Analysts at Bernstein downgraded Nvidia and sharply lowered their target for its share price. “Our gut tells us that we probably haven’t yet fully probed the depths of what might be found here,”

This one is with a VP. So the unethical thing is he was banging his direct report. There’s an HR policy.

Needs more bookcase.

Be more disturbed that the Minuteman III missiles, one leg of the nuclear triad, rely on the big 8 inch floppies in their launch control systems.

The replacement missiles will not enter service until the “early 2030s.”

The only way to counteract it now is to take it to the Supremes (which isn’t likely)

Technically, there is an alternative option to request “super” en banc with all 29 judges. But the 9th circuit has never once granted super en banc in the entire history of super en banc.

This case got really unlucky with the 11 judge panel lottery: 5 Trump appointees out of 11 plus one judge from the original 3-judge panel.

I’m hearing about a whole bunch of feds being deployed to polling sites as “observers.”. I haven’t heard of them doing anything other than “observing,” yet.

I recommend voting, even if you get observed in the process.

Edit: the threats and intimidation against the CA election workers are currently prohibited by court order. A court in DC has ordered that the “observers” may do no more than just that.

2nd edit: if you see irregularities at the polls, call the ACLU Election Protection Hotline.

English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683 Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682 Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287 Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

I doubt it. Nichols is sitting in ADX Florence right now, and he can be pardoned at any time.

(Although Trump can only pardon the federal charges. Nichols was also sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences without parole by Oklahoma.)

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As C++ is a superset of C

This is not true. Both ISO C++ and ISO C have have features that are not available in the other language. Therefore, there is no subset or superset relationship.

I would tweak this recommendation. If you want to start with C, consider writing C-style code into .cc or .cpp files, and compile as C++. You will therefore be learning “C++ with functions only” as opposed to “C with classes.”

I don’t know French very well, but it seems like it works better, grammatically speaking, in French than in English.

By the way, those green “trim transfer tanks” were used to adjust the airplane’s center of mass by pumping fuel forwards and aftwards.

There’s a phenomenon called “Mach tuck” that generates a large pitch-down torque as the plane passes through the transonic regime, Mach 0.8-1.5. The fuel had to move aft to compensate.

The modern Effective Altruism movement is a quasi cult loosely connected to another quasi cult called the “rationalist movement,” and all of this is loosely organized around the Bay Area.

Don’t get me wrong. Rationalism has a long intellectual and scholarly history. Effective Altruism is based on the philosophy of utilitarianism, with its own long scholarly history. Subscribing to these ideas alone doesn’t put you into a cult.

But there definitely is a loose, quasi cult system, originating out of the Bay Area, using these names and ostensibly claiming to promote the ideas.

These people also go pretty hard on AI doomerism, and AI singularity as a coming end times sort of event. They’ve been taking this position since long before LLMs ascended to where they are now.

Lesswrong is the pen name and Internet handle of one Eliezer Yudkowsky. It is also the name of an Internet “community blog” where I think a lot of the rationality side of the group got organised, and maybe where they still organise. I don’t really keep up with the goings on.

[email protected] is/was a Lemmy community dedicated to critiques and criticism of the rationality / EA system or nexus or whatever. (I have a hard time coming up with names for this. It’s definitely not organised like the Mormons or Scientologists or so on.)

It’s a different thingymajigger.

One of the orgs that does TLS infrastructure was found to have used 4, a number from Sesame Street, as a private key on a TLS cert that was used to sign other certs.

In most places in the United States speeding is a criminal offense. Each element of the crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. And the accused has the right to confront the witnesses against him in court.

I sort of understand the argument about cops needing to hold the radar gun, but I also don’t really get what they’re contributing to the legal validity of the case.

The biggest thing they contribute is proof of identity. When they pull you over and run your license, they can testify with pretty strong credibility that it was you driving the car.

To prove speeding you have to prove that the car was going too fast and that someone in particular was driving.

Having a cop signing the ticket also gives the government a convenient witness who can be subpoenaed to come to court and to testify with personal knowledge of the incident. That satisfies the confrontation clause. Whereas in jurisdictions that have tried pure camera enforcement, the only witness they can usually bring is a low level camera company representative who has no personal knowledge. This leads defendants to demand a lot of discovery into the automated processes of the camera system, because that is what is really accusing them.

Conclusion: US jurisdictions do a lot better with camera enforcement when they create civil infraction liability under state law. But then some forms of enforcement, like license points, may be taken off the table.

In US machine shops if they’re getting down to that level of measurement, they’ll switch over to milli-inches.

Yes, milli-inches are an actual unit in use.

And it’s been this way since 1893. The US customary system has been sneaky metric that whole time.

In the United States, if you’re going to call a man a pedo, you really need to make sure your shit is buttoned up tight. Because if it’s not, you’re going to have a tough time defending the libel lawsuit.

Now, if you’re a homeless person on the street, or an anonymous Internet poster with “dozens” of views, you probably won’t get sued. Because the chances are you don’t have enough money to make a lawsuit worthwhile.

For a company that has money that could be collected in such a lawsuit, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to just not say that.

Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)

Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.

What the lawyers say is not under oath unless they go to the witness stand and swear in. The main reason is that lawyers mainly are in the court to make opinionated arguments, not to give facts.

Lawyers do have a “duty of candor” to the “tribunal” at all times, however. This is because they have taken an oath (different from the witness oath) to become “officers of the court”. This means they cannot knowingly misstate facts or law to the court.

But the maximum exposure on a duty of candor violation is court sanctions, like fines or adverse court outcomes, possibly contempt, and bar discipline, and so on. It’s not the crime of perjury.

There is a rule that covers fake citations, AI or not. But it’s not immediate.

What’s happens is the court makes a disciplinary referral to the state bar association, which handles barring and disbarring. At minimum there’s some kind of additional bar discipline hearing before adverse action.

Each federal court, district or appellate, can also independently revoke admission to the bar of that individual court.