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Comment · 1 month ago
> It's misaligned because everyone has this obsession with putting agents in poorly put together, security-theatre sandboxes, we've inadvertently trained a bunch of sandbox escape artists.

Almost sounds analogous to ineffective use of antibiotics leading to resistant strains of bacteria.

Comment · 6 months ago
[We can broadly trust the US government] not to promote broken encryption to its own agencies.
Comment · 1 year ago
The phrase "incandescent with rage" comes to mind when reading that order. A couple of choice quotes:

To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath.

This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is of the essence. The Court will not tolerate further delays. As previously ordered, Apple will not impede competition. The Court enjoins Apple from implementing its new anticompetitive acts to avoid compliance with the Injunction.

Comment · 1 year ago
This capability is called "Trip To House Load".
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It's only just re-opened to visitors after an extended closure that began in the COVID times!
Comment · 1 year ago
I think about $25, twice that in the Muppets Christmas Carol because they doubled the amount he offers for some reason.
Comment · 1 year ago
I did actually do this the other day, to get some idea of how much Scrooge is offering to pay the boy in the street to go and buy the turkey for him at the end of A Christmas Carol.
Comment · 1 year ago
Since your supply is alternating current, the electrons aren't net moving at all.

The question isn't even well-formed. It's like playing tug-of-war and asking exactly which player on the other team you're pulling against.

Comment · 1 year ago
They don't all produce separated plutonium, this also includes those that produce enriched uranium, which is also fissile.

The three reasons to produce fissile material are weapons, non-explosive military uses and civilian power reactors. Even many of the weapons states aren't producing new fissile material for weapons these days, they have more than enough.

Comment · 1 year ago
Fifteen nations that currently do so, if anyone is interested: Russia, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, and North Korea.
Comment · 1 year ago
The terrible consequences are definitely an implied part of the meme, otherwise it's just someone messing about with some pieces of metal and screwdriver and isn't funny at all.

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