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@patio11 @TheStalwart @heyitsnoah I’ve had Claude write a test file that called the tested code exactly 0 times.

@TheStalwart @heyitsnoah For example, sometimes after developing a new feature it does the obvious things and extends the test suite, sometimes it runs a smoke test only in an ad hoc fashion forgetting it has a test suite, and sometimes it just says "Well this is done and has no bugs whatsoever."

Do engineers who use Claude Code (et. al.) worry about the obsequiousness problem? When we talked with @heyitsnoah he pointed out that "pair programming" has long been a thing in software development. But presumably in a pair, one human isn't just there to validate the other.

@SandyofCthulhu Property taxes can generally be compared to other properties for value, and we can find a fair market value for them based on fair sale prices.

@SandyofCthulhu We need to have taxes to pay for stuff. We can tax real property, other property (through sales tax, or wealth tax), personal income, and corporate income. You can turn different knobs to have allocations, but in the end, you need to get a certain amount of cash.

But why is it on your house? Why not tax your washing machine. Or your carpet? Or the black velvet paintings handing on your walls? It's completely arbitrary, and seems unfair, particularly because we are ALREADY HEAVILY TAXED for those damn public services.

@planefag My rice cooker makes better rice than I do. Just like my dishwasher washes dishes better than me, and my washing machine washes clothes better than me.

Japan gets a pass because they live in a nation prone to earthquakes, where they only have two burner stoves and have to feed them off small gas bottles they lug up the stairs themselves. The rest of you bastards have NO GODDAMNED EXCUSE

@Rank1Apples High end: visionminer.com/products/22idex But this is probably not a printer for beginners. I mean, are you really going to print in PEEK?

Ok 3d printer bros, I'm ready to break down and buy a printer. The cost of the gun wall(s) are just too high, so just gonna 3d print it. Literally more expensive to buy a gun wall than to buy a safe. 🙄 What brand printer? I want high end performance, not cheap. Please repost!

@patgagnon_75 I had a US flight line driving license: I did not have to maintain communications with ATC. We did not have a radio. That said, I was never permitted to cross the runway, because no radio. So I had to go there long way around the end instead when going to the other side.

Ftr, i'm not a flight safety investigator, but I do have experience as a former R.C.A.F technician on flightlines. Here's what we know. 1. The aircraft was cleared to land well before the approach. 2. Landing aircraft have priority above all else. 3. All vehicles on the flight..

@cdrsalamander I’ve been using SouthWest Asia for more than two decades. It’s descriptive as to where on the Asian continent you’re talking about. West Asia is kinda nonsense. That’s just Russia.

“Decolonization”

@VLO225 @heretos58455629 @MarioLeb79 Reporting as a US Army F-35 makes me doubt.

@heretos58455629 @MarioLeb79 Stealth planes aren't invisible , we don't know the exact details If it was operating on low enough altitude it could fired upon by manpads . We also don't know if the plane was carrying eternal munitions which raises RCS

CNN report: A US Army F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at a US Army base in the Middle East after being hit by anti-aircraft fire during a mission in Iran. A CENTCOM spokesperson said the plane landed safely and the pilot is in stable condition; this is the first time Iran has hit a US Army plane.

@i2cjak I want this for my robotics team.

idea: open voltage across two pieces of metal (say 120VDC) and move the pieces of metal close to one another in a liquid solution with a consistent dielectric breakdown (say for sake of argument, oh ~80εr) and allow the breakdown of said medium (idk let's use water haha) into a mini lightning bolt. Once that lightning bolt forms, drop the voltage (let's just wing it and go 24VDC :3) and dump 100+ amps through the gap in a few microseconds to vaporize the metal in an extremely precise and controllable manner. For fun let's put this on the desktop of every child in the country

@Guzzak @Jordan_W_Taylor The soviets definitely did not send dozens of nuclear reactors into space. The US didn’t leave 5 RTGs on the moon. Etc. Satellites use PV because most of them are commercial, and buying space nuclear power is expensive and mostly restricted to .gov use.

@orihara @Jordan_W_Taylor Still plenty. A pound of solar panels is worth a pound of nuclear power plant here on Earth where you don't need to take an 18 month trip for a bit of lithium shielding or a replacement cesiated hydrogen duct. There's a really good reason satellites use PV, not lil nukes.

