I think that's the wrong take-away.

They introduced laptops but they didn't introduce anything that required the laptops. Like what likely happened is the kids became more productive, but it wasn't something seen in the way work was scored.

Like if doing homework before by hand with a pencil took an hour, and with a computer it took 20 minutes, what do you think the kids spent the rest of the time doing?

My point is that the school work has to actually be oriented around using the computer, but the only work ever benefitting from the computer is English/Writing assignments. When kids have access to chatGPT, and so do teachers, nobody is actually checking the work. Hence this "less generation capable" is a consequence of giving kids tools that they haven't learned how to use responsibly.

So I weep for the next generation who were given tablets when they were a baby to be entertained by. They have no situational awareness.

I have a feeling that this "test" was intentionally cherry picked to show what they wanted to show.

Most "audiophile" people have perfect equipment setups, or at least close-enough ones. When you design a test like this you're really only testing the ability of the medium to conduct electricity. You're not actually measuring anything if it conducts electricity at all. Four of the Nine correctly guessed which one was actually the wire, and none of them guessed correctly any of the other materials.

Which begs the question, what was the resistance of each material? Because the only thing that should have happened if it was on the analog end of the circuit, was the audio volume being reduced. There shouldn't have been any noise introduced because in order for noise to be introduced there has to be a RF source being directed at the wire. Wire is a conductor, hence it acts as a radio antenna. But a Banana is not. Same with wet mud.

The "audiophile" monster cables, everyone knew was a BS product claim. Any "audio" analog cable was as good as the next one as long as the resistance was was under a certain amount. Raw speaker wire and a RCA stereo cable is exactly the same wire, just with a connector on the end. This "test" is basically the other way around, where the electrical signal was just forced through another medium.

At any rate, I don't feel this test proved anything except that the signal loss wasn't high enough to notice.

I think the problem in the article is that the people installing Linux on a ARM Mac didn't set their expectations low enough.

The expectation should have been that of Gentoo, where you install everything from source, and never expect an ARM build.
Same with the "No external monitor without HDMI"... how else did you expect to cconnect it? USB? DisplayLink is a proprietary standard. HDMI/DP over USB-C? Ask Nintendo why they don't standardize that either. You likely need in a Mac connect a real USB-C or TB docking station for that. Not the dongles.

My mom hates it.

Everyone who likes air conditioning, hates it, cause it usually turns the AC off, or forces the system to not work.

My opinion is the start-stop is probably heavily wearing on gasoline engines, and should have only ever been a feature of Hybrids, or vehicles with GPS systems so the computer can determine why the vehicle is stopped (eg construction, rail crossing, etc) so it can turn the engine off while in the drive-thru, in the owner's garage/driveway, or a parking lot.

The basic idea is that start-stop should really only be turned on when the vehicle is being used in a way where it's waiting (Eg traffic cops and other emergency vehicles, couriers/mail) frequently, and even then, these are better as EV's. For most practical use cases a hybrid car is a better vehicle for people who live at the city edge or more suburban/rural, so any use of the start-stop is relative to how much they actually go into the city, where as people who pretty much never leave the city, should just get an EV instead. Pure gasoline/diesel vehicles should only be for people who live in ass-backwards unincorporated/townships/villages that don't even have traffic lights. Start-Stop is completely useless there because they will never be stopping except at their destination.

Most WP plugins are garbage, adding functionality that should have been core functionality.

People forget that wordpress offers no core functionality at all other than writing text blogs, and commenting on the text blogs. Everything else, is a plugin.

Redhat (CentOS), Cpanel, now wordpress pulling out the "pay for a licence now" after years of not having to.

All the free hosters use cpanel, and a lot of them offer "wordpress hosting" packages.

And if you have ever used cpanel recently, there is an entire "wordpress management" toolkit added to it.

Boy would it ever suck to be a host that has to pay all this license bullshit for 100 people to make a business card site (basically a 1 page website with the business name, hours, location.) Cpanel restricts how many sites you can run per machine, so now you have to minmax those licences. If you had to pay more on top, the business model doesn't work. So you're now stuck paying $90/mo for one stupid wordpress site.

You gonna move to another planet bucko?

What's not really said in a lot of alarmist climate change stories is that this stuff doesn't happen all at once. It's not like we cross 2 degrees and then we're in a perpetual 300 degree oven. No. What actually happens is the areas that are already deserts, cook, and that self-perpetuating cooking starts spreading northward and southward as the doldrums widen and change density. So everywhere that's currently a tropical climate becomes impossible to live in, and places that are already deserts literately start getting hot enough to melt lead.

The most likely answer (I'm not going to bother to read the article), is that each agent was tasked with a specific step of the compiler, which is easy enough if you go look at the documentation of GCC or LLVM.

It's most likely that the compiler it spit out is LLVM's C compiler in Rust form, since there are not exactly 10,000 C compilers out there that are open source to learn from. The fact that it's not efficient, and the compiled binary is not efficient only tells you how bad it is actually.

Like, okay, so you wasted 20,000 convincing us that an AI agent can plagiarize a C compiler into existence, what did you actually prove? I'd be more impressed if it actually produced a C compiler that could compile any C application to any platform even if there is no shared C runtime.

