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Are you referring to what happened with motherless? If so, using a non-US-based registrar probably wouldn't have made a difference in that case. The court order that took the domain offline targeted the .com registry operated by Verisign, not any individual registrar.


Family relationships are the first thing that come to my mind.

In Spanish for example, consuegro and consuegra refer to the father and mother of your child's spouse.

The Spanish words succinctly encode that relationship while English requires verbally traversing the family tree.


That's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology and yes, you can categorise languages by the extent of their kinship terminology.

You could postulate that a language developed specific words for family and relatives because they prized those specific family structures? Or that language copied another language that did.

Similarly, you can categorise languages by how they group numbers, e.g. French is vigesimal while English is decimal.


The original person didn't say "I wrote this non-trivial software", they said "I built Velo".


...and pointed us to a repository containing non-trivial software.


> If anybody knows someone involved in GrapheneOS, we'd really like to get their perspective on modern mobile platform hardening.

A few of them seem to be pretty active in GrapheneOS related threads here. strcat for example.


> If anybody knows someone involved in GrapheneOS, we'd really like to get their perspective on modern mobile platform hardening. I will repay them in Monsanto Roundup-Ready(tm) gift certificates.



says it was not supplied by US/UK but rather UAE.


UK|US weapons via an intermediary has been an ongoing handwashing pretence for many decades.

eg: Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia

~ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/long-read-brit...

discusses some of that history back to the 1970s. It has gone on far longer than that.

Both the US and UK governments are aware of where their weapons are destined for, both pretend to have no knowledge or control.


That is like saying Russia is suppling Ukraine with weapons to kill Russians because Russia has exported weapons to X that then made it to Ukraine. That is just silly claiming Russia is a supplier of arms to Ukraine.


It's more like stating that Margaret Thatcher knew what her son was up to and could have stopped him had she wanted to.

It's exactly embracing the notion that five eyes track the volumes of their arms sales and are indiffeent to their arms being used to kill children, civilians, etc. as long as they're not being stockpiled for use against the originating nation in any significant volume.

I'd suggest that Russia is less adept here than the US or the UK if they're being harmed by thir own supply.


No, it is not. It is the exact same situation. Do YOU think it make sense to put a headline claiming Russia is supplying weapons to Ukraine? Is that an accurate description of reality?


> It’s articles (not papers) _about_ LLMs that are the problem, not papers written _by_ LLMs

No, not really. From the blog post:

> In the past few years, arXiv has been flooded with papers. Generative AI / large language models have added to this flood by making papers – especially papers not introducing new research results – fast and easy to write. While categories across arXiv have all seen a major increase in submissions, it’s particularly pronounced in arXiv’s CS category. > [...] > Fast forward to present day – submissions to arXiv in general have risen dramatically, and we now receive hundreds of review articles every month. The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.


I'm surprised that Kyle Simpson's, _You Don't Know JS_ hasn't been mentioned in this thread.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

When I was beginning to develop a deeper understanding of JS a few years ago, that book, Kyle's talks, and conference presentations by Chrome's V8 team were very helpful for me. It looks like Kyle has expanded the content considerably since then too.


> I'm just a renter; I get no say in the matter.

Surely you evaluated alternative apartments before deciding to rent at the one you are currently in, right?


You provably missed the “is about to replace” part, not sure the OP was aware of what would be coming when he moved in.


No, I saw that. My comment was a poorly worded attempt to suggest that, as a renter, they can certainly choose to avoid it by moving just as they chose to avoid the other apparents they evaluated but never moved into.

They're not forced into anything.


Defaults for each option of anyone is curious:

> gc.reflogexpire

90 days

> gc.reflogexpireunreachable

30 days


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