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For those looking for one practical way to do this in the US, I can share my story.

In the US I waited until I was 24 years old to transfer to a 4 year university, because my parents were somewhat well off and utterly unwilling to help with my student loans when push came to shove - even though my financial aid was calculated based on their income and assets. At 24, I was reclassified as an "independent student", and my financial aid was now calculated solely on my (nonexistent) assets. The dynamic entirely flipped and I got to go full time, and even live in a dorm and stuff.

Between 18 and 24, then, one has roughly six years to get a 2 year community college degree out of the way for relative pennies on the dollar. That's a lot of time! Federal loans can pay for all or nearly all of this, but CCs are generally cheap enough that even on minimum wage one can generally budget the ~$100-200 per month it takes to take one or two classes per semester. I wouldn't actually recommend that because your quality of life suffers far more from $100 extra per month when you are making minimum wage vs when you are making six figures, but to each their own.

If you fear you won't be able to transfer to a 4 year university for whatever reason, there are 2 year degrees which provide on-ramps to paid work; my original degree was going to be like that until I switched plans to the transfer approach.

The time I spent in a 4 year university weren't entirely covered by grants of course, but it was many multiples cheaper than it would have been had I insisted on going right out the gate. I don't think I would have been approved for the six figures of loans I would have needed with that plan with such unwilling parents. I walked away with low figures total in debt, which is much more manageable, and has a much higher ROI than e.g. $30,000 of a house mortgage. I actually somehow ended up holding less student debt than most college degree holders I have met here in Finland, where tuition is free and loans are intended to pay for everything else (housing, etc).


Probably Anthropic just needs to commit to handing over some shares to the Trump presidential family after their IPO and this will be solved.

This is just cost of doing business in corrupt Soviet vessel states like the USA.


The same Israeli BlackCore that masqueraded as a humanitarian fund for Gaza and stole the money?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0...

Lowest of the low.


Rewriting ffmpeg in Rust will not solve it. The parts that are memory unsafe in ffmpeg, and similar projects, are not unsafe because C or C++ is inherently unsafe. Instead, it's the CODE that is unsafe. Translating the code (data structures, logic, etc) to Rust does not fix bugs in the code.

>It feels like we're living a century into the future.

The WALL-E chair-people future.


I'm also not laughing here.

This is likely to delay, if not prevent, the release of more capable models in the future.

And apart from the big picture, I just paid Anthropic $200 on Friday with the understanding that I can use the model for 10 days until the 22nd.

I planned two productive days of work this weekend. There's still Codex, but I'm obviously disappointed with this and want my $200 back.


When you say €20 worth of tokens is it fair direct API call price or subsidized claude code?

Oh, I agree - firefox was losing market share long before AI was a thing.

I meant to use that as a recent example of the kind of decisions that Mozilla leadership repeatedly makes, that don't match up what their users want.


nobody ever raised money for nukes from public/private markets on the premise that nukes will bring the world into an age of abundance. AI companies have done that. This comparison of AI and nukes is so silly.

"It doesn't make money."

if that's the reason, why people invest in amazon then since Amazon literally need 20 years for that company to be profitable

because they are not targeting dividend that's why, they expect the exponential growth by re-investing profit to grow the business at scale

we literally live in YC subs where (almost)every startup isn't profitable either but VC still invest, I wonder why you write this


You do realize French did administer Lebanon? All of those things led to that hot mess of a region.

Do you think the only reaction to knowing you’re not the first to do something is not to do it? Do you think I said that?

I also have a Zoé (an R135). Wonderful little machine.

It’s megahit, no hyphen. Also the exe is called prince.exe in my copy of the game but it’s possible there were other versions.

Again: Would it have made a measurable difference? Or is it just moaning from a small core? Not saying the core is not important, but I don't think Fx can survive on only us.

But isn't getting an LLM to n-shot something just going to produce non-unique, non-original interpretations of an idea?

What is he notable for in the context of Mozilla?

Also:

rustcleaner> homosexual and transsexual topics

OK boomer.


On the other hand it should be so much easier to port full games to mobile. For example Stacklands is a game that would feel right at home on a iPhone or iPad, but currently it's not an app I can download and play on a bus.

A long and rambling article with lots of nagging popups, about a potentially interesting subject.

Wikipedia has a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Segato


DeepSeek and GLM (plus Kimi) are at or above Sonnet level wrt. favorable workloads like coding. They're not close to Opus or the latest GPT yet, and Fable is even higher than that. Other workloads relying more on real-world knowledge have them even further behind, and this can't be mitigated without making the model itself bigger and harder to host locally.

I don't think incresed incentives to develop lagging energy infrastructure are a bad thing. Especially in times when solar is cheaper than everything else.

>these very incredibly smart

The incredibly smart ones are able to use AI to multiply their productivity. The ones having a bad time with it from vibe coding and vague prompting aren't that.


Riiiiight, it doesn't just make the bully invest billions in military grade weapons to be used against civilians. Soon you'll have superdrones with superguns patrolling the US and you will still be clinging to your right to carry a musket.

Sadly german law enforcement is definitely on the Palantir train..

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-...


Writing and reading design documentation can be slower than pair programming. On the other hand, info about code design also belongs into inline documentation or commit messages (in this order of preference), so the effort might not be wasted.

Because others are paying for it. It’s a lot easier to get revenue when you don’t have to care about CAC or paying the bills.

Can you give us an example of a new idea that is not derivative of something that already exists? Should only take about a minute.

Snark aside (and apologies), there's absolutely nothing wrong with the "no new ideas" take and nobody should think there is. Humans tend to work collectively, try as we might to do or appear otherwise, and often come to the same conclusions through reasoning and logic. No one-person truly invented the light bulb, etc, when really all inventive thought is branches of derivative thought as we build our collective knowledgebase. A better question would be how many novel ideas are the logical conclusion of branches of derivative thought and how many are tangential brought about by the injection of our irrationally.


That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.

How about you stop meddling in Lebanon from the safety of Europe, cowards? You want influence in the levant? Then bloody well come and occupy this mess yourselves.

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