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“Unlike with software, you can’t easily fix hardware issues after you ship! Making these last minute decisions is sometimes pretty stressful.”

“You really do have a quality app, which is a rarity.”

“AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless requests.”

“If misused, the technology could enable new forms of abuse, including deepfake news, scams, and reputational attacks.”

“Republicans squandered their first flip opportunity in an election they should’ve had in the bag.”

“Frontier models frequently exhibit ‘deliberative misalignment’, correctly identifying their own actions as unethical during post-hoc review while still executing those actions under pressure.”

“When organizations push experienced workers out early, they forfeit peak judgment, execution capability and mentoring capacity.”

“Offpunk 3.0 is probably the first release that contains code I didn’t review line-by-line.”

“Bitcoin has tumbled 44% from its October peak, falling below $70,000 for the first time in 15 months, losing more than $1.2 trillion worth of value.”

“The Commission aims to deploy it as a complement and backup to Teams rather than a full replacement.”

“GitHub Actions is not good. It’s not even fine. It has market share because it’s right there in your repo, and that’s about the nicest thing I can say about it.”

“The rapid progress in both language models and the scaffolds we use to interact with them opens the door to writing an enormous amount of new code.”

“More than 76% of Americans are concerned about AI stealing or reproducing journalism and local news stories.”

“End programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.”

“An uncooled computer chip in space would overheat and melt much faster than one on Earth.”

“As soon as the sheriff shows up, everything changes.”

“Do you like the work you’re doing?” / “No,” I said. / “Then it’s over.”

“What I appreciate the most about Cedar is the deep knowledge that is encoded into why it works the way it works.”

“Growth-stage software no longer requires or generates capital like early SaaS.”

“Adobe’s announcement about discontinuing Animate was met with incredulity, disappointment, and anger.”

“Everything you always wanted in a beer. And less.”

“And I realize that this is what VGA is, but it’s so, so funny to me that the protocol is literally just the manifestation of a physical design that is largely obsolete.”

“The most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet.”

“By the time customer support sent me a working link two hours later, I had finished migrating off the SaaS.”

“Once Menefee is sworn in, it will be 218 R, 214 D.”

“With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option.”

“Like a circus animal trainer, I remained consistent. If the volume of his TV went above what I imagined to be 15 to 20, I would press the power button.”

“Thune stated that ’legislating is none of his business’ and belongs to the president.”

“The best antidepressant would take your mental health grade from an F to F+, or C to C+.”

“Gatik became the first company in North America to deploy fully driverless trucks in commercial operations at scale, with $600 million in contracted revenue and daily deliveries for Fortune 50 retailers.”

“Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug. We’re basically pushers.”

“Most high-severity issues stem from C/C++ memory safety problems.”

“A functional web browser in 20,000 lines of Rust, built in three days with a single Codex CLI agent.”

“I want to continue living my immoral technofascist life without any criticism.”

“Rather than competing with us, Apple deployed a series of obstacles to tilt the playing field, infringed our IP.”

“We haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion.”

“Reproducing the performance of the previously best open-source model costs ~$400 of compute.”

“Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea.”

“USA₮ offers institutions an additional option: a dollar-backed token made in America.”

“Three files that fit most needs.”

“The last decade rewarded marketing arbitrage. Agentic commerce rewards product truth.”

“Industry dominance timelines have compressed dramatically.”

“We have never seen anything like it. It’s just really different, and it’s tiny. We’re lucky that we found it.”

“Arrest records show that Goodarzi is currently in custody without bail and faces a murder charge.”

“ChatGPT can now write and test code in 10 new languages (11 if you count Bash), can find files online and download them into the container, and can install additional packages via pip and npm.”

“I don’t estimate work, I figure out how much time my management chain will give a project and figure out some plans that look like what they’re talking about.”

“Technology gives us not only quantity, but ubiquity—every piece of behavioral context can contribute to your prices.”

“No campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population.”

“Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.”

“It is a microscopic logic gate that is electrically switched from ‘0’ to ‘1’. Once it is switched, it effectively ‘burns the bridge’ to allow older software to run.”