We’re gonna apply it to so many things it’ll have lost its meaning soon.

Now, we obviously know that without some kind of brand new ID check, such a thing would be impossible and thus they had to just shut it down. But this touches on the same kind of issue as all the noise about “for the children” ID checking. We might be soon to see the set of “things you’ll have to reveal your identity to the government to get,” expand from “just” porn and social media to the “good” AI models.

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1. AI is a great boon for all tasks and specialties we don’t have the skills to do ourselves. Understandable, since (A) we’re ill equipped to see the flaws in its output because it isn’t our area of expertise, and (B) it often can unlock great gains because if we trust it, we then don’t have to pay and wait for humans to do that thing.

2. AI is a terrible replacement for me - my skills are at such a high level that it’s almost theoretical that it’ll ever be good enough to replace me for 90% of what I get paid to do. It’s a tool at best.

This is why I use AI for all my medical questions and doctors use AI to write software, and we both smirk at the quality the other person is getting from it.

However, I don't blame anybody for having red lines like this:

1. Don't send me a big long string that is merely LLM output resulting from pasting a trivial prompt + text I already have access to (or my own words!). I know about Claude too, and if that's what I wanted I'd have done it myself.

2. Don't throw an AI-generated argument at me that you don't even fully understand.

3. If you're preparing information for me, and it's overly verbose and wastes my time, I'll be twice as mad if it's obvious AI than if it's obviously human. This is basically the article's point. The asymmetry of wasting an hour of my time reading a bunch of crap that took 15 seconds of your time should make it clear why this is antisocial behavior.

You're right that it's foreign actors starting that trouble, but rather than the ones on Twitter, I'd blame the ones who have been showing up in person, raping girls and knifing people in the face.

A 5-year-old could correctly answer that we should then NOT try to make metals cost more because that screws our big industries while helping almost no Americans. But somehow our tariff policy is set by people with less sense than a small child.

And Newsom also doesn’t support nuclear, while our electricity prices are already over double most other states.

The Democratic Party’s modern strategy about energy seems to be to just throw wrenches into the existing fossil fuel world (because that’s the easy part) and then wag the finger at consumers when they complain. “Well, you gross polluter, you should have just bought a $40,000 EV and a $700,000 house to put $25,000 solar panels on!”

To be clear, I’d love to vote for a Democrat who had a real energy policy that replaced dirty energy with clean, and was able to get tons of people into EVs where practical.

But I don’t see how local temperatures on the site of the DC itself is somehow an existential threat to people in the area unless their house is 50’ away from it.

At the end of the day NIMBYs always have their opinions about everything from views to noise to traffic, but there’s a limit to how much rights one has to control the property beyond one’s own land.

Supposing that you have “too many” messages in your queue, commanding your frontend client to retry its transaction that would’ve added one more, instead of accepting and enqueuing one additional job, doesn’t seem to me to change much. Instead of creating a mess for whoever is in charge of those servers, the mess is created directly in view of the end user, who sees whatever you show them when their transaction is being retried.

Their point about the bottleneck being the real problem that must be addressed if loads are going to be sustained at such a high level is indisputable, though.

I think I would define the necessary rule as: the queue’s maximum size just needs to be greater than the spikes you expect, but that’s of course no insight, just a definition.

I have found queues to be incredibly valuable at solving situations where load has occasional spikes, but urgency of the jobs being done is low. For instance, every time a user views a piece of content you want to make sure that you increment a counter of how many times the content has been viewed, and you also want to touch the timestamp of when that user last did a thing. If that happens even two hours late, it’s probably gonna be fine. The thing that the queue pattern excels at in the realm of Web applications, especially, is allowing you to have an HTTP GET which can be served entirely by a Web worker that is only allowed to talk to a read replica, which allows extensive horizontal scale. Analytics and other incidentals can be handled async in background jobs (and indeed, in emergencies, load-shedding those ancillary things has barely any impact).

I recognize that all of this probably sounds “obvious” - but I have seen enough codebases that do synchronous writes during GET transactions that I would stop short of calling this “common knowledge.”

I think most of us have seen incredibly creaky codebases that are too buggy to be maintained any longer, where we make the hard choice to wipe the slate clean and build a new one.

We might find those rewrites happening every 12-24 months instead of after a decade.

[1] Frontend people, I mean no disrespect -- just that React & friends are (ab)used for nearly every website now, even those which map perfectly onto the "Simple document viewing with occasional submission of incredibly simple form data" model that plain HTML has always been perfect for.

I personally would probably choose one of those over a Rpi (but would probably still rather buy more off-lease Elitedesk G6 Minis, which is what I use for 'lil computer' projects)

July 7, 1999 – A granted the land to (T) Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation, a public trust, for $10 on the condition it be used as a park,

2003 - T granted the land to (W) Williamson County Park Foundation,

2003, one month later, W gave the land to the (C) City of Taylor,

2008 - C sold the land to E (Taylor EDC) for $15,000,

2025 – E sold the land to (D) data center developers Blueprint for $10 million.

At some point between T -> W -> C -> E -> D the deed restriction ('accidentally'??) got deleted. I'm sure T, W, C, and E will each point fingers at any/all of the other parties, and D will just point to their done deal that had no such terms in it.

If I had to guess wildly who, if anyone, had nefarious intent my bet would be that the City conspired with "W" (WCPF) to launder the deed somehow with the intent (way back in 2003) of sneakily putting the land to some non-park use that whoever runs the City government wanted at the time - perhaps at that time it was selling it off for housing development.

Then maybe in 2008 (note the year) they decided building housing was a terrible idea and changed plans to shop it around for some kind of commercial use so they shuffled it to the "EDC."

I first checked for Mac Minis and interestingly they are much closer to $650 for similar specs.

And obviously if Intel is fine for your use case, either the N100 type of mini PC or, my preference, an off-lease HP, Dell, or Lenovo USFF PC, would be like half that for a very capable machine.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=m1%20macbook%20air%2016...

I think especially for an organization like JPL, where the name is far from a full description of what they're currently about anyway, people tend to just think of them as 'JPL' rather than how we think of, say, the United Nations.

Edit: Also, all a reader even needs to know is what the sentence already directly implies -- that "JPL" are the ones in charge of operating Curiosity. It's like saying "How AMR Corp keeps American Airlines flying during challenging times for aviation"

On my work computer, where I never manage any photos, have no iCloud account and never will, I have to keep this app installed and anytime I so much as AirDrop a png to my computer I am prompted to "Add to Photos" with it. No thank you.

The .app is actually only 41MB, so obviously they've moved the majority of it to some mystery-meat libraries or frameworks installed elsewhere anyway.