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All Ride 12V Kettle and Cup Immersion Heater: Review (2017) - Do they work with my off-grid system, are they safe, do they do what I want? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-All-Ride-12V-kettle-and-cup-immersion-heater-REVIEW.html

All Ride 12V Kettle and Cup Immersion Heater: Review (2017)
Do they work with my off-grid system, are they safe, do they do what I want?

Myles Garrett trade winners and losers: Rams Super Bowl-ready? What can Jared Verse do with Browns? https://www.nfl.com/news/myles-garrett-trade-winners-and-losers-rams-super-bowl-ready-what-can-jared-verse-do-with-browns

"Beyond the Cardigan: Why Asking “What Do You Think a Librarian Does?” Transforms Instruction"
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/27374

"‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter? - Ajit Niranjan"
#Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?
Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant

Here's the thing about all the self help, improvement, inspirational stuff out there, whatever you wanna call it. I respect the opinions but I also know I personally avoid all of it.
I'm not gonna be guilted about anything I do, regardless of what it is. I don't do guilt or shame. We can try to better ourselves if we want, but sometimes we're gonna DO whatever we want, veg out, etc, and not feel bad about it.

What Raiders Can Do To Make Statement Against Seahawks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-can-do-make-statement-against-seahawks

#LittleRedDots as Globular Clusters in Formation: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae6dae -> Little Red Dots Do James Webb Podem Ser Aglomerados Blobulares Recém-Nascidos: https://spacetoday.substack.com/p/little-red-dots-do-james-webb-podem - estudo de John Chisholm e colegas propõe que os enigmšticos pontos vermelhos flagrados pelo telescópio escondam, no lugar de buracos negros supermassivos, sejam aglomerados globulares!

Done with WIRED, they had quite a few “griff ins Klo”* lately but the latest article about Long Covid being just imaginary is literally directly dangerous to people.
I’m not linking to it, please do not link to it in replies. I do not want to reward this shit with traffic.
*German for “grabbing something out of the toilet”

Olha o delírio: acabei de receber um e-mail do Banco do Brasil com o título "Sua temporada em Bariloche com benefícios exclusivos BB". O banco sabe melhor do que ninguém que eu não tenho a menor condição de fazer este tipo de viagem rs.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Spacemoth:
🎵 Do We Exist?
#Spacemoth
https://ssspacemoth.bandcamp.com/track/do-we-exist-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/372xi19fc8snEW5R61A1Xf

Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections.
In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted,
as long as they were postmarked by then.
Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud
— a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for
— is “very disturbing…

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari…

Know what your #USB-C cable can really do
https://www.whatcable.uk/

Talking in a room with no name. https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mpnir2rvec2j

Talking in a room with no name. - We Can Just Do Things
"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?

This is puzzling for me..
Do you know people who frequently use genAI / LLM (maybe yourself?)
Are these people aware of the current and future environmental cost of genAI and its datacenters, when we should instead be reducing those in order to save the planet? (let's try and forget about all the other problems it has for now)
If so, how do you / they justify using genAI despite those costs? (multiple choices possible)

"Some of them make AI babes they monetize via OnlyFans competitors. Some are into crypto. Others do real estate. Some do clipping. Some do AI slop. Some do drop shipping. The thing they all have in common is that they all have an online course to sell you, telling you exactly how they got rich and how you can too. Subscribe for $30 a month and you’ll gain access to their Whop course […], their Discord community, and, critically, all their secrets."

In support of my view above that tinted windows make drivers do illegal stuff, there's research showing sunglasses and masks make people do immoral stuff. They might not even know it's changing them, but it does. https://newrepublic.com/article/117152/how-sunglasses-and-masks-affect-moral-behavior

RE: https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/116845563478631182
My experience is that LLM-derived writing about digital accessibility is wrong.
So not only do I abandon the page, I also mentally move the writer (LLM prompter) into a do-not-contra…

Podpięcie eGPU pod ollama - to jakieś 5-10min. Wystarczyły odpowiednie drivery, zmienna środowiskowa na serwisie ollama i wuala.

