CachyOS has been great for me, as a “just works” Arch-based distro that also has freedom to install just about anything (great CachyOS & Arch repos, AUR, podman/Docker, Wine pre-configured, etc.)

I can’t speak to EndeavourOS since I never got past CachyOS working perfectly for me.

I hear you, but there is no conspiracy by Big Web 3.0 behind this, it’s just bubble economics.

RAM was profitable at ¼ current prices a year ago. Nothing of significance has changed to the price of materials (well, ignoring the temporary insanity of the US/Israel war on Iran War).

If current demand was expected to be stable long term, then, most likely, new production would quickly-ish (~3 years?) come online to capture more profits.

But nobody is expecting this to last, so there’s limited interest in building new chip fabs. So prices will stay high until the AI crash.

No conspiracy required; just economics.

What makes you think the text is AI image gen? Or do you think the text is LLM generated? I’m deeply confused by your comment.

I hope this doesn’t come off as callous:

What an epic mic drop of your father’s. That’s like something out of a novel/film.

He sounds like a super hoopy frood. Sorry for your loss.

I appreciate you taking the time to respond so thoroughly. I don’t have as much time to respond right now, unfortunately. So, in short

I agree those are generally left-leaning. They are an NDP party moreso than the Alberta NDP, but I would hardly consider them to be far/hard left. Like, a tiny marginal tax increase on the wealthy is barely left leaning, compared to what would be equitable.

But agreed, generally, that there’s a lot of managerial bloat. I see it at all levels, but especially healthcare and education; why do tiny districts need so many superintendents/assistants and directors? Hospitals have so many layers of managers. Etc.

Right, but what if remote work wasn’t in your employment contract? Like for just about everyone who started remote work during the pandemic.

The BC NDP are very centrist, not left leaning. Like, old growth logging is still continuing and taxes aren’t going up on the wealthy/businesses.

Why do you think they’re “very left”? I can’t think of any strong examples to support that stance, but I admit I don’t pay super close attention to everything they do, so I’m open to hearing your evidence.

Yeah, and a lot less time, likely, too. CADing that would be pretty quick.

That’s a marketing video, of course, but that looks really good. Even ignoring everything else, multi-material TPU printing would be amaze balls since varying hardness/flexibility has so many applications.

I’m going to have a hard time not pre-ordering it to get the early bird discount, lol. I imagine it’ll be north of $1K CAD…

… Hmm. Maybe if I start a side hustle selling 3D prints, I can raise enough to buy it?

I know Creality has a reputation for inconsistency, but their hardware is also fairly easy to disassemble and fix with cheap parts, so that’s not catastrophic. I was super lucky with my Hi, only having typical issues with filament-related stuff, but I also troubleshot some problems with my friend’s Hi, and it wasn’t a big deal to fix.

Thanks for sharing!

If I could afford it, that would be my choice.

I’d probably get the Creality Sparx i7 right now, as an entry-level multicolour 3D printer. I got the Creality Hi Combo last year, and it’s been a great printer for me, and it sounds like the Sparx i7 is mostly just better.

Yeah, ‘y’ every time should be pretty safe for updates, right? Like, the reason it’s suggested is because it’s the suggested alternative for the package it’s replacing and the change has been tested by the CachyOS/Arch team(s) already.

And worst case, something big breaks when you reboot, so you roll back to before the update, wait like a week, and try again (lol).

Sure, but that’s not what this is about. This isn’t just banning AI-written code, it’s banning AI-assisted code. If you even use a Google Gemini “AI-summary” at the top of your search results for something simple like the name of a function, then your code is AI-assisted.

There’s no way anyone can detect that. And banning it is silly.

But the point is, imho, that if nobody can tell if it’s AI-assisted, then who cares? This is more for them to fire a warning shot that you’d better be sure your AI-assisted code is good enough to pass, or they can reject or and, potentially, ban you without notice.

Explained in the article that it’s because the Palestinian flag is illegal in Israel, so they use a watermelon with the same (or similar, I imagine?) colours.

But then why is it still free on Windows? Remove the basic tier entirely, then.

Especially if you’re correct that is a server/client system, then someone will just soon up a Docker container that has all of Windows 11 LTE and the Windows version of this pre-configured, so people can continue to use it in Linux anyway, or switch to an open-source alternative. They’re already supporting and releasing Linux builds, so this doesn’t seem to gain them anything and, instead, may cost them marketshare and goodwill.

I’m confused.

And so the Tragedy of the Commons plays out, yet again.

There’s no cost to being a selfish asshole, so it’s sadly not surprising that many individual actors are destroying the public Internet. Like, how can we align incentives to stop this? Regulations/laws are mostly pointless since the very same tactics used to dodge bot detection also make it incredibly hard to identify the originator.

The only other disincentive with a real cost, that I can think of, would be to poison the data fed to scrapers, so they get bad data? That seems expensive to set up, though.

I think TFA has the best solution idea: make it easy to scrape all the useful data using a low-cost standardized system. Then there’s no incentive to scrape the website using a stupid, expensive crawler in the first place.

Edit: actually, LLMs make poisoning the data fairly reasonable… When there’s a high volume of requests for outdated pages/edit pages/other rarely accessed pages, have the server serve a pre-cached parody version of the root page instead. Pre-build one parody copy of each page with a standardized prompt, like “rewrite this page like it comes from an academic journal of medicine or economics with APA citations for every fact.”

“We’re thankful that … for the first time in 37 years, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Canada has finally met its defence responsibility” by achieving the NATO defence spending target of two per cent of its GDP, a benchmark established in 2006.

Brilliant reporting. Completely neutral about mentioning the 2% target starting 17 years after the quoted date.

Exactly right, which is why the hot McDonald’s coffee lawsuit had such a high penalty. They were knowingly giving near-boiling coffee to their customers to avoid giving free refills, and knew about the dangers and burns caused to their customers for years.

Punitive damages are the capitalist system answer to disregard for damages caused by products and business practices.

That’s WW1, bro.

Canada declared war in WW2 a week (to the day, iirc) after the UK. It was a deliberate political move by King, particularly due to the legacy of the Conservatives forcing conscription on Quebec after running on “no conscription” as a policy platform, permanently damaging the Cons electability in Quebec. By putting the view to parliament, and not whipping the Liberals to view fire declaring war, insulated the Liberals from political backlash from Quebec and asserted Canada’s independence as a nation (which plays well in Quebec, in particular, ironically.)

But they’re not going to pass medical school, at least.

A huge waste of money and time, of course, but there are checks and balances on professions.

And good luck passing a job interview if they never learned anything in school because they cheated the whole way through. And, even if they do land a job, almost every job has something like a 3-month probation. You can’t take it with AI professionally, if anyone’s paying attention.

I’ve been sitting this from the rooftops, but nobody seems to be listening. LLMs do not create enough value to justify their cost, and their costs rise exponentially for small, incremental gains. It’s a money pit.

Worse, it’s a massive sunk cost masquerading as investment. Inflated equity validations are propped up by an illusion. I know that timing a crash is impossible, but I literally don’t understand how anyone paying attention doesn’t see what’s coming.

It’s going to be bad. 80% such market declines aren’t atypical, historically.

And this isn’t even touching on the Republican dismantling of the American government apparatus and spending billions in a war to disrupt global supply chains of critical resources.

It’s going to be really bad.