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It's very simple. There is ZERO chance the worlds biggest advertising companies will refrain, long-term, from using your most intimate secrets, gathered through your many conversations with their AI personal assistants, to sell you things.

I do a lot more reading now while i wait for AI bots, it's much better than scrolling social media, i get a few minutes at a time all day long and it's been a mental game changer.

* Fun - Vince Fynn's "Mitch Rapp" Series - a bit dated, but if you like Tom Clancy it's got a similar vibe.

* Beautiful/Thought Provoking - Things In Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li

magnesium glycinate (and/or a liquid IV or equivalent before bed) helped my restless legs

The problem with DOGE is it fired the bureaucrats but didn't eliminate the bureaucracy.

Thus we're stuck in a situation where the systems that used to work are crippled by lack of resources and we're in a decidedly more inefficient world and nothing to show for it.

Relevant example for the HN crowd - nondilutive funding through Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) is much harder to get, because SBIR is a shell of its former self and startups doing interesting, cutting edge research are finding it much harder to navigate the process. The funds are still there, but the program administration has made it nearly impossible to access.

the minimum dose of monjaro (2.5mg injection once/week) can often be enough

Thanks for compiling this.

"A 100 to 300 kW beam has perhaps one to three seconds of dwell on a hardened, ablating, plasma-shrouded glide body. That is orders of magnitude short of the joules per square centimetre needed for a thermal kill."

- wondering if you can elaborate more on whether a laser energy-based device would ever be able to have enough power to stop one of these?

We're working on a large Rust codebase, heavily assisted development with Claude and Codex, and one critical workflow is after you have written a spec, have the other LLM critique it thoroughly.

This back and forth will take quite a while, but the resulting implementation plan will be 10x better than the original.

You can automate this by giving Codex a goal, and a skill to call Claude to review the implementation spec until they both agree it's done.

Then, for critical code, have them both implement the spec in a worktree, then BOTH critique each other's implementation.

More often than not, Claude will say to take 2 or 3 pieces from it's design over to Codex, but ship the Codex implementation.

i tried to stop using y'all when i got my first job at MSFT, having grown up in the South; then 10 years later I realized it's perfect for Corporate America given it's gender neutral