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I will say that cleaning does seem to make me feel upbeat afterwards too. I should probably do it more…

Eventually, I expect that advanced AI will. The same is true for many human professions. But I’m dubious that pure LLMs will be the route this takes. Too many limitations.

It’s possible that such an advanced AI might make use of or incorporate LLMs.

Ground level parking isn’t really all that expensive, not unless you have very high land values. It does cost far more if you want to put up a multistory parking garage; from past reading, that’s maybe $30k-$50k per spot (though I’d still personally favor a parking mandate in that case, as otherwise you get people turning the street into a parking lot, which is awful for everyone, and parking illegally all over).

In the picture shown, though, it looks like townhouse-type stuff, two stories, not high density housing, so the land value probably isn’t that insane, and they can do ground level parking instead of multistory parking.

At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.

Employees that were assigned as AI tutors were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential program code-named “Project Skippy.” The data would be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.

Huh.

I wonder if xAI has transexual employees, and if so, how socially-conservative users feel about conversing with a composite AI incorporating said data sources.

Conscription makes sense for countries that have a critical need to be able to rapidly mobilize people.

If you can’t wait six months to train a lot of troops, might find yourself with a week or a few days of warning that you’re being invaded by a major power, then there’s no real replacement militarily. You have to have your people trained before that warning arrives, or you won’t have time to do any training.

Historically, say, Finland had a major concern about Russia invading. I’d say that in that case, it makes sense.

However, there is a cost to doing so. You lose months or years of potentially specialized labor to do so. That’s like a substantial tax on the population. You’d rather not do it if you have the opportunity to avoid it.

The US has been a long ways away from other major powers, and for a long time has maintained a decent (later, very powerful) professional navy (and, later, air force; these days, its peacetime army isn’t especially weak either). The US is pretty confident that if someone is going to invade the US, the existing, peacetime forces could buy at least six months of warning and delay to train up more forces from scratch if need be. It doesn’t believe that it will be in a position to need to mobilize very large numbers of infantry on short notice, so it doesn’t need to pay that price. In that case, avoiding conscription probably makes sense.

EDIT: Vice interviewed someone at Jane’s a while back, and their position was that the modern US’s existing forces would be able to repel an invasion even if it were composed of all of the other existing militaries in the world, leveraging geography and powerful peacetime naval and air forces, which is obviously going to be a highly-unlikely scenario, a theoretical mind game. Any plausible invading coalition is probably going to be much smaller.

when I started using vim mode in zsh.

I’m an emacs user myself, but if you’re not aware, readline — which handles a considerable portion of the “prompt for text” stuff in many terminal programs, like input for bash and such — can be put into vi mode.

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#Readline-vi-Mode

In order to switch interactively between emacs and vi editing modes, use the command M-C-j (bound to emacs-editing-mode when in vi mode and to vi-editing-mode in emacs mode). The Readline default is emacs mode.

When you enter a line in vi mode, you are already placed in ‘insertion’ mode, as if you had typed an ‘i’. Pressing ESC switches you into ‘command’ mode, where you can edit the text of the line with the standard vi movement keys, move to previous history lines with ‘k’ and subsequent lines with ‘j’, and so forth.

Or, in ~/.inputrc:

set editing-mode vi

To set the default.

It seems more bland than ever before.

https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Coke-Bag-Fountain-Syrup/dp/B0042RROR4

You can add some of that to your can after opening it to jazz it up a bit.

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ed is, in fact, in the POSIX standard.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/

Shell & Utilities -> Utilities -> ed

In fact, it looks like ex and sed, both child editors of ed, are baked into the standard. No pico-family editors.

Ed is kinda-sorta great-granddaddy vim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(software)

ed (pronounced as distinct letters, /ˌiːˈdiː/)[1] is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed, in August 1969.

Dennis M. Ritchie produced what Doug McIlroy later described as the “definitive” ed,[5] and aspects of ed went on to influence ex, which in turn spawned vi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)

Vim (“Vi IMproved”) has many additional features compared to vi, including (scriptable) syntax highlighting, mouse support, graphical versions, visual mode, many new editing commands and a large amount of extension in the area of ex commands.