Kilopower, the little Martian reactor that could: A miracle of simplicity & sodium. NASA was given the brief to design a super-simple micro-reactor for future Martian settlement, and it did so brilliantly by doing it unconventionally. A normal Earthbound nuclear reactor is complex, with banks of pumps, water & steam injection pressurizers, control rod actuation, frequent movement of fuel during refuelling cycles, complex systems of valves, back-up emergency coolant and deluge systems, boron injection… it goes on & on & on. A terrestrial nuclear plant is a triumph of safety-conscious system engineering, but it’s a busy one, and Kilopower dispensed with all of this. The intention for the system is that you could set it up, get it started and just… forget about it, pretty much. It has a small, solid core with no moving pieces except for the control rod which is designed to be moved on startup and then kept in place, unmonitored, for a decade at a time. The small size & low power means that reactivity effects are dominated by thermal expansion and are extremely stable. Low power designs (less than 100 kiloWatts thermal energy) make thermal management and irradiation damage a non-issue that does not complicate system design. Very low power level designs (less than 10kW thermal) feature such low burnup reactivity that movement of the control rod becomes a ten-year interval. A literal ‘tin’ wedding anniversary, marked out by tweaks to the control rod. There’s a quirky Martian anniversary gift for you! Even at much higher power levels, the stability is such, and burnup so low, that control rod movement would be something you’d only have to do occasionally, every few months or annually. In essence this is a nuclear battery. In all cases, the reactor is designed to handle worst-case transients such as coolant loss passively without any need for control inputs, further simplifying the system. Truly, this is a zen ideal: Feng Shui engineering, where less is more and the system simplicity brings reliability and safety, all in one. Perfect for missions to space.

@Guzzak @Jordan_W_Taylor Mars is 1.5 times further from the sun, so it get 1/(1.5^2) as much sunlight. About 44% as much. Nevermind the dust storms that can last for days.

@Jordan_W_Taylor lol nope, plenty of solar on Mars.

@batteryscott @sdamico You can use a battery to buffer this, but commercially available battery stations are like $2500 for 240V: homedepot.com/p/Anker-SOLIX-…

@batteryscott @sdamico People who want to run 220v devices in the US want it so they can run high power devices (or foreign stuff). This will do foreign stuff, but not high power. You cannot run more than 1800W off a US 120V outlet. You will burn down your house. Even if you use a 3kVA transformer.

yeah actually there is ... we call it "impulse core" should be in home depot this year too

@2aQueer @ASFleischman Wearing white robes, and pointy white hats to a organized event where you know violence will be committed by people wearing white robes and pointy white hats is the exemplar of clothing choice being an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy. Why are black clothes different?

@ASFleischman I think some of the overt acts are a little much. Moving property of an arrested person, or wearing black while attending a protest are pretty iffy overt acts. And I'm not sure how much knowledge other people actually had.

From what I understand, the evidence shows that this apparently all white group attacked an ICE detention facility with rifles, shooting an officer in the neck, and that there were texts coordinating the attack. What's the argument that this is a miscarriage of justice?

@batteryscott @sdamico Yeah, but that’s only 500VA. So something equal or less than 500W. Most 240 equipment is going to want more than that. Otherwise it’d be 120V already. Exceptions : foreign stuff.

@thereal_SnS Assemblyman is not a title of nobility.

Virginia Democrats are voting for to restrict your right to bear arms, while exempting themselves from the same law. Virginia House Bill 110 states: “The provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly who leaves a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle.” “Rules for thee. Exemptions for me.”

@theshellbelle Words are merely a tool for deceiving people, for them.

I have questions. This story about the SAVE Act doesn’t add up. I left my first marriage because of brutal domestic violence. My ex had the marriage license when I left. That did not stop anything. I went to Dallas County myself and requested a certified copy. That is why this story does not make sense. If the marriage license was truly never filed, she would not have been able to go to the Social Security Administration or the Texas Department of Public Safety and change her name. Both require a certified marriage certificate, which only exists after the signed license is returned and recorded by the county clerk. So if her name was actually changed, that means the marriage was filed and recorded. And if it was recorded, she can request a certified copy from the county clerk at any time. Just as I did. One person walking off with a piece of paper does not erase the record or make it impossible to prove who you are. People can debate the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act if they want. But claiming a woman would never be able to vote again because a marriage license disappeared, I’m sorry, simply is not factual.

@joeltelling The first amendment only applies to speech they like.

Rep Salahuddin got a BS in Neurobilogy and a minor in English at UW. So, of course, he is a main sponsor of a bill that is attempting to criminalize code. Uh, what? I wonder if he knows about the 1st amendment?

@SaraForTexLege @Bonniefontes > she does not have any possible way to get the documents explaining why her birth certificate name This sounds like a possible way to have her government ID match her birth certificate again.

@Bonniefontes For free?

@DanielBogdanoff @ItCanBe3 10Ghz is squarely in the X band fire control radar band.

@ItCanBe3 Yes, but topically modern radar systems operate at much higher frequencies than 10 GHz

Rough BOM cost check in the US: LTC5552 = $60 x 2 = $120 ADAR1000 phase shifters = $195 x4 = $780 ADTR1107 front end = $225 * 16 = $3600 ADTXC7A100T FPGA = ~$200 Excluding boards, maybe ~$5k in chips/parts The "10 Watt" version needs power amps: QPA2962TR7 = ~$450 * 16 = $7200