James Wendel

@BenjDicken But postgres has better on-average inserts? Why not post that one instead?

Postgres gets a lot of love, but this result beautifully sums up why MySQL and InnoDB are still awesome.

@davepl1968 the dude is a troll. his replies to anyone that commented on his initial tweet are pure troll. Just block him and move on.

Someone would have to explain to me what one thing has to do with another, given how the economy works, and that the "wealth" in question is really just shares in his own ventures - ie: others voting for him with their cash. If I thought the people with more than me were holding me back, I'd get out the pitchfork, too. I just don't think it works that way.

@ambuj0 @DavidSacks Fable was jail broken, not mythos. The act of jailbreaking fable makes it behave like mythos. There was no need to jailbreak out of mythos.

@DavidSacks The same partners had access to Mythos for months. Why didn't anyone jailbreak? There is more to it than meets the eye. The ban accomplishes a convenient goal though. Anthropic gets to remove its least profitable product without losing any revenue and the top LLM crown.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

@charlescwcooke @DissentFu I'd recommend just muting or blocking him. Look at all the replies to his post that he did, he's just a troll.

@DissentFu These things are not connected. I’m sorry if you were told otherwise.

I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die. And there is now a trillionaire.

@BocaBola_ Cat5a has a lower chance to hit max speeds if it's a bad run with interference. I have one run in my house that can't maintain 2.5g (though 1g is stable). I bypassed it with a new run and it's doing 2.5g fine with the exact same hardware on both sides.

Need to settle a debate: If you had to wire a house for networking from scratch what are you picking and why? Cat6a - Technically "proper spec" for things like 10 gig, slightly more expensive and harder to work with cause thicker gauge/shielding/spine Cat5a - CAN do 10 gig even if not "proper" spec, slightly cheaper easier to work with

@MattWolfgang @davepl1968 @geerlingguy Yeah, and supply/demand kicked in: Current IPv4 Pricing (2026 Averages) * Small Blocks (/24, 256 IPs): $24 – $38 per IPMedium * Blocks (/22 to /20, 1K–4K IPs): $17 – $23 per IP

@davepl1968 @geerlingguy Didn't you hear? We're going to run out of IPv4 addresses in 2012!

Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely. There are (sadly) too many devices and services with obscure bugs when it's enabled, and I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole sysadmin just to keep a full IPv6 stack. I'm not sure we'll ever see full IPv6 adoption.

@geerlingguy I disabled IPv6 after trying it for a couple months. There are just too many corner cases where things don't work.

@Jonathan_Blow I was dealing with this 20 years ago with Java Swing and an app that was translated to 12 different languages. It's always a hard problem.

Something that comes up every single game: "I want to draw some text centered nicely in a box. I have the coordinates of the text, how much of a margin do I add to the box on each side?" The answer is, "It is different for each language and each font. Hack and figure it out."

@ThePrimeagen ND Wilson has some great book series (100 Cupboards & Ashtown). Andrew Peterson's "Wingfeather Saga" is also great to read with the kids.

Looking for new fantasy book: * I loved Wheel of time * Liked mistborn * Loved storm light archives book 1/2, liked 3/4, meh on 5. (Just turned Kalladin into a soyboy) *Another kingdom enjoyed What else should I read?

@rkylesmith I'm hopeful for the Free Expression columns. I miss your occasional political commentary from your NR days, hopefully this column fills that gap.

I’m begging you all to get a WSJ subscription so you can actually click through to our amazing regular political scoops and not look foolish falling for the “Platner called his dick the Fuhrer” fakery. It’s $2 a week!

@DavidHnumbers @BullTheoryio Life sciences BU: Verily. They do all kinds of things. That's the purpose of Alphabet (Google's patent company). (Verily operates outside of Google)

@BullTheoryio Why the hell is Google in the mosquito business?

BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California. The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond. The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within. Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months. Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.

@melowen @nikitabier @levelsio @X They can fine the company into oblivion. The DMA allows the EU to fine a company up to 20% of their global revenue.

@nikitabier @levelsio @X can’t you just not comply? what’s the worst they can do ? at some point they will ask to comply with the inimaginable

I got a message on @X from the 🇪🇺 EU today!

@The__Goomba PayPal doesn't want to deal with the extra fees. > "Adult content platforms typically face fraud and dispute (chargeback) rates that are 5 to 7 times higher than traditional e-commerce sectors."

It’s actually crazy how prude society is becoming.

@Grummz There are 2 ways your account gets banned for uploading: 1) You upload files, but share them with other (even private share links), and that content is against the TOS. 2) CSAM. I think even not-shared CSAM can get your account banned.

Google Drive scanned this Manga artist's PRIVATE files and banned him. AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone. The AI is always watching.

@AlTviter @adamac @GergelyOrosz Again, that doesn't answer the "why".

@adamac @GergelyOrosz "... as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was no proactive outreach to individual customers prior to the restriction." AI did it.

Beyond terrible look on GCP. They suspended a bunch of prod accounts... automated. No warning. Including that of Railway: an infra company spending $20M+ per year on the platform. Two years ago they deleted the prod account of a $100B+ fund. How can a serious company do this?

@SamNissim @GergelyOrosz Their postmortem sort of hints at it: "At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud."

@GergelyOrosz Railway and Google have both so far been quiet on WHY they deleted the account. My app was one of the many services that were down b/c of the outage. Once it was back up, and I was able to log into the Railway dashboard, this new set of terms was loud and clear...

This wild. Two years ago, Google deleted a large customer’s account: Unisuper, an Australian retirement savings fund. It seems they now blocked an even larger customer, cloud provider Railway. This kind of story you never hear with AWS, Azure, or even Oracle. GCP 👎

@Hamzeml *5 years ago.

@Hamzeml OVG had a massive fire a couple years ago. They had wooden ceilings in the DC. datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ov…

is it true?

@BiliqoS21806 @SethDillon Lol, good job posting a lie. Ben was talking about living in NYC, not America as a whole.

@SethDillon Better massaging is needed. Not this bulshit.

Anyone prioritizing profit over principles can be superficially successful. But Ben's aiming higher than that. Good for him.

@politicalmath Have you found anyone doing a good analysis of the ruling?

Are there Democrats out there who are kind of embarrassed by this? Isn't it a little bit humiliating that the smartest of the smart pundits on the left are incapable of reading plain English? Does it give you pause that the people who are at the forefront of intellectual analysis on the left won't tell you what the text of the decision says?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. All the "smart" Democrats are saying that the court should have addressed this issue before the election. But the Court says IN THE DECISION: "Thoughout this litigation, the Commonwealth (ie the Democrats) has insisted that we cannot lawfully decide this case prior to the referendum" Before the election, the Democrats *successfully* argued that "courts cannot interfere to stop any of the proceedings while this permanent law is in the process of being made" The Democrats WON the argument that the Courts MUST allow the election to go ahead without ruling on the constitutionality of what they were voting on Now they are complaining that the Court should have ruled on this case before the election. This is the most cut-and-dried case of intentional idiocy I've seen in at least a week and a half