Lots of words to say "I disagree" without offering a single argument for why the analysis is wrong.

well yeah; but lets look at where we are now. Nobody is make domestic routers because you CAN'T for structural reasons complete with foreign ones.

There are exactly two ways to make domestic router production happen.

1) Defense production act, go all command economy compel some company with domestic electronics manufacturing plant they are going to produce routers. Good luck because it isnt just you with a PCB layout kit, and you there with the injection molding machine, hop to it. It is also design the thing, get the software (even if it is just Linux), .... Nobody at FCC is up to coordinating product delivery with all those inputs. The outcome will be some disaster of product nobody wants, that hardly works, very likely costs way to much, and will be way to stagnant crippling innovation of anything delivered by the net does not fit todays ipv4/6 and relative bandwidth scenario.

2) Ban stuff people need let some domestic company who is already in the business of building somewhat similar products maybe an enterprise player who could jump into the consumer market, that just has to solve how to replace their sourcing with domestic alternatives. Sure it is still disruptive, but at least has some tiny change of working...

3) Then there is the other don't make domestic production happen alternative, which is what most of Slashdot childless, globalist, America hates really want, that is to do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications, because having some new shiny thing for very cheap that will be next years e-waste to play with is more important to them than America's future. While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips, pat ourselves on the back watch our 401ks grow and pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time.

I am not a municipal water guy, but my high-level understanding from news articles and picking up little bits of information over time is that leaks representing quite a lot of water loss like 5-20 percent is pretty common.

This is why you see boil orders whenever there is a loss of pressure the assumption is that because the positive pressure went away nasty things could have come in the same leaks in the pipe that normally are letting all that water out..

That 5-20 percent is a big spread and a lot noise to signal to hide non functioning meter or even intentional water theft in.

See I don't think you need the education to engage. If you want to talk about that engagement with others, compare it other works not immediately present, place it in some social or historical context sure...

Just like you'll probably engage with study the wildflower differently if you have formal training in botany, than if you don't, you can still make personal observation, ask yourself questions especially subjective ones. Any normal person could look at an impressionist work and observe how the image comes together as you take a step back, or that the bright colors of the forest flower attract the birds. That is how the discoveries all the people with the fancy titles know about where made in the first place.

Certainly the heal benefit here comes from just taking the time understand and appreciate something, If arriving at some ground breaking insight or new discovery general rather than personal was required, I don't think we'd see much affect on anyone because even if you have multiple PHDs in visual arts, a lot of people have spent a lot of time looking at that Manet already, the odds of coming away with anything truly novel are low.

The point is that you want to start optimizing for contemporary-ish instructions and feature sets, which often perform a lot better. Yes you can continue to target v1 and it will work on v2 and v3, but you're leaving a lot on the table, or you make separate paths v1 and v2+ but now you have added effort to support v1.

At some point it is time to say goodbye to v1 support in the mainline branch.

Don't let any of the art or art history profs at the local college hear you say that, they'll probably turn violent!

Sitting and looking might not be an accurate characterization. I also don't think many of the voluntary attendees (Ie people that were not dragged their by parents, a spouse etc) are very likely to just 'sit and look' they are almost certainly "critiquing" and thinking about it, "do i like this", "why did the artist select this media", "what were they trying to say, what have they actually said to me", "what did I not see the last time I studied this piece", "maybe this would be better if it were green"

Right but I have been experimenting with Opus and ChatGPT models to do code review here now for several weeks.

So far my conclusion is that it.
1) Does work.
2) Does not produce results that are significantly better than what SonarCube, Semgrep, Snyk, Checkmarx, and more targeted tools for specific languages/domains do.
3) Will end up costing more. Easy to blow $1200 worth of tokens auditing a large project. So 10 major feature reviews of significant projects would buy you a year license of one of those other tools. Most enterprises will hit that easily.
4*) The AI can take things a step further and produce some exploit proof of concept code etc, but to the degree that is needed to 'show impact' etc is going to very a lot by organization and industry.

  Honestly this particular 'application' seems like it might be one where if you have limited needs like only a few software projects your org is responsible for maybe tossing some AI tokens at code reviews is the way to go vs shelling out for SAST licensing. On the other hand given everyone is just tossing all their super-trade-secret code now into the cloud and often github of all places the SAST guys will probably start offering fixed price one-shot-SaaS code scans to compete.

I wonder if it really has much to do with "art and culture" as much as just general attitude and a sense of greatfulness.

Taking the time sit an look at painting an appreciate it as beautiful or fascinating or singing and taking the time work at it and make it sound right places one in a frame of mind and we know the many parts of the body are impacted by mental state either directly or indirectly thru hormone responses etc.

My question would be do you get the same benefit if say you make a habit of going for a non-strenuous hike and sitting on log for a while contemplating a unique tree, or an expansive vista, or study a wild flower. Maybe you sit and listen to a brook. Does it even have to be nature what if you sit on a park bench and appreciate the architecture of the surrounding city (though that might be clutre/art again in the way the museum is so lets go with watch some children playing or something instead.

  I am not trying to devalue art and culture but simple recognize what those things are is a matter frequently contested. It is therefore difficult say 'cultural appreciation is good for you' beyond well these specific activities in the study seem to help slow aging. I also think a lot of those things are less than accessible to everyone. Certainly a walk in the woods or over the prairie might not be either if you live in an urban center; maybe the art museum is more accessible, or the park bench. For the rural or suburban dweller the outdoors might be the best options, especially if your elderly and dont drive. My point is simply that beautiful and interesting things big and small worth spending some time to stop and consider are actually everywhere and maybe just that act is really the key here.

