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> He doesn't say anything about individual users. It's left unclear exactly what he means when he talks about low utilization inference using DRAM. I figured he was talking about companies building clusters.

No, he absolutely does:

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time," Altman said.

Is there a reason people who have been shown to abuse public positions of trust, authority, or both, should not be prevented from doing so again?

Though I am reminded of the federal register of law enforcement officials who have been terminated for cause, or resigned to avoid termination...

... before that was even more neutered by the Trump administration, the aggregated police unions who represent some 70% of the nation's law enforcement have somehow wangled it into their CBAs that this register was "not to be used for hiring or promotional decisions" (what exactly could it be used for then?).

Kaiser has some very opinionated beliefs that their medical leadership pushes. From my partner's T2D issue (from no history to an ICU stay with DKA): "You cannot go into remission with T2D". "You will need to keep your A1C between 6 and 8 otherwise you will have issues with the medications you are on". They also have many medications they will not prescribe, regardless of the reason.

And don't start me on their pharmacy. She had root canals with some infection, and was in substantial pain. Dentist prescribes short term pain meds between procedures - she's in agony. I drive her from dentist to the Kaiser pharmacy at their UC/ER-lite/whatever facility, that I know from my previous work as a paramedic has pain management medications on site (day surgery, etc.)

"This is a pain management prescription. We do not fill those in person. You will need to submit it to our mail order." "How long will that take?" "5-7 business days, and then shipping time."

"Oh, look at you, coming from the dentist with verifiable surgical procedures done and in pain - just in case you might be drug seeking, you can hang on for a week or two and get your pain management then."

That last one is, I'd argue unethical and against most pharmacists "oaths".

It may be - there was also a CNBC interview, but this feels very similar, and I remember this host.

Sure. And I told Claude Code the other week to commit, merge and push some code.

It said "Done, you can open the local dev instance and see the changes".

I could not.

So I asked it. "Well, no, you're not able to see those changes because they're not on that branch or committed."

"But I told you to do that and you said you had."

Claude's verbatim reply?

"You're right. You asked me to do that and I said I would, then told you I had done it, but I had not. Would you like me to do it now, then?"

There's an amazingly hilarious interview with the Deltec's "Deputy CEO" and CNBC back in the day:

- was conducted from his gaming rig

- about Deltec's (and therefore Tether's) money movements being several times larger than all the banking in their country was due to people misunderstanding the country's two banking licenses, the names of which HE "couldn't remember right now" (the Deputy CEO of a bank who can't remember the name of the banking licenses where they operate?!?), and he "wasn't sure which [banking license] the bank has, but we might (emphasis mine) have both"

- oh yeah, said Deputy CEO's "resume": 33 years old, by his LinkedIn claimed to have graduated HEC Lausanne in Switzerland with a Master of Science at the age of 15... celebrating his graduation by immediately being named Professor of Finance at a university in Lebanon. While dividing his spare time between running hedge funds in Switzerland (called Indepedance [sic] Weath [sic] Management) and uhh... Jacksonville, FL.

Once CNBC's viewers started ridiculing and questioning both Deltec Bank and Tether and when that looked hilariously bad, they removed his info from the bank's website.

And when that looked bad, they added it back.

And when that looked bad, they removed the bank's whole website, and replaced it with a broken WP template with no working links.

Hey, look, several years after that, go to Deltec's website. "Ultra sophisticated private banking" running on a different WordPress site. "Client login"? "This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in ebanking.deltecbank.com. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN". Just as has been the case for years.

... and then the entire bank website was replaced with a low-effort WordPress template. Their online banking was Javascript hard coded to refuse all login attempts.

"Sounds legit to me", said the crypto bros. "Fuck the regulatory system. This is the new era."

How so?

Spoofing a MAC address because IT security has specifically sought to block you from network access (whether you think they "should" or not) just magically handwaved away because "he was really just looking for somewhere to keep his computer secure" (while it circumvented network access controls).

It did no such thing.

Ironic that you chose the Apple TV. There's a bit of nuance, and the 3rd gen was $149, not $129 (the latter is Wifi only, when the first two were Wifi+Ethernet).

They then bumped UP the 3rd gen: $249 (+$100) and $199 (+$70).

And the 4th gen has only one option, at $299.

So we've not only "not dropped" prices on the 4K Apple TV, but they've gone up forty per cent.

Right up to the launch of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro in mid 2023, Apple would still happily charge you early 2019 prices for the 2019 Xeon processors in the previous edition, 2019 prices for memory and flash (I ordered mine with 32 and used OWC to go to 192GB, because for the exact same chips, spec, timings, OWC wanted $1,050 for 192GB, and Apple wanted $3,000 for 160GB, i.e. minus the 32GB already rolled into the price. Similar $1K to $3K margin for 8TB of SSD - I bought a PCIe card with 4x2TB Samsung Pro drives).

> along with the eye-watering price point

I mean the entry level price for this is $2,899, "only" $400 more than the comparable non-touch MBP.

By repeatedly ignoring the laws of the nation, because of the edicts of its leader, i.e. literally the definition of tyranny, "a ruler who governs without restriction".

