I'm not sure how well it works in programming. It helps in brainstorming and for a developer working in an area in which he is not advanced. There is a claim it works very well in crypto implemented in Rust with full test coverage and after human developer provided all the main interfaces. It is plausible. Most crypto code is opensource and easy to test so AI can work very well essentially rewriting the code it was trained on into Rust.[1]

But on the other side there is that study that did show that developers working on a code base they know well are quicker without AI despite thinking they were quicker with the AI.[2] And if AI is helping that much then where is all the showelware (additional software which should be on the market since it is so easy to write software now with AI help).[3]

Also llm-stats.com show that the best coding score has Claude Mythos Preview. The value is 57. I'm not sure how to interpret it but if that means that 100-57 = 43% of the output has some bugs then it is pitiful and would explain the missing "showelware".

[1] https://slashdot.org/comments....
[2] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-...
[3] https://mikelovesrobots.substa...

All true, but it's worth pointing out that if the Starship lander succeeds it will enable us to do a lot more, a lot faster. The whole "15 refueling flights for every moon trip" seems kind of crazy on its face, but if you look at the costs (assuming Starship works and become fully reusable), it makes the total cost per kilogram delivered to the surface of the moon insanely low and enables comparatively massive payloads to be delivered.

Big risk, big (potential) reward. Running both the Starship and Blue Moon projects in parallel is probably a good risk mitigation strategy, but if Starship succeeds completely, Blue Origin's lander will be a relic. Of course, it's also possible that Starship will just fail, or that it will succeed but be difficult to man-rate, in which case it may become the delivery service for lunar cargos, while people fly on Blue Moon.

Fair, though my data -- and Play purchases -- were my bigger concern when they first started talking about just ending legacy GSuite.

You must have signed up to change over before they backed off. They announced that everyone would have to switch and pay, but I waited because I didn't think it would stick, and it didn't. I have about 25 users on mine, so paying wasn't really feasible.

I searched for it and found it. I can't check now; I left Google last year.

That's fake news, actually. A very widespread misunderstanding, but incorrect regardless.

What Google actually did was move "Don't be Evil" from the introduction of the code of conduct to the summary at the end.

It's a widespread but inaccurate belief that Google kills everything. If you look closer, there's a distinct pattern to what they kill and what they keep, and it's mostly based on adoption. If a Google service -- free or paid -- has 100M+ monthly active users, it won't be killed. That number is a guideline, not a hard requirement. If it appears that a service is on track to attain that sort of "Google-scale" user base, and it has some monetization mechanism (usually a place to put ads), then it will survive.

Paid services are a little different. Google is much more reluctant to kill any service that people are paying money for. That's not to say they won't do it, but they're less likely to, and if they do they'll bend over backwards trying to make it right. Stadia is a good example. Stadia didn't get enough adoption to be worth Google's time/effort, so they killed it... but they refunded every penny of what the users had spent on hardware, monthly subscription fees, game purchase fees, etc. I still have (and use) the rather nice Stadia controllers I got for free. I'd rather have kept the service, but I definitely don't feel like I was ripped off.

There's no free option for new signups. Lots of us who set this up still have the legacy free G-Suite accounts. I'm not sure what triggers the "you might be using this for a business" check. My family is still using mine and Google isn't telling me we're a business.

The biggest problem with it, frankly, is that Workspace accounts have lots of restrictions that regular gmail accounts don't have. There's lots and lots of stuff that just doesn't work, and the list is growing year by year. This isn't specific to the legacy accounts, though, it's all Workspace accounts, because Workspace is intended for business use. I've had to migrate various things to a personal gmail account, even though I'd really rather keep it all on my primary account (which is a legacy G-Suite/free Workspace account).

The "upgrade path" thegarbz mentioned is mostly that you can convert your legacy G-Suite account to a regular Gmail account, porting all of your data, Google Play Store purchases, etc., over to it. That won't have a custom domain, but if you want to keep your custom email address you can use one of many services (probably not free, but quite cheap) to forward.

Depends on your definitions, I suppose. You could argue that engaging in blatant market manipulation and insider trading from the Oval Office for 16 months and only netting $750M in profits represents a failure. Someone more competent could have made a lot more.

OK, I get it. It is really bad when the fuel starts boiling.

Anyway some shippers transport gasoline cars without a problem but refuse to transport electric vehicles because when they start burning then they are screwed. With gasoline cars they can seal off the deck, flood it with nitrogen and cool the walls from the outside. With electric vehicles, nitrogen will not help. If temperature from the first burning vehicle rises enough to start internal fire in batteries of other vehicles then it is likely the whole ship will burn and sink.

It really should matter. If we can just decide the text means whatever we want it to mean, what's the point in writing it down?

Yes! This is the way. Unfortunately, our system is so dysfunctional we can't even pass normal laws now, much less enact and ratify constitutional amendments.

Surely not that. That would be dumb. And awful. And utterly corrupt.

Sigh.

Will it catch the president, who has been on a rampant insider trading and market manipulation spree for his whole second term?

What about congress?

What will the SEC do when it flags top politicians? I think all of us know the answer to that question.

Isn't the goal to use foam? Cooling is not important. Preventing oxygen access is. I'm not a firefighter. I have only seen them to use foam on a burning gasoline car.

I tried this for fun. Only some free models. The results:

Copilot: John David Allsup
Gemini: MaxTokenHalt? Something went wrong. Not sure what.
Duckduckgo GPT 5 Fast: Richard Kaye
Duckduckgo Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning: MaxTokenHalt
Qwen 3.6 27B Reasoning (locally run without internet access): David J.