They ship with proprietary code, this would be the point of open source.

In practice in my experience, every company is at least skirting the law regarding privacy, and I never worked for one big enough that could lobby itself out of a fine.

Is it made in the US though? It seems kinda silly to ship the parts from predominantly China to the US back to Europe.

Especially since IIRC the US PC market is smaller that that of Europe.

And also, tariffs.

The point is that in Europe sticker price always includes tax, you pay the exact amount there, while reputedly in the US it does not work that way.

There might.be a little of that going around as well, but the datacenters haven’t actually been built even close to the scale claimed, and the racks in there are kinda useless at serving SaaS webpage stuff, too many GPUs to make it make sense financially.

They fly small planes, in a lot of cases they fly themselves.

I mean there is the CLOUD act.

My bank lets me set up a kid debit card, I can see and approve purchases and set limits.

Also, IMO kids should either ask their parents to buy a game for them, or be old enough to have their own bank account.

Giving your kid a credit card is how they end up with a gambling addiction because AAA is an unsanctioned casino.

In the NL, there are signs literally spelling it out for you. There is a sign saying “start merging here” at the right spot.

Everyone talks how the NL has so good bike infra, but the car infra is top notch as well.

It is actually.

Enforcement is crap.

Because it’s cheaper to buy a commodity chip and program it rather than get an application specific chip made.

The sticks were digitally driven for quite a while as well. Managed to short circuit a 2004 VW Passat’s electronics, the sticks started to point in random directions all over the place while the car was in motion. And I don’t mean shaking, just going to a random value and settling on it every 1.5 seconds.

Was very spooky.

Job creation at its finest

He was in government for 20 (16+4 before) and stole for longer than that.

I actually did an experiment on doing just that. For context, I’m an experienced software engineer, whose company buys him a tom of Claude usage so I had time to test out what it can actually do and I feel like I’m capable of judging where it’s good and where it falls short at.

How Claude Code works is that there are actually multiple models involved, one for doign the coding, one “reasoning” model to keep the chain of thought and the context going, and a bunch of small specialized ones for odd jobs around the thing.

The thing that doesn’t work yet is that the big reasoning model has to still be big, otherwise it will hallucinate frequently enough to break the workflow. If you could get one of the big models to run locally, you’d be there. However, with recent advances in quantization and MoE models, it’s actually getting nearer fast enough that I would expect it to be generally available in a year or two.

Today the best I could do was a tool that could take 150 gigs of RAM, 24 gigs of VRAM and AMD’s top of the line card to take 30 minutes what takes Claude Code 1-2. But surprisingly, the output of the model was not bad at all.

Putin gives zero fucks about Iranian children, he was perfectly fine killing Russian civilians to get into power.

Shaheds on the other hand…

Standard TLS, I think, but what else would you need?

They can ban payments from the EU to Pornhub

East German anthem

Not the entire supply, just enough to affect prices. Basically the stock market but without even the appearance of it not being manipulated to hell.

And it’s not Russia, or not just them, anyone with enough money to play can fuck people with sub-8 figure net worths over.

But that increases the money supply. This way they can take money from other people. For example Russia can get USD without printing and inflating RUB.