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What orders is the executive branch legally qualified to issue?

If they ordered sloppy joes in the white house cafeteria a federal judge would stay the order by noon the next day.


> in a society that rewards conformity, settling and stability.

It also rewards value generation, often above the other things


Value defined how and for whom? Single parents without paying work provide an enormous amount of value but often can't get housing.

How good is it for coding, relative to recent frontier models like GPT 5.x, Sonnet 4.x, etc?

My experience so far- much less reliable. Though it’s been in chat not opencode or antigravity etc. you give it a program and say change it in this way, and it just throws stuff away, changes unrelated stuff etc. completely different quality than pro (or sonnet 4.5 / GPT-5.2)

Been thinking of having Opus generate plans and then having Gemini 3 Flash execute. Might be better than using Haiku for the same.

Anyone tried something similar already?


So why Flash is so high in LiveCodeBench Pro?

BTW: I have the same impression, Claude was working better for me for coding tasks.


In my own, very anecdotal, experience, Gemini 3 Pro and Flash are both more reliably accurate than GPT 5.x.

I have not worked with Sonnet enough to give an opinion there.


It's silly for there to be such a thing as Canadian Spelling.

British spelling, USA spelling... just pick one and move on.

Ideally all English-speaking countries would go for something more phonetic, but economic power and inertia trumps simplicity.


Everyone should use Canadian spelling as it's the intermediary between both British and USA spelling it makes the most sense for the Americans and Brits to adopt it.

As befits our new position as the begrudging leader of the free world.

This exactly. The /r/codex subreddit is equally full of juniors and vibe-coders. In fact, it's surprisingly a ghost-town, given how useful Codex CLI is.


I use semi-colons and em-dashes liberally too. But I tend to do a second pass to avoid redundancy.

e.g. > [...] and there is - in my observational opinion - a rather dark and insidious slant to it

Let's leave it at "insidious" and "in my opinion". Or drop "in my opinion" entirely, since it goes without saying.

Just take one dip and end it.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfprRZQxWps)


Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one.


I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement


Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness.


Yes yes, anybody who prefers plain, easily parsed wording is American.

Wording? Don't you mean diction?


A -> B =/= B -> A.

I didn't claim that this was exclusively American. Though I'd have to admit that one doesn't have to be American to adopt Ameracanisms: rhotic Rs, Netflix color-grading, and copy-cat political movements are other American cultural artifacts showing up across the world due to America's dominance of the zeitgeist.

Rap verses in pop songs wasn't a spontaneously phenomenon across the globe, the origins are tracably American - but that doesn't make all rappers American.


More charitably, the signaling could be: “keep the government as small as possible, but no smaller than that”, i.e. use things that basically mostly work and quit expending resources addressing every edge case, particularly when it’s performative (slight font variations) rather than obvious (a ramp to get into a public building)


That's very charitable--especially considering that leaving the font alone in the first place would have been the smaller option.

And don't get me started about the current meddling of the executive in my private life? I haven't had a more intrusive administration since living in Singapore.


Microsoft Office (and Windows) changed the default font more than a decade ago.

Changing it back is the exact definition of performative work.

Edit: 19 years ago. Almost 2 decades ago!


>Microsoft Office (and Windows) changed the default font more than a decade ago.

You're behind. They've since changed it again. Calibri is no longer the default for Microsoft Office, it's now Aptos. That change was a few years ago.


I just saw when googling Calibri. But even Microsoft didn't switch it back to Times New Roman :-)


>But even Microsoft didn't switch it back to Times New Roman :-)

More proof that the government chose correctly.


Is there a write-up somewhere of how much of an outlier he really was?


I would recommend the 2021 three-part Acquired podcast series on Berkshire. Episodes are long, though there are transcripts if you prefer reading over listening.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-i

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-ii

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-iii

That said, I'll note this quote from Buffett:

>“I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that Tim Cook has made Berkshire a lot more money than I've ever made,” Buffett told the audience, referencing the remarkable 680% surge in Apple's stock since Berkshire first began acquiring shares in early 2016.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-says-embarrass...


Can he safely lie about that? Or would that be a slam-dunk lawsuit against him? He's already got Elon Musk on his enemies list.


People need to understand that OpenAI is not a publicly traded company. Sam is allowed to be outrageously optimistic about his best case scenarios, as long as he is correct with OpenAI's investors. But those investors are not "the public", so he can publicly state pretty much anything he wants, as long as it is not contradicting facts.

So he cannot say "OpenAI made 20B profit last year." but can say "OpenAI will make 20B revenue next year." Optimism is not a crime.


I am not a lawyer, but it is possible he can say whatever he wants without consequences to public because OAI is not a public company.


Kind of, but there are limits. The investors still have LPs who aren’t going to be happy if things get messy. Things can still get really ugly even for a private company.


Most of the credit being throwing around isn't coming from traditional banking companies, mostly private credit being utilized.

Private credit isn't really unregulated.

If you're interested in learning more I believe Matt Stoller has written a few articles about the private credit markets.


The LPs are eyeing that $1 trillion IPO to dump on retail. They don't care what Sam says until then.


That ship has sailed. CNBC talks about the AI bubble and over-valuation every day. Retail investors won’t touch OpenAI. It’s increasingly looking like these LPs will be left holding the bag when the music stops.


I mean people talk shit about crypto for years, for good reasons, yet it keeps printing for some


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