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You’re not wrong that it hasn’t been passed by congress but just the proposal has already led to a massive decrease in grants. I am not as optimistic that Congress would go against admin policy

A coffee-table book? A Natural History of SVG Pelicans


John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”and Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” were constant companions for me on road trips (sadly no English unabridged “Foucault’s Pendulum” exists)


I think they meant “it just can’t” in the sense of “it shouldn’t under any circumstances”


Even that interpretation would be be wrong because it can and it does and the circumstances are very clearly described. Every inverter worth considering for a home installation has this capability. Only really old ones are not able to disconnect from the HV side when things are about to go pear shaped. If I had an inverter without that capability I'd get rid of it immediately because that's an accident waiting to happen.


To add a little detail, Objective C was created by Brad Cox and Tom Love who formed PPI/Stepstone, with NeXT becoming a customer when Steve Naroff left Stepstone for NeXT to add support in GCC


Not necessarily, you don’t need to know the answer, the fabulation might:

* give an error

* return the wrong result

* not be internally consistent with the rest of the content

* be logically impossible

* be factually impossible

* have basic errors

It is entirely possible (and quite common) to know something is wrong without knowing what a right answer is.


Totally irrelevant, Anthropic isn’t cutting off OpenAI, it is cutting off Windsurf users.


Windsurf users can still plug their own Anthropic key and continue using the models. It’s Windsurf subscribers (eg OpenAI customers) that use the models through the Windsurf service (through their servers as proxy, that’s now OpenAI) are getting cut off

I don’t see how this is irrelevant. Windsurf is a first party product of their most direct competitor. Imagine a car company integrating the cloud tech of a different manufacturer


Exactly, it's like car manufacturers cutting off Android because Google own Waymo. The only people that pay are the consumers.


Burroughs was also one of the great comic monologuists, in March 1975 he was asked by Harper’s Magazine (along with others including Ronald Reagan, who had just finished his last term as governor of California) to contribute an essay on the topic “When Did You Stop Wanting to be President”, it’s a funny essay but delivered best as a monologue: https://youtu.be/ir0JDok2TDE?si=W7JExK7VeMbL9Ky-


“Substantially less inhabitable than Antarctica” is true of every single place that we know of outside our planet.


Which is exactly why humans are a terrible tool for the job of space exploration. Really a political sacrificial lamb more than something useful. A robot doesn’t need to sleep. It can take radiation. It doesn’t need to develop some long term farming system. It doesn’t need to come back home either.


That is not true. DDT as a tool was preserved by the environmental movement not eliminated, it is pure propaganda to say that it has zero tolerance, it has been used as much as it has been necessary for it to be useful in public health.

The people who claim that it became a “Chemical Hitler” wanted it used excessively in areas like agriculture which would have eliminated its usefulness in reducing malaria and similar disease vectors.


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