DHS has been dragged into court hundreds of times now and literally stood in front of federal judges and said "we're ignoring your court order, what are you going to do about it?"

What is telling a federal judge who has placed a hold on someone's detention that "No, we're ignoring that and have put him on a plane anyway"?

Or "No, we won't be turning that plane around."

I think you mean selectively enforcing some immigration law.

Tyson Chicken was shown to have provided written instructions for undocumented workers on staying under the radar. And yet when DHS arrested 900 workers at their facilities, they also announced there was no plans to investigate the company itself (strange - knowingly assisting an undocumented immigrant with such is a felony).

Hah, what? I have skills we need. I came here legally.

It would have been easier, quicker, and cheaper for me to come here on a visa waiver, marry a USC against the terms of that waiver, and ask for forgiveness (i.e. "adjust status") than it was to do so the "proper way".

Much of your comment just sounds xenophobic.

A few years ago there was a huge set of raids at Tyson facilities - 900+ undocumented immigrants working there.

Awkwardly, it was made known to the media that Tyson knew all about it, to the point where they had provided those workers written instructions and tips on how to stay under the radar with respect to taxes, financials, immigration, etc.

When a journalist asked about this at the press conference where DHS was crowing over the success of the raid? "That's not something that is being investigated as part of this operation." Well, what about separately? "We are not investigating the company."

A lot of the theory was that like some other food production firms (Hormel dealing with people getting sick from y'know, inhaling aerosolized pig brain), that it was very much a "won't someone rid us of these meddlesome immigrants" (the ones advocating about child labor, wage theft, OSHA violations). Come round these ones up, you get a press conference and we solve a labor issue.

I mean the Chief Justice was asked by Congress - "It seems that every other part of the federal court system has ethics guidelines and processes, but not the Supreme Court. It seems reasonable that the highest Court in our land should have those." And he replied, almost verbatim, "We're not going to do that and we're offended that you feel the need to ask."

Appears to be legal in that current rulings and legislation say that to do so does not run afoul of fair use.

Let's ignore every other aspect of this case.

Criminal law, "beyond a reasonable doubt", doesn't mean "there exists, however implausible, an explanation".

He did break into the network - he was spoofing MAC addresses. You don't have a level of technical sophistication allowing you to do this, and then say "oh, I assumed the server closet with an "Authorized access only" sign, usually locked, seemed like a safe place, that's all, and since I was there, I figured I might as well just plug directly into a network switch in there."

Many judges are not technical. Most judges are not idiots.

Scraping of assets from a site that encourages and where staff explains how to and posts scraped assets? Color me sympathetic.

As the Dilbert cartoon says, when he's arguing with Dogbert about having a personality:

"Let's not start this whole 'zero is too a number' argument again"

Yup. Had an MacBook Air. Slight water damage near charging port. Laptop functioned correctly on AC power. Extensive battery diagnostics: Healthy. Just the charging circuit saying "go ahead, charge device"...

At the Genius Bar expected something reasonable, realistic... $300? Parts and labor.

"So we have a quote for you, $950. Perhaps we go out and look at the new Macs together?"

90% of the cost of the laptop to replace the charging port.

Until Linda McMahon falls out of Trumps favor (and thereby, Trump Jr).

2007 I worked at MSFT, and they had a poker group. They were allowed to play in the communal spaces, but one of the restrictions was that there could be no variants in which a person placed a bet without seeing their hand. Under the Washington Admin Code for gaming, seeing your hand and betting made it a game of skill, betting (truly) blind made it a game of luck, i.e. gambling.

Random anecdote, accurate as of about 20 years ago?

My father worked for the Sheriff's Office in Melbourne, Australia.

The Sheriff's Office isn't like it is in the US. More something akin to bailiff meets US Marshal (enforcement of court orders, often time fines).

Anyway, being that Australia was still in the Commonwealth and such, his boss, the Sheriff, was still technically the executioner of record for capital crimes in Australia. Australia hasn't hung anyone since 1967, but technically still will/can for two crimes: high treason and piracy on the high seas.

His boss told him 1) that he was required to keep a noose or rope for it in his office, and 2) that to him, in the event of anyone even being charged with one of those crimes, the very next thing he would do would be: resign.

> When I stopped in an Apple Store yesterday and checked one of these out at the display table, I noted that the Apple Store employee who was showing the phone to people in a sort-of ad-hoc demo session told people that to close it, they had to press on the bottom-center bit of the hinge that's in-line with the bottom of the frame. Saw someone else online suggest that this could be because people pressed down on the middle of the screen to initiate closing it, and that that exposed some part of the screen to some moving parts in the hinge that were never meant to interact.

Comment from the article. Uh-oh, are we headed for another "You're (h)folding it wrong"?

Their claim, rightly or wrongly, is that it came from private data (a researcher got an exposed key and downloaded data with coordinates).

But I think as long as Proton wasn't that researcher, there's no case to argue there.

What is iMessage abuse on a Hackintosh? It’s connected to an Apple account. You’re running macOS. What is inherently abusive about it?

No, I get it, but it's still somewhat fallacious to say Apple doesn't care about "unauthorized" access to devices or services (whether or not you agree that such authority is reasonable or not).