The article only mentions tuition once - which is the original sin of US universities.

I have generally found that US Americans don't really understand the incredible value that these institutions bring to the overall culture and economy. Thus the broader population has a will to critique but no will to improve the situation.

Most of ANY discussion with US Americans is at most 2 skips from : "yeah, but who's going to pay for it/ yeah, but how much money is that going to make you".

We're a lost bunch.

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the US, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future.

The pace at which sports betting has changed in the USA is incredible. I grew up with Pete Rose not getting into the baseball hall of fame. Not it's impossible to imagine that athletes are not betting on games. And more importantly, there is the social cost:

"One UCLA study published earlier this year found that in states that legalized sports gambling online, bankruptcies and credit card delinquencies increased about 25%. A survey by the National Council on Problem Gambling found 8% of American adults, almost 20 million people, reported experiencing at least one indicator of problematic gambling behavior "many times" in the past year. "

"The Annotated Turing" - I didn't know you could meaningfully intertwine biography and technical analysis like that.

Fantastic book.

I've always had more projects than I do time. And it's easy for me to be selective about where I might use an LLM. So no changes here.

> In June 2003, Europe’s data-protection authorities formally advised ICANN that individuals should be able to register domains without their details on a public register, drawing the line between natural persons, whom the law protects, and legal persons, whom it does not, even back then. Nothing structurally changed in the following fifteen years while the ICANN community argued endlessly about WHOIS.

Losing meaningful WHOIS is a problem. I can't believe we cannot find a reasonable middle ground between privacy for individuals and transparency for organizations.

The middle ground is very straightforward - different levels of protection for natural persons and legal persons. This has been the legislative point of view all along. The ICANN community taking 15 years to not figure this out for gTLDs is kind of a tell how well the decision making works for that part.

Been getting into Rudy Rucker, who was funded by the AutoCAD folks to do cellular automata research: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/.

Autodesk funded some really interesting projects.

Trevor Paglen had a similar project for US military SIGINT. It's interesting how much more "serious" the Russian insignias are than the US patches. I have a few pictures here: https://schmud.de/books/i-could-tell-you-but-then.html

The web browser app paradigm changed everything. The Windows API isn't nearly as important as it once was.

Then again, using Linux has no obvious advantage anymore, as you don't "own" most software you're running anyway.

Being able to trust your OS is an incredible advantage.

Too bad then that desktop Linux is so easy to pwn.

Obtuse gotcha. Trust and security are two different things. And Linux is as secure as anything else against physical attack.

edit: local, not remote attack

When you write, "physical attack", what do you mean? Laptop theft?

I don't understand why this would be different than the Microsoft Office/LibreOffice situation. Adoption has been really slow in Europe (though it is happening - to the credit of European bureaucracies) even though the software packages essentially have feature parity.

This is also what landed with me.