Hell, I’ll do this for free.

Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars

This is correct. They will be cheaper. The question is not how much money is spent, but it is what you get for that money.

I’m sure if we get rid of all food safety laws there will be cheaper food available as well. It will make manufacturing much easier.

Likewise, if we eliminate the EPA and the huge amount of environmental protection laws we have, manufacturing will be much cheaper and feasible to do in the USA.

Chesterton’s Fence remains in effect, as ever. Fiddle with these rules at your own risk. Consequences don’t care about your feelings and the universe will make sure to pay you back.

“Did I give you permission to delete my D:\ drive?”

Hmm… the answer here is probably YES. I doubt whatever agent he used defaulted to the ability to run all commands unsupervised.

He either approved a command that looked harmless but nuked D:\ OR he whitelisted the agent to run rmdir one day, and that whitelist remained until now.

There’s a good reason why people that choose to run agents with the ability to run commands at least try to sandbox it to limit the blast radius.

This guy let an LLM raw dog his CMD.EXE and now he’s sad that it made a mistake (as LLMs will do).

Next time, don’t point the gun at your foot and complain when it gets blown off.

Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be a huge government bailout that the people have no say in. Remember 2008? I don’t remember voting to give away piles of money to the bankers.

You know what Iceland did when there was suspicious investing and they had bank failures? They put the bankers in jail! What did we do? We gave them a bonus!

God bless America, because we’ll need it!

What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

I think Trek needs more witty banter, scenes filled with sexual tension, car chases and loud explosions and conflict. That’s what people are looking for!

Too bad there aren’t any older, successful series to look to.

Ah, but all those states aren’t TRUE capitalist states. That’s why we can’t point to a successful example.

I think it’s pretty clear the “Rust experiment” has failed. You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to know how this plays out. The writing is on the wall: Rust faces a bleak future.

It’s time developers got serious and rewrote sudo-rs in a serious, tried-and-true systems language, potentially C or C++. Only then can system administrators sleep soundly at night, feeling safe from the type of bugs introducing Rust to a mature ecosystem can cause.

“It’s worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths […] so that we can have the Second Amendment” - Charlie Kirk, 2023

Easy, when foreign workers take the money, it leaves the USA. When it’s an American AI company getting that money instead of an American worker, the money stays in the country.

Plus, the administration hates foreigners and loves technology. Seems consistent, at least.

There’s at least two possible outcomes when someone(s) receives aid:

1. They use it as a stepping stone towards becoming independent, and it’s temporary
2. They feel entitled to it and become habituated towards receiving aid and it cements their dependence

Same problem with food stamps, etc. some people use it as a hand-out, some people use it as a hand-up. You can’t really help one group without helping the other, unfortunately.

I love the pattern on the right: “Despite X occurring plenty of times throughout the years on ‘my side’, this time I’m really riled up about something that’s not even true!”

He loves his country so much he wants to defend it from ignorant outsiders, but isn’t even aware of who has citizenship and won’t explain why this didn’t have any bearing on past musical performances.

Intellectual consistency isn’t their strong point.

Jellyfin.

That is all.

Technically, any image could be printed on new U.S. currency. Slow news day?

GOP plans have the follow-through ratio of a Chris Christie diet plan, so I’ll believe it when I see it.

FCC Chairman: Someone should take care of Jimmy Kimmel.

[deep state assassins terminate Kimmel]

FCC Chairman: Noooo! Not like that!!

This is a huge downside to USA protectionism of EVs. Because the USA slaps anyone who wants to import an EV, the really cheap EVs and many of the other models from overseas don’t land here. It makes Tesla seem more popular than it ought to be because they make up a huge part of the EV market in the USA. However, when you go elsewhere and the consumer can pick from the full range of EVs, they tend not to pick Tesla.

If we allowed all the foreign EVs in the USA to be sold to citizens, then Tesla would “learn” how to compete. Since they don’t have that pressure, we have an noncompetitive product. This will end just like compact cars did in the 70s. American manufacturers said “Americans don’t want small cars”. Then, everyone started importing Japanese compacts. All of a sudden GM & co. figured out how to make a compact car.

If you want your product to be a success globally, you can’t do that through tariffs and protectionism. This is not a new phenomenon.

Sorry, if you sell your project to a data collection firm you have already lost the plot anyways. These companies care only about one thing, and it’s not “making a quality app”.

Do you have an extra room in your house? How would you feel if I moved in and started smoking meth?

Has anyone checked out the fact sheet from CMS: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/wiser-fact-sheet.pdf ?

The openness of Android is the thing that kept me on the platform. Now that the openness is being removed, iOS is now more appealing.

Sadly, I think most of the customers that use Android never sideload a single app at all. I don’t expect this to create a mass exodus, but a smaller one with power users.