Yea from a technical perspective I think it’s ridiculous that organisations like lets encrypt are even needed. You should be able to make your own tls signing certificate that gets stored in your dns entries. And the dns query response should be signed by the dns provider. Then we’d have a simpler chain of trust. You store the dns registrar’s signing certificate. They sign the dns query response, which contains your own self signed cert. Then you use that.
Trust already depends on dns (since that’s how you prove who you are to letsencrypt). So the whole system would rely on fewer trusted entities - which would hopefully make it more secure. It would be simpler to run - less organisations needing to do anything. And simpler to make use of, since you wouldn’t need programs like certbot to keep your tls certs up to date.
I find this fascinating. LUCA clearly predates some pretty core, basic metabolic capabilities, and yet nucleotide metabolism is complete. This seems to indicate that LUCA and its progenitors were confined to their hydrothermal vents and that the cells could not survive beyond due to the missing metabolic networks.
I wonder if LUCA was not a single cell, but many different populations in different hydrothermal vents, exchanging genetic material wrapped by accident in the remains of the cell membranes as the host cells die and are ejected from their vents.
Perhaps the missing post-LUCA metabolic enzymes evolved by accident from proteins recruited simply to concentrate the required metal ions that are scarcer and ever more diluted the farther from the black smokers you get. Free living was merely a happy bonus effect.
Oh, I hadn't even considered the interpretation here where you're saying knowledge work is pointless and always has been. I'm not even going to engage with that one because I see the value and real world impact of my work every single week.
I don't think I'm smarter than my colleagues who use LLMs, for what it's worth. I just have the advantage of continuing to think, try, improve etc.
I can absolutely prompt AI to following established patterns and produce nice, clean output in a legacy codebase. I also have a completely separate set of skill files that I’ve been building organically by allowing the agent to do make most decisions about conventions. The latter produces code that would be a nightmare to modify by hand, but I’m still able to iterate on it many times faster than I could in the codebase where code quality is a requirement.
“Code quality” is mostly “human readability”, and I’m simply not sure that’s a valuable attribute anymore.
We should abolish oil companies and make sure the only place you can gas up your lifted truck is the Democratic People's Fuel Depot, that will solve climate change.
A free, hosted MCP server for JMeter documentation is available at docs.jmeter.ai, allowing AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Qwen Code, and Cursor to retrieve grounded answers from actual docs rather than relying on potentially outdated training data. The server exposes two tools: one for searching documentation and one for retrieving full pages.
Most people who gain any sort of playing experience or value cite Rockband (for drums or Guitar mode - Rock Band 3 that shipped with a real Fender Squier) not Guitar Hero which the blog refers to. I cant understand how GH can help anyone get better at anything musical and there's literally nothing transferable to a real guitar except miming holding a plastic instrument and pressing those grotesque buttons and fundamentally different mechanical motions. You'd rather spend the same time really getting better at the instrument. You have actual music to inspire you and don't need GH to be your gateway.
You just reminded me of a funny story about redundant power supply.
A college buddy used to work at Motorola (I'm naming the company because they wouldn't mind this story being shared) back in the late 90's or early 2000's. They had redundant power to their campus, bought from two different companies, coming in on opposite sides of the campus, so that even if some backhoe operator cut a ground-based power line somewhere, they wouldn't lose power.
And yet, one morning, the power went off all across their campus. After a little investigation, they sent pretty much all their employees home at noon and told them "take the afternoon off, don't come back until tomorrow, you wouldn't be able to do any work anyway". Turns out that although the power lines came in at opposite sides of their campus, somewhere a few miles away both of the power lines feeding their campus ended up running through the same underground conduit. And yes, a backhoe had managed to cut that conduit and break both of the lines they depended on at the same time. They had a single, VERY non-obvious, point of failure, and the backhoe had unerringly homed in on that SPoF.
> teachers usually remain on payroll throughout the summer.
That is not exactly accurate. When I was teaching, my salary was for 9 months only. I was paid in 12 monthly installments to smooth out my income, but technically I was not on the University's payroll during the summer months. That allowed me to seek full-time employment elsewhere (e.g. consulting) during the summer which was not allowed during the other 9 months.
If they can pull this off it’d greatly increase the value of the app. I deleted X because of so many stolen video engagement bait type tweets in my feed.
I think they’re still incentivizing clickbait and brainrot though. To get monetized, creators need to attract a large audience and post continuously. That’s not a recipe for high quality content.
The fact is, like most other corrupt assholes in your incredibly evil and self-absorbed society, you only see exactly what it is you want to believe and ignore all facts to the contrary.
One fact you absolutely, positively don't want to know--and will fight to the death to avoid knowing--is that your system is broken and corrupt, it fucks people over constantly, and your own "success" was just as much due to luck as anything.
Fact is, you don't have a fucking clue about me or my background, and are too stupid to listen (instead preferring idiotic snap judgments), so it's impossible for you to learn anything except through your own sure to be painful experience.
I look forward to taking a nice, long, steamy piss on your headstone.
Maybe there are other major uses in war, but the casings and jackets of firearms cartridges are mainly copper. A sibling comment mentions nickel which is the major component of the bullet jacket after copper.
Disclaimer: I use AI at work and for some projects at home and find it really useful (as long as you know when and how to use it)
With that said... It's funny how we went from "vibe coding" to review burden, sloppy contributions, copyright issues, unclear ownership (as in: who will fix bugs), needlessly verbose code, etc, etc. Several projects have banned AI contributions now and counting.
As I said, I use AI to help architect and write code and really like it; still, I cannot even count the times anymore where the model (we use multiple of the frontier ones) has completely gone down the primrose path.
I always make sure I make it my code, every line is reviewed and understood, maybe I rewrite the AI output here and there, I understand the tests and testing strategy, etc, etc.
So I wonder where this is all going. We are past "vibe" coding already, and so far monetization of AI has been "patchy". On top of that local AI is becoming more and more viable.
But what's Grandma supposed to do in the meantime?