People who think Trump is the stupidest possible don't know about Ron DeSantis.

On this and the birthright citizenship ruling it is astounding that any of the justices would have dissented. This is clear-cut constitutional law. The fact that Roberts is willing to throw out a hundred years of precedent on several matters is deeply concerning. It really shows the constitution, the rule of law, the stability of precedent are all just recommendations, conveniences when they serve a political purpose. Otherwise they can be cast aside. Because, why not? It's so liberating to be free from precedent and the constitution. I guess they're not familiar with the whole joojooflop situation where finally being free from the norms that kept you down means losing the entire civilization. It's a bit surreal to even being talking about this.

It is figuratively a blank check, which is the opposite of "literally".

Many times. The late 1940s. After the Vietnam War. The "Peace Dividend" after the USSR's collapse, etc.

My practical experience using it for coding tasks says it's definitely not.

Definitely a promising path. Extracting heat becomes a challenge in 3D silicon.

If you want to try out GLM 5.2 for free right now, OpenCode is hosting a version of it that they call "Big Pickle." It's free to use but be warned that they are using prompts for model training. It's as good as Anthropic's Sonnet, but definitely not close to Opus.

In truth niether. China isn't that good yet but moving quickly. Anthropic is still at the top of the game for now but won't be there forever and they insist on keeping the models locked up and proprietary. Sooner it later the more open models will win. And hopefully we'll finally get accessible hardware to run them locally.

Well the current regime is working very hard to not let "them" vote in upcoming elections.

What sort of capitalism? Is there a free market at all here?

Oh wow. What a great excuse! The corruption under the current president is at a scale you've never before seen. For example, the president's son-in-law is peddling influence and making money from his official connections on a scale that make Hunter Biden look positively angelic.

Besides that, are you really excusing your champion's corruption because of smaller-scale, previous corruption? Surely you would condemn all corruption and desire to shine a light on it? Or is corruption not an issue when it's your man and your policies being enacted?

Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

Yes you absolutely can do it for some modules. For example, systemd-timesyncd can be removed and ntpd or chrony installed instead if you need more functionality than just simple client time syncing, such as when you need your own time source as well as syncing.

Likewise systemd-resolved is often left out and a caching local DNS server can be used instead, or left out entirely.

And I very well could remove systemd-networkd and systemd-container since I don't use containers, flatpak, or kvm.

Can I remove others? Possibly, but there's not a lot of reason to do so. These modules serve valid purposes and address actual technical shortcomings we had before, such as process cleanup which was often a problem before systemd-pam.

Shrug. It's not a boogeyman. No one's out to get you. It's not a government plot. There are many valid reasons why systemd has become a core Linux component. There are plenty of distros (and operating systems) that eschew systemd if you don't want or need features like containers and KDE or Gnome, etc.

that can run your old classic desktop environments like you always used to.

Yes I have done a timer file before, but it's been a long time.

Fortunately Cron still works fine, and will continue to do so. But I'd be hard pressed to remember all the cron parameters without a comment at the top of the crontab to remind me.

Shrug. It's sixes.