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It's a little ironic to label a call to "stop adding new things" as a "new thing" itself, no?

Many Catholics believe that Mary was born without sin (immaculate conception), never died (assumption into heaven), can advocate to Jesus for believers (intercession) and has been crowned the Queen of Heaven. This goes well beyond "admiring" or "honoring". To complicate matters, many of these dogmas were only formalized by the Catholic church in the past 200 years. Quite a hard sell for the "sola scriptura" contingent.

> I have a few really good hardware ideas, but I don't believe I could ever market them fast enough and far enough to make it worth spending the R&D to make them happen.

Isn't this why patents exist?

If the telephone replaces errand boys, should it also pay taxes?

> Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death"

> "There is no particular reason to do it in rust, I just wanted to learn rust, and see if it can work in the kernel."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

Women: surgery to extract eggs

Men: wanking into a tube

I assume you're talking about malware uploaded to new artifact coordinates (possibly named so as to try to confuse users), not hijacking of existing artifact coordinates (group ID, artifact ID)?

NPM has about 4 million packages, Maven Central has about 3 million packages.

If this were true, wouldn't there have been at least one Maven attack by now, considering the number of NPM attacks that we've seen?

Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. This particular mother did not have to give up her job. It does stretch the definition of "homeschooling" a bit when it's a neighbor teaching in a neighbor's home, but they made it work.

> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

Popularity is not an exclusively American concept. Just as public school broadened your horizons, so will traveling (or living) abroad.

> they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it

A tale as old as time:

> Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. [...] Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark 6:1-6)

See sibling comment. Seguimos siendo un país de gitanos que no se ha adaptado a las necesidades infraestructurales, organizacionales, legales o sociales de las renovables. I'm bullish on solar in the long-term, but I expect further problems here (including outages) in the short- to mid-term. I'd love to be wrong on this, though.

BTW, with a name like "lentil_soup" how could you not live in Spain? ;-)

> let them take their money with them

The image of taxman as thief has never been clearer.

Spain is on the same path: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energ%C3%ADa_nuclear_en_Espa%C...

There must be some sort of legal agreement governing the data sharing. NDAs tend to have something like:

> The parties acknowledge that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for unauthorized disclosure or use of Confidential Information [...list ways Apple is allowed to nail disclosing partner...]

Yes, but the license info is included in the font metadata, within the font file itself.

All fonts from Google Fonts are available under open source licenses. What is the point of padding out this 3-step guide with an extra 3 steps of license-checking fluff?

> My understanding is that codepoints beyond 65,536 are only used for languages that are no longer in use, and emojis

This week's Unicode 17 announcement [1] mentions that of the ~160k existing codepoints, over 100k are CJK codepoints, so I don't think this can be true...

[1] https://blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unicode-170-release-announc...

Yeah, I think it was a similar concept.

So sad, he was more willing than most to hear and debate contrary viewpoints (the "prove me wrong" table).

That's a great point!

Large Language Models (LLMs), like GPT-4, offer numerous benefits for writing tasks across various domains. Here’s a breakdown of the key advantages:

1. Enhanced Productivity

Faster Drafting: Quickly generate drafts for essays, reports, emails, blog posts, and more.

24/7 Availability: Instant support with no downtime or fatigue.

Reduced Writer’s Block: Provides starting points and creative prompts to overcome mental blocks.

2. Improved Writing Quality

Grammar and Style: Corrects grammar, punctuation, and stylistic issues.

Tone Adjustment: Adapts tone to suit professional, casual, persuasive, or empathetic contexts.

Clarity and Conciseness: Helps simplify complex ideas and remove redundant language.

3. Creativity and Ideation

Brainstorming: Assists in generating titles, outlines, metaphors, and analogies.

Storytelling: Offers plot ideas, character development, and dialogue suggestions for creative writing.

Variations: Produces multiple versions of the same message (e.g., for A/B testing).

4. Language Versatility

Multilingual Support: Translates and writes in many languages.

Localization: Tailors content for different cultural contexts or regions.

5. Research Assistance

Summarization: Condenses large documents or articles into key points.

Information Retrieval: Provides background context on topics quickly (though should be fact-checked for critical work).

Citation Help: Assists in generating citations in formats like APA, MLA, or Chicago.

6. Editing and Rewriting

Paraphrasing: Rewrites text to avoid plagiarism or improve readability.

Consistency Checks: Maintains tone, terminology, and formatting across long documents.

Content Expansion: Adds detail to thin content or elaborates on underdeveloped points.

7. Customization and Integration

Prompt Engineering: Tailors responses for specific industries (e.g., legal, medical, technical).

API Integration: Can be embedded into writing tools, content platforms, or CMS systems.

8. Cost Efficiency

Reduces Need for Human Writers: Especially for repetitive or low-complexity tasks.

Scales Effortlessly: One model can serve multiple users or projects simultaneously.

Would you like a breakdown of how these benefits apply to a specific type of writing (e.g., academic, marketing, business)?

> less than 10% improvement year-over-year. That will feel like "stagnant"...

Especially when, in that same time frame, your code editor / mail client / instant messaging / conference call / container management / source code control / password manager software all migrate to Electron...

I don't know enough to judge one way or the other, but I wouldn't be surprised if this were true (unfortunately).

On the other hand, some changes have been pretty focused, as far as I can tell (e.g. DEI rollbacks, protecting women's sports, restarting student loan repayments).

I'd love to have efficient, relevant, balanced, trustworthy academic institutions. I think we all want that. But IMO we're far from that ideal, and given where we are relative to where we'd like to be, one of the steps along the way is going to look a lot like "owning the libs".

> It’s part of a global trend: universities cast as enemies and institutions in need of reform.

They are in need of reform.

> As scholars who study nationalism, emotion and higher education, we explore the emotional politics behind these attacks.

I don't think I trust you to diagnose your own condition.

Some of the Trump administration's actions in this area are misguided, but I am enjoying watching them challenge some of the left's sacred cows.

Cool, I could see doing this for some projects. Thanks for going into detail a bit!

Yeah, I pay $400/month to not be bothered with any installation or upgrade drama, ever. The problem is that I only get 16 threads.

I'd rather not pay for 8 cores / 16 threads, though...