From 3rdish grade iirc, MIMAL (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana) is a man in a chefs hat making lots of food for the whole country. MN being the hat, LA being the shoes.
The chef states are (from North to South) Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Those states, amongst others, grow a lot of food, Corn, wheat, rice, pork, beef, and soy, come immediately to mind. They’re certainly not the only ones, but they do a lot.
Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...
It’s a surprisingly good comparison especially when you look at the reactions: frame breaking vs data poisoning.
The problem isn’t progress, the problem is that some of us disagree with the Idea that what’s being touted is actual progress. The things llms are actually good at they’ve being doing for years (language translations) the rest of it is so inexact it can’t be trusted.
I can’t trust any llm generated code because it lies about what it’s doing, so I need to verify everything it generates anyway in which case it’s easier to write it myself. I keep trying it and it looks impressive until it ends up at a way worse version of something I could have already written.
I assume that it’s the same way with everything I’m not an expert in. In which case it’s worse than useless to me, I can’t trust anything it says.
The only thing I can use it for is to tell me things I already know and that basically makes it a toy or a game.
That’s not even getting into the security implications of giving shitty software access to all your sensitive data etc.
In this case I’m referring specifically to the American tendency to retain pronunciation more closely to the language of origin, for “herb” even more specifically Latin -> French -> English.
I do enjoy the idea that the stigma of a lack of education could be applied in this case though.
I’m from there, here’s a cool fact that you Non-Free people won’t get: “lead tastes kinda sweet” so jokes on you, our water is better tasting than yours.
Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier’s forces have laid siege to Haiti’s main international airport, traded fire with troops at government sites and sparked a mass jailbreak....
Given the history of outside influences on Haiti, I’m not sure how much of this story I buy.
Could be “violent gangs” torching “civil society” for “their own benefit”.
Could be “revolutionaries” torching “an oppressive oligarchy” for “the benefit of working people”.
Both of them would be reported the same way in US, or European newspapers.
I’m just skeptical when I see “violent gangs” taking over public infrastructure and when one of the “first casualties” of a “bloody uprising” is the Prime Minister who is not in fact dead, just forced to resign and flee the country.
Let’s say that the ship is actually sinking, for arguments sake.
There’s a whole bevy of rats swelling out of those fetid waters, the smart ones jumped ship some time ago, given that there are only two viable options in the United States, where do you suppose that they will go?
How will that affect composition and policy of those that remain as The SS Trump slips below the murky waters?
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the U.S. Intelligence Community should “dumb down” briefings for former President Trump when he receives classified information as the eventual GOP nominee, voicing concerns about whether Trump could share the information....
The “normal” government machine is broken. Attempting to rely on long established norms as guardrails is not something that will turn out well. “The tables could be turned” is not an argument that applies to the current state of US politics.
The Republican party literally told the Obama white house that they wouldn’t even hold a hearing for his supreme Court nominee (Garland March of 2016) “because the American people needed to weigh in since it was an election year.” Which many people properly identified as complete and utter bullshit.
Then Republicans went from a nomination on September 29th, 2020, to a confirmation on October 26th, 2020, of Amy Coney Barret, who I’m sure is eminently qualified for the position.
Less than a month.
The Supreme Court is effectively meaningless as an institution attempting to maintain a facade of impartiality.
The “system” as it once existed is gone now. Republicans have been waging a war on public institutions for decades and they’ve won. It’s over.
Attempting to continue to play by the old rules doesn’t do anything but multiply the effectiveness of the grift.
Moving closer to Canada was not unintentional for me. We got our whole family passports after Biden won, I knew it was only a reprieve. All that said, we can’t afford to move again, if it happens we’ll be fleeing as refugees.
Hey, we’re working on making this way more fair. Places like Kentucky are trying to repeal child labor laws so that they can at least pay these poor for profit lunch serving companies.
My wife keeps hers this clean and until recently was going through an ounce or two a month?
They have these silicone plugs for the stem and the mouthpiece, you load it up with this orange clean stuff and shake for awhile. Comes out sparkling. The smojo never looks fresh again though.
Google is not an endpoint if you wanna be a money-laden tech bro. To get real cash you gotta create a startup and grift some money out of VCs. To do that, it helps if you “innovated something totally new” at someplace with name recognition like Google.
Everything except search and ads are simply practice grifts before the real grift. You cannot rely on any Google product to last for any length of time, even properties Google purchases will lose reliability as they fall into disrepair and neglect, see Nest.
I used to love Google everything, I was on the wave beta. I was one of the first with a cr-48. It is sad for those of us that want to contribute to something big, cool, and impactful, watch for fuschia to implode next, I think it already started when they “had” to layoff “over hires.”
One or two person teams don’t put a man on the moon. It takes a lot of really smart people working on very small specific things together to make world changing stuff happen, the culture of Big Tech is not conducive to “real” work anymore. It’s big grifts run by little grifters.
I’m working on moving to local control as much as possible for my smart home stuff. Switched to zwave for my thermostat from nest, excellent move, I don’t lose connection (and automations) randomly anymore.
Also ripping all my optical media for jellyfin to avoid relying on these assholes deleting stuff from their streaming catalogs for tax breaks.
It’s not just google, it’s all of these companies.
Since we’re already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don’t think there’s any reason he couldn’t be a supreme court justice.
Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.
“But Elmo wants to know why policemen don’t have an obligation to intervene to protect the public.”
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Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...
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In Haiti, a police officer-turned-gangster is trying to seize control of the country (www.nbcnews.com)
Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier’s forces have laid siege to Haiti’s main international airport, traded fire with troops at government sites and sparked a mass jailbreak....
Trump’s GOP is already dying (thehill.com)
Schiff says he hopes Intelligence Community ‘will dumb down’ briefings for Trump (thehill.com)
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the U.S. Intelligence Community should “dumb down” briefings for former President Trump when he receives classified information as the eventual GOP nominee, voicing concerns about whether Trump could share the information....
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