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> I don't expect "trucking" to fail

Trucking is a fundamental need so once competition thins out prices will naturally rise and eventually the cost of fuel will be pushed to the customer.

Honestly I'm not sure why we started this war. It really feels like our president taking notes on Russia and saying you know what....


We didn’t start a war. That is a thing that Congress has sole authority to declare, and that hasn’t happened.

Also a thing that never happened: the Department of Defense was not renamed to the Department of War because only Congress has the authority to rename government departments. That vote never happened and the Department was not renamed.

Just reminding everyone that this is not normal, and it’s not legal, and the exact people who have a sworn duty to stop this are not.


I'm almost 40 years old. The US has basically been at war my entire life in some form or another. Not a single war was declared by congress, I don't think.

This is very much normal. I'm not saying it's correct or alright, just that it is normal.


Congress hasn't issued a declaration of war that was signed by the president since June of 1942.

We've had wars since then.

edit,

Two recent examples from a long list:

The Persian Gulf War was admitted to be as such in April of 1991. https://www.congress.gov/102/statute/STATUTE-105/STATUTE-105...

The Global War on Terror was funded on that name in 2005. https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/1268

Other examples exist for things like The War in Afghanistan, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, and similar. But I'm not trying to write an unprompted book here on this fine October night. :)

(Maybe Congress didn't declare those wars, but they sure seemed to accept participation in them nonetheless.)


The US Congress not declaring a war is the normal thing (for the last many decades).

> Honestly I'm not sure why we started this war.

If you watched the film City of God, there's a voice over contemplating murder as the crew robs banks : the first time, the rule is the exception... the second time, he learned there's an exception to every rule... the third time, the exception is the rule.

The United States has gone to war so many times without (or with a faulty) casus belli that it no longer needed one, that's why "we" started this war.


From the light's perspective: "what is this.... time you speak of?"


Also: ”Did we just go somewhere?”


Does it know somewhere?


When it interacts with matter, it briefly becomes something else which does!


Criticism: It's not literally impossible.

I hate this one because it's true Einstein said we cannot measure the speed of light in one direction that is independent of the clocks' synchronization technique being used to measure.

And yet, somehow we changed that to "we don't know the speed of light in one direction!!!" Which is bogus - can you imagine if speed of light was different if you were pointing east vs west? In space, what is even a direction vs another?

Did you even read the wiki you linked? We've done one-way speeds, it's down below.


How do you synchronize the clocks and compute the measurement, without depending on the conclusion?

You run into a similar problem with Michelson-Morley: because the apparatus and the light both get distorted by any motion, you can’t even in principle detect the aether wind with interferometry. You need a non-comoving dynamic source, eg, LIGO with black hole collisions.

Their one-way experiments seem to require similar, ie, we can observe dynamics but cannot measure a static bias.


Copy and paste the transcript. A bit of effort but it's well worth it for these kinds of things.


Or just download it.

  yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-sub https://...


Is this a variation of a naked black hole/singularity? If so, PBS space time has one on it[0].

Upshot is if you spin it fast enough... acgoiawef.awef?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5fnwUmTSY


Yes and that's okay.

Very few people know how to read assembly, instruction sets, binary or even transistor combos. All those layers have been "left behind" to become specializations.

In many ways coding is always about abstracting and LLMs can be a form of "higher level coding".

There's lots of problems with this argument, but it's what's happening and we'll be okay. We've always been.


Tell ya what. Go ahead and prompt your agent to build your next project completely from assembly. Why even bother with the higher level inefficiency since it'll be compiled away.

Report back how productive debugging is and the velocity of adding new features to a codebase you can't reason about.

Without strong coding fundamental, this is what it will feel like for the future of the profession.


Bun? Of sorts? Hard port to Rust in a week and then merged in? No way they reason about that entire thing.

A business won't die just because an LLM is the only thing that can reason about a particular code base. At least, not like if a company's own engineers couldn't reason about their own code 2 years ago.

I recognize you don't agree with it - our world is changing.


> All those layers have been "left behind" to become specializations.

This never happened. The people who understood and worked with all of that still exist. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s not more of them now. What happened is more people who didn’t need to know all of that joined the circus.


Yes but very possible. I also did it during the latest once the latest election was decided.

Removed all news sites but also stopped looking at facebook, news on youtube, and the biggest one was reddit.

Reddit really affected me. It was so easy to read -> become angry -> engage.

I choose to be less informed to save my mental health, I know I'm way happier.


> SSNs are not a "national ID"

That's not what they are, but that's what they've defacto become. I hate it.


Is that still true?

Except for certain industries where the government has a direct interest (banking, healthcare, real estate), I don't think anyone has asked for my SSN in at least a decade. It's not like the old days when you'd fork over your SSN to rent videos at Blockbuster.


oh ok so just for money body and property related issues. phew.


> Except for certain industries where the government has a direct interest (banking, healthcare, real estate)

That's still a massive dependance on "ID" for SS...? Blockbuster tho.. phew it's been a while.


So, it's really interesting. We've started moving away from python libs because 25% OSS is out of date and another % is custom tweaks to the software help our use cases. In both scenarios it means our own fork.

And honestly it's not burning that many tokens if you've got an existing example lib to point to.


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