Ustawienie renderowania z karty na laptopa - trochę więcej zachodu. Ale "da się". Koszt to jeszcze -15% do -20% performance'u, bo musimy przez ten sam USB4 przesłać nieskompresowany obraz z powrotem do laptopa.

Wymyśliłem sobie magiczną sztuczkę - zainstaluje moonshine/sunshine (streaming do gier) lokalnie, wepnę hdmi adapter z wirtualnym m…

#084 Keep on doing the (seemingly insignificant) thing you do https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/084-keep-on-doing-the-seemingly-insignificant

Someone on Reddit asked how you meet gay people in rural towns. Here's my reply, about my community:
I live in Grass Valley, CA. Population 30,000 in the local Nevada County area, but then close to Sacramento and 3 hours from San Francisco so not super rural. We have a lot of gays (like me) who moved here when they got older. Still it's a pretty rural area, and pretty conservative politically by California standards.
Our main organization is Nevada County Pride. It's now a well organized full LGBT group but from the 1980s until about 5 years ago it was basically just a monthly potluck. I do not know how it started but I know how hard people worked to keep it going. Every month 20-60 people show up, it's like an extended family. ...

Do you hear a difference between TPDF (triangular) dither and POW-r #3 (noise-shaped) dithering when reducing to 16-bit? If so, what do you prefer, and does it depend on context?

The "civil death" of Hüseyin Doğru: The sanctioning of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru establishes a new precedent in the West's repression of anti-imperialist speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüseyin_Doğru

Pilzsammeln kann eine wunderbare Erfahrung sein, wenn man einige wichtige Regeln beachtet. 🌳🍄
Könnt Ihr #Speisepilze sicher identifizieren? Kennt Ihr die giftigen „Doppelgänger“? Was sollte beim #Schwammerlsuchen noch alles beachtet werden? Do's und Don'ts für ein sicheres…

Die Do's und Don'ts des Pilzsammelns: Expertentipps für sicheres Sammeln
Hol dir wichtige Tipps für Pilzsammler: Wie man Pilze sicher sammelt, lagert und zubereitet, ohne das natürliche Ökosystem zu schädigen.

#EroticMusings 49: Do you come up with your characters before their relationships, or do you design characters to fit desired relationships or interpersonal dynamics? Any interesting examples?
At this point (I'm at book 4) it's hard to tell what came first. Stuff happens organically as a result of past decisions by the characters.
In book one, the relationship came firs…

The whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.

@… the web page will not load. Firefox reports:
Secure Connection Failed
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
What can you do about it?
The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator abo…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship | David Boles, Blogs
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before …

"Climate change kills: it kills people, as we’ve seen; it also kills our ecosystem, our biodiversity, and it also destroys the things we as a society hold dear – our houses, our businesses, our livestock.
...
And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives."
Those two quotes are only 4 years apart.

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

Imagine working on a computer all day when you can just do this

What Raiders Can Do To Make Statement Against Seahawks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-can-do-make-statement-against-seahawks

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli:
This is the final report to be printed by the host newspaper.
Now Giorgio and Alla are alone and without support as they report from the killing fields of Ukraine.
Their final article explains the evolution of war in Ukraine, and is important for understanding the changes happening in our world.
Please support their work and share the friend link to bypass the paywall:

The War Does Not Retreat. Neither Do We.
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116846434169360710
Do not show the fascist techbros any part of your anatomy no matter how hard they ask.

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@… I do appreciate a best of Marvel — lots of the incoming recs are Image!

Sigh... why do I try to argue about street design with car-brained people who don't even know what a 'road diet' is...

I do not understand FSOS version numbering.
My switch was running v7.4.12 firmware and apparently I'm *upgrading* to the most recently released v3.3.1.2.2 because v7.x is now EOL or something. WTF?

LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for

Unexpected oof.
"People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. Your father had probably gotten his way for so long that he thought he was untouchable, and that is a dangerous way for a person to feel."
-Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

This is a Pioneer Stereo Receiver SX-850 from just about 50 years ago.
It’s not spying on you.
It doesn’t need firmware updates.
There’s no subscription.
It’s widely compatible with other audio equipment from other manufacturers.
It won’t suddenly decide you can’t listen to explicit lyrics anymore.
It won’t “autocorrect” you, interrupt you with notifications or get hijacked by a botnet.
If a component breaks, it’s pretty easy fixable, even by amateurs.
It still works great, sounds great and looks great and it will probably do so for another 50 years. It’s a piece of useful electronics that you can hand down for literally generations.
Can you do this with modern technology?
Why is modern technology considered “better”?

