I had a discussion with my boss today about potential ways to write code with AI and have confidence in the results without reviewing every line. You’d also have to automate the reviews in some way, and therefore also a way to confirm that the reviewer AIs are working properly, etc. The conversation discouraged me because it made me feel like I’ll end up being a manager of AIs who write the code and test cases, and I’ll just be an ape who manually tests some of the behavior before approving it for release. This is essentially what managers have been doing with human development and QA engineers in the past, but even so, I have a really hard time letting go and not reviewing every line of code myself.

Memes aside, there’s nothing more important than the people in your life. Spend time with them.

Physical media is no more expensive or inconvenient than it ever was. It’s just that you’re now comparing it to downloads, which bear no manufacturing cost and don’t require you to physically go to a store or have the media shipped to you. These are exactly the reasons that consumers prefer downloads.

This wasn’t just Stephen Miller as this article makes it sound. The conference was convened by Marco Rubio, and he also used fascist rhetoric.

He called leftists “an encroaching darkness” and “the enemies of civilization”.

Rubio also called the left terrorists:

Rubio also attempted to link disparate groups together. “Iranian proxy networks”, he said, “are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world”. “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders, or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them."

This is from another article on the conference, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

Between this and Trump’s recent claims that the USA doesn’t have the ability to secure its elections against Chinese interference, the regime seems to be making a case for cancelling the midterm elections and possibly arresting Democratic “terrorists”.

My take on this one (as a prospective home buyer) is that I don’t want to have to deal with real estate agents at all, particularly if they demand to be paid on commission; When they’re paid on commission, they benefit by being lazy and not attempting to negotiate down the price of the home. I home that real estate agents are automated away in the future.

It is not socialism. It is literally capitalism. Socialism is a form of government. It is true that the costs of higher energy are being spread across society and therefore socialized, but that is not the same as socialism.

I had a similar deal (I actually got a free Nest thermostat out of it), but eventually I disabled that feature. Instead, I now use a fixed temperature upper bound that is at the edge of my comfortable range. Of course, this is because I can afford to run the air conditioning when it gets that hot.

To be clear, this is a generic supply and demand effect that isn’t specific to datacenters. It’s how any market works.

Gotta own those libs, right? /s

I’ve read science fiction books in which humans scavenged the machines’ supplies like rodents scavenging from a kitchen, and now it’s reality.

“From now on the shroud is our garment. I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility,” Mohammad Rasouli, a poet

They do poetry differently in Iran.

Well I’m guess I’m lucky that I don’t have friends.

I use AIMP for my snobby lossless FLAC library.

Remember when Trump said that Hillary was corrupt for accepting payment for speeches?

The headline is a lie. Not only did they not cut into the roof of the reactor, but the reactor was also offline when they replaced the steam generators

Bruce Power cut into the roof of an operating nuclear station, hauled eight steam generators weighing 100 metric tons each (about 110 US tons) out through the top, and lowered brand-new ones into the same hole. Then it brought the reactor back online on June 8

Is it a noose made of hemp

My answer has nothing to do with current events: what scares me the most about the future is the inevitable death of my parents. I am scared of never being able to talk to them ever again.

I remember when 30° was considered acute.

What is the “self-driving car problem” that the comment refers to?

Sounds expensive. Most nans weight a lot of pounds.