Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
In a list of twenty seven grievances, immigration is seventh. Taxation without representation is seventeenth.
Put another way: the nominal GDP of Cuba is around $250bn. Under normal working circumstances, the federal government generates close to $200bn in improper payments pear year. *Normal* American corruption is almost as big as the *entire* Cuban economy.
(Going from war to not-war is good. Yes, it’s under circumstances likely to be humiliating and ruinous to the U.S., and it represents billions in squandered money and many squandered lives, but it’s better than the war continuing and ALSO those things.)
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
I'm sure we will see all sorts of horrifying data breaches from irresponsible vibe coding in the future, but this isn't one of them - just good old fashioned irresponsible bad programming
People constantly shit on LLMs expecting they'll produce code that's worse than human output, but must I remind you that a human invented GraphQL? Checkmate.
Me: should we go and see Santa? My seven year old: you know it’s not real Santa, right? You’re just taking a picture of your child next to a stranger
MIDDLEMARCH HARD ❌ Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress EASY ✅ She was a 10, but had no drip
Yeah that’s a view. Finally feel like I live in this city, a year after moving here.
