Nowhere did I blame renewables. I was replying to someone talking about the huge price spikes pointing out that they applied to people lucky enough to have power.

We were out 5 and a half days for the derecho. We were in a hotel out in Sealey.

We had a generator for Beryl, but hadn't had it wired into the house yet. We had a lot of extension cords.

Later, I got the inlet and subpanel wired in. We ended up powering the house on gasoline pretty regularly without any named storms until we moved away from Houston.

*** for customers who can still receive power.

During the freeze in 2021 or so, we had rolling blackouts. Myhouse was without power for 26 hours, 14 hours, 11 hours, 5 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours, 3 hours, 1.5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 12 minutes or so that week.

Also, wind turbines kill approximately zero humans per gigawatt-hour. That cannot be said of coal or natural gas plants.

Copyright applies to published works.

We have always been at war with EastAsia.

It's worth noting that there are plenty of ways to run Linux virtual machines/containers under MacOS (Parallels, Fusion, QEMU/UTM, Ubuntu Multipass, Docker, Orbstack,...) which largely avoid the hardware support problems of trying to run Linux on bare, Apple Silicon, metal & let you run most of the major Linux distros (which have Arm64 versions) and container systems.

Plus, MacOS is Unix so it's a relatively easy port for Linux software: A large proportion of the major open source Unix/Linux projects can be installed using Macports or Homebrew - even if there aren't fully-Mac-ified ready built packages. (TFA does mention this as one of the reasons for not bothering with Linux on Mac)

Reality is that there's no justification for buying a new or recent Mac unless you want to run MacOS - or if you really, really want ARM and are frustrated by the lack of any ARM hardware to fill the gap between Rapberry Pi-a-likes and expensive industrial server stuff.

Asahi Linux is a very ambitious project to produce a "bare metal" Linux for Apple Silicon - but it will be a constant battle to keep reverse-engineering Apple's hardware changes with each generation of M-series processors. However, even if they're always 5 years behind Apple, that's still going to be good news: In a couple of years, Apple will probably start dropping support for M1 processors - if Asahi can get solid support for M1/M2 by then, all those cast-off M1/M2 Minis could make nice little better-than-a-Pi mini servers (even if they have to use HDMI displays...)

Dennis Ritchie could also be argued to be the first, last, and only one to ever make a C compiler from scratch.

It is interesting how Copyright provisions change from law that has to be followed to suggestion when they conflict with large corporations innovating.
Somehow the dialog shifts away from compliance towards competitive pressure vs China.

My thought on the matter: We should amend our laws to just allow all LLM training on any works: By everyone, so large corporations and individuals are on equal footing.

However, 75% of any revenue from LLM output should go to owners of works used, Until the model owner can prove that a retail purchase price was paid for at least 1 copy of the work in connection with their LLM training For each work in their dataset. And after that; 25% Of the royalties on every LLM output,; and 25% of the Copyright interest on every LLM output must be assigned to works which contributed to that output; and 75% is to be assigned to a human who individually prompted the LLM for a specific output. The copyright on a model output cannot be held or assigned by the owner of an Algorithm, computational model, or who fine tuned a model, or provided generic "system prompts" which resulted in that output.

I am not familiar with LightBurn, but your best bet would likely be to tweak Wine for specific compatibility with LightBurn, or get the developer of LightBurn to tweak LightBurn's source code for specific compatibility with Wine.. WMI Support should be completely unnecessary to talk to external hardware. A Windows application only needs WMI support to query management information of your local operating system or computer... It is actually very suspicious that a desktop application is touching WMI, as it is for system management only.

They don't have comprehensive MS-level DCOM compatibility which also limits WMI, and still neither is robust.

It is highly doubtful Wine is ever getting full support for either without embedding actual Microsoft DLLs.

Also, Windows USB drivers / USB support doesn't work with Wine either. If you are interfacing with hardware within Wine emulation -- then your options are essentially limited to classical serial ports.

They don't.. They're blocking companies from recruiting - not people from moving. Taiwan doesn't block the taiwanese from going wherever. Mainland China does by requiring permits for travel inside their own country. You are not free to travel wherever you want in China, just because you are Chinese and have a household in China, and the taiwanese need another special permit to travel and move around there.

Taiwan largely encourages the taiwanese to live/work in China while strictly restricting who can come in from mainland China to Taiwan.
Their tech workers are an exception apparently. You are valuable for national security reasons, so it would seem that it is a crime for people who work for another company to be suspected of trying to recruit.

I talk with developers, so the end users don't have to.

The only people with a true case against OpenAI would be those who DONATED

No. After the donation has completed: Both the money and the results are dedicated to the public for the furtherance of that charitable purpose. The original contributors themselves are not the only stakeholders. After that contribution making is completed - the purpose it is required to be used for benefits the public; that is what charity is. That is also why the Donators get a tax break. After that money has been donated; You don't even have control over the details of how it will be spent (Unless there is a contract at the time the donation is made; an agreement making it a conditional or restricted donation. In which case they can also be sued for misappropriating restricted funds.).

The Public as a whole is harmed by Yanking the donations - And the assets, or profitable property, and profits those donations were utilized in order to create.

That's rich coming from Paxton

Why are you supporting Samsung by smearing the character of the one prosecuting them in the middle of a discussion about this case, and the article has nothing to do with an attorney's personal life history? The state attorney to a case represent the people, not themself. Do you work for Samsung? Did they pay you, or what?

Opposing counsel members' alleged but unproven adultery or unproven historic crimes, and other complaints don't have anything to do with the case or discussion of an article about Samsung getting ordered by the court. They don't make it a wrong decision or action for the AG to pursue, or bad in any way.

Does it? Warning labels are a staple of modern American life,

Warning labels are a stable, perhaps, but only on tangible goods that pose a medical risk. When we are talking about speech: Items such as books or websites. You have a constitutional 1st Amendment right to free speech which includes the right to exclude anybody else's speech. Including warnings from a government, from the content of your speech.

The solution probably is a content-neutral warning mandate that new Cell phones come with a warning on the packaging, and a requirement for a conspicuous arning badge of specified text, colors, and font size required to be fully opaque, as durable as the display surface, and attached permanently above or below the screen. Since the phone is a physical good; a warning can be attached without including it as part of the speech content.

Also; they can specify a standard for apps and cell phones that after 15-minutes continuous screen time; access to apps other than direct messages, emergency communications, phone, or person to person text would be restricted with a mandatory timeout. A mostly content-neutral time and usage amount restriction with exemptions only for emergency communications.