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https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/12/05/the-laws-are-designed-specifically-to-prevent-that-from-being-ok/

“…The Laws Are Designed Specifically to Prevent That from Being OK.”
In a very good piece by Elie Mystal about Defense Secretary Hegseth’s recent murder spree, he writes (boldface mine): What it all comes down to is this: If we’re not at war, Hegseth is a murd…

Automated Constraint Specification for Job Scheduling by Regulating Generative Model with Domain-Specific Representation
Yu-Zhe Shi, Qiao Xu, Yanjia Li, Mingchen Liu, Huamin Qu, Lecheng Ruan, Qining Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02679

Automated Constraint Specification for Job Scheduling by Regulating Generative Model with Domain-Specific Representation
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems have become indispensable for modern manufacturing operations, enabling optimized resource allocation and production efficiency in increasingly complex and dynamic environments. While algorithms for solving abstracted scheduling problems have been extensively investigated, the critical prerequisite of specifying manufacturing requirements into formal constraints remains manual and labor-intensive. Although recent advances of generative models, part…

Panther Lake: Intel stellt 14 Core Ultra 300 vor
Die Katze ist endlich aus dem Sack. Intel nennt konkrete Spezifikationen zu den Panther Lake-Prozessoren. Die Leistungsaufnahme steigt allerdings teilweise.
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I've read the following rhetorical question recently:
If “vote blue no matter who” doesn't apply to Zohran Mamdani, what does it actually mean?
...and despite all of us understanding the implication, let me actually try to give an answer, as the slogan emerged specifically from US politics, but this phenomenon hasn't.
This specific statement asking people to always vote for the democratic party, no matter who the candidate is, has always been thrown…

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

A feature which I'm really looking forward to is brewing in #Python packaging: Specifying default extras.
The aiocoap library I maintain can (and is tested to) work with no other dependencies than Python, but most users will like the additional features such as pretty-printing support, or more security options than just TLS. So far, they have to `pip run --spec "aiocoap[all]" aio…

PEP 771 – Default Extras for Python Software Packages | peps.python.org
PEP 508 specifies a mini-language for declaring package dependencies. One feature of this language is the ability to specify extras, which are optional components of a distribution that, when used, install additional dependencies. This PEP proposes a me...

"Tree! Document <title> is wrong! Specifically this <valueX>! Who is the ignoramus who specified that value? ITS COMPLETELY WRONG WHO DO I GET TO LIGHT ON FIRE AND BLAME FOR EVERYTHING BEING WRONG?"
<checks Jira tickets that produced the latest document revision; goes back 3 document revisions over as many years>
You did. See here (2 yr old ticket): "pls change valueX from <blah> to <blah> because <rationale>. "
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Great News for #NASA in the House-Senate FY2026 Appropriations Report / NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all: https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/great-news-for-nasa-in-the-house-senate-fy2026-appropriations-report/ / https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/nasas-science-budget-wont-be-a-train-wreck-after-all/