out.

*by "they" I mean the voters... the people that were elected were, and are well informed

yakz··on Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
Astra can use build123d, too. You'll get a STEP out of that.
yakz··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
The important bit is that you can sell the CD or cassette or record.
yakz··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
This is one that's already true and "everyone" hasn't figured it out yet. But you don't really even need Office as a viewer, PDF is fine (for printable/portable fixed-layout) or just HTML. "Office" is a product that doesn't need to exist anymore, at least for the core apps. For day-to-day office work, you probably shouldn't be using those legacy apps, you should be reviewing portable document formats and asking an agent to make the revisions that you want.
yakz··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
A problem is that the platform owners argue that this kind of stuff is why they need to put up a security gate that prevents you from installing whatever you want on your own device while also allowing you to install the malware from the ads (... maybe because they want to control what you can install more than they care about the malware?)
yakz··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Back in the day when dial-up modems were a "significant" market, the concept of "WinModems" came around. Minimum hardware, maximum software. If the sensor is good enough to actually work though, it probably won't be long before an agent can implement the driver, if it can't already.
yakz··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
The way that you talk to it influences the way that it responds to you and it is not subtle. I don't want to hitch on to the "it's just really complicated autocomplete" bandwagon, but this is one of the ways that it does feel like that.
yakz··on AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware
The 9800X3D iGPU is definitely handy in some situations, but I tried using it with a 4K wayland desktop for a little while and the performance is really not good enough just for that, unless you're OK with some sub-60hz redraw. I was hoping that the driver situation would be better than Nvidia (lots of issues failing to come back from sleep/unlock). The driver was more reliable but I couldn't live with the occasional choppy redraw. It's really not the kind of CPU that you'd buy and expect to use without a high-end GPU anyway.
yakz··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
I didn’t mean to suggest that GLP-1s don’t count as assistance.

Informing people that they can avoid pregnancy and STDs if they’d just stop fucking each other doesn’t work at scale either.

yakz··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
Practically speaking, any person could starve themself (short of death) and lose weight. In almost all cases there is no magic to storing more energy than you need.
yakz··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
I think it'd be more accurate to say that informing people that they should change their behavior doesn't work. A person changing their behavior can escape obesity. The reality is that most people won't be able to change their behavior without some other kind of assistance.
yakz··on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
We shouldn't want them to have self awareness, we shouldn't be seeking to make self-aware actual slaves. We want machines with perception and knowledge, and that are capable of reasoning. But nothing capable of self-determination.
yakz··on Claude Fable 5
I do some work in laboratory automation and it was quick to refuse the first thing I asked it to do. There wasn't anything spicy in the request, just basic liquid-handling protocol implementation. Their position seems to be that they're too stupid to classify requests safely, and that seems reasonable to me. I'd guess the classifier will improve rapidly.
yakz··on WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
It's difficult to overstate how horrible the performance is.
yakz··on The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

That's the closest thing I'm finding. Not seeing reporting that he literally said "war is peace".

yakz··on The Waymo World Model
Tesla does collect LIDAR data (people have seen them doing it, it's just not on all of the cars) and they do generate depth maps from sensor data, but from the examples I've seen it is much lower resolution than these Waymo examples.
yakz··on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences
The answer is not in the article. The question is: why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car? How are rented or company cars even relevant, since that's a different company between Tesla and the driver that would have the information about the driver? It seems like a weird quirk that there's not a registration process closer that leads somewhere closer to the actual driver. Is it a privacy issue? Is it just because enforcement is easier against a larger company?
yakz··on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences
Seems like some kind of weird quirk that the government doesn't already have this information readily available. Why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car?
yakz··on Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
You can't buy it at all, yet.

Also, with the way these kinds of things have gone in the past:

- It's not certain that you'll ever be able to buy it. - If you can buy it, it'll probably be closer to $40k than $25k with no add-ons. - It's not certain that you'll ever actually be able to buy it with no add-ons. - Orders that include all of the most expensive add-ons will be heavily prioritized, so even if you can order it without add-ons, the queue could be months or years long. - The ones that you can actually get in a reasonable amount of time will be closer to $50k than $25k.

yakz··on RFK Jr. Must Go
I don't think it's a huge stretch to consider supporting circumcision of children as being a call to violence against children, though. Just because it's being done for religious reasons and it has been done by a large population for a long time really doesn't change what it is: involuntary body modification of children.
yakz··on ChatGPT Pulse
Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it. Am I wrong?
yakz··on Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology
Adaptive headlights have only been approved for use in the US for ~3 years. They were sold in cars in the US before that, but the adaptive function was disabled.
yakz··on Meta Ray-Ban Display
A version that is just plainly nerdy (and more comfortable) might not be a bad idea; maybe call it the developer version or something to avoid any association with fashion or luxury.
yakz··on Meta Ray-Ban Display
Doesn’t that make the wrist accessory the important part? The chunky glasses look like they’re still too early, not enough tech.
yakz··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
No, L5 is a car that can drive itself anywhere in any conditions.
yakz··on The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced
It's not an exact quote, but it was on The Charlie Kirk Show, on July 13th 2023. The video is still available, it's around 53:45 in.
yakz··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
It turns out, at least so far, we can still choose violence.
yakz··on MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data
The objective was clearly dismantling institutions, not saving money.
yakz··on SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
How much would it cost them to catch it, though? Not just in money, but time. How do you know it doesn't make sense?
yakz··on Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription
Tesla's "Acceleration Boost" is $2000...
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