I mean, I suppose I could be more like you and get my laughs trying to stick square pegs into round holes.

Your logic is fundamentally flawed.
It presumes a 1:1 ratio between an item of cheap junk, and a bad outcome.
You can, in fact, have a giant tsunami of cheap junk, and a small increase in choked children, etc.

I am always amazed by just how unintelligent you are.

Indeed. But I can't help to think that fuckstains who think like this dipshit dream of that being the end result.

Because it costs me nothing.
As I said, if it did- I'd have other feelings about it.

A fork is not a time capsule.
MATE has had plenty of development in the 15 years that it has been in existence.

It started life as a direct fork, and quickly became its own thing.

I think the bigger complaint was the loss of functionality. Simply... gone.
In the intervening time, the GNOME shell plugin ecosystem has effectively filled the gap, and more.
GNOME 3 was pretty fucking terrible at first, which is why I moved to MATE.

I'll never understand you XFCE fuckers ;)

Side job meaning "occupying one of my side monitors", not "side income"

I do this frequently, with both packaged agents and my modifications to them, just to see what comes out the other side.
Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's pretty bad.
I do it as a side job, not my regular work, so the consequences of the failure are minimal- I just throw it away and try again with another modification.
If it were my actual main workflow... I think that would stress me the fuck out- each failure being significant wasted time and money.

Only second decade, here.

I find them comparable, unfortunately. But my new hires may not be as good as yours.

I call it the coding LLM Doom Loop.
A good bit of my effort with using LLMs has been in trying to avoid and correct it.
I've found it gets easier when you start to treat the LLM and its entire context window as a single unit rather than thinking about prompts.
Coding agents are variably successful at this.

For my own agentic tests, I've had good results "context engineering" the LLM to solve tasks reliably that it previously couldn't.
In the end- I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but hey, it keeps me entertained.

Any kind of mass surveillance system? Absolutely. Any "brand of camera"? Of course not. The mass surveillance system is what did the work, not some random camera.

The effectiveness of a solution does not justify its existence. Nor should we have to weave an alternate reality to come to that conclusion.

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...

All car's require maintenance, if a certain amount of usage is what it takes to maintain a long battery life that's the same as any other car. A gas car that sits unused and unmaintained also breaks down.

That's also my other point where I think it has to be regulated to where batteries are replaceable and refurbish-able, I can pull most cars in off the street and with some labor get a new working motor in there, we need that type of parts supply for EVs so the batteries have to be replaceable, even if it requires a days work to do. I think that requires law making it so.

Maybe that drop-off is true but it will improve every generation and we are probably already at the point where it's good enough for 80% of the population with the timeline of most cars.

At very cursory glance Freitas looks to be a more normal Republican and not a Trump nutter but hso hopefully you're right, that's what should be running and winning but we will see how they handle a post-Trump world where Trump I am thinking becomes more and more persona-non-grata. He has to also win a national office.

AOC meanwhile has won multiple times and if you pay attention is actually quite a savvy politician. All that paragraph if you want to go on and think shes just some bimbo go right ahead. Now I don't think it's likely at all she even runs in 2028, she can go for Schumer's seat and win that. Then we'll see but it's fun to see the idea is triggering.

Now Newsom, you can say what you want but he's more relevant and popular than ever. Prop 50 was polling at like 23% when he announced it and it passed with almost 65%. Can't deny no matter what we think it's a social media and charisma battle and you're gonna pick Vance over Newsom? Please, by all means I am begging you to do that.

Another falsehood. It's obviously perfectly possible.

Now that is an even fucking dumber claim.

Christ, you just aren't very intelligent.

OK, you're right, dumbshit mods... You're right.

Instead of just calling dude an ignorant fuckwit, I should have explained how they were an ignorant fuckwit.

You've got CloudCorp. They provide Cloud Services.
You've got EmergencyCorp. They provide Emergency Services.
You've got Joe NeedsHelp. EmergencyCorp has a contract with Joe NeedsHelp's municipality that gives them a legal duty to serve.
In no jurisdiction in the Western World, does that duty transfer to CloudCorp.
Wanting that duty to extend to CloudCorp is some crazy fascist horse-shit, where those are at fault are whoever the fuck the State says are.

CloudCorp is not responsbile for EmergencyCorp not making their service, which they have a duty to provide via their contract their contract with Joe NeedsHelp's municipality, highly available.
Civil liability? That may extend.
But the proximate cause of Joe NeedsHelp dying is interrupted by EmergencyCorp's failure to uphold their duty. They don't get to blame CloudCorp, or the backhoe that hit CloudCorp's servers for their failure to provide the service it was their duty to provide.

This is basic fucking law.
Those seeking to extend the criminal responsibility as far back as is convenient for their political screed (billionaires bad, in this case) are just little mini-mussolinis in the making.
I hope I've dumbed down the situation enough for you morons with mod points to understand.