but i was assured in these very pages that pres. Trump had ordered the destruction of everything that isn't coal! (except for nuclear, but only as long as it leaks so as to cause suffering)
what's the meaning of this?
What? Your own link shows you're the one that is lying.
TFS says, in part:
"Coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026. "
AC's link shows that both 03 and 04 2024 coal generation was lower than that at 38.5 and 37.3 respectively.
as to why the "lies"? it's probably just an oversight. it's Electrek is a hype site... everything they put out (that makes
Android has had the APIs and settings menus to change your voice assistant for many years now, probably since Google Assistant 1.0 rolled out.
Pretty much all of Android can be replaced by apps, barring a few security features.
Gemini can read the current screen, and local data, and interact with other apps in ways 3rd party agents can't.
and the EU went after them. Unlike Apple, Google have decided to bend the knee, but haven't delivered the changes yet.
(on this one I'm thinking the EU is the one playing hard ball... but maybe there right to hold the line)
If deciding to stick to their laws and not let an American company try to bully them into ignoring those laws for that company's own benefit only, then I'm all for them "playing hardball".
I reject that it is "for the company's benefit only"... and that's why I'm saying "we'll see" what the social benefit/cost of this decision is over time as Americans use new Siri and Europeans don't.
And Google already launched what Apple wanted to launch... and the EU slapped them down also and as we speak Google is going the other way and opening the APIs to competitors. but haven't yet.
so, again, we'll get to see IRL the outcomes of different policy choices, which often we don't get to try; only argue about
so again
Having diversity of features in major Western markets is actually good, imo.
Let's see how addition usage and social impact of the new sorry is in the US vs (the lack of it in) the EU.
"elections have consequences" as they say. Let's see which side is better off in there years, and ten years.
(on this one I'm thinking the EU is the one playing hard ball... but maybe there right to hold the line)
OSS security has involved whistling past the graveyard and hoping for the best bsically all along.
but if you know... Linux kernel can deal with pull requests... I don't think they're going to convince me "critical software" can't have public contributions.
tbh I'm not sure they're wrong... maybe the ROI isn't there for the project...
but I also think Mr President there should have slept on it and word smithed more, because as it stands it radiates MUCH assholity, imo.
That's not what I'm watching the show for "Peyton Place in Spaaaaaace...."
but the feels!
TBH i don't remember more than a few broad strokes and flashes. But am now checking out some soundtracks on YT (including these Flogging Molly fellows).
SGU then was an *absolute* step up in writing depth and character building but already in season two it feels adrift.
i definitely recall thinking more that it had great potential as deeper version of the general idea... but also that actual delivery was mixed.
I wish they'd done a few more seasons of Stargate Universe. I'm curious where the story would have gone, and what they would have found.
I remember enjoying the Battlestar Galactica vibe, through both setting and cast, and the whole civilians and military working together thing. It must have been pretty darned expensive though.
it didn't do well, but I liked him in Redbelt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(it's more a "noir" evocative thing than a fighting movie)
As mentioned, no-one in the UK is in jail for hate speech. That isn't a criminal offence, they're in jail for actual offences such as threats or harassment (yes doing it "with a computer" does not magically make it not a crime). Committing a crime with a hateful motivation is a modifier in court, known as a "aggravating factor" and often leads to a harsher sentence (especially if they don't even fake remorse, which is a "mitigating factor").
if
tweeting "abuse" at a national level footballer is jailable harassment, then basically idk what form of disagreement you think is protected
https://news.sky.com/story/tee...
A teenager has been jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford following England's defeat in the Euro 2020 final.
Justin Lee Price, 19, from Worcester, pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court to "one count of sending a grossly offensive message by public communication network".
and the tweet apparently was this:
"@SzzOGz @MarcusRashford YOU F**** STUPID N***** MISSING A FREE PEN MY DEAD NAN COULD HAVE SCORED THAT"*
rude? yes
Just over the past 15 years in the US we've seen government overreach and "tyranny" from both Dems and Republicans.
in Europe, even the UK , they send you to jail for "hate speech". and they're proud of it, and want to do it more.
I have my views on which side's excess have been scarier or worse in the short term and long term, but either way it's pretty clear that any freedom oriented person should fight for the existence of private offline tools.
This is literal 1984 stuff. like imagine if your notebook literally won't allow you to write "kill all x" or "let's ban y", "let's legalize y"
we're already there with public LLM's on some topics.
And for everything online it's ever changing just like 1984... a path of thought you explored last year you can't anymore, ( or you get reported/dissuaded) because the social winds have shifted.
Basically Winston's job is no longer even necessary since with cloud everything can be censored real-time.
This comment section is jam packed full of people mentioning the same misconceived and inapplicable thing, over and over. A thing that was actually discussed in the article, which they did not read.
You've clearly been around
I'm still holding out hope that AI and editors can create micro textured summaries that increase understanding, click-through, and overall comprehension by 43%
magnetic levitation optional
TFA (which is dense and not the clearest) addresses specifically that this effect is different from golf ball dimples and also from shark skin structures.
TBH i was pretty surprised by that aspect. The article claims at parts up to 43% reduction in drag... that's pretty massive. I'm having a hard time seeing how flow around a meter scale object would be affected if it was suspended by a few sub-millimeter diameter wires.
The whole article is kinda hard to read, imo, and i suspect it's got this wrong, but don't know for sure. I appreciate that this is a difficult subject to explain simply, but they don't do a great job.
they basically always mean contracting out something large enough to be or have been an internal program
That is a very hand-wavey statement. The problem is, there is no actual definition of that boundary, and it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. You didn't, for example, address the vehicle maintenance example. This is clearly one of those areas that should be outsourced in some places, but not in others.
Some areas are clear. Jails should never be outsourced. But toll roads? Questionable. There's no inherent reason a toll road can't be private, and many are.
The point is, the boundary is not an easy one to draw.
I agree it's hard to draw the lines... and I think even your "clear" examples aren't really Financially speaking
there's little reason for any police department to do their own maintenance... except maybe in some place where there's literally no private sector garages.
Also jails could be fine... as long as there's adequate oversight... which sometimes there is and sometimes it's lacking.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!