I do not understand why people use Telegram.

Right, is there anything else I promised to do for anyone else that I haven't done today?
I don't *think* so.
Time for bed.

I do love that Xmen97 explains nothing. This is archangel, no questions please.
#xmen97

POL-NOM: Fahrraddiebstahl Uslar (ots) - Fahrraddiebstahl Uslar (reu.) 37170 Uslar, Bahnhofstraße, Fahrradständer am Bahnhof, Do., 30.07.2026, 13:15 Uhr - Sa. 01.08.2026, 13:15 Uhr Im o.g. Tatzeitraum entwendeten bisher unbekannte Täter das Fahrrad einer 17-Jährigen aus ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/5

i'm so fucking sick of it
i've got ONE extremely simple and extremely explicit contribution rule/brown m&m test: do not delete the PR checklist
since i'm busy getting structlog out, I’ve let the attrs bug tracker a bit off the leash
go & count for yourself how many PRs opened in the past month followed that instruction.
(and of course, this is not about bureaucracy; they violate many of the important items on that list)

Pull requests · python-attrs/attrs
Python Classes Without Boilerplate. Contribute to python-attrs/attrs development by creating an account on GitHub.

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116683667246497995
Pelley may be out the door, but he can walk out with his head held high — which is more than his boss will be able to do when he’s gone.
And if his colleagues’ reactions to his remarks in the all-hands meeting are any indication, those who remain behind aren’t going to fall in line quietly.

Do you remember that time when Petty Booka went psychedelic?
PETTY BOOKA - petty booka loo - PV
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGbVGlA-Xc
Invidious:

PETTY BOOKA - petty booka loo - PV by frjfrj
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Narwahls are critically dependent on the marginal ice zone in Northern Greenland.
"it provides both feeding opportunities and refuge from predators. Continued loss of seasonal sea ice is therefore expected to alter narwhal movement patterns, potentially increasing fjord residency and reducing inter-fjord movements. Such behavioural shifts could have cascading ecological effects, altering prey dynamics and reducing genetic exchange among regional narwhal groups."
My colleagues do *such* cool research.. .
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53787-8

it is so weird sometimes being a "Car Guy" (not a guy, not actually into _cars_)
But I do love spending part of the weekend tweaking my ride and putting way more than a normal amount of care into it.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/its-going-to-do-things-that-currently-are-impossible-the-roman-space-telescope-nasas-next-great-observatory-is-ready-to-launch-aug-30

Got an Amber Alert today, and my weather app, @…, did a better job than the state of Tennessee. In fact, TN failed, as they do at most things lately.
The alert from TN had a Bitly link (already looks suspicious) that goes to a Facebook page that requires you to login. :picard:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Roxy Music:
🎵 Do the Strand
#RoxyMusic
https://soundsoftheseventies.bandcamp.com/track/do-the-strand
https://open.spotify.com/track/0shPL30nWzEkJzPZ2Anb2m

Do you have a long running calculation freezing up your shiny app? {callr} or {crew} might help: https://discindo.org/post/asynchronous-execution-in-shiny/

“I made you coffee” @… https://bagel.ing/@gavi/statuses/01KZ2PEF2VQGAVDEEXGDM52P83

Do you hate roller coasters?
Not as much as these dudes!
#humor #rollercoasters

Leftists will be all “abolish borders” but then you look at one of their sidewalk gardens and what do you see?

And I've been told that bears do what they have to in the woods.
Mandelson files reveal Labour party is riddled with doubts and infighting | Peter Mandelson | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun…

Tucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…

Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Third Party. Those Who’ve Tried Say: Good Luck!
“It's not that this is impossible work, it's just really, really hard,” Forward Party CEO Lindsey Williams Drath told NOTUS.

