I remember a comment on here years ago from someone in GCP who mentioned that they did not control the "Cloud" namespace. So any VP could launch a new project and call it cloud something and make people very confused about why it wasn't showing up in the cloud dashboard and API.

If you ask the Adobe stock image generation for "Adventurer with a whip and hat portrait view , Brown leather hat, jacket, close-up"

It gives you an image of Harrison Ford dressed like Indiana Jones.

https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/adventurer-with-a-whip-and...

I don't know the data distribution, but are you sure that's generated by an Adobe model? I can only see that it is in Stock + it is tagged as AI generated (that is, was that image generated by some other model?)

Disclaimer: I used to work at Adobe GenAI. Opinions are of my own ofc.

Yeah, there's no way Indiana Jones was not in the training data that created that image. To even say it's not in there is James Clapper in front of Congress level lying.

Step one: no engineering education, just get a job that a company calls engineering.

>In 2023, I graduated from MIT with a double major in math and computer science.

Great series about whether programming is “engineering” or not: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/

Speaking of sustained scraping for AI services, I found a strange file on your site: https://book.sv/robots.txt. Would you be able to explain the intent behind it?

I didn't want an agent to get stuck on an infinite loop invoking endpoints that cost GPU resources. Those fears are probably unfounded, so if people really cared I could remove those. /similar is blocked by default because I don't want 500000 "similar books for" pages to pollute the search results for my website but I do not mind if people scrape those pages.

The article makes it clear that Common Crawl is ignoring copyright take down requests, and only modified it's search engine to fake having taken down content.

They also need to know where in the app the code for each service is displayed, so they are grabbing the code for your bank and not for your World of Warcraft account.

which they can read from the same fixed layout/offsets displaying it to you

China permitted/sponsored rebels to seize a decent chunk of the Myanmar side of the Chinese/Myanmar border after a number of Chinese citizens (allegedly including some undercover Chinese police) were killed in a scam compound there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_1027

They actively move to avoid collisions rather than tumbling uncontrollably.

I'm glad to see you use "most of this war", acknowledging that Israel has at times totally blockaded all food and medicine from Gaza (and not for logistic or military reasons, but as a pure pressure tactic as stated by Israeli officials).

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/middleeast/israel-halts-gaza-...

And it's true, Israel is not required to accept aid from other countries for Gaza. They could instead provide the full required resources for civilians in the occupied areas themselves.

The Israeli government in March of this year. And it wasn't a suggestion, it was an implemented policy.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/middleeast/israel-halts-gaza-...