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Exactly my experience. I tried LFS several times, but I didn't learn much. I learned more with Arch Linux, but I truly appreciate the work that was put in LFS, marvelous for the right type of learner.

I came back to Emacs after a hiatus of several years. I'm sticking with Emacs for the foreseeable future hopefully.

> In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs.

It is now very difficult not to project human traits to LLMs.

Tangentially, a great interview with the creator of OCaml, Xavier Leroy [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cswiqrq6So

Qubes can be viewed as a Xen distribution, rather than a Linux distribution [1]. You may find the Qubes FAQ a good starting point (I'm reading it now because of your question, so thanks).

[1] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#is-...

Can I insult you and then complain that you focus too much on form?

I don't really know as the argument is mainly about how stupid people are... The technical argument is one paragraph ended with an insult, not much to make an educated and civilized opinion.

All I see is rudeness, insults, and arrogance sparkled with inklings of technical arguments. Worthless.

Very happy with the removal. Thanks to whomever did that.

So it's not PayPal blocking GrapheneOS?

> Their engineers look like absolute amateurs allowing for such low class work it results in their customers experiencing industry leading downtime.

I gather that you have intimate and deep knowledge on the teams and the problems they try to solve there.

The "distribution" made by... DHH. No, I can't, thanks.

For people who don't know, just read "As I Remember London" by this person.

Sure, arguments can be made in favor of being "above all these things," but profound moral disgust can also be a legitimate argument.

And probably exhausting. Good talk nonetheless.

I was responding to the person casting doubts on whether he/she should buy a Framework laptop by providing my own experience as a very happy customer. I still think he/she should go for a Framework.

As for BIOS updates outside warranty, I think it's always been risky for all brands. Maybe I'm wrong.

I don't think "non-sequitor" applies here.

I had a very different experience with the Framework team. The battery died (within the warranty period), I reached out to them, they asked some questions, then sent me a brand new one.

Very satisfied with my Framework laptop and the customer support. I can't imagine buying another laptop.

3Blue1Brown[1] has opened my eyes on the intuitive understanding of linear algebra, many, many years after taking a first course in linear algebra, which left me completely mystified.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

Interview with Mark Graham, director of Wayback Machine, and Chris Freeland, director of library services at the Internet Archive.

Fond memories of Knoppix from when I was younger. Many many thanks to the authors.

Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just incredible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s

"I don't know how to make a screenshot"

Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a status thing.

> If anything, LLM's seem more resistant to propaganda than any other tool created by man so far, except maybe the encylopedia. (Though obviously this depends on training.)

How would you know? My first thought is that the data on which LLMs are trained is biased, and the commercial LLMs enforce their own "pre-prompts".

> It's a shame

No, it's not. This goes against the whole thread and the article posted.

Videos that go through the xv6 source code: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...

> I hope these rather unorthodox leaps between linguistics and mathematics helped make it almost obvious that some words and ideas are untranslatable in practice. I also hope you don't take the analogy too seriously, because it won't go much further than this.

Phew! Thanks for clarifying.

I don't buy any appliance that has "smart" in it. Yeah, no, thanks.

Maybe a less subtle self-promotional blog post, as compared to others.

Thanks! Nice to see it has plenty of diagrams.

How does he know who is "native brit" and who is not? Rhetorical question.

I wish I had your confidence in "detecting" LLM sentences. All I can do for now is get a very vague "intuition" as to whether a sentence is LLM-generated. We know how intuitions are not always reliable.

Incredible work! I really wish the author's book had an English translation.