Well, unprecedented is a bit of a stretch. Since last time that party failed at a coup. I guess if they succeed this time, it’s unprecedented in the US.

The thing is, it’s not going to be settled by the end of the day, and you’re not going to be able to avoid hearing about it.

I’m extremely interested, but during election day I’ve taken a very “holistic”(?) approach to following along.

In other news, drowning isn’t real. You need water to live, how can too much water be a bad thing?

Sponsored by Dasani.

I’m going into my midterm in 30 minutes where we will be desicrating the corpses of trees.

I’m in university and I’m hearing this more and more. I keep trying to guide folks away from it, but I also understand the appeal because an LLM can analyze the code in seconds and there’s no judgements made.

It’s not a good tool to rely on, but I’m hearing more and more people rely on it as I progress.

The best part about this, is that new models will be trained on the garbage from old models and eventually LLMs will just collapse into garbage factories. We’ll need filter mechanisms, just like in a Neal Stephenson book.

This is the most privileged thing I think I’ve read all week.

You don’t want a flood map made available because it affects your profits? That’s the most wildly selfish thing I’ve ever heard. It’s a real screw-you to the next generation/owners.

It’s almost like entire markets being controlled by a small amount of large organizations is only a bad thing for consumers.

I wanted to drive trains for a long time. I love big machines and I love trains, so when I got a gig as a conductor I was excited. I excelled in the training and devoured everything I could in the CROR and the movements of equipment.

When I hit the yard, there were lost time accidents every day, multiple derailments, and when coming into work one day I was late because an engine hit a 52’ trailer and flipped it into another engine at a crossing in the yard, in front of the train masters office.

My shifts were 4-12 hours long, but often I’d have to get a taxi across town after a shift to get my car then drive home and go to sleep, only to get woken up by a phone call giving me two hours notice for my next shift. That shit was bananas.

It was explained to me early on that the work lists that we were given weren’t physically possible to do in a safe/perscribed manner. Like, they don’t actually give you time to move the train forward, stop it, flip a switch, move back and decouple, so often conductors would call out multiple movements and hustle behind the train to get everything done without stopping. Which lead to some dude getting his legs cut off.

I didn’t do that for very long. I loved working on the trains, and I was very good at it, but I quit without another job lined up before qualifying since I didn’t want to feel trapped working for cn.

If he thinks we’re far into the erosion of individual rights now, wait till he hears about our Conservatives!

It’s a three thousand dollar monitor, what did they expect?

The Conservative Party doesn’t actually know what conservative principles are.

Is 13 to young to work? Is 65 too early to retire? Are you spending too much time on hobbies?

I want to leave this planet.

It just doesn’t make sense. I don’t want granite counter tops and Italian taps, I want a roof and a floor and a place for a bed.

Honestly, I just want a little strawberry box house, but I’d settle for a condo outside of town.

This is the frustrating part of it. The public doesn’t understand what’s actually happening, or what the goal of these large language models is, so because they’re very convincing conversationalists, your average Joe considers them as true AI.

Rabble. It’s themed with my other devices, Pibble, Pabble, and Ribble.

I’m not sure I need to onion my torrents. I feel like routing through a decent VPN is probably good enough. I guess if I had all night to transfer a 5MB PDF document that was going to collapse a government this would be what I’d use?

“It’s a Rust based…” You son of a bitch, I’m in.

I wanted to go electric, but I live in apartments and rent, and it’s hard enough to get property management companies to fix the furnace.

My dude, never mess with work equipment. Own up to your mistakes with the IT department, and they can fix it on their end.

I gave up getting my ged. It wasn’t worth the time it took just to get everyone to agree about what you need.
It sucks that some jobs require it, but weirdly enough I managed to get into university by upgrading a couple courses.

Ah yes, few things are as reliable as the post DST petition.

If people started doing this BEFORE the switch I might actually remember to change all my (dumb)clocks.

Look at how much work people are doing just so they can dominate women’s sports!

This post is lathered in sarcasm

So when you clean windows, how long does it actually stay clean? I uninstalled a bunch of stuff when I was using windows 10 and they kept reappearing.

Alberta has this weird thing where they think they’re cheap and affordable, but you get fucked all the time.

I moved here from BC a few years ago, and it’s really amazing how many basic things are missing, like renter protections, or affordable energy.

I used logseq for my first semester of university and I can’t see any reason to switch right now.

It handles markdown and KaTeX, so it handles everything I need really, in a fast simple program.

I love the idea of these houses, but I think multi family plans should be considered as well. I’m sure they could drum up plans for multi level triplexes that would fit on many lots in cities where density is an issue.

There’s a saying: if alternative medicine worked, it would just be called “medicine”.

My first thought was " Who has a PLC in their home?".

I own many many hard books that I’ve purchased or had ordered from my local bookstores.

I also have a kindle that I use every evening and have never paid for an ebook.

It’s a nightmare. I couldn’t find a method that worked so I ended up using an older PDF.

I stopped for a long time, but I’ve continued with the launches of things like Metalocalypse or Venture Bros. Smaller productions that I want to support but aren’t streaming in my country.

Heck, back when Metalocalypse released their first movie there was a limited edition version with a skull cup that was only available in Australia for some reason. I imported the set for my SO, and I had to rip the bluray myself :/

Always be on guard and claim no allegiance to any huge company.

Also, Valve have been pretty consumer friendly for 20 years.

I don’t know anyone who prefers Tim’s over other coffees, but I do know that they sell a ton of coffee.

This would really rely on having a very competent and trust worthy source, and in not sure if that exists for software the same way it does for movies/ TV shows.

It’s complicated. Legally we don’t have “freedom of speech”.

For clarification: Do I believe that’s a core human value? Absolutely.

Do I believe that tolerance is a social contact we should all abide by? Very much so!

Do I trust society to regulate itself? Heck no, from a sociological point of view that’s a mess for lots of reasons. In smaller communities it may be ideal, but anything anyone says now is considered on a global scale.

So, from where I stand, it makes sense for a governing body to place limited restrictions on what a person should be allowed to say in the public sphere. This specific issue is debatable and relies on a certain amount of faith in the institution. Is it right that these people were punished for saying their beliefs? That’s another complicated view that depends on a case by case basis. Is it legally allowable that a politician be censured for what they say? That depends on what they said. Is it morally allowable? From a moral absolutionist point of view, probably not, but our charters were made to prevent people from calling for violence in the public sphere. Is it morally acceptable to allow for someone to call for violence in a very real way as a political representative? What constitutes violence? How far can we deconstruct the rhetorical arguments our society is based on?

It’s complicated. We don’t have freedom of speech and we don’t have freedom from consequences. If you give people you agree with freedom from consequences you also have to give it to the people you don’t agree with.

Freedom of speech or freedom of expression isn’t freedom from consequences. Words matter, and they have consequences, and people should consider the consequences of their speech in public.

I used Flexcil because of its ability to import and export pdfs. The files it makes aren’t really portable but they can be shared by exporting.

Kinda surprised I had to scroll this far down to find logseq. I’ve started using it in university and it’s been a life saver. I love the idea that everything is in these nested blocks, so I can just hammer down notes about whatever super quick with no setup or thinking about it. I just plunk my laptop down, open it up and go to town.

There really isn’t. I hunted for a while before I gave up and bought an android tablet for hand writing notes.