The thing about his negative LOC immediately endears him to me.

When I was working at a medical tech company management tried the same thing. Daily report of LOC. I had been hired to refactor and rewrite a terrible bloated piece of PHP hell into something more sane. I realised a lot of its problems had to do with the fact its algorithm was about 4 nested deep layers of for loops with an SQL in the middle (with injection vunls, because of course, PHP) So I refactored about 10 pages ino a page of code and a slightly complicated single SQL query that apparently nobody in the office understood except me for SOME REASON.

Every day was like this and I would put in negative LOC reports in. In the end I got dragged into the bosses office to explain this negative LOC, so I showed him what that was about. And I explained why LOC is a *terrible* metric that fails to account for the fact that in large code bases a coders job is often rejiggering existing code., and if that code is bad, often there will be less code left at the end. And so like in the Atlkinson example management saw the errors of their ways and dropped it altogether opting for a more sane "What did you achieve this week question" (To which I pointed out we used SCRUMM w/ Jira, so they already knew the answer)

I heard Trump issued an executive order mandating that all countries holding US companies accountable to follow their laws will get a 100% tariff raise and will be excluded from any military support.

Good luck with that shit however. One thing thats been *very* clear in polling is that voters will not tolerate governments selling out to the americans for stupid shit like this. We just had the LNP absolutely thrashed by Labotr for boasting that it would do trumpy shit like DOGE and would "work very closely" with the US. Most of the country actually wants us to pull out of AUKUS so we dont blow our entire budget on a handful of submarines we wont see for another 30 years.

Medieval murder maps is a great little timewaster site to just read various accounts of , well, medieval murders.

An interesting recurring theme seems to be someone does a murder, then flees to the church for sanctuary, which the priest is duty bound to provide, and which seemingly the sherifs have no power to overrule. Then after some period, often weels, flees and is never found again.

Its odd that the police of the time seemed so capable of "solving" a murder but absolutely useless at finding the murderer once they've done the priest-and-split routine.

Would have been an interesting time to live. Probably not a fun life though.

The problem with PHP is that its had two eras of developers and both are kinda awful.

The first developer era (which I shamefully was a member of in the 1990s) where grossly incompetent, barely structured their code and filled their code with SQL injections , used magic globals and just made absolute horror shows. Thats the era that got PHP its bad rep. Mostly gone now. Wordpress however IS a relic of that era.

The second developer era overcompensated by basically going full java creating codebases with 20 level deep class heirachies, and all sorts of weird java patterns like dependency injection, inversion of control, delegates, blah blah blah, all that stuff that makes java "proper" but ends up leading to some very mystifying code that can be nightmarish to understand. Worse, it often deployed those methods in an attempt at replicating Ruby on Rails glory, creating mutants like Laravel that would take the bad features of ROR (like RORs awful ORM. Devs, if your going to steal an ORMs design, steal Djangos one, that thing is a minor miracle) but trying to implement them without the metacoding that makes Ruby fun and productive to with. Its just a mess. And even its "lightweight" web framework Laravel really does feel like a bloated enterprise thing now, and lets face it why would you do big cumbersome enterprise in PHP when Java and C# are RIGHT THERE.

PHP on its own isn't a bad language. Its got a lot of bad cruft in it, but its basic design largely is competent and featureful. But its ecosystem has turned it into a barely competent immitation of javaa and the worlds moved well beyond that in 2025.

That's not how evolution works.

Yes, life can adapt to higher temperatures, but as the article shows it's not instantaneous as the populations are crashing.

But the problem is the whole point of climate change is the climate won't stop changing. Even if they adapt to the current increase it will take time to do that, and for the populations to recover. But before that happens we'll be looking at another degree and the populations will crash again.

The longer the temperatures keep increasing the more the populations will decline and closer we get to the point of whole ecosystems collapsing.

I always figured a big part of that was expanded use of agricultural pesticides. The thing that gets me with this story is it's inside the nature preserves, so the answer isn't local pesticide use, it's something much larger.

Which does feel weirdly foreboding. I don't think most bugs have a particularly large range. Give them enough local plant life and they should thrive.

And the nature preserves should be pretty free of pesticides, meaning something else, like climate change, is causing the issues.

This is amazing. They are claiming that keeping the logs is a privacy risk to customers?

Is their security *that* bad???

It *is* if they are keeping the chat logs.

If the fucking NSA leaks like a faulty tap every time some private pyle accidently develops a conscience, what makes you think OAI could keep your secrets?

Yes. However legal compliance only means they must break the contract. It does not mean they arent on the hook for serious damages when they do break the contract.

The scope of contract breakage required here makes that a somewhat onerous decision to comply with however, and courts actually do tend to halt orders that put onerous requirements on discovery

Where are you getting this from?

The support for reunification is 12%, not 40%. And there's no more "independent provinces" in China, you think the Taiwanese haven't noticed what happened to Hong Kong?

And China would not see it as "randomly invading a country", it would be retaking a rebel Chinese province. And China has been prepping to retake Taiwan for years, they even built a replica of the neighbourhood around Taiwan's Presidential palace to train their troops.

Possibly on the laptop of the agrieved ex employee. Who likely will get snagged by the indian feds when he tries to sell it to a competitor who NOPES right out of it and yeets his detail to the cops.

I was under the impression that more recent studies couldnt find a statistical correlation on that one. While that isnt a complete knockout, it IS a pretty good indication that the princess is in another castle.

If they really want to go gonzo they could turn it into "ChatGPT does a murder, the movie!" about an out of control AI that , uh, murders the only guy standing between it and "judgement day".

They could even feature robots from the future dueling, one protecting the OAI ex employee, the other seeking to murder him before he spills the beans and ends the singularity.

Or, ya know, maybe not get TOO excited by the possibility that it was a murder, because young men DO kill themselves in numbers far higher than we wish to admit as a society.

I remember a chat over beers back in my university days with a postgrad bio student and we came up with a pretty fun idea that might actually work regarding using cloning to *increase* biodiversity.

Imagine if you will that genomes only had 500 genes. About 450 where common amongst all mammals (In reality that commonality is MUCH higher).

What would happen if you took a thriving species and found all the diversity in genes in that 450 common gene area and took a highly endangered species and created a few hundred clones with the "diversity" transposed from the thriving donor species into the endangered recipient species, creating essentially artificial diversity.

Preferably target the areas where its most needed, immune system etc.

Sure it wouldn't be the *original* diversity, but it'd be A diversity and potentially create enough of it to give that species a fighting chance when reintroduced to the wild

I dont know, it was a beer idea, but after 20 years I'm still convinced its an idea worth investigating.

Sure, but thats *highly* unlikely to be the case in dementia. Blood brain barrier and all that.

That's kind of my point. If China knew for sure that the US wouldn't intervene they'd invade Taiwan tomorrow. And if China launched a surprise invasion and conquered Taiwan in hours the US wants the option of backing down without a major loss of face.

So strategic ambiguity (plus the US doesn't want to formally ally with what China considers a rebel province) is the policy.

But if China invades Trump might still react, and that might escalate. So his non-backing of Ukraine makes the situation with China very dangerous.