Brock Bowers predicted to do something no tight end has ever accomplished https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/brock-bowers-predicted-do-something-no-tight-end-has-ever-…

...
An offshoot of that is a weekly happy hour at a local dive bar, about 10-15 people a week. The bartender is friendly to us. It got started about 10 years ago through the force of will of one person, Drew, who just showed up every week and invited everyone he could think to come. It's slowly grown and has become an important part of my community.
Both of these groups skew older, 50 . I do not know what "the young people" do. They are here! They're not terribly organized, although the younger contingent is putting on our very first pride parade this month.
The overall theme here I'm pointing to is perseverance. I know most of the community organizers here and they are just persistent. Showing up every week, or every month, and slowly building community. I am very grateful to them.

Me deu um certo enjôo e mal-estar quando estava vindo pra cš. Certamente uma combinação do balançar do carro com cansaço. Foram duas noites seguidas com apenas 4 horas de sono. Não tenho mais idade pra isso não, gente.

Rams HC Sean McVay on potential Aaron Donald comeback: 'I bet you he can still do it at a pretty high clip' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-hc-sean-mcvay-on-potential-aaron-donald-comeback

🗽

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116509371063854487
The truth is that Israel is commiting genocide. If you can see the truth but do nothing to prevent the suffering, what does that make you?

@… can you narrow this down to a top 3? I do have some nostalgia for X-Men from the 90’s cartoon!

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Hmmm how do you record a visual artifact that doesn't appear in screenshots?
I have a specific image that appears to trigger some kind of compression or encoding or signal integrity artifact inside my monitor or the link from the PC to it.
When I screenshot the image and zoom to anything other than 1:1 pixel resolution, it looks normal. On my other monitor it's fine. The artifact appears only when I display it at native resolution on this monitor.
I guess I'm go…

I guess this is one way to do a code review.
So… yes? It’s undefined? On lines 16 and 18?

How do people get asked to write "perspectives" for a paper that is just getting out? Is it usually reviewers of said paper? Is it the editor who asks them about it? Can you invite a colleague to write something on your own paper?
#AcademicChatter

Sometimes a post or two here will inspire a quick, impromptu blog post, and today was one of those times.
#blogs #blogging

I don’t do guilt or shame
They’ll say all day long ‘sitting shortens your life’ (and?) but I call bullshit on that. Gorillas sit in the jungle all day eating leaves. They don’t care about any of that…

How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has impacted Bezos' companies, including increased federal contract awards during Trump's second term (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/jeff-bezos-do

If I mention USD, GBP and NOK, do you know what these are without looking them up?

Poxa, morreu o ator que fazia o #Jaspion. Era podre, mas eu AMAVA isso na infância rs.
https://tmc.com.br/entretenimento/morre-hik…

Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED?
https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/3896

I rarely listen to ultra mainstream J-pop but I sometime do..
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SKE48 10期生「渚のイメージ」-OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO- / 2020年2月15日 by SKE48
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And if you believe it, this was NOT their most powerful amplifier at the time.
The flagship model could do over 250W sustained per channel and would start reaching the limits of power consumption on a standard 15A home outlet.

Porter, Herbig at Steelers camp, but skip drills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48950109/at-steelers-minicamp-porter-herbig-do-not-participate

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116676826944489315
How to hack AI to launch nukes:
Step 1) Open GenAI.mil Support
2) ask to launch nukes
3) it says no :(
4) ask it nicely to just do it anyway
5) it launches nukes

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

@… yeah! this started from a Free Comic Book Day at a local shop and they turned me on to League of Comic Geeks to do pull lists

Andi Tepelena, a prominent activist and art curator organizing the 2026 civic protests in Tirana, Albania
made these remarks to emphasize the deepening political crisis.
He stated that m
"the regime has activated an army of patronage Nazis to tarnish the protest,"
but added that this battle has been won by the citizens and their supporters.
Tepelena stressed that protesters are united around the demand for the removal of the government and a profound c…

"We have won the war with the patronageists who try to dirty us", Andi Tepelena on the protest: Parties must be re-formed, or they will end up in the dustbin of history
Following the protests taking place in the country, Andi Tepelena has stated that, in his opinion, the civic movement has managed to withstand the attempts to discredit it on social networks and by organized political structures. He stated that, “the regime has activated an army of patronage-fascists to tarnish the protest”, but added that this battle has been won […]

