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Ten years of Sad Affleck memes and it turns out he'd just been trying to install CUDA drivers the whole time.
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That Roman Storm is being forced to live through this is horrific. Please spread the word about the Storm prosecution.
.@elonmusk - today (Oct 6, 5:37 PM) my Tesla on FSD ran a red light at S 352nd St in Federal Way, WA. Clip attached. No one was hurt. Sharing so the team can take a look. It was quite scary.
I know Tesla's answer: the engineers who wrote that code aren't criminals. The person behind the wheel is responsible. And that's right.
But the DOJ doesn't apply that rule to me. I wrote open-source code. People I never met misused it in ways I didn't control. Now I'm facing decades in prison.
Prosecutors compared me to "a getaway driver for a bank robbery." But I never drove anyone anywhere. I built open-source software that still runs today - because no one controls it. Not me, not anyone.
Elon, I know how much is on your plate. If you ever have a moment, I'd be truly grateful if you took a look at my case. I believe it matters for everyone building software in America. Thank you.
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.@elonmusk - today (Oct 6, 5:37 PM) my Tesla on FSD ran a red light at S 352nd St in Federal Way, WA. Clip attached. No one was hurt. Sharing so the team can take a look. It was quite scary.
I know Tesla's answer: the engineers who wrote that code aren't criminals. The person behind the wheel is responsible. And that's right.
But the DOJ doesn't apply that rule to me. I wrote open-source code. People I never met misused it in ways I didn't control. Now I'm facing decades in prison.
Prosecutors compared me to "a getaway driver for a bank robbery." But I never drove anyone anywhere. I built open-source software that still runs today - because no one controls it. Not me, not anyone.
Elon, I know how much is on your plate. If you ever have a moment, I'd be truly grateful if you took a look at my case. I believe it matters for everyone building software in America. Thank you.
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Interviewer: “So why are you interested in this position?”
Me, tearing the top half off of my Chipotle chip bag for easier access: “The incredible PTO policy.”
Interviewer, removing his reading glasses: “Say more about that, is it the amount or the flexibility?”
Me, peeling back the foil on my burrito to add more vinaigrette: “Yes.”
Interviewer: “Interesting. And what’s in the cooler?”
Me, shaking my Yeti tumbler full of iced coffee while attaching my portable Blackstone to the propane tank in my backpack: “Ribeyes. Two of them. Heavy marbling.”
Interviewer, visibly unsettled: “Do you have any other questions for me before we wrap up?”
Me, pulling a meat thermometer out of my blazer pocket: “How do you like your steak?”
Interviewer, sweating and shaking: “Well done.”
Me, fastening the buckle on my GRILL DADDY apron: “Thank you Sir. You won’t regret this.”
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So I bit the bullet and took my drawer of old useless cables to the recycling. The stuff everyone has, unused for years, lying around. The cables designed for God knows what, God knows when.
2 days later I can tell you categorically: don't do this.
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I don’t want to be in the loop or out of the loop.
I do, however, want to know about the loop.
I also want to be free from any loop-related responsibilities.
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Since Al is making everyone sound more generic and NPC, I recommend becoming the most unhinged version of you, to counterbalance. Write like a crazy person who hasn't interacted with humanity in years. Break any and all of the rules. Live like a mad, drunk poet. Now is your time to channel the weirdest version of you.
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Coinbase was down for seven hours and had to “work through the night” because an air conditioner failed.
For those that don’t know - an Availability Zone just means a data center in AWS-speak.
Typically, people who use AWS spread their apps across multiple Availability Zones and even across multiple Regions. AWS makes this easy to do for even small businesses.
Here we have the CEO of Coinbase saying they didn’t do that because of latency concerns.
This is what we call bullshit.
Brian is saying if they made their system redundant then customers’ connections to Coinbase would be slower. This statement is sort of true but seems to be designed to fool non-technical people. Because any technical person knows that Coinbase could have fairly easily designed their system to fail over to a secondary Availability Zone AND THEIR CUSTOMERS COULD’VE FOLLOWED THEM.
In such a design, no additional latency is introduced. Coinbase knows this, they just don’t seem very good at their job. Which makes sense when they’re saying they’re laying people off because non-technical people are using AI to do technical work.
We experienced an outage at Coinbase last night, which is never acceptable. The root cause was a room overheating in an AWS datacenter when multiple chillers failed. We design our services to be redundant to downtime in any one AWS Availability Zone (AZ), and most of our systems worked this way last night, but not all.
Our centralized exchange did not. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients. It is possible to make exchanges resistant to AZ failures, but this can introduce latency delays that are not desirable along with breaking customer co-location. Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade. At a minimum, the duration of an outage should be able to be reduced considerably when an AZ move is needed.
Thank you to the AWS and Coinbase teams for working through the night to mitigate the issue. We’ll share the detailed technical summary once it's ready.
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I have a patient with glioblastoma who got halfway through a clinical trial and was seeing great results, only to have his treatment ceased when the trial stopped.
He then spent $10,000 of his own money trying to use Expanded Access, and was denied.
Now, accessing treatment through Montana's SB535 is his last hope. There are biotechs and manufacturers willing to provide treatment, but only if we can get guarantees they won't be punished by @US_FDA for doing so.
I'll be in Washington D.C. with him on the 19th and 20th of this month, if anyone reading this would like to help, please tag your Senator and House Rep and ask them to make some time to meet with us.
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Question for the lawyers here: Even though a private business is not a home, does the 3rd Amendment apply here?
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reasonably. then i would be 1/4 mold, presumably. i do have an affinity for mushrooms but i figured it was the gnome thing.
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The PYREX -> pyrex brand corruption/looting is one of the worst and clearest examples of brand value extraction via degradation and wouldn't be tolerated in a healthier society.
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my best manager was a guy who bluntly said: you can do things i can't. this is great. my job is to facilitate your doing those things.
he was right and he was very good at his job