Not really. The industrial field isnt trying to use the latest kernels or software. They are trying to run some LTS release that does support their hardware and they don't want software changes other than fixes for all the same reasons they don't want to implement hardware changes.

I am not suggesting still supported LTS releases should dump old hardware. However there is no reason anyone realistically should be spending time trying to get first gen althon64s supported on Linux 7.0. There may be no-reason not support them because it does not require an serious special effort but if it did, I'd say those users should stay on 6.x.

This there decision needs to reflect the actual support costs. Right now x86-64v2 is probably the least common denominator in terms of not requiring a lot of special hoops to support. Maybe you could argue x86-64v1 stuff is still viable but I'd counter you have a lot of instruction set inconsistency there in those products and from a performance and efficiency perspective it probably does not make sense to be using them as daily drivers of contemporary software.

Don't be to sure. History does not repeat but it often rhymes.

Look at the 80s, the Japanese imports (small cars) were eating Ford and GMs lunch. GM invested while Ford for the most part cut cut cut and cut some more. Chrysler also when the cut cut route (but they really did not have any choice other bankruptcy).

GMs technological investments and what not buying EDS never really made them able to beat the imports on cost. Ultimately some protectionist policy came along to save them as did shrinking of wage cost disparities between the US and Japan. Ford mind you benefited from those things too, and without having to set giant piles of money on fire. Then we get to the 90s, Ford has a hit Taurus, Explorer and 150 series pickups is able to start modernizing manufacturer processes again, this time with the all the expensive lessons learn at GM and technological improvements. That left the them the one of member of the big three was able to weather 2008 without tax payer help...

I think it is actually still early in the EV game. Most of America still does not have the charging infrastructure, at least to truly making operating as friction-less as sliding thru the filling station once a week and being in and out in 10min.

You still have majority of car owners who have never owned and EV, you likely even still have a market where the majority of new car buys are at most equally likely to pick an EV for their next purchase.

Not setting yourself up to be supporting a huge body of legacy vehicles with Gen2-3 EV drive trains and battery tech, might prove very smart.

Ford has a lot of existing brand loyalty that will most likely still be there in say 2035.

I really do think the future of most autos is probably electric. At least as far as the American market goes however I think the likes of Ford could very well do themselves some big favors pulling back now, as long as they keep the engineers doing the R&D and plant management people clear about the future, and have them prepared to go all-in again sometime around 2033-5, my guess is they get a lot more bang for their manufacturing investment and marketing dollar alike at that time. There will still be enough first-time-ev market to get a strong foothold and then they can start to take share from competitors with older inferior platforms, and less ideal cost structures.

The K5 was a fantastic budget CPU. It slid rather neatly between 486 and P5 performance, outperforming the highest end 486 units while being cheaper, and for most non multimedia home/desktop PC use of the day did not offer an experience that suffered much vs Pentium machines.

IMHO it was good chip it was not marked to the right segment by AMD, and the Wintel cartel also was in place that kept it out of the market segment where it needed to be anyway.

The market IS white hot right now, but the Hormuz hit is just starting to land. Demand at the edges is what sets the price - if all southeast Asian gamers are spending the GPU money on gas, that cools the rush. And I have no confidence any of these datacenter announcements are going to lead to actual builds. Companies talked a great game, but the political heat is on, the electric and water constraints are real, and advances like TurboQuant, which conservatively speaking offers a 4x boost to existing GPUs ... now layer the U.S. economic hit from Hormuz, which will only be a little bit behind the Asian blowout.

The AI/datacenter/GPU self dealing circle looks more like the derivative traders of 2008 with each passing day. Just like CDOs, that "money" is all conditional, and when conditions change, it's all gone. Society got some nice frontier models and advances in manufacturing out of it, now if corporate America takes even half a step back on the rush ... the market won't just vanish, because there IS a lot of benefit to using LLMs, but the demand may only match what's already been built. We'll take the hit from it, then the economy will rebound from a bunch of startups pillaging the existing firms that are politically incapable of making the needed culture change.

I spend my days working on the system for my startup. Since I had a computer science education and a bunch of time in grade running ISP systems, I bring that distributed systems engineer vibe to my vibe coding. It'll need work once it's funded, but the MVP will be functional and secure.

I was using X tokens/week via Claude Code. They stumbled on the Opus 4.7 rollout and I got busy tuning my setup. I added LSP Enforcement Kit + Serena, CodeSight, and OptiVault. This made Claude more or less behave ... while cutting my usage about 80%.

Companies that are using token burn as a metric, if they are not providing top quality tooling for the people using it, are basing their performance reviews on who can tolerate some highly random LLM over an efficient, well thought out harness.

Meta foisted a digital cesspool on us and it would not hurt my feeling a bit to see it completely desiccated. I do feel badly for the legions of humans that are going to be forced to wade through the increasingly crusty muck while the company attempts to figure out what to do about AI. There are rumblings out there about what is happening to the advertising based internet we all know (and despise). Meta clearly can't execute with AI and they may well get bowled over by it.

GM needs to be made to disgorge every dime they made selling that data.

They need to disclose who purchased the data and what the price was.

Every victim of this privacy violation needs legal recourse and class action seems like it would be best for the masses.

Anyone who can show significant harm should aggressively pursue all parties involved.

The only way this behavior will stop is when engaging in it brings bitter pain.