While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

Meanwhile Google illegally cut down 1.5 million trees in Finnland to make way for a data center. While this is small scale compared to deforestation in other places, this devastated the local environment and will have consequences for generations. It's pretty sickening really. Way to be not evil, Google.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

Who needs an IDE these days? All of these tools were designed to write code, but really all you need is to view code now and sometimes write specifications.

Most of the time a claude code terminal is about right. I've even become productive on a phone, with voice input.The IDEs just give lots of screen real estate to things I don't need, like a project navigator or editor pane.

On the projects which I vibe up, the IDE gets in the way. On those were I need to look at the source, okay, but them vim or emacs do a better job of visualisation and work over ssh cleanly as well.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

Well they have a funny way of showing it then. Because much of Trump's crackdown is targeting legal immigrants. In fact very little of it is directly targeted at preventing illegal immigration.

Finding a hotel that can accommodate a family of 4 is not that difficult. Finding one that can accommodate a family of 8 is a bit more challenging. Finding one which can accommodate 8 adult siblings, their children, spouses, etc... is nearly impossible. The short-term rental market is the only realistic option for those people who want to meet with the rest of their family for an extended weekend.

Hotels are set up for small gatherings (an individual room or two), large gatherings (hundreds to thousands in a conference room), but seldom in between.

The last time my in-laws got together, we numbered almost 40 people. Airbnb rentals provide accommodations which are much more practical for those people who want to spend a holiday together with their geographically distributed relatives. Yes, the cleaning can be substantial. But making guests both clean the place, and then pay an additional cleaning fee (in the hundreds to thousands of dollars) seems ridiculous.

No idea but the Russians have been using their microwave weapons against American diplomatic personnel for the last 10 years with devastating effectiveness. Seems that they have been targeting personnel and their families who served in the Ukraine stations.

Also Canadian diplomatic personnel have been targeted too by the Russians.

Ironic they are developing this weapon while at the same time denying that Havana syndrome is real and accusing the victims in the diplomatic core of mass hysteria. Not that long ago they bought a weapon on the black market from the Russians. I'm sure they have been testing it extensively while they make their own version of it.

I note that even a hybrid kernel would require a compatibility layer to provide all the userspace stuff including the the display environment, access to the Unix file system, etc.

As far as compatibility layers go, years ago there was one called Merge which supported win32 on Unix. It was a commercial offering. I actually used a derivative of this back in the windows 95 days to run Windows 95 apps on Linux. Sadly they never made the transition to supporting modern windows NT apps.

Hint: You cannot run win32 apps on a unix kernel without a compatibility layer of some kind! (Which is what WINE *is*.) There's no way around this to get seamless win32 binary support. You either need to have WINE integrated into the OS and desktop environment, or some other implementation of win32 in the OS that translates win32 calls into kernel calls and unix libraries for I/O, screen display, etc. Or some kind of hybrid kernel.

All of this is true whether you're running windows apps on *nix or wanting to run Linux apps on FreeBSD, or Linux apps on Windows. What do you think WSL is?

Tight integration between WINE and the OS and desktop environment is certainly possible. If Wine were actually "finished" then I'm sure distros would be doing this. Meanwhile only MS could produce a true 100% win32 compatibility layer for Unix OS's.

Right. You mean with a compatibility layer like WINE. And that's literally what WINE is. An implementation of the win32 platform for the Linux (and now BSD) kernel.

Obviously. But the agents will suggest an appropriate language if asked. I suspect Rust is being recommended more and more.
And agents regularly do make arbitrary decisions if you don't explicitly tell them what to do. For example I know someone working on a large project and the agent chose python and some Tk-based UI library without being asked.

And like I said, it doesn't matter if I know Rust or not anymore. I can simply choose it (because it's popular, or because it is "safe") and the agent will go to work.

Seems to me that he was caught in the act by security, who was monitoring his movements beforehand, perhaps after seeing the chat logs. What led them to him in the first place must have been an interesting tale we may never hear, but I'll bet his lawyer will ask.

With more and more software development being turned over to AI coding agents, in many respects the language itself no longer matters. However I'm not surprised Rust is growing in popularity, driven by AI code generation. And it's a good match for that. While a lot of human developers find Rust difficult to learn and work with, AI agents have no such difficulties and the Rust compiler guarantees help mitigate some of the problems from mediocre, generated code.

I've seen quite a few projects introduced lately that all use AI code generation and Rust. And frankly that's probably the only way I'm going to use Rust myself.