Puhleeze. Is This the End of Google As We Know It? How many articles have been written with this title? It's like "the walls are closing in." Google will survive.
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Earth's days are getting shorter by a millisecond. Does it really matter? I wouldn't notice it. But I guess the people who keep track of these things will.
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Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI. The technology is finding its uses. It's amazing to be able to deduce missing text from broken pieces of writing.
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Wow, I feel sorrry for the lower level employees at Windsurf. The company didn't exactly reap the riches that startups typically do. It's becoming clear that low-hanging fruit has been picked. You gotta be smart and have something to add to technology to win the pay. Just being a low-level employee doesn't mean you'll get super rich.
"Windsurf and others are really bad examples of founders leaving their teams behind and not even sharing the proceeds with their team," wrote storied investor Vinod Khosla on X. "I definitely would not work with their founders next time."
Here's more on this debacle: Looks like the engineers who went to Google are getting screwed, too. There were no winners here. It's not that easy to create wealth out of thin air in the AI age. It's not the dotcom world.
Proton is starting to move out of Switzerland due to their new laws that reduce the kind of privacy that Proton promotes. It's too bad, but Switzerland's new laws look pretty bad. But why is Proton going to the EU for protection? They're not known to be privacy-friendly either.
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GLP-1 drugs may cause kidney injury if you get dehydrated. Sounds like acute tubular necrosis to me. You can recover partially from it, but sometimes not.
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Can you run a business solely relying on AI? Apparently not. Anthropic decided to test this with Claude, and apparently it was "hilariously bad". And some have put down some good reasons why AI will not take most human's jobs.
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So does gold even have a melting point? It was thought so, but it's clear that it depends on how the heat is applied. It's crazy how we're still discovering some things about basic science.
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Using external CSS when designing a webpage can make seconds of difference, especially if your connection is not fast. I'm not sure it's worth cluttering up your code with all that CSS, which can take up a lot of space. I'll put up with the extra few seconds of loading time for now.
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SurgeAI claims to have found out what datasets Anthropic trains its models on. This is ordinarily a trade secret, but it seems that Anthropic didn't care too much. They're sort of denying that it's authentic, but who knows?
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Supposedly, Washington state is in their worst budget crisis. Kinda like Oregon, except they have a lot of billionaires and millionaires – way more than Oregon. They have much of the money they really need, don't worry. They just don't want to change what they spend it on.
Like Oregon is supposedly short of money, but they allocated $15 million for non-citizens. How does it feel to have to pay more tax and have services cut?
Even California is no longer paying for illegal alien's legal defense anymore. Why can't Oregon and Washington learn from this?
Palisades residents are discovering a new horror, as they try to recover from January's fire – squatters. And the police aren't helping. What a nightmare.
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Nice job if you can get it. Wow, despite PERS' poor performance, the managers are really making out.
The resulting $147,187 incentive payment for Rex Kim, the chief investment officer, boosted his total pay to $663,271. Michael Langdon, then the director of private markets investments, received $123,105, lifting his total pay to $533,459.