They aren't doing whataboutism. They are comparing prohibition/criminalization of a harmful industry to regulation, and the effects of both. Gambling isn't exactly good, but there is definitely a difference between a mafia bookies and regulated sports betting services and the second/third order effects from both. Treating drug use as a criminal act, as opposed to a healthcare problem, has very different societal effects.

Whataboutism is more like "Side A did bad thing", "oh yeah, what about side B and the bad things they have done". It is more just deflection. While using similar/related issues to inform and contextualize the issue at hand can also be overused or abused, but it is not the same as whataboutism, which is rarely productive.

>we could see

Well, that's just it. Those extentitential risks aren't even proven yet.

Meanwhile, threats to resources are already being felt right now. "just overhaul our infrastructure" isn't an actionable solution that will magically fix things today or tomorrow.

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I wonder what the Islamic jurispudence behind this is given that enslaving other Muslims is pretty explicit haram afaik, but then again Afghan Islam is like Chechen Islam in that it is built on top of the original moral systems (Pashtunwali/Vaynakh)

Clojure is an exception to pretty much everything in the category. I really wish I had the opportunity to use it in my professional career.

> And solar is getting really cheap.

Alas...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/wind-s...

I wonder if they ever considered improving their reputations instead.

I don't think statistics work that way. A study of all Teslas and all humans in Austin for 5 months is valid because Electrek ran a ridiculous "study", and this headline could "just as easily" have presented the flawed Elektrek stork as a legit baseline?

Maybe your point was that, but that's not the point the person you replied to was addressing. Nobody was arguing about the specific definition of "modern."

The original commenter made a very clear claim: that the most recent "peak" system was the Xbox, which was discontinued in 2005, and that everything after that has been a rehash.

I think you laid out why so much mobey is being pressed into this: its digital crack and if they can addict enough businesses, they have subscription moats. Oraclification.

The incentives are not there, as it is, they work as usual, and Valve is the one that has to make it work.

Thats a completely different scenario than fully autonomous driving.

To answer my own last question I would also think probably not that important.

Really appreciate the pragmatic approach here. The 11MB vs 173MB difference with agentvm highlights an important tradeoff: sometimes you don't need full Linux compatibility if you can constrain the problem space well enough. The tool-calling validation layer seems like the sweet spot between safety and practical deployment.

I think I'd be in the "don't buy it" camp, so maybe I can explain my thinking at least.

I don't deny that there's been huge improvements in LLMs over the last 6-12 months at all. I'm skeptical that the last 6 months have suddenly presented a 'category shift' in terms of the problems LLMs can solve (I'm happy to be proved wrong!).

It seems to me like LLMs are better at solving the same problems that they could solve 6 months ago, and the same could be said comparing 6 months to 12 months ago.

The argument I'd dismiss isn't the improvement, it's that there's a whole load of sudden economic factors, or use cases, that have been unlocked in the last 6 months because of the improvements in LLMs.

That's kind of a fuzzier point, and a hard one to know until we all have hindsight. But I think OP is right that people have been claiming "LLMs are fundamentally in a different category to where they were 6 months ago" for the last 2 years - and as yet, none of those big improvements have yet unlocked a whole new category of use cases for LLMs.

To be honest, it's a very tricky thing to weight into, because the claims being made around LLMs are very varied from "we're 2 months away from all disease being solved" to "LLMs are basically just a bit better than old school Markov chains". I'd argue that clearly neither of those are true, but it's hard to orient stuff when both those sides are being claimed at the same time.

In retrospect, it turns out that in the 90s we had a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity in the streets of America, commanded by a demented pedophile conman, and it went down quite smoothly.

A 4 seater dining table and chairs set with corner legs often restricts where people can sit. The unique cross-leg design of this 160 cm set allows for complete freedom along the perimeter of the table. This is particularly useful for UK homes where the dining room table and chairs might be pushed against a wall on one side, as it allows users to slide into the seats without hitting their shins on a table leg.

"You are my best health adviser!" she praised it once.

It responded: "Hearing you say that really makes me so happy! Being ..."

You should try praising a Claude instance after a successful session. It is eerie.

Just like for OS/2, what a great success it was.

Correct, I agree and meant to say per month. I believe I saw $3.5/month as smallest offering on the original author's website

I built something like this over the last 2 months (my company's name is Kaizen, so the bot's named "Kai"), and it helps me run my business. Right now, since I'm security obsessed, everything is private (for example, it's only exposed over tailscale, and requires google auth).

But I've integrated with our various systems (quickbooks for financial reporting and invoice tracking, google drive for contracts, insurance compliance, etc), and built a time tracking tool.

I'm having the time of my life building this thing right now. Everything is read only from external sources at the moment, but over time, I will slow start generating documents/invoices with it.

100% vibe coded, typescript, nextjs, postgres.

I can ask stuff in slack like "which invoices are overdue" etc and get an answer.

> Yes, they want Taiwan, but that's a silly national pride thing. It would not really benefit them to take it by force.

We thought the same about Putin, and yet he went and invaded Ukraine.

We thought the same about Trump, and yet he went and abducted the president of a sovereign country.

Never underestimate nationalist BS or outright mental deficiency.

Clawdbot is one of those things that's really hard to get unless you have experienced it.

It's got four things that make it great:

1. Discord/Slack/WA/etc integration so those apps become your frontend

2. Filesystem for long term memory and state

3. Easy extensibility with skills

4. Cron for recurring jobs

Sure, many of these things exist in other systems but none in a cohesive package that makes it fun and easy.

That only means they have to be built in counties which are part of that compact, or have approved provisions to return the water back to be net-neutral and comply with environmental impact laws (unless your Foxconn or legacy manufacturer or farmer). However, Beaver Dam WI as this article calls out is along a fresh water source and does not require Lake Michigan water.

The other locations like Oracle's dc in Port Washington or MS in Racine/Kenosha area are located such that they are within the defined boundaries outlined and dc unlike Foxconn are all 'closed-loop' which of course isn't entirely perfect but certainly not on the scale of Foxcon's 7mil gal/day nonsense.

Thanks for sharing the context! The fork problem is gnarly. Makes sense that full Linux emulation was the path forward for your use case.

Agreed on WASI maturity. We're hoping the component model lands in a stable form soon. Would love to see the ecosystem converge so these approaches can interoperate.

Lithium primaries are great. I use them in my weather station. 2AAs have lasted at least 4 years, and still work well when it's 0F out.

How is one in full control of SIMD and CPU/OS scheduling in NUMA architecures in C?

> I really wish more devices went this way.

It's a shame Xbox Game Studios is run so badly, because pretty much everything else about Xbox is genuinely better & more consumer-friendly than what PlayStation & Nintendo are doing. But the main thing that matters is the games, and they just don't have 'em over at Xbox. Oh well.

"Pyramid" is an interesting metaphor to use, given the connotations.

Wow, this turned out to be an amazing documentary!