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"Something, something, ... omelettes ... few eggs" -- mouthpiece from corporation that lobbies to cut regulations

I can't find the story, but if it's a human-driven truck there's nothing special about a vehicle hitting someone. Everyone that drives a vehicle is accepting that risk. It's not heartless to have vehicles. And I don't even know what particular regulations you're trying to imply.

Implying that Kroger announced that it would shut down its Florida operations shortly after losing the lawsuit with the cyclist. Nothing more.

Here is the story

https://www.facebook.com/100064532630592/posts/pfbid0DYoPXet...


I wasn't saying you implied anything. I was saying rolandog seemed to go beyond general cynicism about corporations to an unreasonable complaint.

Looking at the details, I could say Kroger shouldn't have hired her but I'd rather say that if she was dangerous enough to not hire as a driver then her license shouldn't have been reinstated in the first place. (Though that's if "couldn’t recall if her driver’s license was suspended just months before he hired her" means it actually was suspended, and Bike Law isn't doing some trickery with wording.)

Either way good they paid out.

For the shutdown, I do think it's a coincidence. They're shutting down facilities in multiple states and that lawsuit isn't even a tenth of a percent of the relevant costs.


Seems like I hadn't switched away from the previously official Play store app (v 1.27.3) [0] archived on 2024-12-03.

[0]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android


Very well put. You're promised Artificial Super Intelligence and shown a super cherry-picked promo and instead get an agent that can't hold its drool and needs constant hand-holding... it can't be both things at the same time, so... which is it?

What a great and interesting read. Thanks for sharing it here!

Nice! Thanks for the link. I noticed they didn't mention MOCOR OS (for the new Nokia 3210), but then I remembered that that's not an Android version. I'll see if they can add it somewhere else.

Unrelated, but this led me to find gnuclad, which may be somewhat externally maintained and is used to create the cladogragms.


Especially with all the codified footguns (or the "Tyranny of the Default" — as Steve Gibson would put it) where a lot of critical apps ship with very insecure defaults, and even a seasoned Dev that's an expert on one domain doesn't have time to muddle through the whole of man pages + mail archives + stack overflow threads for every option.

Or worse, they weren't meant to be portrayed as edgy and misunderstood to lure lonely people into cults of hate.

NB: from what I understand, some cult members joined because they felt part of a community; so, to them, it has a high cost of leaving it because they feel like the other members are friends (kind of like FB/Meta).


As someone unfamiliar with Rust (yet! it's on my ever growing list of things I'd like to absorb into my brain), unwrap_or_else() sounds like part of the "What You See Is What I Threatened the Computer To Do" paradigm.

> INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.

Oh wow! That's amazing! "I came to learn Computer Science, but I left with good bedside manners".

Immediately thought of INTERCAL :)

There are also the equally threatening and useful `map_or_else` (on Result and Option) and `ok_or_else` (on Option and experimentally on bool)

    Each downed page diminishes me,
    for I am involved in WANkind.
    Therefore, ping not to know
    for whom the downdetector detects,
    it detects for thee.

That's not disproving OP's comment; OpenAI is, in my opinion, making it untenable for a regular Joe to build a PC capable of running local LLM model. It's an attack on all our wallets.

Why do you need a LLM running locally so much that's the inflated RAM prices are an attack on your wallet? One can always opt not to play this losing game.

I remember when the crypto miners rented a plane to deliver their precious GPUs.


Some models are useful; using whisper.cpp comes to mind to create subtitles for, for example, family videos or a lecture you attended without sending your data to an untrusted or unreliable company.

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