The Smart TV's don't come with "dodgy" piracy apps. The boxes are basically just preloaded with Kodi, and then a bunch of plugins for backends that are basically just abusing various system's CDN's.

Like facebook is a popular CDN to steal bandwidth from by pirates. I'm sure you've seen "watch (whatever) online" sites, if you go poke through their source code you can see what sites they are getting the data from.

There are alternatives, just not alternatives to what Flash (Animate) is.

Flash was always two things, animation (cutout/IK doll or FBF if you're that masochistic) and a game engine.

No tool out there replaces that functionality. Toonboom is a super over-priced program with the exact same pitfalls as subscribing to Adobe
Toonboom has cutout animation, it is not a game engine.

Spine is an animation tool designed for games. It is not an authoring program, you still have to import png's from another program.

Most animation tools out there, from OpenToonz to Blender grease pencil, are FBF animation tools, not cutout animation.
Synfig maybe works the closest to how Flash works, working in vectors, it does not actually produce animation itself and relies on FFMPEG.

Like 90% of the problem with the vector workflow is the SVG standard which doesn't attach useful metadata to the shapes to render them consistently in all software packages in order to animate it.

Moho is probably the best commercial software package available that has a perpetual license, and even then at $400 it's basically the same price as Animate(Flash) was when it was a stand alone product.

Krita and CSP have animation functionality in them, but it's not designed to actually produce more than a few seconds, because they are paint programs with some extended functionality, all the actual animation ends up having to be done in premire pro, davinci resolve, final cut, or something else.

Like it has to be said repeatedly that the FLA files from Flash/Animate can not be opened in any program. They are basically zip files full of binary objects that can't be read. And Adobe's suggestion to export a .swf file, means a 300MB project easily turns into a 3MB binary that can't be decoded back into something editable. Even then there is a decompiler out there that lets you do exactly that, but it often makes mistakes on anything complicated or containing actionscript.

But that decompiler can't create a project for another program, because no other program can play actionscript.

It's been walked back already.
https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

>We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available. These are changes from what we shared in our original email.

>Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers. This applies to individual, small business,and enterprise customers.

>Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features. Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users-we will not be discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate.

So you're telling me that my 4K animation project I started 5 years ago, I need to abandon because Adobe decided to break the product?

I will tell you what is going to happen as the fallout of this. Everyone using Flash is either going to dig out CS6, or are going to use cracked/pirated of the last version that receives updates.

Toonboom is not competition here. Toonboom is only an animation project. It does not replace flash. It's licensing system is also worse than Adobe's.
Unity is not competition here. Unity can not open flash assets. Unity can't be used to animate 2D, it can be used to make "Flash" style games.

The reason people keep using Flash, is because that's the product they've been using since the 1990's. They do not want to switch products. Adobe should be required to spin off and sell the Animate/Flash product to another company. But once it's spun off, that means that Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects will no longer be able to read flash either.

Adobe nuking Animate is going to result in a lot of "lost media" a few months from now because people who created their projects in post CS6 will not be able to open them in CS6, those projects are going to be effectively destroyed by Adobe. If you export the SWF, you're lossy exporting a project, and there are tools to decompile it back into a CS6 FLA file, it doesn't mean it can be done for all projects.

https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler

You can use that tool to decompile a SWF to SVG's or APNG's and then re-assemble the entire project in another program. But there is no present way to "Export" a flash project and import it into another program because no program understands FLA's, and importing SWF's into other programs treats it as a video file if you have the really old flash flash plugin installed still.

Touch screens should never replace buttons when it comes to functions that the driver needs while driving.

GPS is understandable. But the HVAC should not be "only touch screen" and same with things like fuel and speed gauges. Those should be analog gauges.

You kind of missed the point.

We're not talking about lead poisoning, we're talking about the effects of long term lead exposure. In places that used leaded gas, the IQ of the general populace went down 7 points. The only thing worse is living next to a lead smelter. If you visited the city the smelter was in in the 80's, everything was dead. There was no vegetation for a mile around the smelter site itself. During the 90's they changed something with the smokestacks (adding a few feet to the height) and that helped somewhat.

But the children and teenagers that went to school in that city all had a noticeable IQ loss.

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trail-bc-lead-testing-blood-children-1.7626719

> Teck said in an email to CBC News it is trying to reduce emissions; aside from its involvement in THEP, the company installed a KIVCET smelter in 1997, which it says led to a 99.5 per cent reduction in emissions. It also has a program to reduce lead dust in the air, which since 2012, has seen an 80 per cent reduction in annual ambient lead levels, Teck said.
> "Down to the lowest measurable levels, we see harms in children, including IQ deficits, increased risk of ADHD-type behaviours. When we think about pregnant women, we can also see, with very small increases in blood lead, an increased risk of pre-term birth."

And doing so pretty much killed the market for 3D.

Nobody wants to pay more for the "3D" version of a film if the 3D version is the inferior version. If 3D releases are not being simultaneously released with the regular/HDR/UHD version then people just won't bother buying it at all. They'll wait for the far crappier version on netflix or disney+