Snap is a universal packaging format designed to work across multiple Linux distributions,

Is it though?

Same for me, local and the other tabs work but the main timeline is failing.

Only time will tell I guess, but it seems to me like they’ve trained what they can train, it stopped getting better a while ago, and the core issues of reliability are unsolvable problems.

We can already store electrons in a container, we call that a capacitor. You separate 2 conductive plates with a dielectric and then connect the plates to a voltage source to deposit electrons on one side and remove electrons from the other (creating a difference in electric potential). You can then disconnect the voltage source and you will have electrons in a bottle. When you connect those plates to another circuit, they will discharge. The more surface area you have, the more electrons you can store. Electrolytic capacitors tightly roll the conductors into a spiral for space efficiency.

This cannot be used to gain any more energy than you used to put them all in there.

I think we’ve seen pretty much the limit of what LLMs can pretend to do. They can sort of spit out code snippets in a stack overflow kind of way, but are not capable of starting with a set of requirements and producing a complex program. Programming has never been about remembering all the syntax and having all the design patterns memorized, that’s what documentation and search engines are for. Programming is engineering a complete, maintainable solution given a set of requirements.

I do think LLMs will eat Stack Overflow’s lunch as a source of quick code snippets for programmers to copy/paste.

In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?

Only time will tell, but I think she’s dialed right into Alex’s nerdy little jokes. If that continues she may well dominate.

I love Letchworth, we did a scout weekend there every year. It’s a beautiful park.

Manifest Destiny is pretty much that. The US fought Mexico, Spain, and British Canada, exploited the political situation in Europe to buy a huge chunk of land from France, and displaced or killed hundreds of thousands of native people. The US is the 4th largest country by area. Having that much contiguous land is insanely valuable and powerful. By the time the US would have even had to think about colonizing like the Europeans it was going out of style.

You have way too high a percent of your portfolio in individual stocks. Focus on low fee etfs, ideally ones that track whole or at least broad market segments.

I would suggest getting a raspberry pi zero or zero 2 and using CircuitPython or MicroPython. Adafruit has some really great documentation.

A normal Raspberry Pi (1,2,3,4,5 A/B) is actually a full PC and not a microcontroller. They run ARM chips just like your cell phone. The only special thing about them is they expose some I/O pins. Otherwise you program on them just like a normal linux PC.

Arduino and the Raspberry Pi Zero are true microcontrollers. They don’t have operating systems and only run the code you load onto them. At this point you would choose Arduino if you want to use Arduino C and the extensive library of modules available, and you would choose a Pi Zero if you want to use Circuit or Micro Python. There are other hobby grade microcontrollers and other pros and cons but I think at the beginner level that’s the core distinction.

MicroPython is a from-scratch re-implementation of the python interpreter for microcontrollers. CircuitPython is a fork made by Adafruit designed to be a little easier for students.

Yeah, I was shocked to see it pop up in my mastodon feed this morning. After denying several FOIA requests I figured they’d keep it buried out of spite.

From the linked discussion it looks like there’s a new feature rolling out where mods can activate “automatic ban evasion protection” during a ban. Mods don’t get given any additional info about the user but it gets set up automatically on the back end.

Their current app uses a cross platform framework that allowed them to write their app once and then publish to both iOS and Android. That system is no longer well supported and was causing them issues implementing passkeys on mobile. They’ve been working on rewriting the app individually for each platform using the platform’s specific language. That’s generally Java on Android and Swift on iOS. It’s more work, but ideally the apps should be more responsive, better follow each platforms style guidelines, and have access to all features on the platform.

If you had read the very short blog post you would have learned that they wanted to merge in some GPL licensed code contributions. This sort of behavior is exactly what the GPL copyleft language is intended to encourage.

All source files have individual comment headers with the original authors and license identifier. It’s not the full license text but I do believe that style is compliant.

Existing code is MIT licensed, that’s their permission. Sublicensing without restriction is one of the parts of MIT.

It’s a campground chain in the US.

The concept as I understand it is that Threads has the sheer volume of content to completely drown out the existing Fedi content if it fully opens the floodgates. If that occurs and say 90% of content becomes Threads and then they start making Threads only extensions to Activity Pub, servers will have to start patching those in and the Activity Pub project is defacto owned by Meta.

People also have issues with the Meta content moderation and the population on Threads, but as you noted that’s fixable on an individual and community level. The existential threat to the future of the Fediverse is why servers should defederate. Meta can’t and shouldn’t be trusted with any amount of power over this community project.

It’s a specter with a heart bleed.

I tried for a while fighting in my local facebook groups, but it just served to make me mad and didn’t put a dent in the constant barrage of nonsense. I started blocking them all and finally just stopped using facebook entirely.

It’s sad since those are really the only online groups for my town. I just have no interest in engaging in the local community now.