He knows what wealth inequality is. You need to explain how it can somehow lead to the extinction of the human race.

Yeah that isn't a magic get-out clause. I don't think I would have been immediately fired for this from anywhere I work at, but that's partly because I live in the UK.

Every company I've worked at has said very clearly not to comment about work things on social media. I would definitely have been in serious trouble for this. I imagine some strongly worded emails from marketing are flying around OpenAI right now.

No, there are people who will say "ask Chat to explain it to you" in reference to ChatGPT.

All the people younger than 28yo in France, for sure.

Ha, tell me you don't have children without...

The average kid in an average suburban public school is not getting this amount of digital communication. If they are, they still aren't using a Google Calendar and are managing the complexity in much simpler ways (paper calendars)

I think they mean the parents. I got 5 emails from the kids school today, and have regular calendar events related to the kids. So yeah this is for parents

To be fair I do get fucking hammered by school emails, and not just school school but dance school.

But like, an AI would just tell me what’s in the email and ask me what I want to do about it which is almost always ignore it and I know what’s in the email because I have eyes.

Define "necessary". Good luck.

the flight doesn't contribute to preventing harm to anyone

It's not uncommon to travel for medical care, or for medics to travel for work.

If you set traveling and flying equal, I very much think it is.

The US has a bunch of highly paid medics who fly every week or in some cases every day because they work somewhere with enough population to justify their practice but they choose to live somewhere hundreds of miles away, and at their income it's actually practical to have a small private jet. It's probably only a small minority of the most highly paid (so e.g. cosmetic surgeons) where this makes sense but it's more than a handful of people.

Likewise because it's big and a lot of it is empty the US does more medical flights than a country like the UK, if a Wyoming multi-millionaire needs urgent treatment in a Californian hospital you're not going to load him into a truck and drive there, you use a plane. This is relatively high risk commercial air travel, it's not quite as dangerous as most GA but there's some get-there-itis because you don't want to abort the flight and let down your patient, and you're often flying one-off journeys whereas the people doing scheduled passenger travel it's like a bus, same route, every time, regular as clockwork, and if things go wrong you just scratch the flight and no harm, no foul.

That is a super weird definition. If you only want to allow that you're going to have to ban basically everything.

not everything is as harmful as flying

You know there was someone who tried to refactor whatever code it was that broke here and was told it was too risky.

I’m way more often than not on the side of refactoring but there’s risks on both ends with a mission-critical service like this. Neither side is zero risk, the choice is about which option will result in fewer and less severe outages.

Sure, the problem is most people can only see the risks of changing code. They're completely blind to the risks of not changing it.

Ohhh the WiFi scanning is for geolocation, of course. I was wondering why they'd do that.

It even goes both ways: you can geolocate the user, and you can sell the BSSID data for future lookups. Not sure how valuable that still is in 2026 now that every mobile phone is adding that to the Goople databases, but it was in the past.

I solved this by switching from Claude to Codex. It's crazy how much faster it is to reply and how much less verbose its replies are. Dunno why Claude is popular at all...

Intertia. Codex wasn't as good at coding until Astra dropped.

Yeah unfortunately it doesn't handle hypergraphs IIRC, i.e. one edge going from a single node to multiple other nodes.

This is great! There's a real shortage of good layout algorithms. Everyone pretty much gave up after Graphviz.

Although tbh I have come to the conclusion that automatic layout algorithms don't work very well for large diagrams and don't save you much effort for smaller diagrams.

What I really want is some kind of interactive editor that has a go, but lets me drag nodes into more sensible positions while maintaining all the arrows. Maybe this makes that easier given its support for specifying node positions?