This is incorrect. Lungs are efficient at mixing gases and so breathing SF6 is safe, as long as you give yourself breaks to re-oxygenate.

I mean it's obvious that Whiskey Pete has been letting Claude write his speeches and make his decisions this whole time, right?

It's even obvious that Claude is sourcing Colin Jost's "Weekend Update" performances for some of it.

It's probably why he wanted Anthropic to take off all the guard rails so that he can use it to commit more and better war crimes.

My Audi has this indirect system too.

One downside for me is that while it will alert me to an abnormal leak, it won't (hasn't, in 4 years) alerted me to uniform low pressure across all four, such as during a cold snap in the fall.

But the culvert at the end of my driveway is basically a speed bump, and it *will feel wrong if the pressure is low.

Yes, many times. I have a friend from Kenya, so I'm visiting Africa periodically. Solar in Africa is booming, and it's perfect for EV charging. Just like with mobile phones leapfrogging the fixed landlines, Africa will leapfrog global grids.

And the poorer countries will take more time to switch, of course. They'll need to wait for used cars to start coming from China. Meanwhile, people are switching from gas mopeds to electric mopeds. Uber in Kenya now has an option to get an EV bike taxi, for example.

Yes, it is. And Europe pushed back the full EV deadline by 10%, still requiring 90% of emissions from vehicles to be eliminated. This effectively changes nothing.

Outside the EU, EV production is growing as fast as it can scale. Asian countries are the main expansion area right now. For example, last year almost 40% of new cars in Vietnam became EVs, and this year Thailand is probably going to be 60%. Africa is next, these $10000 cars from China are going to be a smash hit there.

And the thing is, once people switch to EVs, they tend to stick with EVs.

This is like watching that section of airplane disaster re-enactment videos where the pilots are confidently flying straight into a mountain. The next section is the sound of GPWS desperately screaming "Pull-Up! Pull-Up!" just before the crash.

The rest of the world is rapidly shifting to EVs, and the US automakers are building a bigger Canyonero. Now with more dead dinosaur exhaust! And we're supposed to be calmed down by the fact that they're bringing an overpriced shitty EV pickup truck in 2 years?

In 20 years, the second Trump's presidency will be seen as the final straw that killed the US economy. Just an example, a company that was trying to make sodium-ion batteries in the US went bankrupt this summer. They had product sitting in their warehouses but were unable to ship it to customers before getting a UL certification. And they couldn't get a bridge loan from the government or investors. The end result: a company destroyed. I'm pretty sure we'll find competing interests in play there.

Dad was never one to assign long papers.

Used to tell his students that if they can't say what they need to say in 3 pages (single-sided), they don't understand the subject.

Older generations have always said that younger generations are weak, but the other day i saw someone complaining that it's unrealistic to expect people to write a 600-word essay without help from an LLM.

I wrote 10-page papers in freakin high school. Granted it was a private school, but i could get past 600 words in the summary.

i come at this from a weird angle because my father was a professor of creative writing and american lit for 39 years, and he has always been outspoken on the point that it is absurd to suggest that everyone should have a university education, let alone a university education that means that people who have no interest in writing have to do their damnedest to get a D in his class.

FWIW he was also famous for telling lazy students that he can enter their final grade as an F right now and they can stop coming to his class for the rest of the semester.

He retired before the rise of LLMs but says he never had any use for the plagiarism checking websites because he can tell in the first paragraph whether his student wrote it or not. Because he pays attention, knows what their speech patterns and vocabulary are like, so he can recognize their voice on the page.

He also took time to explain to his students the importance of paraphrasing, and the appropriate use of bullshit. Writing with absolutely no BS in it tends to read like an owner's manual for a microwave, so you need a little, but you do need to know how much is too much.

My employer's client has recently been quite firm on the point that we should be "leveraging AI", and more specifically that we should be using "copilot in github".

We're several years into automating regression testing of a large complex web application with UFT aka Unified Functional Testing. This application was built using the oldschool mainframe business model where the customer has to become captive by way of you owning all of their data.

The functional code we author is VB-ish, doesn't do shit outside of UFT, and frankly UFT is a kit to allow you to build a test harness so without the functional code it is just like a box of spirograph toys with no plan.

When you are inside the UFT system and click 'save' after making a one-line change, 8 or 10 encrypted binary files are updated in the filesystem.

"copilot in github", whatever that is, can't read our code.

Oh yeah - I'm a geezer and every time i have thought, "the git commandline is confusing, this must be easier in the gui" the gui was not easier. I use git bash exclusively, and since i know how to use "git stash" i am the git expert on the team. I'm embarrassed for all of us, honestly.

Ah, I see you're pushing anti-people propaganda. You want cities built for buses and bikes, not for people.

Here's a nice overview article from urbanists: https://archive.strongtowns.or...

Cars are superior to every other transit mode for commutes. It's a simple fact. They are faster, more convenient, and don't require spending time in the company of fentanyl addicts. Or wasting entire lifetimes every day waiting for bus to arrive.

This is the biggest lie from transit/bike pushers. Transit (or bike lanes) do NOT reduce the traffic. Heck, it's in the very foundation of the ideas for forced densification: induced demand. And it's also supported by multiple studies.

You can argue that forcing everyone into 15-minute concentration camps is good for them, but you don't get to claim that transit reduces traffic.

There is not a SINGLE study that proves that glyphosate causes cancer in humans. The whole 'glyphosate cancer' is just post-truth nonsense, just from greenie hippie liberals.

Well, the Ford guy toured the Chinese companies, got scared, and decided that it's a good time to squeeze the automakers for the last dregs of profits. Before they go down for good.

Meanwhile, Africa and Asia are getting flooded by Chinese EVs. That are now superior to gas cars on price and reliability. And that can be charged from local solar, not depending on imported gas. The cheapest Chinese EVs are now less than $10k, and you can get a very reasonable EV for $15k.

It's amazing seeing the entire industry self-destructing before our eyes.

It turns out that without ANY content the 8k support is not needed. And there is little content because the HDMI Forum is refusing to pull its head out of its ass and allow HDMI 2.1 to be licensed without heavy DRM and NDA requirements.

Well, the industry shot itself in the foot with 3D, by making it hard to create 3D content. The only supported way was H.264 MVC, with barely any tools that can output it. Meanwhile, saner side-by-side 3D was not consistently supported.

The Victorian Era cities were a good approximation of hell. As for "moar density" bullshit, no large city in the US, Western Europe, or Japan lowered down housing prices by increasing density. But sure, we just need to allow real estate developers run rampant. Just trust me, bro.

As a practical example: Vancouver, BC rapidly built out fully automated grade-separated transit system. It then allowed unlimited density near transit stations (resulting in nauseatingly ugly high-rises), it (effectively) banned purely investment foreign purchases. Basically, it did all the wishlist of misery pushers.

Can you guess the outcome? Hint: it's not "affordable housing for everyone".