Gemini tells me that as long as the guy doesn't spend any of the bitcoins since this was a transfer only at this time, there's nothing to report to the IRS. He didn't buy any bitcoins or sell any bitcoins. wallet transfers are not counted by the IRS as a transaction. No past taxes or back reporting is necessary. When he does finally sell these bitcoins, he'll have to pay capital gains on 100% of their current value since his starting value ("purchase" if you will) was zero presumably. He'll want to make sure he has established a virtual paper trail now for any future time that he finds himself needing to pay taxes on this.

Interesting stuff. Wish I had some bitcoins to find on my hard drive.

Wonder how the IRS treats something like this. They were worthless files on a backup disk for all these years until Claude unlocked them and now they are worth something. So while he always had them, no reasonable person would ever claim you should have to file a 709 form over them.

Umm, yes fast charging and compatibility with various fast charging networks including Tesla's network is absolutely a factor in the the buying decision! Why wouldn't it?

At first I thought this was really dumb. Besides, how can you patent something that's non-existent. But then I figured it can be useful to recreate familiar controls and how they feel. Makes it easier, especially in competition, to back and forth between different types with no loss of skill and reflex. I mean these are recreational machines. Let them have fun regardless.

There is precedence for simulating the action and feel of controls. Happens in aircraft all the time to help ease the burdens of type rating. And I realized that all my newer tractors on the farm no longer have a clutch in the same sense as the old dry clutch days, yet they still have a pedal that simulates it electronically. Technically they call it an inching pedal.

Sigh. So can I apparently.

Come one editors. You can do better than that.

Or the administration could ask congress to pass a law to this effect. Like we used to do back during normal Republic times. Could have done that with the tariffs and then they'd have been legal.

I guess it's been a good run. The republic almost lasted 250 years.

It is quite fascinating that republicans like to claim the idea of being based in part on ideas from the Roman Republic, however they openly admire the later imperial age much more and it's leaders.

In fact farmers in North Dakota have been complaining about cloud seeding by insurance companies for years. These companies seed clouds that could harbor hail so that it rains out before it can drop hail. Mostly this is to protect urban areas. But the problem is it literally takes the rain away from farms the really need it.

Over the years there have been many lists published of lyrics people thought they heard but were completely nonsensical. To some apparently Abba sings, "feel the beat of the tangerine."

So I'm not surprised youtube can't understand song lyrics. Regular speaking, it's fairly good. And not too bad at translating the subtitles.

Just because big data, neural nets, and pattern recognition has been around for decades doesn't mean this stuff is not still in its infancy. In fact it very much is. The transformer architecture described by Google in 2017 was very much a breakthrough that turned decades-old stagnant ideas into something incredibly useful. We're not even 10 years on from that! Just a baby still. And only in the last few years has massively parallel computing power (GPUs etc) gotten to the point of allowing transformers to work on matrices of unbelievable sizes, which really exploded the field.

Meanwhile I use Claude Code and am quite amazed how good it actually is at the tasks I've asked it to help me do. I have no idea whether this is good or bad for us.

Oh wow. So are you lined up to be a long haul driver then? Surely you are manly enough. We have a huge shortage of drivers right now. Maybe you should talk to a trucker a little bit. The job they do is important and they are proud of what they do. But they are treated horribly.

Yes of course we're talking about BEV trucks. What does that have to do with reefer trailers?

What are you talking about? All the major manufacturers are currently selling electric trucks of that size and range in Europe. There's a guy documenting daily long haul driving in Europe with electric trucks. Google for electric trucker or elektrotrucker.

And to head off the inevitable comments, yes European trucks are as big or bigger than American ones. And yes the distances driven are just as long as American routes. Infrastructure for changing is much better than in the US of course, and improving.

I use GitHub as a simple public-facing repository, that part is pretty solid. I do all the work, including merging and actions, locally. I simply don't use GitHub's pull request mechanism. I did discover that if someone does submit a pull request, I can do the pull and merge locally and when I push back to my GitHub repo, GitHub automatically detects the pull request was pulled and closes it without using any of the web interface.

It depends on how you use git. My primary working repositories are all local, and not readable or writable by anyone else (nor should they ever be). I push my working branches to GitHub regularly, so others can pull from them. My collaborators on various projects do the same thing. I could push anywhere that's appropriate. A corporate or publicly-accessible Forgejo instance, GitLab, or even just a folder on my web server.

In my naivete I thought this sort of local repo, public repo split is how git was designed to work. Pull requests could take any form, really, provided commit messages meet your requirements (this commit closes issue #foo), and it's simply a matter of git pull. Sure I have to add remotes to my local git repo, and possibly create local branches to review the pull request commits, but that's not too hard. git gui's like gitg come in handy for navigating numerous branches and remotes. The author could have done that in the time it took him to write a complaint about GitHub. And like I said, github actions can be made to run locally in each collaborator's local repo.

git is decentralized. Development need not stop when GitHub has problems, and it should be trivial to move off of GitHub if that was necessary. Of course, maybe I just use git wrong. And sure I can understand that corporate development doesn't really mesh that well with git's distributed model, hence the use of GitHub as a crutch.