...of sunk costs.

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.

way too early for Zip.
8" and maybe 5" floppies.

They couldn't type it in and build it as they go thru the code? It can't be that big.
Using OCR seems half ass and lazy,
as if the motivation for those in charge was only to generate some executive PR hype.

Good luck.
Hope you find your beaver.

Does it hurt when you write like that?
All non-perportional and everything?
Seems like it would hurt.

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.