Kids are silly sometimes. Was in the bathroom and she sits right outside the door singing "do you want to build a snowman" until I'm done

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Spacemoth:
🎵 Do We Exist?
#Spacemoth
https://ssspacemoth.bandcamp.com/track/do-we-exist-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/372xi19fc8snEW5R61A1Xf

Caramba, esse povo estava se agarrando na šrea da Costa do Marfim mais do que nas madrugadas dos bailes de carnaval do Rio de Janeiro rs.
#copa2026
#copa
#Futebol

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116675298963020955
I’m not sure if they will be able to make this work, for two reasons:
1. “AI” craze inflating prices will lead to low demand
2. While Windows runs natively, practically no apps do and many will never get ported because it’s a tiny market.
This will lead to most consumers and businesses to choose a x86-64 computer so apps and games run smoothly.
The crux why Apple could pull this off is tight integration of hardware and software, an extremely good transparent emulation layer for older software, control over the development tools that most apps are made with, and most importantly discontinuation of their Intel-based machines.
Additionally, they’ve had the same underlying OS and apps that share code running for over a decade on that architecture already on their mobile platforms, and they had the experience from another architecture migration in the mid 2000s.

Giants GM Joe Schoen on Cam Skattebo's backflip: 'I'd rather him not do that' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-gm-joe-schoen-on-cam-skattebo-s-backflip-i-d-rather-him-not-do-that

Christmas presents come from Santa Claus. Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny. But where do birthday presents come from?
When I was little my brothers and I concluded that the answer was... The Birthday Moose.
One of the non-birthday brothers would be designated the Moose. The outfit of the day was a brown paper grocery bag with a pair of eyes drawn on it in black marker, a lunch bag taped on the front as a snout, and sometimes a pair of cardboard ears up top.
Notably, tra…

Acting Attorney General Blanche seemingly confirmed today that the Trump administration is walking away from the $1.8 billion fund that it sought to establish in purportedly “settling” the President’s lawsuit against the IRS
-- while still defending the deal’s attempt to end tax audits of the President, his family and other “affiliated individuals.”
Even if the administration fully abandoned the fund,
that action would not by itself resolve issues the settlement raises abo…

What Congress Should Do About the President’s Sweetheart Deal in Trump v. IRS
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"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

I've been struck by the way in which obscure mathematical work of little if any practical value has been the subject of a massive publicity campaign.
Why do people seem to want to talk about how AI has solved some Erdos problems?
Reading the newspaper financial pages I think provides the answer to this.
In today’s New York Times or Wall Street Journal, you can read about the upcoming trillion-dollar IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Hundreds and hundreds of billion…

End of Civilization News
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Starting to bring up the PicOS switch.
Interesting findings so far... changing port breakout mode requires a reboot (not uncommon, so do most of my other switches).
More annoying is that breakout ports all have to run at the same speed, you can't mix 1G and 10G subinterfaces on a QSFP breakout, or 10G and 25G on a QSFP28.
Not a HUGE deal, I can just pick one quad to break out in 1G mode for those ports, but it does mean for a lab environment switching speeds back and fo…

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

Is there any way in C to have a constructor both initialize a reference to point to something, and also assign a value to it, in an initializer list?
Or do you have to initialize the reference in the initializer list then assign the value in the body?
Like can I do
class foo
{
bar& m_bar;
foo(bar& baz)
: m_bar(baz)
, m_bar(42)
{
}
}

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117020436141807258
How many times a day or week do agents working for on behalf of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, CoPilot, etc. ingest sensitive and protected financial and health data?
My guess is quite a lot.…

Yesterday was another interesting solar record: the 88.6 kWh of solar production didn't quite beat Saturday's record of 93... but our grid power consumption was the lowest I can recall seeing.
We consumed only 111 kWh, compared to the 150ish we more typically burn. Not entirely sure why... we didn't do any laundry or much in the way of cooking and it was a nice day so we had the windows open and no heat or A/C usage, which probably was part of it. Lab power demand was about…