I felt like MD was kinda the refined version of HR. Most things felt just a little bit improved, polished. Story was great, but I very much want to know what's next and I don't know, if we will ever get another great one in the series.

Unatco and HK, of course, but much later while giving each track another more complete hearing, I discovered one of the NYC streets tracks has a long time building up, like >1min, and then gets really great too. And I love how in later Deus Ex parts random radios throughout the levels will start playing familiar tunes. Makes it all more epic and nostalgic.

There is an actual Peter de Vries? Is that a coincidence? Or something Frank Herbert deliberately put in?

Peter R De Vries was a prolific crime reporter / journalist who did exceptional work in the Netherlands for many years until he was murdered in cold blood.

The reference: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Piter_de_Vries

de Vries is one of the most surnames in Holland. It literally means "from Frisia (the modern day dutch province of Friesland)".

So Peter de Vries is effectively the dutch equivalent of John Smith.

I guess, though John Smith would more literally be Jan Smit, and the surname de Vries might be a name more like North or York.

There are so many ways trade goes in and out of China, and so many trading partners, I think it is next to impossible to prevent them from getting what they want, if they are willing to spend the money.

> Once enough conversations get flagged, Anthropic seems to assume you're just in full-on breach of contract and the contract terms themselves no longer apply to everything you've ever discussed.

For which they should be dragged in front of a court and sued for millions and billions, if it is found out, that they were simply wrong. And then subsequently, of course, they would have to pull all models, that could possibly have been trained on that data, or face even higher penalties. Haha, but of course I am just dreaming here.

The FTC has issued a number of warnings to the LLM providers regarding lack of affirmative consent or shifting consent for user data handling, noting they could constitute unfair or deceptive trade practices, e.g.: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/202...

There probably isn't any appetite at the FTC these days to actually follow through and investigate or possibly prosecute though. Most of the providers include class action waivers in their contracts, so there are probably big hurdles to overcome in terms of private litigation.

Even if this happens, it would still be worth it

Only way for penalties to sting is with prison time

While it is certainly good to do estimation oneself and not just blindly follow whatever the LLM outputs, keep in mind the recent PHP-related events ... Just because at some point one is not able to make a PoC, it doesn't mean, that no one else ever will be.

Glad they chose the more sane way of Ruby, regarding whitespace.

I sometimes "hate", exactly because of people having learned one flavour of OOP, usually the Java flavor of "everthing must be a class" and trying to shoehorn everything into that style of programming, insisting that inheritance must be had, even though many people have already learned the lesson of composition over inheritance, and even though one of the most popular newer languages, Rust, doesn't even have inheritance or classes. Also the "mutate everything from everywhere, as long as I have a setter"-style.

That dogmatic Java-flavor-OOP and their ideas of translating design patterns 1-to-1 to other languages like Python, disregarding the language specifics and language design choices ... ugh, such a PITA.

That's where my guards are going up, and I start observing very closely, what that person's understanding of OOP is, and whether they merely throw out buzzwords, or actually know something about what they are talking about.

Is that vanilla Emacs crashing? Asking because I had such things happening only with Spacemacs in a VM running on a Windows host and blamed Spacemacs.

Crashing Emacs is a rare aberration, GNU/Emacs is incredibly stable, I really don't remember the last time seeing it crash on Linux. On Mac, that could happen, usually due to some .dylib misbehaving, also a rare thing. Don't ask me about Windows, I stopped using it completely and hope to never have to boot into it ever again. Some things in life are just not worth losing your breath over frustration. Anyone who says Windows 11 is not aggravating are out of their mind.

Sometimes, people conflate Emacs crashing and hanging, the latter can happen, but almost never requires killing it - you just send `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` from the shell and it unblocks.

Interesting. This was on a mac. It was very strange, the windows lost the bar with the x and minimize button, and it couldn't be killed via activity monitor or pkill (I didn't use your command, just kill -9 as well as killall emacs). Had to reboot the computer.

I will say that pretty much all the bugs I mentioned that bug me are things I configured, not base emacs. And I'm sure I configured them incorrectly, but I do find there are a lot of footguns in my defense. Especially for some reason around 4 years ago I had a lot of problems with evil collection and getting evil bindings everywhere, but that seems to have improved over time