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It’s not really a USA thing as such, it’s because cane sugar is more common in the US while e.g. Europe primarily uses beet sugar. Beet sugar is lighter and needs less refining to make it white, so bone char is basically never used for beet sugar. The same applies to Agave too. And to HFCS.

For liquid sugar it depends on what sugar it was made from, it can be made from cane sugar but also from beet sugar.

Organic sugar doesn’t use bone char in the US because USDA doesn’t allow animal derived processing aids for organic products.

Wait, you’re saying we didn’t already think that?

I guess it would be because it’s too easy to get to something that looks like it works without understanding anything about it.

But on the flip side the other day I was able to create a pull request for a project in a language I’ve never used before because Claude found the bug that I ran into while trying to use it. I still wrote the PR myself though. The issue was pretty obvious once I knew where it was. But I don’t think I would’ve even tried otherwise in this particular case.

Ich kann verstehen wenn die alle krank sind weil mir auch immer leicht übel wird wenn ich den Merz sehe.

Im Prinzip ja, aber “amerikanisches Privatunternehmen” ist leicht irreführend wenn es ein gemeinnütziges ist (public benefit corporation), das einer Stiftung gehört…

Stuck in the past as always. When the newest nuclear power plant is over 50 years old (we stopped building them in the early 80ies under his party), the industry doesn’t want to build new ones, and renewable sources can and have been installed at a pace anything else can only dream of, nuclear is simply not relevant. Germany never produced more than 30% of its electricity with nuclear, and that was 30 years ago. Renewables have nearly twice that share now.

There were some last year specifically for games on SteamOS vs Windows, like this: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/

Kamera in der Düse und Cloud-KI die den Reinigungsgrad überwacht und ggf nachzuspülende Stellen erfasst. Verschmutzungsgrad zu Beginn der Reinigung wird auch erfasst und kann vom Nutzer online mit Photo bzw. Video des Reinigungsvorgangs eingesehen werden und in Form eines Kalenders getrackt werden. Schwierige Reinigungen sind farblich hervorgehoben und KI unterstützt mit Vorschlägen zur Optimierung der Ernährung. Das Cloud-Portal ist natürlich vibe coded so dass man durch Änderung eines Parameters in der URL auf jedes beliebige Konto zugreifen kann, und die Ernährungs-KI lässt sich per jailbreak dazu bringen auf Herstellerkosten Pizza zu bestellen.

Even that is just confusing. I sometimes use Perplexity (because Pro comes with my bank account - neobanks have zero focus). And by default it remembers things you say. So when I ask a question sometimes it will randomly decide to bring in something else I asked about before. E.g. I sometimes use it to look up programming related stuff, and then when I ask something else it will randomly research whatever language it thinks I like now in that context too and do things like suggest an anime based on my recent interest in Rust for no good reason.

Tbh I think the Sun Ray thin terminals were pretty cool at the time. Not really cloud because it was an enterprise product 20 years ago, so they used servers hosted by the enterprise. But at the time this idea of taking my entire desktop session with me via my employee badge felt pretty cool. Of course only supporting X11 sessions on Solaris meant that nobody outside Sun wanted it though but that’s not really a problem with the concept as such.

In October 2025, so much later.

They have a public API where you pay by usage, like most LLM companies. They also have a private API used by their apps that they sell under a subscription model (but with usage limits in exchange). Because those subscriptions are often cheaper than paying by usage, people reverse engineered the private API and put support for it in tools like OpenCode.

So the short of it is basically just that they want people to honor their ToS and not reverse engineer private interfaces for competing products.

As a customer you can of course have a different opinion on what they should do/what you want from them, which is where the drama comes from.

I think it’s also a good reminder that if your business is built on top of one of these AI companies, you are completely at their mercy. They can put limitations in their ToS breaking your product (e.g. it’s not allowed to use Claude to develop competing products), they can raise prices (effectively the same as the current drama), they can randomly lock you out or decide to not do business with you anymore, etc.

Not much of an implication because we knew this before. But a reminder of something to keep in mind especially knowing that none of these AI companies are profitable right now.

30 games for 822 hours. Not sure how I managed that as a working adult with a family who also spent more than a month abroad without my Switch. And apparently didn’t play on Switch in January or February. (Probably something on Steam Deck got my attention but I don’t remember.)

Top game is Xenoblade X at 143 hours. My favourite Wii U game so not surprising. It would be a lot more hours too if I hadn’t played it before on Wii U. In the full 9 year range it’s only rank 8.

FWIW I’m not in the NA region and the link worked for me too.

Nur wer an drei Fronten kämpft, kann auch an drei Fronten siegen - Sun Three

Yeah, it’s a major pain at my work because our cloud doesn’t support Macs (like e.g. AWS would), so we run a server room with a bunch of Macs that we wouldn’t otherwise need.

You could also just only use Macs. In theory ARM Macs let you build and test for macOS (host or vm), Linux (containers or vm), Windows (vm), iOS (simulator or connected device), and Android (multiple options), both ARM and x86-64.

At least in theory. I think in practice I’d go mad. Not from the Linux part though. That part just works because podman on ARM Macs will transparently use emulation for x86 containers by default. (You can get the same thing on Linux too with qemu-user-static btw., for a lot more architectures too.)

Damn you’re running a whole production pipeline and it only takes two minutes? That’s pretty good. I’ve worked with projects that take tens of minutes, if not hours, just to compile.

At work we have CI runs that take almost a week. On fairly powerful systems too. Multiple decades of a “no change without a test case” policy in a large project combined with instrumented debug builds…

Tbf we don’t run those on every single change though. The per change ones take a couple hours only.

If there is one then Lufthansa doesn’t know about it, based on my experience with Lufthansa long haul flights between Europe and East Asia. They sell connectivity but it never really works.

I’m not sure I’m on board with this “fewer CVE’s reported means the product is more secure” logic in this article…

But then why did they recover once they moved back to a monolith?

He’s not really blaming the infrastructure as such either. More the fact that they were trying to do it with 4 engineers. I would definitely blame the infrastructure too though. They didn’t have microservices, they had a distributed monolith.

It’s some inventory management SaaS btw.