an allegory of SaaS in the AI age

Execa package works nicely for that. Zx has a good DX but is YA runtime.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/bash.md

China begins assembling 2,800-satellite network of AI supercomputers

I was on a date when she asked “do you like magnetic fields?”. “Yes!” and we were both smitten.

Took us a few conversational turns to realize we had different capitalization. (This was in the old days when courting was mostly by speaking in person.)

I enjoyed the name Euphoria State University for his fictional model of UC Berkeley.

To combine this news with the AI zeitgeist, consider reading his 2001 novel, Thinks….

Yes, and the nice touch of situating Euphoria State University in the city of Plotinus.

« Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care. »

https://archive.is/BZIU8#selection-1855.0-1867.1

On the scale of "rock-solid news" to "AI-generated memes", where does businessinsider.com lie?

Same. I was curious what the differences are.

JSONPath can only pull data out, like XPath. jq can do much more, like perform transformations.

jq is also more concise:

  .book[0].title

versus JSONPath:

  $..book[0].title

Here's a discussion with more comparisons: https://github.com/serverlessworkflow/specification/issues/2...

Nice to see more systems architected on object capabilities. It's a more practical security model than ACLs: https://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf

Or more succinctly:

> Capability-based security enables the concise composition of powerful patterns of cooperation without vulnerability.

from https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap

  The requested URL was not found on the server.
    -- Old Apache saying

(I forget where I got it from for http://aleahmad.net/404 )

The weight-loss effects of GLP-1 drugs have little to do with the gut.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305193736/https://www.theat...

Wow this is a fascinating thesis -- GLP1 was known to affect the stomach AND the brain, and it certainly does affect the stomach, but for the weight loss properties to be simply brain-driven might be a bit simplistic.

It certainly does explain the effects on other kinds of addictive behavior, but that effect is less supported by research (that I can find, anyway).

There’s some pretty compelling research on the brain effects. Here’s a quick explainer: https://youtu.be/dCm6QLGnPPw?si=-OlxcXp8mRBHlCo7

In hindsight, this is somewhat obvious due to the anti addiction properties of GLP-1 agonists.