"Licensor: Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Foreign Intelligence Service

The BND logo is a registered trademark of the Bundesnachrichtendienst in Berlin, Germany. The BND is not involved in the operation, production, or sale of these products and accepts no liability. The BND does not receive any revenue from the BND Shop."

Which does seem a little bizarre.

For example, the command execution design of Redis is purely single threaded. (Redis does have other threads for slower activities)

This great quote was brought to us by executives in the 90s at Archer Daniel Midland, an agricultural company.

That’s what comes to mind as I hear about the AI companies talk about pacing themselves.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to reduce the risk of powerful AI doing bad things.

The first line of the article says:

"People at Git has started to work on a proposal to make the Rust programming language mandatory."

This sounded to me like all future code would need to be Rust.

But the Git mailing list email says:

"Announce that Git 3.0 will make Rust a mandatory part of our build infrastructure."

Also, the original Git mailing list email says:

"[author is porting to Rust the...] "varint.c" subsystem, mostly because it is trivial and does not have any dependencies."

So, the email on the Git list says they are testing changing a small piece of C code to Rust, and Rust build tools will be mandatory [to build] (which is not surprising if a non-optional part of the code base is Rust).

Somehow, I suspect that won't happen.

To quote the paper:

"Our first two studies were naturalistic field studies, and examined whether upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals while driving. In study 1, we investigated whether upper-class drivers were more likely to cut off other vehicles at a busy four-way intersection with stop signs on all sides. As vehicles are reliable indicators of a person's social rank and wealth (15), we used observers’ codes of vehicle status (make, age, and appearance) to index drivers’ social class."

Maybe this is a cynical take, but, if they get to the bottom of things, and show their boss/client that the ad-spend is not returning so much, it seems it would portend bad things for the marketer.

I really don't know, and it seems like a very hard problem.

Maybe this is the time for that Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it,"

"The court ruled on a preliminary injunction request, so it’s not the final word on the merits. Still, it seems highly likely that the TWEET term and the bird logo have been freed from X’s trademark clutches. If so, it’s nice to get some cultural assets back into the public domain"

Seems kind of dubious to say the least.

It would be really useful to observe this in a benchmark vs. the more common “go implement this, or fix this bug” type benchmarks that seem to be prevalent.

I wrote a summary for you...

"Because they receive a rebate, credit rewards-card users often effectively pay less than the posted or cash register price for equivalent goods or services."