Didn't they relabel DEI as "Didn't Earn It". That is amusingly applicable now.
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Meanwhile - even if you do not care about climate - there is so much money to make with renewables (production, storage, mobility, etc). China and much of the rest of the world are charging ahead, while the US wants to be a petrol state.
If there remains an option to still opt in to full control over my h/w at the expense of some vendors saying that I can't use my phone with them, that's good enough.
Apple is already a walled garden, granting you only access to your hardware and they see fit. Google desperately wants to follow suit by enforcing developer registration (which is just the first step). And now this. This is will happen in the EU and US as well.
And always in the name of security, safety, or "will nobody think of the children?!"
My hardware, my choice, period.
(For me this is specifically on Fedora, and I always switch back to X11 from Wayland.)
Meanwhile China runs away with all the clean energy tech (solar, wind, batteries, etc, etc.) while we hold to fossil fuels to save less than 200,000 jobs.
Sure thing. It's all fraud and conspiracy. Fundamental science is worthless if it cannot be immediately monetized. All scientist are money-hungry crooks. Let's just stop all research then. Who needs antibiotics, or vaccines, or cancer research, or food safety. Who needs to know about the universe, or about quantum mechanics. It's all just elite stuff... Let's get rid of it.
Government is precisely the place to fund stuff that does not fit into the free market.
Meanwhile Google is trying to go the opposite way with mandatory developer registration/verification. In the US we will likely let them. Who needs freedom if there is money to make (and Google is just making a fake security argument.)
It shouldn't be that hard to do with my phone what I want, including accepting the consequences of my actions.
Sounds like a typical private equity endeavor with short term thinking.
The notion that there is an antichrist and that "international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise" is ludicrous.
The only reason we listen to his nonsense is because he has money, and with that comes power in this country.
I suggest he take some shrooms and chill...
Show me one useful software patent that (a) is not "obvious to one skilled in the art", and (b) benefits society by being granted a monopoly. Just one!
Software rarely requires expensive research that would be worth protecting. Rather than enabling a fair market, this takes fairness out of the market.
Software patents are like getting a patent on "Murder story with final revelation of who did it." Maybe add one or two features, like a "detective with hat", etc. In one fell swoop you would be able to own most murder mysteries.
Software (like books, stories, art, etc) is better handled by Copyright law. May the one who actually has a better product win!
Sorry for the rant.
True. In my case I literally had to fight for it. Our lawyers were worried about a weakened patent portfolio and whatnot. In my case at least I won and now we have a culture of upstreaming changes. So don't give up the fight, you might win.
Filing bugs, etc, is also has some value, but if a big company uses a piece of open source software and makes money with it (even indirectly), they can contribute engineering time (or money).
Probably won't help, but it is something.
Also, my hardware, my choice. It seems there is no way to actually let them know.
(Today, even though I still C++, C, along with Java, I'll challenge anyone who claims that Java is slower then C++.)
Did Boeing implement internal and process changes to justify this? That's an actual question, if they did this step would make sense.
I want to trust Boeing to do the right thing when it comes to safety. As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice.
That said... How much is a day, a month, or a year of a human life worth? Since it's clearly not infinite, there must be some line where saving a life is too expensive. What is that line?
Of course I have no answer here, but I think this ethical dilemma is what it boils down to. Still terrible. :(
The agreement I had with him: "Scroll all day, play video games, etc. That is my side of the agreement. And you also do your school work, learn, practice for exams, homework, etc. That is your side of the agreement. I'll trust you. If your grades get worse, i.e. you need help managing device time, we'll review/change this agreement."
We also sat down many times looking at content together, in attempt to teach him what's trust-worthy and what isn't, what's "healthy" and what isn't, etc. And of course we do other things together as well.
So far (knock on wood) my son has managed well - he is 16 now. He organizes his own time, and has learned when to play and when to work. And crucially he has learned when to disconnect from his devices to do what's necessary.
No kid is the same. I am not saying my approach is best or even right, I just offer it as another data point.
Finding peace in such a situation takes courage, strength, and reflection, and you apparently have/found all of these.
Reading the article I find nothing to object in there as such, and so I was wondering why this would be flagged. "Oh heck someone flagged it" is not quite good enough an answer for me.
Of course we can flag things, but I am not fan doing so silently.
Among other things I work on database optimizers and there Claude fails spectacularly. It produces wrong code, fails to find the right places where to hook up an abstraction, overlooks affects on other parts of the code, and generally confidently proposes changes that simply do not work at all (to put it mildly).
Your mileage may vary... It seems to be depend heavily on the amount of existing (open) code around.
Huh? Wait? Are you suggesting that by telling people to leave me alone I am infringing on their freedom to haggle me?!
What a disingenuous and hypocritical way to twist this around! Just wow.
(I did not downvote.)
There were so many options to improve efficiency with technology and then simply not refilling some of the jobs (apparently there's a 5-6% yearly attrition in government jobs anyway.) But nooo... And obviously this was never what this was about.
A friend of mine worked for the White House under the Obama administration, with the first goal to digitize the VAs information. One of the Trump's first actions in 2016 was to end that. Shameful.
Don't like porn? Cool, don't buy it or avert your eyes! As if this would stop anybody from getting access to pornographic content.
This will likely also require raising the debt ceiling further; apparently DOGE did not save as much money as they told us they did. What a farce, what shameful theater.