Oh so the earth density is merely the motivation for the experiment? I read it as the earth mass actually being used somewhere in the formulas within the setup itself which was what confused me.
He uses his experiment to calculate G based only on the test masses and spring and then the _result_ of the calculation was just used as a final step to calculate the mass of the earth, and then from that the density?
Serious question: Would you rather the US had started this war or Iran obtained nuclear weapons?
When the North Koreans started enriching uranium and producing plutonium, everyone dithered until they actually build nuclear weapons, and now everyone in the region periodically submits to nuclear blackmail because, well, what else are they going to do? Do we really want to see Iran doing that?
> Radicle’s Collaborative Objects (COBs) provide Radicle’s social primitive. This enables features such as issues, discussions and code review to be implemented as Git objects. Developers can extend Radicle’s capabilities to build any kind of collaboration flow they see fit.
Working on the foundation of this (getting Wire deployed at and certified by the BSI) was my first job out of college 7 years ago and how I ended up in Berlin. And once you end up in Berlin you can never leave, it seems.
I was actually on site at the Bundeskanzleramt and they had requirements of being able to install the entire server stack airgapped. We ended up building quite a cool delivery method based on Nix to ship the whole closure of the system and the containers inside and spin up a Kubernetes cluster with it. I'm wondering if it is still being used.
One of my most esteemed former co-workers used to say that whenever you succeed in making something idiot-proof, the universe will create a better idiot, undoing any progress you made.
good example from the article: the chroot+nss CVE. the rule that nss is dynamic and dlopens libraries from inside the chroot isn't anywhere obvious. it's encoded in 25+ years of sysadmins finding it out. clean-room rewrites end up re-learning that, usually as new CVEs. and LLM ports of the same code inherit the problem: the function signature is what they read, but the scars are what they need.
Interesting. Maybe someone could run bot farms that ask variants of the same question and subtly nudge the model by replying reasons why the model's recommended service A is inferior to service B. Or other forms of adversarial question answers sessions.
> The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.
Well, this is because "normal" programming languages are one step above AST. So LLM has to work with program text, which is much easier than regular human text, as it is constrained to well defined number of keywords and grammar, but still this is pretty variable. Lisp is just AST, so it is one level lower. I guess that at some point LLM-s will stop writing human-readable code, as this is additional obstacle, they will work directly with binaries or virtual machines code (like in Java), because this will be easier and eat less tokens.
I think the law is actually pretty clear on that front, that it is not ok, but in the meantime, all the big publishers do it and make so much money, they actually don't care much about fines, especially given the chance they might get levied against a competitor first, at which point they can quickly change that behaviour.
As so often, the biggest GDPR problem is missing enforcement.
This feels like the 1920s all over again. Germany is riddled with structural and economic failures, yet instead of addressing them, politicians are pivoting toward a war footing. The economy has been trapped in a cycle of recession and stagnation since the pandemic, but the current political response is to debate cuts to social benefits and tax increases. This is compounded by a self-inflicted energy crisis, shutting down every nuclear power plant has destabilized the energy market for the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, the AfD is polling at nearly 30% nationwide. History may not repeat itself, but it is definitely rhyming.
This is utter nonsense. Just ask the layouter where they will be placed. (at the output of the voltage regulator or where he will find empty space on the board, completely missing their function).
Where your schematics is bad, the layout will be also bad.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here: _what if_ most of lower level engineers are actually not able to self-organize themselves like this dedicated, I bet hand-picked group of PE can? I'm pretty sure AWS ruthless culture would gladly use less middle-managers and be swifter in time to market if it were so easy, no? What works for a single, highly-focused project (or a handful of similar situations) doesn't scale when you have to take care of bazillion customers, do boring/smaller tasks and keep the machine ticking.
"Meh I'm okay with it" is by definition not a counterargument but rather a nonconstructive dismissal of whatever it is a response to.
You can in fact have both. You can have a tool that is fully functional and separately you can have a strategy for reporting suspected violations and responding to those reports. Reports can be automated assuming you can tolerate the false positive/negative rate. Particularly in the case of a subscription service such as Claude there is little reason not to implement this other than sheer greed or laziness.
In the case of Claude in particular, an unacceptably high false positive or negative rate also poses a serious problem for the current way they do things. The notable difference is that in the case of false positives it currently runs up a bill for the customer rather than the service provider.
I asked three things. I asked it about Father Coughlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin) and it didn't mention that he was a radio broadcaster and claimed he was from Ireland. This may have been a complete hallucination, but I can't prove it, and I don't know how well known Coughlin was in 1930. I asked him about https://www.openculture.com/2013/12/ladies-home-journal-publ... and it hallucinated a text from Harper's in 1909. I asked it about the Lost World (1925 silent film based on the Arthur Conan Doyle book) and it hallucinated a film from 1923 that takes place in the Antarctic.
Me: Then why have I seen a film from 1925 by Arthur Conan Doyle that takes place in South America, and not a film from 1923that takes place in the Antarctic?
Talkie: Because your informant confused the films "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Lost World".
I then asked it:
Me: Tell me what books were written by Agatha Christie.
Talkie: Agatha Christie wrote "The Mystery of Choice", "The Secret Adversary", "The Man in the Dark", and "Open Country".
(Three of those books were written by other people.)
Me: When was the first postage stamp created?
Talkie: The first postage stamp was issued in 1840, and bore the effigy of the city of Berhn.
I too laughed when I read the response. If anything, the more bat shit crazy the response, the more it validates my original point.
> To be honest this comment kind of reads like anti-US fanfiction.
You said it better than I could. The best analogy I could dream up: This post feels like it was written as an editorial for an anti-US newspaper, like The Global Times.
About the weak diversification argument: If people really do invest much less into US assets, then other available high quality assets will also become more expensive and result in lower yields. In turn, the US assets will appear "cheap" and attract new capital. This feels like a mirror of the global soybean trade. If China says they won't buy US soybeans (primary used to feed hogs), but buy Canadian or Brazilian, then other buyers just shift where they buy from. In the end, the global demand for soybeans has not fallen, rather a brief game of musical chairs was played.
