If it's the principle that's driving the decisions, not the affluence of the beneficiaries, across a sufficiently-large set of cases we'd expect to find no correlation between the political leanings of the justices and their votes benefiting wealthy vs poor people. Which is what the article said happened for many decades.

Unless, of course, the principle being applied is "Who benefits?"

It's worth pointing out that although gtall framed it as the Republicans siding with the wealthy, it's equally true that the Democrats are siding with the poor. Both sides are inordinately focused on who benefits.

His advisors told him that he wouldn't be able to get a cut. Not even a measly 5%.

I used HP/UX as a development platform in the mid-90s, cross-compiling to m68k boards running pSOS and VxWorks. It was a little weird, but rock solid, utterly reliable, as were the HP workstations it ran on.

The data shows that college improves your options and your income now. Who cares what effect it had 50 years ago?

But... shouldn't they? I graduated from college in 2002. Today I run software development teams that build cloud hosted machine learning models pretty much none of which was a thing in 2002. Even if we want to imagine that college is essentially a trade school but with ivy and columns, the fact remains that your average college graduate's degree far outlives the value of most of what they're taught unless they're majoring in history.

We certainly want people to exit college with the skills they need to either enter the workforce or grad school, but those skills could be aquired for a whole heck of a lot less time and money than a four-year-degree. The college degree is about critical thinking skills; managing complexity; proving a capability for self education and improvement; etc. Or it should be, anyway.

Haven't even thought about pop3 in decades.

What provider these days supports POP3 but *not* IMAP?

Hard to believe any would remain ... POP3 was mostly obsolete during the (Bill) Clinton administration. <Insert Hillary email joke here>

Keep in mind, one of the authentication mechanisms in the POP3 protocol is .rhosts ....

That's funny. My EV is the vehicle of choice for long trips. Fuel costs are much lower than my ICEV, and long-distance travel makes that more important, not less.

Nah.

All that's required is that EVs be cheap. A 300-mile range is sufficient. When the purchase price of a car with a 300-mile range is at or only slightly above the purchase price of a comparable ICEV, EVs sales will explode because they're cheaper to operate and maintain. All of the range anxiety and concerns about fires (which are silly, since gasoline vehicles are a lot more prone to burning) will inhibit a few people, for a little while, but pretty soon they'll all have friends and relatives who are driving EVs and happy about it, and they'll start making the switch, too.

It's all about the benjamins.

They are if you tell them to search for the information.

Sure, but Claude, at least, knows that its knowledge cutoff date is January 2025. It's sometimes lazy and will tell you that current events precede its knowledge, but if you tell it to do a search, it will, and then it will accurately describe what it found. Other times it just automatically searches when it realizes you're asking about something that is too recent to be included in its training data.

It seems strange that other LLMs that have the ability to search the web don't do the same.

I actually agree - the old "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see" applies. But even that is morphing - can't really believe anything you see, either.

Not sure where it all ends, but really can't trust any source of information... not only is it too easy to manipulate (always has been) - but the difference is that now it's easy to find an echo chamber and amplify. Used to be that real fringe stuff would peter out naturally; now it grows unabated.

(Though I have to ask - "you fuckwits"? What did I say to earn that? Don't think I'm leaning any direction here, except maybe the path straight down to hell.)

Maybe the first major US city without a print paper, but won't be the last.

Just being honest, the newspaper print format is obsolete.

It's a day behind and requires an extensive manual infrastructure for proofing, printing, distributing, collections.

Online journalism has no requirement for quality, for proofing, for integrity or needs any of that manual infrastructure.

Basically rent space from AWS, publish whatever garbage you want to publish, collect the ad revenue. The more outlandish you write - the more eyeballs you get - the more ad revenue rolls in.

It's sad, of course, but I don't see a form of recovery for newsprint. It's just not going to happen.

Which AI?

I asked Claude, and it gave me a much more reasonable figure (200g of bacteria in a 70kg person), and provided a link to the relevant research.

And you could have achieved exactly the same thing at lower compute cost with a stateful firewall. NAT didn't save you from worms, the stateful firewall that NAT requires in order to work did. But you can have the firewall without the NAT, and the result is simpler, more efficient, easier to manage and more flexible.

So have your router run a firewall that denies inbound connections be default, the same way NAT does. This is a side effect of NAT, but can be done better and more easily by a simple firewall.