There's a fix for that: a real computer.

Police are paid for by taxes, and public school is paid for by taxes. Everyone's already paid. It is pure criminal negligence that allows machine vision to automatically call police. The student's parents should sue the school, and the school administrators should be prosecuted for filing a false police report.

Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

the core challenge of renewable energy is it's inconstancy. Physical batteries are a bandaid and long distance grids are a council of despair. The real solution for reliable renewable energy is to just build out four or five times the peak load. Then when it's cloudy or not windy you still have way more power than you need to supply the peak load. But of course this has the problem that you just spent four of five times as much capital. And that's a non-starter. But the easy, though bad solution, to this is bitcoin batteries. Just mine bitcoin with the excess and shut off the mining when it's cloudy .

Now along some AI. What a match made in heaven. A completely portable task. Move the calculation to whatever data center currently has power whether it's Norway or Texas. You can soak up all that excess renwable power. Plus there's plenty of non-real time batch jobs you can run that can adapt. For example training.

Perfect.

Shame the US decided to lose the AI power race by nixing renewables

HA. The whole point of being retro is the hipster aspect of being cooler. But no one can be cool if they are not socially observed as being cool. It's the tree falling in the forest. You are only cool if people know you are cool. Affectations of retro style require humble bragging.

I really need to get some self discipline. As much as I try I keep checking Reddit. I loath myself. The only good thing to happen in the last few years was Elon buying twitter. That made getting unhooked on that time waste easy. But Reddit became my methadone.

I've resolved that I'm going to start hitting you tube for educational videos. Gonna learn Lie Group theory!

The problem is Trump. Everyday I have to see what fresh hell he's caused. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush. Like them or loathe them it wasn't insanity.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

If you tap in the word, that's a bug, you probably typoed the last letter. If you Swype it in, that's intended behavior- you're undoing your last action either way (1 Swype vs 1 tap). Swype behaved the same way,

Apparently punctuation in texts means anger to teenagers.

You can. With a browser plugin called "Short Stop".

Do bridge builders have multiple layers of bosses and clients with conflicting agendas insisting that the bridge design get changed every few days? But those changes have to get integrated into the part of the bridge already built? And they can't start over when the design requirements become incompatible with the original build objectives around which part of the bridge has already been constructed? Are bridge builders mandated to finish building after their budget has been cut part way through construction? Are bridge builders forbidden from saying no when asked to do things that make the final product dangerous or unreliable?

All too many people compare software design to physical engineering as if they are somehow even remotely similar.

I find Java MUCH easier to debug than either Rust or C#. Java has outstanding development tools, while C# has Visual Studio, which is decidedly NOT an outstanding development tool (it's barely a development tool at all, in my opinion). But I'm also highly proficient with Java, while I'm barely literate with either C# or Rust.

That aside, most languages are far easier to debug than COBOL. But again, I'm barely literate in COBOL. I see a pattern.

I agree. We don't have to worry about the development of super computer-intelligence, as nature already prevents that. We don't have it now, and we will never have it. It's just not possible.

What we have to worry about is the same thing we've always had to worry about: advances in tools being abused for private enrichment and public harm. Considering the shitty record of global governments to prevent those things up to this point, we have good reason to worry about how any new technically will be wielded against us.