Google Gemini on Steve Loughran Google Gemini on Steve Loughran Q: why does steve loughran say you can't trust the AWS SDK? Thinking Exploring Loughran's Views I'm starting by dissecting the user's query. I've pinpointed "Steve Lo...

I tried with Gemini on why I don't like Amazon's java SDK for AWS and while it knew who I was and what the SDK was it completely failed to note my well known issues and instead came up with an explanation five years out of date

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You asked the AI systems what they think of you, AI and why people would subscribe to the mailing list? Be amusing to see their thoughts

Trouble with a valuation like that is that anyone who joins now will have stock options that are completely unrealistic. They're only going to be able to recruit and retain true believers

Single storey hospital building signed Bristol Brain Centre

When I was in the waiting room in the Bristol Brain Centre in June I was thinking "worst place to be when the Zombie Apocalypse kicks off"

This may cause the pending coverup to be seen for what it is -the government hiding names. Fox &c may follow the party line "nothing to see" but the conspiracy channels may view it as "the deep state hid the truth".
There's also Musk maybe stirring things up in his Conspiracy Space

"echo"

People talk about EV range anxiety-but I can get all the way to the end of our charging cable and back without problems

China aims for space-based solar power test in LEO in 2028, GEO in 2030 China aims for space-based solar power test in LEO in 2028, GEO in 2030

Well, that and Space Based Solar Power. Presumably until they get that working everyone has to sit in the dark sunset to sunrise
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Maybe we should worry about 65+ y.o. phone users as they naïvely believe facebook content -today's teenagers know not to

Ted, your father was in Houston with his rifle, and I was with him. After he jumped into our car and drove off, we'd left the city before it was announced over the radio

Irony: for any government organisation tasked with monitoring internet usage of the UK population, broad adoption of VPNs will turn a that population dark for you.

GCHQ going to find it a lot harder to see who goes to web sites demanding Action on Palestine.

It was the day after. It's a lot easier to predict things that have happened -which is why we have a special world for this kind of prediction: observation

Kind of a useful admission for any university trying to resist a governments attempt to curtail its freedom of speech

Male US citizens are required to self-register themselves as eligible for conscription. Relinquishing your citizenship would keep you safely away from conflicts from Montreal to Manitoba
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Well, unless they were french companies and they'd be tax deductible.

What is the tax status of these?

And those increases also manifest in dowstream products having to increase and/or complicate their charges
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/c...

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users | TechCrunch Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the s...

This may be observed by directly increased charges for subscriptions -or it could be quietly rolled out by restricting the amount of processing a subscription provides

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The capital cost of the computers and the energy cost of computation makes a threshold below which AI processing operations are unprofitable from the work alone.

This defined the minimum charge that any AI service must charge to go from burning VC cash to profitable

FWIW asking for anything in the style of Hemingway js much better

My family is from Gavarghy road -I think we are well aware of the DUP, the marching season and how the best thing to do with the GFA is "don't try and break it"

I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction—indeed, outrage—at the chronic neglect of Bristol’s road infrastructure. The infestation of potholes across this city is not simply a public nuisance. It is a glaring indictment of bureaucratic failure and administrative indifference. This council has had ample time, resources, and opportunity to remedy the decay. Yet residents continue to suffer from vehicle damage, safety hazards, and the sheer indignity of navigating roads more befitting a war zone than a modern British city. This is not mere oversight—it is negligence.

Having tested it, the AI tools can generate text in her style when asked
"Draft a letter to Bristol council complaining about potholes in the style of Suella Braverman"

Failed to call out the Declaration of Abroath when highlighting historical legal heritage-just something about English common law

With weak knowledge of UK countries it's a good thing she wasn't Attorney General during the Brexit negotiations

I don't think they DUP have -but I think they still have a notion of "victory" -a rollback to 1950s Ulster when waving an Irish flag was a crime.

As for the RoI they generously wouldn't require it to leave the ECHR -simply recognise HMGs right to unilaterally change the agreement
"Ireland would not be required to leave the ECHR itself, only to recognise the UK’s sovereign
choice and the adequacy of its rights regime. "

The full paper tries

"while the Agreement commits to “incorporation”, it does not prevent the UK Parliament from repealing the HRA 1998, nor does it prohibit the UK from denouncing the
ECHR under Article 58 of the ECHR itself. "

www.prosperity.com/wp-content/u...

Someone has hasn't read GFA, have they?

Does he have a big list of distractions for emergency use "football ball teams insufficiency racist" or do you think he's improvising?

His use of "The Church" as in CoE as the national church is indifferent to those of the other countries -or the delicate status in Northern Ireland. Not sure the UK government can impose a state religion there - CoE will go down with Ulster Presbyterians as badly as with Catholics

Police set up Bristol cordon as more Elbit raid arrests made A sixth person is arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged ram raid.

Avon & Somerset Police are getting a bit over-excited about all forms of dissent over Gaza.
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Alternatively: he knows his supporters won't understand the difference and conflates them to scare that audience