the best part is Downdetector is inaccurate as hell - if AWS is genuinely down, folks get curious and search other providers, causing Downdetector to mark them as down too
They have a head start on you, you're catching up quickly! Worth remembering they have been shooting peaceful protestors recently in the US too.
Trump and Hegseth are explicitly in their admiration for Putin and Xi. So being technically right here is largely to miss the point. The trajectory the US is on is pretty clear.
Sure you can. It's what we as vendors were told to do by the show organizers. They told us the rates to collect and gave us info as to how/where to remit the money. States absolutely would take the money.
> I think the thing companies forget is that a lot of them can't remain functional if a shrinking percentage of the population can afford their products.
Why not? Apple, for example, had billions upon billions of dollars in cash. Think about that: That means they gave billions upon billions of dollars worth of stuff to people and never got back anything in return. And there is no sign that they ever plan to get anything in return. They already happy to give their stuff away for free.
And why wouldn't they? When you give people stuff for free, they put you on a pedestal. Those who lead Apple get to do things you and I can only dream of. That's the appeal of still doing it even though you don't get any return in the economic sense.
This cuts both ways: grants are more valuable as political favors when they are immune to cancellation, and harder to terminate when their value is objectively established.
1. Your unit tests are exacting enough to fully specify the unit. In that case, congratulations, your unit tests are the code. They're also probably much more awkward to write, maintain, etc. Also, the compilation step to go from the unit tests to the actual code is now orders of magnitude more expensive, requires a SaaS to even work, etc.
2. Your unit tests are not that exacting and still leave ambiguity, edge cases, etc. In that case it very much matters what's in the blob of code, because while it could be a correct implementation of what you wanted, it could also be something else entirely that just happens to be correct for the part you did specify.
You are so consumed, with absolute certainty, of the permanent and eternal correctness of your moral position, that you literally say you would rather throw away personal connections to human beings than be triggered by the presence of ideas or things.
Please reconsider. I'm not even going to try to persuade you that you're wrong about AI because it isn't even relevant. The truth is that if you carry out your plan, you will just end up being an incredibly hurtful person towards a lot of folks who probably have no idea why you are abandoning them and now feel isolated, hurt, and confused.
Also, ask yourself how sure you are, that you're going to be right for all time, about AI, which is a brand-new technology. Maybe you know yourself. Your views seem incredibly rigid and perhaps you really will never change your mind no matter what AI becomes. But if you ever have changed your mind about anything ever, again, please consider whether the harmful course of action you are describing is worth the extraordinary harm you seem eager to effectuate on everyone who disagrees.
Honestly I don't know why I bothered typing out of any of this. I doubt the author cares. I just wish people like this author would consider that their words and actions do actual harm to real people. And, by the way, zero harm to the progress of AI. Just hurtful and dumb.
Correct. We were in Michigan, then later North Carolina. We did collector shows in a few states. The organizers told us to collect the tax and gave us vendors information on how to remit to the state agency. We didn't do it at first, then later, as more money came in, we did it for a few years in one state, then another, trying to be 'good' about the whole thing. Was a massive headache.
I've actually settled on a very similar workflow - I mostly use Claude 4.6[1M] with adaptive reasoning disabled on High/Max for implementation, and then I'll do some combination of manual review in conjunction with GPT 5.5 xhigh.
Considering the Catholic Church also teaches that ecumenical councils are infallible, if you propose that Vatican II taught error, then you must also reject a church doctrine which predates that council.
> What do you mean by "manufactured consent for each other the whole time"?
> I also struggle to see how it can be that different Presidents with often directly contradictory policies could both be serving the same ruling class interests.
Using the polarizing topic of COVID (whose risks remain in 2026) as an example, we can answer both of your questions:
This can be applied to virtually any topic. The party of "good cop" and the party of "bad cop" promise no change from the status quo. Of course, anybody easily distracted by the culture wars will not see the commonality between both corporate parties, by design. These people see a close election and use that as "proof" we still have a functioning democracy.
But the difference is I actually like artificial intelligence and the capabilities it provides. No one can predict the future. I don't know if it's going to make my life better or worse. But if you think you're gonna start an uprising and change the world while this thing is in motion, you're deluding yourself. Might as well adapt and make the best of it. Much better than getting steamrolled and not getting anything out of it.
I am building an app that is for a niche market, and I wouldn't have started without LLMs.
The hard part of this app is great design, requiring intentionally designed workflows and lots of real world testing. The code isn't the interesting part and now code isn't taking most of my time. It's great!
Once the design is nailed down and workflows tightened up, I don't expect much active development and can focus on distribution and marketing.
As a solo dev, this feels totally doable but ask me in 6 months.
You're comparing the sum of those European countries to the US.
Scientists have two easy avenues if they are currently in the US, the US or their home country. Immigration to work in a foreign nation is not always easy and takes time.
Just anedoctal evidence, but I have a group of older coworkers, most in late 40s-early 50s, all divorced, and by their reports on their attempts at getting back at dating, success pretty much track how much hair is left. That made me a bit upset, as I'm slowly getting bald myself.
No I was fantasizing that I could get these two things. They are two separate things. If I had a nickle for every time I said something off topic I could by everyone a cup of coffee.
