My next laptop computer (which is sorely overdue) will be Linux with macOS in a VM.

A pity, because Keynote is great.

I'm a lifelong plant eater and you can survive very happily, healthily, with lower carbon footprints at all stages of life with it. And if anyone says "protein" or DHA I'll talk all about the pentose phosphate pathway whilst munching linseeds.

"I was wrong" and "the honest truth" are just forever phrases that are now dead to me.

Everyone is to be a child by default until proven otherwise by "highly effective" age assurance methods.

> It doesn't matter if it is technically feasible or not.

There is a long tradition of legislators not being burdened by such things as mathematical fact [1] or technical feasibility. In fact, in the law, it is quite common that one thing "is deemed to be" another -- famously a guide dog "deemed to be" a cat, for example, in a building where no dogs are allowed.

A senior British politician was on the radio yesterday morning saying words to the effects of 'if they can do AI they can do this' and calling all the privacy concerns overblown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

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I'm a Claude Max user. I've never been able to use Fable as my work in medical physics involves both particle physics, biochemistry and biology from Python bivitticus to clinical medicine. I am not a US citizen and work in Europe.

Will Fable 5.1 work on any of my problems? Fable 5 refuses outright. Is there anyone I can ask for a review or adjustment of the safeguards? It doesn't seem so, but with Opus at least I'm pretty sure I can infer lots of your training data from now precise they are. Fable is basically useless infuriatingly. I'm just finishing a proper clinical trial in ovarian cancer and trying to make a simulation environment related to our technology.

One part of the classical diaspora I think is both under appreciated and undergoing something of a renaissance is that of contemporary choral music. There are many great examples but two I'd like to draw to attention to two of those I have recently sung, and really enjoy:

(1) The works of Ēriks Ešenvalds,[1] a Latvian composer who was a fellow in composition at Trinity College, Cambridge and brought really a large part of the surprisingly rich eastern European singing tradition to the west. I had never heard of the Singing Revolution against the USSR in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania – countries with a wonderful, rich choral tradition where music (and choirs) played a really nonzero part in the downfall of the USSR. All absolutely beautiful and a group I sing with has worked with a lot of composers from this part of the world. Amazing soundscapes with harmonies that are never quite as good in equal temperament as outside it and yet always tonal and beautiful.

(2) Desmond Earley and the choral scholars of Trinity College Dublin – who conjures up a rich sound world of very pure, Irish tones that almost sounds synthetic but is made entirely from human voices and traditional instruments. It is simple to sing but difficult to master. I would highlight Dúlamán, [3] a traditional song about the economic importance of seaweed.

[1] https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_HYP202607B – track 6 (the whole lot is free!) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRfI1ezYjA&list=RD3iRfI1ezY... – this was a sampler from hyperion too and I have the whole lot legally as flac.

I sometimes think about logging in (I think I ragequit likely in a pod inside a wormhole in the middle of nullsec) and then I realise that way madness (and much sunk time) lies.

One of the major difficulties with manufacturing large magnets out of existing technologies like Nb-Ti or Nb3Sn (which is used for ultrahigh field) is the welds. You need O(100 km) of superconductor with no defects embedded in a copper or bronze matrix (for taking the quench current and mechanical support). As you probably know, these are made by taking a block of copper (or bronze), drilling out holes in it, putting in rods of e.g. ultrapure Nb3Sn in Nb sleeves, and then drawing it under very controlled conditions. The metals have to be pure because work hardening around defects is definitely a thing, and you do not want an unknown break in the wire, ready to become resistive and take O(0.1-1 kA) currents.

This is "specialised" to put it mildly and joining a broken wire is somewhere on a scale from impossible to bloody difficult -- traditionally think lovely solutions like Piranha or HF, and words like "cold welding". Only recently have people started to get TIG like hot welding techniques to work -- but then you have a difficult problem anyway because it is analogous to joining something like a 28 core cable where one dodgy connection can cause what is effectively a controlled explosion.

> Some other funny ideas I saw: [...] > "Palantir for tech teams". "A real-time security guardian sitting silently on every dev's machine, scanning their screen, code, and communications to proactively prevent vulnerabilities."

Jesus hell, people – normal people, okay those who code at presumably _some_ sort of high level like you and I – think that is not only a good idea but a novel idea and one worthy of funding.

I realise HN is not Reddit, but I do think this comic rather fits the bill... https://i.redd.it/kyoumnqngzih1.png

Britain has all sorts of laws like "attempting to pervert the course of justice", so you'd have to be very careful to not accidentally cover for a "real criminal", but just to preserve privacy it might work (especially if more than one person did so).

I've never had the guts to do it, but I do really hate facial recognition and all of this surveillance capitalism.

I'm surprised this isn't already "a thing" though, as the interaction of wind and waves have been known about for centuries and clearly a big blocky ship is going to be very much not finessed aerodynamically. The hydrodynamic Reynolds number is very large and I suspect dominated design considerations of efficiency with a limited time (and computational) budget.

Claude without an editor having worked too long on its own project.

Of course, woe betide those with social phobias....

I really hate modern Google.