Looks too black for Steam’s current theme schema, I suspect something has gone awry.

As to how to help you…

runs away

If you believe the AI hype there won’t be any programming jobs soon - so those that do (believe) think they need to become highly-proficient AI-wranglers to maintain employability.

I too think it’s the wrong approach, but it’s hard to say what hirers will be looking for in the medium to long term, and devs whom adapt to ‘the new thing’ faster have typically been more hirable.

Personally hoping the big players crash and burn asap because the benefits just haven’t been anywhere near worth the costs across various domains.

One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

They call themselves Palantir.

Fucking lol… This is the Metaverse with extra steps.

Agree with all points. Additionally, compilers are also incredibly well specified via ISO standards etc, and have multiple open source codebases available, eg GCC which is available in multiple builds and implementations for different versions of C and C++, and DQNEO/cc.go.

So there are many fully-functional and complete sources that Claude Cowork would have pulled routines and code from.

Yes, that was exactly Sam Altman’s goal. Choke out the competition by securing the majority of the raw materials.

Not competing on capabilities, quality, price, or anything else people claim the AI industry is amazing for. Just old fashioned market denial.

I gave MY preferences for reading, note the use of the phrase “I prefer”. I did not extoll the virtues of reading. It’s a shame your English Lit exposure in college didn’t extend to education on logical fallacies, because you use them a lot.

1: “this video says you’re wrong” 2: “well I don’t watch videos dahling.” (flips hair, draws on cigarette)

1: User actually said “contrails are completely avoidable”. 2: I said that’s factually untrue. My disdain for a youtube link on a comment thread discussion was literally my post scriptum.

You have a massive chip on your shoulder about people who don’t want to watch videos for science news, that’s clear - but I don’t care to hear any more about it. Maybe take a breath and reflect on context. We’re in the comments section on a ‘nottheonion’ news post about goddamn JFK banning chemtrails because he thinks DARPA is secretly impregnating them with experimetnal chemicals. Y’know… wackadoo shit.

Have a great weekend & life, I will no longer respond.

I’m sure I donated back in version 0.1 or 0.2, maybe a year ago, but looking now it doesn’t seem to show me as being a registered user, so perhaps I was wrong.

I’m pretty sure it still falls under the definition of ‘donationware’, though?

Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational unrestricted software to the user and requests an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary (usually a non-profit).[1] The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the author, or it may be left to the discretion of the user, based on individual perceptions of the software’s value. Since donationware comes fully operational (i.e. not crippleware/freemium) when payment is optional, it is a type of freeware.

I wasn’t t aware of the Curtis Yarvin link at all. I’ve just read that blog article and it’s not possible to remain cautiously optimistic or give them benefit of the doubt… the FUTO founder (Eron Wolf) seems very clearly ideologically-aligned with fascists.

Well, now I’m really hoping they change their license to true open source, so a group less ideologically disastrous can fork it and take the helm for interested contributors and supporters to join.

I mean… that’s a problem, but then there’s a new issue that there will be sky police cameras roaming the countryside now.

Probably for additional exposure to the public and to monetize via paid DLC as a ‘supporter tier’ style offering (with limited or no added features).

Grayjay is donationware - “FOSS”, but with a strong encouragement to donate if you use it regularly and have the means to support.

I put FOSS in quotes because Grayjay is not really OSS. It has a custom license that does not allow commercial reuse of its code.

This has caused significant discussion of concerns and ire from some.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/grayjay-frontend/14616

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/18

https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/

P. S. Grayjay is great software, I use it a lot and have reported several bugs which the dev team have been super responsive to and resolved all. I have supported them with a donation purely on the aforementioned, but their license is a bummer. I’d like to see other projects be able to reuse their code widely as true OSS. I also personally have concerns with the example screenshots they show on site having a bunch of RW content creators / grifters, and their support of the Rumble service as an official plugin, but I understand they are free-speech aligned and trying to be apolitical in their approach. I personally think they could do that without giving RW figures free advertising in their screenshots, and allowing a third-party to create the Rumble plugin rather than dedicating dev work to support it officially, but it’s just a red flag to me more than a dealbreaker.

(Edit - see comments below, Futo is worse than I was aware).

God forbid I actually read sources, and prefer reading to taking heads on a video platform that is designed to waste people’s time in endless content crawls.

You call me audacious yet here you are stepping into a discussion to try your best to belittle and chastise an internet stranger with a different opinion.

I was gonna ask you to give us your exact car model, but now i’m just kind of tired of you being combative in every comment.

Its not a huge breakthrough in research, mate - its a feasibility study. Its claims are promising, but until its tested in the real world it’s just interesting, not a breakthrough.

Upvotes don’t mean much, they don’t change the ranking of comments like on worse social media like Facebook or Reddit. Don’t worry about them. I’ve seen very useful and valuable comments downvoted to heck and vice-versa.

Didn’t you hear?

Late night variety/talk shows: journalism, they must abide by FCC ‘equal time’ rules

Fox News: purely entertainment, no FCC rules apply.

I’ve got no interest in watching even 2.5 minute YouTube videos when I can read the text of the same content in 45 seconds. Instructional videos can be great and valuable, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. There are a wealth of crap pop science videos on YouTube that misrepresent studies.

The study is interesting, but it’s a feasibility study data utilizing a theoretical models - there are a lot of assumptions here. If they or other researchers go on to perform trials using their proposed flight adjustments to the autopilot software and validate it works, great! Until then, it’s very far from settled science. Here is another recent study that proposes the main problem is incompletely-burned fuel which causes soot particles that sustain the contrails in the atmosphere for much longer than contrails from low-soot contrails, which quickly diaperse. This is an emerging field of study with few published studies and varying ideas on how to resolve issues.

Maybe if people want to share emerging scientific information that’s important to them on a written forum they should put in the time to look to more valuable text sources, instead of dropping YouTube links with overconfident assertions that will put off people from watching them, eg, “contrails are completely avoidable”.

Contrails are mostly water vapour that’s condensed due to the hot exhaust of airplane engines.

They are certainly not completely avoidable, they are likely inescapable without sacrificing significant fuel efficiencies (eg: all methods stealth fighters use to suppress or mask their exhaust heat signature)… which would negate any benefits to global warming.

P. s. I’m not going to watch a YouTube video that could be a few paragraphs of textual explanation, because it’ll no doubt be eight times longer than it needs to be for the benefit of more ad money or promotion in the almighty algorithm.

If you read the Guardian article, Gail Slater did exactly the job Andy Yen said she would when he praised her as a pick for the antitrust chief role.

She’s tried to block a $14b merger between Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks stating their business sector is far too consolidated already “and would create a duopoly”, among other positive antitrust actions.

She was an objectively good pick for the role, and is now being ousted because she’s doing her job too well, and that’s awkward for Bondi and Trump as they want to have the freedom to rubber-stamp any merger they like, once the tolls (contributions, concessions, no doubt direct bribes we’ll only later find) have been paid.

His other statement that you highlight has also been proven to be factually accurate. Big tech has been tripping over their dicks to kiss the Trump ring since before the swearing-in, and continue to do so every day.

If anything, the only response due is a “yeah ok, our bad, we blew this all out of proportion and context” from all the rabid anti-Proton weirdos.

Seems like a good reason to never use HungryPanda.

This is the spare part for the rear cover of the tow hook attachment point to give you an idea of what the flap looks like.

https://partifyusa.com/products/honda-civic-ex-rear-tow-hook-cover-japan-built-ho1129109