"I think a lot of us hoped for a much more balanced and measured approach."

I think a lot of R voters in '24 had a short memory to even hope for anything either balanced or measured from this administration, particularly since it had no incentive to deliver either. Though to be fair, a lot of D leadership also had a short memory in '24, in that coronating a Presidential candidate did not fare well when the candidate was well-qualified, so trying it again with a less qualified candidate was a bit eye watering. There was plenty of blame to go around for that snafu, but all of it landed squarely in-house.

Anyway, hopefully the new congress hits the ground running, a la Trump in '25, focusing on exercising their authority over the purse and passing legislation to deliver results and constraining the executive. If they're too timid to do that, it will be yet another bloodbath in '28. Impeachment is a red herring -- Vance would be just as bad, or worse (since he's actually competent), and the opportunity costs of focusing on impeachment are just too high right now. Draft censures and file lawsuits to set the stage for later criminal prosecutions once this administration is out of office, but above all, exercise the considerable legislative authority vested in congress, and put more checks on the executive -- through amendments if necessary. The time is now.

I know you are but what am I?

More people do office work than ever before.

This story is so old it was the reason for Unix. Once the platform controls the essential business process, it owns the business. You work for them now, and all your aspirations are moot.

It's not like you can't use another model to validate the results you got with one model. That's a step you should be taking anyway. It's actually built into the system for test/dev of the agent and inference model itself. Active supervision, sandboxing and all that.

It seems so. Although Netcraft confirms it is (ahem) a rounding error.

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I remember when they introduced that. That was hilarious.

What would you expect the CCIA to say? Vibe code the replacement?

Their servers go down because they DDOS themselves demanding more cert renewals than they can support. The blog certificates expire and browsers refuse to load your cat memes.

I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

It came out "Jeff offered more money."

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

Their latest Flash model goes live tomorrow. Price for cached tokens halved, other prices lowered. Since it outperforms their latest Pro model they will reroute pro requests to it until the pro version launches. It does seem to be a frontier model in every way except price.

It is kind of shit, mainly because it's increasingly out of touch. If they wanted to make a culturally relevant game, it should be Grand Theft America, where the goal is to rename everything America, alienate all of your friends, and start fights you can't win.

About 90% of doctors consume alcohol.

TheMiddleRoad was making a joke about the "cadence" cadence.