It is certainly true you can't watch the whole of The Dalek's Masterplan (where you should really include Mission to the Unknown, making it a 13-parter). The full audio exists, the Target novelisation of it exists (it spans 2 novels!), but yeah, it would be nice if we could someday watch the whole story.

Doctor Who is theatre that merely happens to be shown on TV. It is intended to show the same sort of stuff as a theatrical production and, as such, it is arguably strong for what it is. The same could be said of Thunderbirds/Stingray. Yes, it is intended to be child-accessible and child-safe, but even with thew most juvenile of any of these, the stories have a complexity and depth you won't find in The Fast And The Furious or The Blacklist.

The Land of the Free is really becoming the Land of the Constrained. Pretty soon it will also be the Land of the Non-voter.

and all the disgusting corporations putting profits above people's livelihoods along with it.

That is all.

I can still run Eclipse without any issues on old M1 MacBook Pro with 8gb, about 5 years old now. Frankly Apple Silicon is just a beast and no matter how much people try to hand wave it away, these machines with the MacOS optimizations are beasts. I still take my M1 out on the road because if it gets damaged, it will still have paid for itself. I honestly cannot imagine going back to Intel/AMD and Windows, and every time I'm forced to use Windows, even on decent hardware, I'm come away realizing just how inferior the whole ecosystem is. It's sole advantage, and it's a big one, is that the software library for x64/Windows is massive.

The number of people that ever repaired their laptop has always been exceedingly small. Why would Apple give a damn about such a niche?

If even people who are in the US legally can be arrested and held, then it's just plain inhospitable to foreigners. I mean why not just close the border, don't let anybody in and be done with it, rather than pretending you ever want to see anyone that isn't American?

AppleCare means why the fuck do I care whether you can repair my Mac or not.

I run Debian 13 and Chromium has been available as a package for a long time.

So I'm not sure why you would want to wait for Google to release Chrome on ARM, since it's essentially Chromium with Google's nastyware added to it. Just use Chromium.

There was a little of that, but I think they really wanted to be part of the industry and figured that their effectively unlimited bank account would make that relatively easy. Almost out of the gate, GFiber was complaining about the amounts of red tape that incumbents were imposing, ranging from high fees to use existing poles to to arguments over easements to lawsuits over trivial and even frivolous claims. They lobbied city, county, state, and federal governments to do everything they could to block Google, threatening to withdraw from markets even before Google started building out, potentially leaving people without any high-speed internet for years as a way to threaten government officials who wanted to keep their jobs with losing them due to angry constituents.

Well, your home LLM costs power and compute time.

A 2B pencil and some paper would cost you less and you'd have just as good a graph. Probably better.

Agreed. It is obvious that "AI researchers" and "AI reviewers" aren't remotely interested in posing challenging problems to AI. They softball because they know that keeping it safe is the only way they'll get anything out at all. But because they do so, people have become convinced that AI is usable, reliable, and trustworthy.

The gap between the promise and the reality is, I would say, probably in the order of a couple of centuries of work, and mostly in directions that LLMs can't go.

I would argue that when sweeps are largely indiscriminate, and being in proximity to a raid is enough to end up in custody, so that the odds of "wrong place wrong time" greatly increase, it becomes a much stronger argument for not being in the US as a foreign national at all.

Mistakes may happen, but the nature of ICE detainments rises far above mere mistakes. The intent of the current system is to make the US sufficiently inhospitable to foreign nationals that they don't come. So, I take that point, and won't come. And by the looks of depressed visits since last year from my fellow countrymen, many of us are choosing that route.

I'm unlikely to ever visit the US again. My daughter and I had planned on going to Comic-Con at some point in the next year or two, and we both agree now that while the risk of detainment is rather low, it is non-zero. There are other places we can go, and being Canadian, there are plenty of places in our own country that we haven't seen.

You don't see a problem with being arrested by an immigration enforcement agency as a US citizen? You think that eventually being released is a meaningful remedy?

And if a US citizen can be detained by ICE, why the fuck would a foreigner want to come to the US?