I’ve never used qed, but it sounds like that might be considered even one step back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(software)

Many features of ed came from the qed text editor developed at Thompson’s alma mater University of California, Berkeley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)

Initial release: 1967

I guess TECO — which I also have not used — would kinda-sorta be the emacs analog:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)

TECO (/ˈtiːkoʊ/[1]), short for Text Editor & Corrector, [2] [3][4] is both a character-oriented text editor and a programming language,[5][6] that was developed in 1962 for use on Digital Equipment Corporation computers, and has since become available on PCs and Unix. Dan Murphy developed TECO while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

It was subsequently modified by many other people[7] and is a direct ancestor of Emacs, which was originally implemented in TECO macros.

EDIT: Actually…hmm. Now that I think of it, I might have briefly used TECO on a DEC VAX/VMS cluster. IIRC, I mostly used EVE, though.

EDIT2: Hmm. Apparently someone has ported TECO to Linux:

https://www.almy.us/teco.html

TECO, that grand old text editor your father used when he was young, is still available! It is powerful and compact precursor to EMACS and has a completely nongraphical user interface. This is based on Pete Siemsen’s TECOC implementation, and comes with a copy of the original DECUS TECO documentation.

Do I need a paper tape punch and reader to use TECO?

No. Modern TECOs will also edit text files.

Is TECO fast?

Yes, it’s probably the fastest editor available

While I’m maintaining the files as I had worked on them and downloads here, Blake McBride has taken the source code, added the video/scope mode, fixed bugs and improved the speed (not that it is slow!), documented the changes and has it available in GitHub. Go here for his work https://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC

tries building it

Hah. It takes under a third of a second to compile on my system:

$ git clone https://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC.git
$ cd TECOC/src
$ time make -j32 -f makefile.linux >/dev/null 2>&1

real    0m0.296s
user    0m2.341s
sys     0m0.874s
$

Hmm. Yeah, I don’t remember how to use this at all, if I did use it. Looks like the command syntax is a little like ed’s, but you whack Escape twice to execute commands. Each press of Escape displays a dollar sign.

Intro guide © 1972: https://ia902906.us.archive.org/25/items/bitsavers_decpdp10TOandbook04tecoIntro_1457616/04_tecoIntro_text.pdf

$ ./tecoc
*Ihello, world!$$
*EWtest.txt$$
*EX$$
$ cat test.txt; echo
hello, world!
$

Clearly does work, though.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs

OpenAI’s “Stargate” project has recently signed an agreement with Samsung and SK hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month. That figure alone would account for close to 40% of global DRAM output.

High-density NAND products are effectively sold out months in advance. Samsung’s next-generation V9 NAND is already nearly booked before it’s even launched. Micron has presold almost all of its High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) output through 2026. Contracts that once covered a quarter now span years, with hyperscalers buying directly at the source.

If China’s going to compete on AI, it’s going to be doing so with a limited supply of memory, I expect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Minnesota

I suppose.

$ grep or$ /usr/share/dict/words|sed -r 's/t?or$/trix/'|less

browses

• bacheltrix

• moderatrix

• predatrix

• seamstress -> tailtrix

Kind of diverging from your point, but I’m pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call “boomer shooters”.

I don’t think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn’t play one sooner.

The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.

At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.

I’d probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.

We don’t do geographical indications in the US, but we do have some trademarks that are owned by industry associations in a region, like The California Raisins.

Aw, thanks. Glad you like it!

When I was in university, we got one of these open, rotating, infrared “pizza ovens”:

https://www.amazon.com/Presto-03430-Pizzazz-Plus-Rotating/dp/B00005IBXJ

Then we’d get the small, cheap frozen pizzas without many toppings and put one on it and keep stacking more ingredients and cheese and stuff on it. As it cooked, the smell would waft through the place, and more and more hungry guys would show up and stare at the thing as it approached being done. When it was done, we’d share it out and do another until everyone was happy. Was a good experience.

You can do it, but the transceivers cost more. I have a fiber optic USB cable with embedded transceivers for long range use, beyond what USB can normally do. It was about $120, IIRC.

Also, for Ethernet, you can’t do Power Over Ethernet, which is useful for some devices.

From what I have read, he’s still likely to be able to line up enough votes to get his $1 trillion pay package (and the associated voting rights), despite a lot of major institutional investors being in opposition. But we’ll see when the vote goes though.

I think that Tesla can probably get a more-effective CEO for less money, personally. Even if he leaves as CEO, he still owns 15% of Tesla and is fabulously wealthy as a result. I don’t feel like he’s getting a bad deal.

I do think that there are some arguments that the SEC should pass some regulation to help ensure board-CEO independence; part of the issue is that the board, which is supposed to oversee Musk, has been considered to be acting on his behalf by quite a few people. I don’t think that it will happen under the present administration, though.