And the more you blue ball him and deny him what he wants, the weaker his domestic position gets and the less he’s able to lash out.

So don’t fucking bargain with him, don’t make deals, tell him to suck wind. The more people doing this the more he is diminished as a threat to everyone involved.

As an American, no it fucking ain’t. Keep boycotting American shit please. Keep being a problem. I beg you.

This situation is dumb, and the only way certain compatriots will get that through their inch thick steel skulls is pressure from all sides.

Really we’ve been gradually approaching a convergence for a while, really we passed it a while ago, where smart phones are indistinguishable in terms of meaningful capability.

Intialy the barrier was memory and processing power, but really, we crossed that bridge a decade ago, if you count the really low end net books. For a while the main gap was in the fact that one set ran on ARM and the other X86, so there was just a gap in what software that could be run on ether. But these days that’s hardly significant issue with the myriad translation layers.

Hell, you’ve been able to plug a keyboard and mouse in to android and IOS for a while now, and external monitors are also workable. So input and form factor aren’t a huge issue. Really the limitation is that most people who want a laptop or desktop form factor… will just buy one of those and people who want a mobile will get one of those. Most people will just get both.

Honestly I think most people buying laptops for work would be better served by adding a mouse keyboard and external monitor to their phone (ideally in some sort of laptop shaped phone dock with an extra battery), but mobile OSs are cludgy with that kind of set up. Maybe android merging chrome OS in to it will bridge that issue.

But really I don’t think Google, Microsoft or Apple really want to do something like that because it might cause mobile sales to cannibalize thin and light laptop sales. I mean, maybe Google would because they don’t really have much skin in the laptop game.

“I’m helping development of a foss project!”

doesn’t write a single line of code, just submits claude code without reviewing it or even testing

On the one hand, I’m skeptical of the assertions that pen and paper is inherently a better way to take notes and learn.

But I do agree with the general aversion to a lot of ed tech. So much effort to shove kids faces in front of softwear and hardware that was sold to administrators by marketing teams from big tech companies. So many opportunities for those tech companies to exploit local school districts, ether to extract unreasonable profits, or for access to a mailable locked in user base.

If a school is going to go all in teaching with computers, they need to be carefully choosing what they use and not just adopting a premade package from some tech company.

It seems likely that its external sensing function faded before the development of “hot blood” (endothermy) as it’s vestigial even in very basal reptiles like the tuatara, so likely it was already disappearing as a sensory organ fairly early in quadruped evolution. Snakes, crocodiles and turtles (all exothermic) all lost it completely as an external feature, snakes are particularly notable as they’re in the same branch as tuataras and lizards, many of whole still have it as a vestigial external structure. It also appeared in some extinct branches of therapsids(many appear to have been endothermic) in some form, but is completely absent in mammals, the only surviving branch of therapsids.

It does function as a sensing organ in many amphibians, suggesting that it became vestigial for sensing some where in the early evolution of amniotes, but stuck around as an external structure across multiple branches but many have since convergently evolved to loose it as an external structure.

Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.

An Aloe vera plant, not only are they pretty and fairly easy to care for (potted in a southern or western window, watered occasionally), their leaf goo is an excellent treatment for burns and the basis for a lot of over the counter topical salves. It’ll always be there when you need it and regrow what you use over time. Just snap off some of a lower leaf and squeeze out the goo on to a burn. Just… don’t eat it, not good for eating.

Ginger and garlic steeped as a tea are also a fairly good symptom alleviator for coughs, upset stomachs and head colds, adding a fair amount of honey is good too. Easy enough to keep around, not super extreme like some cold medicines can be but still surprisingly effective. Ginger is actually fairly easy to propagate and grow, but, eh, cheap and common enough at any story that keeping a plant of it around may not be worth the effort.

One of the biggest uses case for AI software will be as an accountability sink “I didn’t tell it to do the thing I obviously wanted it to do, so I’m not liable for the outcome.”

We’ve known for a while that the current government in Tehran has been willing to do awful things, but that it’s constantly being brought up now makes me think that this is an attempt to manufacture consent to start another war. This is, obviously, a very bad idea.

When I first read the title i saw it as “pouring boiling hot water on it cleared it up” and imagined some part in it cracking due to thermal shock.

Not sure how big of an issue that would really be, depends on the metals in it I imagine. I know a lot of people destroy car windows trying to melt ice off them with boiling water.

A hot water bottle is a much better option, slower heating.

Next month “fed to raise rates”

I to have a modular electric vehicle but, mine already has a massive variety of after market options to modify and upgrade it to me needs with.

It’s called… my bicycle that I put a motor on.

it’s so amazing, the absolute brain rot it takes to think that a LLM is a better way to operate a vending machine than simple if-then logic. “If the value of money inserted is equal to the price, then dispense the item”.

Like, why? What is even the point? It doesn’t need to negotiate the price, it doesn’t need have a conversation about your day, the vending machine just needs to dispense something when payed the right amount.

“ Shit, we need more cash to keep the bubble inflated, quick squeeze customers for more revenue! “

they’re gradually reducing the amount of vehicles sold while increasing the margin per vehicle. They’re approaching the limit of 1 vehicle sold at infinite margin.

That all, and they raised the price when the core demographic has less disposable income than ever.

It’s a growth medium for culturing cells. It’s a mix of sugars, salts, and amino acids, often with other nutrients.

Forbidden sports drink.

Because it’s not about the companies being profitable, it’s not about making products people want to use or pay for.

It’s about riding the hype cycle to maximize share price. Because the people making decisions are not payed based on the success of the company, but on the success of the share price and market cap.