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Ah, the game of what can be taxed that has the least lobbyists to protect it - it's a game that plays out as a decline for civilizations because government representatives aren't representing the interests of the people of the nation.

I could be misremembering, but wasn't it mostly a software offering at that point?

But is the actual architecture of systemd giving simple, securable, reviewable boundaries? This is a codebase that runs in stages of inherent privelege and very low levels in many linux systems.

Not even the next cycle, as far as I can tell if you say stop or unsubscribe, the political spam mailing list system adds a new candidate to the ~8-10 candidates they keep you loaded with

Many private utilities in the US have fought against residential solar, and are seemingly motivated to act against it as something against their long term interests. In California the amount of Public Utilities Commisssion retrograde policy is ridiculous.

If its any consolation, with your solar system you have a shared massive fusion reactor

The disappointing aspect is how frequently censorious actions are initiated at the beck of private corporations or authoritarian motivations

Im not sure the strategic calculation is as simplistic as that

Or replace them with AI

Well and dns service is reasonably easy to switch

So what company are people switching to? Namecheap used to be a reasonable choice -oh wait there is another thread with that discussion

Are we burning the battery materials into gases and sending the results into the atmosphere? No, then we are unlikely to run out of materials on a primary or secondary, recycled, basis. Not to mention the diversity of choices available for chemistries and storage

We have come full circle back to inetd, only systemd is a little maze of twisty little passages in comparison

As a long time Amazon customer I stopped Prime and stopped using the platform because all of those went downhill and unreliable as their prices went up - even after they opened a local warehouse in my same city limits

The article claims that gas prices are set by international markets that are willing to bid up prices and the small added contribution from the North sea is not going to swing prices significantly. The US is going through a similar delusion that they produce enough domestically to protect is Diesel prices - they don't and the oil companies are not going to forgo international markets

It is in large part because the UK made infrastructure decisions that essentially couple their electricity prices to the price of natural gas.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-does-gas-set-the-price-of...

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65515/decoupling-...

It is very strange to see how many nations gave up energy independence and basically exchanged a temporarily lower price of energy coupled with deep geopolitical dependencies outside the nation. Money seems politically easy to spend raising defense expenditures by a few more percent of GDP but energy independence through decentralized renewables would be a much higher defense value imho. And it would actually propel more economic activity.

I went back to Firefox on desktop and phones when it was clear Chrome was going the way of IE in terms of being too large a market share for it's own good or the good of users and developers. These days its much better than when Chrome first came out, but I also toy with librewolf or other even more user oriented alternate browsers.

At one point in computer history, you had to know how to create and submit a punchcard to run a program. In the age of AI, I think we're going to be sifting through what software knowledge is still relevant and what is punchcard operation for quite a while.

I think the goal comes from the user. Some users want to solve a problem, some users may want to learn something. I'm not sure that having AI widely available really changes the ratio of the two, but I think I see AI availability as a factor that could accelerate the learning curve of the ones that have a goal of learning.

In history, some of the best educated aristocrats had live tutors for education. Was their cognitive ability impaired by having expert instructors? When textbooks were generated did they impede the ability to think about problems or advance it? Does one have to expend every hour of previous effort to collect knowledge in order to understand and advance further? Does AI have the effect of tutors or textbooks, or something else?

I wonder if governments will sue to recover climate mitigation costs

In California, most cities are behind on funding pensions. There is a de facto assumption/delusion that there will be some large scale bailout at some point.

Its a huge stretch saying it's even approximating human intelligence. All llms are lossy, recombinant, compressed search indexes. There is no introspection - and what we mostly see is fairly rudimentary heuristic programming loops wrapped around them - which tells you how powerful a tool llms are, but don't mistake the capabilities of the tool for reasoning in any form.

fuel pump meters can be altered too as well a farm diesel abuses - scofflaws trying to get around paying their fair share will always take some regulatory effort

The idea that successful people need to be obsessively dedicated that that one thing exclusive to everything else is unhealthy and I think a hustle culture trope.

If anything, I think successful people tend to have a range of pastimes and balanced activities in order to maintain perspective and not burnout.

Is Verizon's fine for selling user location data high enough to be more of a deterrent than cost of doing business? The fine was even for selling to the wrong parties, implying that there are parties to access it legitimately.

I suppose one potential drawback is that the visibility of the logic of a plugin is inherent in the pi ts extensions, and unless it's shipped with the rpi (pi-rust) extension, it may not be the same to use it. There are instances where I've seen pi go digging around in it's own docs & code to figure out how to do something.

The samples from recent history seem to say that well regulated competitve markets are beneficial but ironically that socialism provides better competitive markets then capitalism.

I would not cheer the AI tulip craze effect on memory as a benefit of capitalism as it has several obvious unchecked violations of well regulated markets.

I wonder about adding a plugin shim for webassembly, or a Rust crate with integrated V8 engine (Bun?). But honestly, I use pi and I have yet to ask it to self-modify.

The greed and shortsightedness from both the memory makers and their big customers trying to lock out competitors from memory purchases is palpable. The first act of a Shakespearean or Greek Tragedy is where the characters take the actions that lock in the circumstances that precede their downfall. And this sets up everything for the next act where CXMT has everything it needs to establish itself on the market with buyers that would perhaps would not have considered it in other circumstances.