Yeah. It’s a weird distro that Davinci seems to be really committed to for some reason. Davinci Studio on Linux is a bit of a mixed bag. There are several known problems with it mostly related to it being built with outdated libraries that most distros don’t ship with anymore (them including newer ones instead). The other major issue is just around missing codecs, although if you pay for the non-free version it includes the codecs as well.

Bold of you to assume the MAGATs (including the felon in chief) are smart enough to understand the implied threat/warning.

China also has an established, robust, and technically advanced manufacturing sector. That honestly is the biggest thing keeping manufacturing there. Things made from raw resources could be moved easily but the lower labor costs would be offset by the decreased demand due to most of their customers being back in China.

Things are even worse for anyone making something that requires manufactured components as all those suppliers are in China so now not only are they taking a hit for reduced demand, but also the headaches of having to import their components from China just to build anything. Labor would need to be ridiculously cheap compared to China for that to start looking like a good idea.

That does raise an interesting question though. What would happen to those treaties if Canada decided to officially become fully independent of the crown? I don’t think anything is really stopping that from happening other than there not really being a significant upside for Canada.

Also side question, is the king (and I guess the entire royal family) considered a citizen of Canada and all the other countries that apparently never really got their independence from England? That’s got to be incredibly weird for someone marrying into the royal family. “Congratulations you married a royal, here’s your new citizenship to a dozen different countries most of which you’ve probably never set foot in before”.

Well, I suppose that’s kind of like the ultimate veto, “you suck at this so much you’re all fired”. How many times has that actually happened?

Well it’s also about supply chains. All the components are also made in China so you’d end up ordering the parts and then having to wait a month or more for them to be shipped to the US. If you want to avoid delays that means maintaining a significant stockpile of parts in the US that you may or may not ever actually use.

As an outsider looking in this seems very weird. I guess the king of England is also technically the king of Canada, but I’m failing to see why that matters even if it’s incredibly strange. I know in England the monarchy is almost entirely symbolic with nearly all the actual governing done by the PM and Parliament. I would assume Canada is the same. Does the monarchy have any actual power in Canada? I believe in England they have a (incredibly rarely used) veto power over parliament but that’s it. Is Canada not the same?

My job has a 3rd kind of complexity, non-essential complexity, which is like essential complexity in that it comes from the business domain, but isn’t actually required. It’s non-technical decisions about how our apps and services must function that introduce all our complexity and massively complicates our code bases. At one point we literally have to attempt to predict the future because they adamantly refuse to simply ask the customer what they’re planning.

That’s just an evangelical Christian thing. I know a Baptist who’s always going on about the rapture and how “Jesus is coming”. The nutter once couldn’t find anyone for a couple hours and didn’t see anyone outside and decided the rapture had begun so she went and started packing a bag “to meet Jesus”.

AKA the even crazier brand of Christian. They’re not quite Scientologist levels of crazy, but they’re not far off.

The crux of it is that it allows for commercial use without needing to distribute the source code. Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on who you ask. There’s basically a continuum for open source software with GPLv3 at one end and MIT at the other.

GPLv3 guarantees that corporations can’t play games with patents or weird DRM to hobble an open source library and tie it to their closed source product. A lot of corporations will specifically bar employees from using GPLv3 code out of fear it could force them to open source their proprietary code as well.

At the other extreme you’ve got MIT which basically says do what you want with it. Fork it, embed it in your projects, sell copies of it if you want. Anything goes as long as you include a copy of the MIT license along with your software.

Rust tends to get a lot of commercial usage so GPLv2 or MIT tend to be chosen over GPlv3, and between them most companies feel more comfortable with MIT.

The far more likely scenario is that large quantities of gold are extracted from the asteroid belt. Short of someone inventing a Star Trek style replicator it just won’t ever be cost effective to create something like gold through manipulation of individual atoms. Even if we had that tech in a reasonable cost effective form it would be used for making actually rare elements not something as abundant as gold.

So tipping is complicated in the US. There’s a strong argument to be made that tipping culture in the US has its roots in racism as tips were seen as a way to discriminate against black people in a way that couldn’t be easily proven. The overwhelming majority of wait staff in the US receive non-livable wages with the expectation that the majority of their income will come from tips. As such for many people tips represent a significant percentage of their income. For many tips are not “extra” for doing a great job but instead represent part of their salary that they count on but which can be arbitrarily withheld for any nebulous reason.

This is why not tipping a waiter in the US is not just a statement that they didn’t do a great job, but is an active statement that they did a terrible job. In other countries it’s the equivalent of complaining to a manager about the service, but in the US this can be done in a much more direct far more impactful way without actually having to articulate why you’re upset with the service or even interacting with anyone directly.

To be clear, I am not claiming any of this is good. Tipping culture in the US is terrible and many, perhaps even a majority of Americans would be happy to see it gone, but it’s something of a systemic problem now and doing away with it would require a strong unified approach that in the current political climate seems unlikely.

If they wanted to fix this the penalty for not filing should be to have all the oil that site extracted seized and sold to the highest bidder. Profits from the sale to be set aside to cover the costs of the inevitable super fund site.

No it won’t. This is not even remotely cost effective both in terms of time and energy. You could literally collect more gold in a fraction of the time by just panning in a stream. There’s also the slight complication that the “gold” produced in this manner is basically atomic buckshot and ceases to exist very quickly after it’s formed.

TL;DR: this is making gold out of lead in only the most technical way, you don’t actually end up with any gold at the end of this process. You could just as easily claim you’re making x-rays out of lead using this same process.

I think it’s more that most people just aren’t aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren’t any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what’s the alternative? Sure there’s a few Linux phones out there and that’s almost an alternative but it’s not there yet. You could go with a “dumb” phone, but for most people that’s not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.

If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they’d probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.

Wake me up when someone besides OpenAI says they’re the best at something. When a company releases a benchmark they designed that their own tool that’s generally regarded as not very good is suddenly the best at, that’s not news, at best that’s PR, at worst propaganda. This reeks of “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong”.

Seems to be some kind of centralized streaming service catalog. Never heard of it before now and no idea why anyone would be willing to pay $30 for it let alone $60.

It’s literally in the name! Congress controls the Library of Congress.

While the goal might be correct, this isn’t going to do shit. This is a non-story, Trump is just redoing something he did in his first term already that failed. The headline is what Trump is after, this is just a PR move.