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Peak AI summary:

The Houthis have conducted more than 260 airstrikes against Houthi targets

I'm very curious what they'd say it needs to pass in order to be "proven".

And then I'm curious if a pack of ground beef from the grocery store would be able to meet the same standard

Interestingly, SEATAC airport has started doing exactly that in (at least Concourse D). It's one big long hallway with sinks on one wall and floor-to-ceiling doors for the toilets. And a separate room off to the back with a sliding door for urinals. They've got enough toilets that wait times aren't too atrocious

This is more permanent than it could be...instead of being able to be undone via executive order, it would take an incredibly rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress. Neither is that unlikely, however repealing it won't be unilateral, and that means it'll take time and political capital.

There are a lot of things about the steam deck I respect, including that the only difference in price points is down to available storage, not performance. It really makes the device so much more accessible

I was incredibly mad before I realized I was reading George Soros, not George Santos. Now I'm only kinda mad

Is this really sidestepping sanctions? My understanding of the sanctions is that they're less about us not wanting China to use them, and more about us not wanting China to get their hands on the physical cards so they can reverse engineer them/fully own the computation done with them. Overseas rentals seems like the intended direction for them to go, because they can still use the computation power, but don't have the physical hardware (plus they could lose all access to the datacenters in case of war).

If there's one thing this guarantees, it's that Peelon has some guy in India remotely driving that Tesla

I can tell right now this show is a flop because it's been out nearly a month and this is literally the first time I've heard of it. Nothing in the run up to release, nothing in nearly a month since.

Given that NATO mandates 2% GDP on defence, they're pulling their weight. Estonia is not a large country, so $1.5B goes a lot further there than in larger nations.

When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there's no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.

The method I used actually (currently) doesn't require a physical Kindle. I just had to download a specific version of Kindle for PC (Version 2.3.70682) and was able to quickly and easily use the Calibre extension to remove the DRM.

I'm not super confident it'll always work, so I'm not planning on buying more books from Amazon, but it's a good solution to pull my existing library into the ePub world.