This tracks well with my experiences integrating AI into a software dev pipeline. Sure the output of an LLM is not deterministic in the same sense as a compiler (at least when the LLM has the typical configuration). However, that just means the LLM should not be solely responsible for the final product of your pipeline.

When I am using Pi to write extensions for Pi, I feel better running Pi wrapped in a separate os-level sandbox. I guess Pi could do it all, but I am content with how it is.

Isn't this kind of the point of Java's Project Valhalla or am I just confused???

This project maintains a digital source for multiple old versions of the "Divine Office" (aka Liturgy of the Hours or Roman Breviary). I find it particularly interesting from a FLOSS perspective. The source data is all very old (none/expired copyrights), but the calculations for which readings/prayers should be said for each particular day of the year are non-trivial (and the readings/prayers for a particular day are different from year-to-year). So, the logic included maintained in the project is a real value-add.

To be clear, things said under the "seal of the confessional" cannot be shared by the priest with anyone else _even within the Catholic Church._ This particular situation is not a matter of the church trying to handle matters internally, but more of a recognition that the penitent is confessing their sins to God and the priest is only acting "in persona Cristi" (and thereby is prevented from pursuing other personal or societal objectives based on information revealed).

I find this take surprising. I guess it depends on how much weight you give to "marginally-better", but IMHO readability is the single most important factor when it comes to writing code in most code-bases. You write code once, it may need to be debugged (by yourself or others) on rare occasions. However anytime anyone needs to understand the code (to update it, debug it, or just make changes in adjacent code) they will have to read it. In a shared code-base your code will be read many more times than it will be updated/debugged.

As long as executive compensation is tied to stock performance, coorperations will only care about their stock price and the kinds of things that will affect it. I do not trust them regardless of who is in the White House. Their alignment of values/incentives is diametrically opposed to mine...

The only thing remotely newsworthy here may be a story around a loss in global confidence in the US "brand", but I think the actual implications of that (if any) still remain to be seen....

This is assuming a pretty narrow definition of "full feature-set". It is a inacurrate to say there is feature parity between an Android phone running Google Play Services vs one that is not.

Many of us are not required to use Apple devices (and we choose not to). Additionally, many of us are able to choose privacy-respecting Android variants (like GrapheneOS). It sometimes is less "convenient", but IMHO it is better then surrendering to the duopoly...

But, I always recommend Brave for less-technical folks. It just works! My FF setup includes a number of extensions, some of which need a bit of tuning to be useful. Then you have to deal with issues in websites that just don't properly support FF, etc. My grandmother can install Brave and simply start browsing. Things just work without extra config or tinkering.

Unrelated to the article's point, but what? Maybe the layers of the pad itself are glued together, but no brake pads I have every changed have been stuck to the car with glue in any way. (They are held in place with metal brackets which allow them to slide along a small track when compressed by the brake pistons....)

Not that it would be a bad thing to do that, but really, for small scale stuff Couch works pretty okay. My first impressions of Earthstar do not lead me to believe they have a particular emphasis on performance at scale.