Ooh, so that’s the angle. I like it. That actually makes sense.

Where’s the loophole?

That’s related to the proverb “writing code was never the main part of software engineering.” Also related to the difference in difficulty of writing the first 90% and the last 10% of useful software.

A really important part of FOSS is testing and bug fixing. Often the bulk of code is done by a small number of people but what makes their software truly useful is the testing and fixing contributions. Unless LLMs could deliver bug-free code, the FOSS projects that have community and userbase would always be more reliable and therefore useful than bespoke LLM-written software. I wouldn’t write my own grep with some custom feature. I’d use GNU grep and augment it with another tool, or perhaps get an LLM to add the feature I need to it.

More or less my thought process so am not rewriting it. Local Qwen 3.8 27B Q8 produces useful output that saves development time. It’s better at some things than others. It can save phenomenal amount of time in certain tasks like parsing codebases one’s unfamiliar with. Same with documentation. Given that FOSS is mostly volunteer work, time saving tools tend to be a benefit, if the quality can be maintained. And quality can be maintained when one has that as a goal and not pushing the absolute maximum amoumt of code. Then there’s also the tasks where quality doesn’t matter beyond the happy path working, e.g. build scripts. FOSS has such wide positive effects that the ability to make more of it should be balanced against the cost of the tools.

Then she added one more layer of data — where people were getting help paying their electric bills each summer, from public programs or local organizations.

An obvious pattern emerged. There were big clusters of dots collected in certain areas: lots of deaths, and little assistance.

Those clusters turned out to be mobile home parks.

Yup, the poor are first under the bus.

The climate change that causes the lack of snowpack has everything to do with the corruption. Solving that wont solve climate change or the drought but it will drastically reduce further climate change and drought.

Or he just really itching to drop a nuke on Iran.

I’d offer him asset forfeiture to bring him in-line with his employees. If he’s the good billionaire we imagine him to be, he’ll be okay with that.

What’s a really disturbing red flag for me is he keeps touting carbon capture as a solution to offset the new damage. Feels like marketing strategy to allay the fears of people who don’t have the time to look into its effectiveness. I thought CCS was just something he used during the campaign and won’t be actually leaning into.

Some people hate Carney becauae PP’s not PM. We hate Carney because of (some of) the shit he does. We’re not the same.jpg

Also plenty of us voted for him and some contributed to his campaign. Even tho we did not expect much more than blocking PP, we still salty when he shits on unions or lays off wildfire experts.

Interesting. I wonder what the buusness model is here. Not from profit perpsective but rather the inner workings of it.

Soma

So uh, feeling safe changes with feeling of attachment to Israel? Interesting.

Only problem it isn’t fast enough.

I mean, it kinda just started working, after blocking the last trickle of energy to the island. Cuba introduced market liberalization and privatization reforms just couple of weeks ago, appears to be driven by the blockade.

Not saying the blockade isn’t horrible.

Also consider what would happen if the blockade is lifted. A deeply, artificially depressed economy would spring into huge yearly growth that would last for a while. How’s the narrative gonna look like? “Sanctions were the main cause of Cuba’s suffering. Socialist regime achieves incredible economic growth and standatd of living drastically improves since the blockade was lifted.” All that happening as socialism’s approval rating in the US grows and self-described socialists are winning elected office. If I were a ruling class American capitalist, I’d never let that happen.

The cheaper Lavazza blends that don’t mentiom Arabica are also robusta and are pretty good for espresso.

Meat really don’t wanna be eaten too.

It’s pretty horrible. The more I understand abt plants, the more I’m like - shit, this really don’t wanna be eaten.