Comment Re:Betteidge's law (Score 1) 93
Additionally, the way it's phrased, as a "bet," is implicitly skeptical.
Comment Re:Betteidge's law (Score 1) 93
There is no question that states are betting on AI.
Comment Re:Give my my SysVInit (Score 1) 103
I have never detected even a single advantage of systemd. It didn't bother me enough tow switch distributions, but that's the best I can say for it.
Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 2) 25
Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days.
If "3x more" means proportional, then TT must be about 150% slop.
Probably a pretty good estimate...
Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 54
If only he had lived in the US, he could have appealed to the Supreme Court!
Or "donate" to an appropriate "charity".
Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 2) 54
What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch.
When I registered for college, during the orientation they said that pre-meds are the group most frequently caught cheating.
Money is a big motivator. And not always for the good.
Submission + - About that DC terror plot
An anonymous reader writes: How come this disappeared from the news so fast? When I search for updates on the story all I can find is repeats of the week-old stories of five arrests, and some mentions that their trial may be held outside DC.
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
Comment Color me skeptical. (Score 1) 1
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Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 25
Alas, pretty soon you won't even be able to find real porn.
Comment cue Juvenal (attributed) (Score 1) 76
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Perhaps appropriately, the original context had to do with someone trying to control his wife.
Comment Re:For those who don't get it... (Score 1) 27
Are you going to make Welsh the national language?
No!!! Even the Celts were interlopers.
And probably not the first.
Comment Re:A mirror into the future of the West. (Score 4, Insightful) 27
And this is somehow better "In the East"?
No, it's just that we naively didn't expect it from "the West".
Submission + - Bypass the polirical parties, add a new feedback to Congress (taxnvote.org)
SysEngineer writes: How would you change the US Federal budget? TaxNVote.org allows you to adjust 9 or 1000 categories of the next federal budget. The default form shows nine top-level categories (Defense, VA, Education, Health, Infrastructure, Science, Environment, DHS, Other); expand any line and you can allocate down to individual federal accounts — NASA, the National Park Service, specific research agencies, anything Congress votes on. Takes about five minutes at the top level, longer if you want the detail.
Tax N Vote (TNV) is a proposal to add a new feedback channel to the federal budget process. At tax filing each year, every taxpayer optionally submits a Tax Dollar — one person, one allocation. The IRS anonymizes submissions; the Census Bureau processes and stores them (where you can verify your own); the CBO aggregates one-person-one-vote between April 16 and May 1 and publishes "The People's Budget." A third reference point alongside the two party platforms — measurable, granular, and updated annually. Congress is not bound by it; what changes is that deviations from constituent preferences become documented, attributable, and electorally citable. The argument is system-dynamics, not partisan: changing the color of the players doesn't change the system. A simulation of the mechanism shows convergence toward whatever the People's Budget turns out to be, in both ideological directions tested. There will be a talk on the model at ISDC 2026 in Delft.
The Government-side processing of Tax Dollar documents is written in Rust — memory safety and predictable performance for government data handling. The browser-side allocation engine is a Rust WASM module inside a Vue frontend, so the math you see in the app is the same math the aggregator uses. Processing is divided across agencies that already exist; marginal cost to the government is less than renaming the Department of War.
Open source end to end. The Tax Dollar format is open, the reference implementation is at github.com/greenpdx/TaxNVote26, and anyone can build their own client, audit the aggregator, or publish pre-filled template budgets that citizens adopt with one click. Go build a budget: TaxNVote.org.
Tax N Vote (TNV) is a proposal to add a new feedback channel to the federal budget process. At tax filing each year, every taxpayer optionally submits a Tax Dollar — one person, one allocation. The IRS anonymizes submissions; the Census Bureau processes and stores them (where you can verify your own); the CBO aggregates one-person-one-vote between April 16 and May 1 and publishes "The People's Budget." A third reference point alongside the two party platforms — measurable, granular, and updated annually. Congress is not bound by it; what changes is that deviations from constituent preferences become documented, attributable, and electorally citable. The argument is system-dynamics, not partisan: changing the color of the players doesn't change the system. A simulation of the mechanism shows convergence toward whatever the People's Budget turns out to be, in both ideological directions tested. There will be a talk on the model at ISDC 2026 in Delft.
The Government-side processing of Tax Dollar documents is written in Rust — memory safety and predictable performance for government data handling. The browser-side allocation engine is a Rust WASM module inside a Vue frontend, so the math you see in the app is the same math the aggregator uses. Processing is divided across agencies that already exist; marginal cost to the government is less than renaming the Department of War.
Open source end to end. The Tax Dollar format is open, the reference implementation is at github.com/greenpdx/TaxNVote26, and anyone can build their own client, audit the aggregator, or publish pre-filled template budgets that citizens adopt with one click. Go build a budget: TaxNVote.org.
Comment No! Drupal's code is hosted by Gitlab (Score 2) 4
Drupal's code used to be self hosted by the Drupal Association using plain Git and some custom code wrappers.
But that changed a couple of years ago, where Drupal is now self hosted on an instance running Gitlab.
You can even see the Gitlab logo on the code's page.
Comment Re:Sojust like every other tech growth story (Score 1) 220
FDNY life is rough but it is still vastly better than Chinese factor worker life. That 18-hour shift is not constant answering calls, a lot of it is downtime. Also, they get a lot of time off in between. And retire with good benefits years and years before the Chinese worker.
