The US government acts here in favour of a monopoly market. Trump violates free market principles; quite interesting how Trump works against core capitalistic means, in favour of personal corruption.
Leyen babbles a lot. I have absolutely nothing at all against Canada and EU getting closer, but please don't dance when Leyen whistles - that leads to nothing but uselessness. She should have never been in politics to begin with - the absolutely worst person for the job.
That makes no sense to me though. I always prefer physical books to any ereader, but I still stopped accumulating (new) books in my flat - they just accumulate space. I'll always love hardcopy books, but not needing them as a physical hardcopy is just better for me.
I had the same problem which inevitable made me buy a bigger apartment. It's hand down the best investment I have ever done since tangible book assets give you so many different an non curated insights which you can only get from reading. You should not see books as something that take up space but rather something that free up space
I just get rid of most books after reading, knowing that I won’t reread the great majority of them or need them as a reference. For the few that I might unexpectedly end up wanting to reread, it’s okay if I’ll have to reprocure them. That case hasn’t occurred so far.
This one. Recently I added "re-f" property to my templates for the Review base in Obsidian ie how probable a review/reread/rewatch factor that title has. And it's quite liberating to juas write zero there and remove/delete the title. Also helps with datahoarding tendecies.
In fact - many old huge books are epic. I remember in the early 1990s
we had a huge book about history. It detailed each year with the most
important events. I loved reading in it. Even today I like it.
Unfortunately I am also now part of the digital-only guys, so I have not
bought a hardcopy paper books in quite a while (excluding one exception
for Raymond Feist, but by and large I only read .pdf files nowadays).
So I store things in .pdf files mostly. I also hate .epub files and refuse
to use them.
I still have many old books here, but new books rarely come up and I only
keep books I find interesting or important or I may re-read. For instance
I have one small hardcopy of 1984; I think it is an important book. And a
few more like that. But I barely have any new paper books.
I don't presently have any really huge book. Not sure what I will do should
I inherit huge books. On the one hand, having them is kind of cool, but I
don't want to keep them in a library or shelf either, so ... I will probably
not use it. But I would not chop up any book, not even on a first april. It
just seems totally pointless and also defeats the point of having huge books.
Huge books are kind of cool. Not practical but cool.
> One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11
I see this more as an excuse used by a small corrupt elite
wanting to enslave the people. The problem is that you do not
have a real democracy in the USA. The current orange clown
brigade shows this best (corrupt to the core), but it is not
really much better with other roleplaying administrations.
Sooner or later people will realise this too, even the not too
terribly bright.
I don't know why Trump's existence is evidence the US does not have a "real" democracy. As a group, we voted for him, and he went to the Oval Office. That's democracy.
There are certainly governments outlawing political opponents in the first world, but that's not the US.
When the same guy wins when he gets the popular vote, and wins when he doesn't, that may technically be "democracy" in the sense that a vote occurred and votes were counted, but it clearly isn't fair (and it isn't, it isn't designed to be. If it were fair, the people might do something crazy like vote in a populist demagogue...)
And yes, I would say that regarding the other side too.
Yes, it was set up that way to keep slave-owning states in the union, which one assumes should no longer be an issue.
I don't think you should be able to win the presidency by doing really well in the five largest states necessarily, but I definitely don't think you should be able to win the presidency by only doing well in a couple of swing states.
No, it wasn't to keep slave owning states in the union. You're confusing the 3/5th compromise with the electoral college. The reason we have 50 little elections instead of one big one is to keep the largest states from dictating policy to everyone else.
Whenever you have voting you have swing votes. That's just Democracy. If it wasn't swing states it would be swing voters nationwide.
> Text just doesn’t carry enough meta information for any kind of assessments to be even close to accurate.
Well, that is true, but I have seen how one japanese developer, who has
had low english language skills, suddenly writes epic text. So it is clear
that he is using AI when interacting with other people. This is a problem
because a lot of it is just AI slop fake interacting. I don't want to
interact through any AI filter; it means the other human being is not
interested in communicating with me, so why would I want to communicate
with an AI slop controlled human? It makes no sense.
As for software: IMO documentation is very important. Many projects lack
good documentation. This is valid for both AI slop created projects and
real humans created projects. There are too many software developers who
hate writing documentation. I don't want to use such software anymore.
Unfortunately AI slop documentation often sucks too. They just spam you down
with words that mean nothing. And are very verbose. This is also totally
useless.
It seems as if software designers indeed fail hard in the last years. Quality
standards used to be higher in, say, 2005 to 2010, compared to now and the last five years.
> Their mere existence makes educating yourself and going on fun side projects much less rewarding.
It's not just AI though. Look at Google search. Use it. It is totally useless now. Google crippled it deliberately some years ago. Now you'd think alternatives are better, but they also suck. DuckDuckGo? Qwant? They, oddly enough, manage to be even worse crap than Google search, which is amazing. Crapification has become the default now.
It is possible to do it over a few days really, even with not too much knowledge.
Requiring four months seems as if it was a side project, which is of course totally fine, but for any main task it really should not take more than a few days, even on a semi-slow computer (well, depends on how slow).
Well as mentioned it was in the 2000s. Compiling KDE alone took several days. Also there was no automation/script, so you really had to go to ftp.gnu.org and look in which folder the coreutils package is ;) I realize there's now a list of packages with checksums
Except that if you fail to install the bootloader - which happened to me many times - then you do not have a working system. So really the prior argument makes sense.
IMO the guy is right - LFS could be way better. But it has this current structure and does not deviate from it. That's the bad part.
> If you do things step by step incrementally, you keep having to go further back in the process. Starting over repeatedly gets tedious, boring and frustrating. And it'll take ages to finish the complete OS.
Pray tell how that is necessary for the bootloader? The chain used in LFS isn't the only one that makes sense or is required. IMO it would indeed be better to have a system you boot into as quickly as possible, on real hardware, then continue from there.
If you're going to run the OS, you have to make sure it compiles and runs the bootloader and its installer. The toolchain could be different enough for that to fail. And you do boot into a reasonably small OS and continue from there. That's what BLFS is all about.
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