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TBF the specific backdoor isn’t the point of the article. It’s a cautionary tale. The point is that practically all systems above the MCU level, and even some of those, have lower …

Frankly, the self reinforcing methane loops we have already triggered make emissions almost irrelevant at this point. If we want a planet compatible with human prosperity, we have …

CO2 capture and planetary albedo management are going to be the only way. For cO2 capture to be meaningful, we need to increase our planetary energy production by 2 or 3x so we can…

I wouldn’t say it’s easy. It takes extreme measures. I left my home country with my family of 5 and built an off grid community in an agricultural area in the developing world beca…

Because photosynthesis grinds to a halt at about 40c. This is what people are missing. Climate change isn’t the world hiding in their apartments with the AC blasting, its cities bu…

This seems to be a case of “I want to use services from companies that are built on business models hostile towards my sovereignty, privacy, and rights! ; I can’t believe hostileco…

Seriously question; why is the answer to this not a phone that can just run GNU/Linux? Is it just the lack of application support? I mean, you’ll have blobs, but at least at the os…

Late revision.. either these pilots weren’t using one, or the military was jamming everything. Probably the latter. I can say from my personal experience that it’s really, really e…

Sure, but every pilot has an iPad, basically, and an iPad with foreflight might have saved their lives. You even get synthetic vision.

Everyone knows what the police need to catch more criminals is a comprehensive network of underseat security cameras. I’m sure they would never misuse that kind of access.

lol the very first paragraph of my comment. But yeah, IFR is getting more dependent on gps approaches… which is incredibly stupid because it becomes trivial to disrupt air navigati…

GPS is not essential to air navigation. It’s nice to have, and there are some approaches that legally require it to be operational in order to fly them (IFR procedures) but aviatio…

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To be fair, hammers are bad screwdrivers. They are faster at driving screws and require less finesse to do so, but are really bad at taking them out, often break the screw, and oft…

Since we all know that at this point, someone is definitely going to build the torment nexus, we all may as well get involved and help, so that at least we can exert some limited d…

Why would anyone imagine that the folks that brought you Epstein island would do anything remotely useful?

About $300 per dev per month. Importantly, we are not buying tokens, but the coding plans.

We run extensive harness optimization, where everything is specified in advance, then a plan is made, then a naive review of the plan vs the specification vs the blast radius, then…

We built all the tooling as Claude-code tools (mostly in python) and the rest is just documentation for preloading the context and as reference material to pull in by policy before…

Your process engineering is lacking. Just throwing AI at existing workflows seldom produces good results. Processes have to be reengineered to benefit from the strengths and cover …

It’s like herding cats, if you’re doing it right. There should be enough adversarial tension in your process that the majority stays on track, but the parts where you are managing …

I find this is the difference between people that 2-4x their productivity and improve their shipping quality vs those that don’t find AI very useful. It’s all about the process, th…

Idk, ymmv. I’ve had very good outcomes writing embedded firmware for complex systems, drivers, etc. it’s really, really good at not bodging the kinds of things that always catch me…

Lots of experiments along those lines, actually.

lol