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Seriously. We already lost "crypto" to such carelessness.

The Times article lists several.

No, you can also take your clothes off and throw them upward with sufficient force.

The son of the elderly Iranian ruler, aligned politically with his father, took over. The war prompted Iran to operate one of the world's largest economic pressure levers, to great…

Is "cowork" a general industry term now? Here I was just getting used to "coding" replacing "programming".

The exception that proves the rule.

It seems so. But why here? The president has the power to ban imports for security reasons; unlike many of his tariffs, a narrow ban like that would likely hold up in court, as lon…

Maybe Jobs was encouraging Atkinson to proverbially skate to where the puck will be -- to create something that will be good now but great in the future.

Even if you think banning Chinese-made vacuum robots is reasonable, it seems bizarre to do so by withholding FCC approval. The fear isn't that they'd spam our RF spectrum... is it?…

The article mentions that, in Georgia, funding for these came from the state budget and even quotes a state legislator on the committee on the education appropriations committee. I…

It's not CS 101 that JavaScript apparently sucks at TCO. That was surprising to me.

Your use of the term "gain-of-function" here reveals your base level of conspiracy-theory-mindedness.

Ah yes, the Feynman Algorithm for shell scripting.

That doesn't mean you can't set up DNS names to point at them.

Not if the harness applies an OS-level sandbox to the process, as Codex does. https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/sandboxing?surface=cli

No, merely analyzing or discussing the law generally does not constitute the practice of law. If it did, plenty of newspaper articles, law review journals (often written by law stu…

The law applies to everyone, so it's reasonable for everyone to try to understand it, not just attorneys. Similarly, it's fine for people to have opinions on food, dental hygiene, …

> By contrast, you can, right now, try believing that what’s happening is what’s supposed to be happening, in exactly the right order. My government is currently killing people for…

This lawsuit alleges violation of federal, not state, law.

Arabic or Hebrew would be better tests for that.

A proper fix is not to shell out to a command at all; use getpwnam(3) or similar.

> This doesn’t tell me a whole lot, because my intuition for QALYs is weak. How strongly should I prefer an intervention with a net benefit of 0.025 QALYs over other things I might…

Right, that's the fix. So saying that it's not fixable is incorrect.