Very cool. It’s a pity there’s no option to highlight transit over roads or something though.

As someone who worked in an actually agile team years before the project managers co-opted the idea and contorted it into “Scrum” I feel this comic in my bones.

It is absolutely maddening how these people have perverted a system that worked so beautifully into the concentration-breaking wasteland we have now just to make themselves feel relevant.

While I’m presently a fan of Kanban, my happy agile experience was under sprints. If anyone is curious what that looked like, I’ve written about it here.

Did you… just find an actually helpful use-case for LLMs?

This is sarcasm, right? It’s hard to tell sometimes.

This is the only correct answer here. You want drivers to slow down? Stop building big, wide, straight roads. You need to add curves with trees and barriers, narrow the lanes, and (gasp!) even remove some lanes. Everything else is theatre.

Seeing Klein & Lewis together on screen, my first thought was:“that’s cool, they’re both smart people doing an interview” or something. Then I remembered that they were actually married and that I hadn’t seen them together since 2004 when they premiered their movie “The Take” at a small Toronto theatre.

The two of them are just awesome. I hope he’s does well in the leadership race.

That can come with its own problem that’s worth looking into. I’ve got 2 USB3 SSDs attached to mine, and the minute I add another one, I get complaints in the logs about insufficient voltage… even with a powered USB hub.

It seems that there’s a limitation in there somewhere, though I’m not clear on what it is. To be safe, I’d make sure that each drive is independently powered rather than relying on getting enough juice from the device or hub.

The Pi should be able to handle torrenting no problem, but, note that you’ll want to use a separate hard drive as the Pi uses an SD card as its primary disk and those things aren’t known for dependability under the load of constant IO from the torrents.

If you like her long-form stuff, she has two rather amazing videos on Nebula:

• The Macabre World of Bodycam Footage (not what you think)
• The Ballad of John and Yoko

I’d say it’s worse than that. If someone looks at a protest opposing genocide and they take from that that they’re antisemitic, then they’re essentially starting from a position of “Jews = genociders” which is pretty fucking antisemitic.

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Lindsay Ellis has a positively exceptional video on this very subject.

This is probably the code on which the LLM was trained.

“People who refused to vote for genocide have blood on their hands” is a weird take, but OK.

…and Dyson Sphere Program.

Oh boy are you not going to like this, but someone’s gotta say it:

The Democrats are just as responsible for this shit show as the Republicans

The US has a two-party system, based on the assumption that the two sides will oppose each other and through that opposition come to a happy/sane medium. I’ve been watching US politics my entire life (I’m 46) and not once have I ever seen the Democrats do their damned job and oppose the rightward slide.

Biden had the House and the Senate and he knew what was coming. Anyone paying attention knew that Trump or some other fanatic would take the White House again and he did nothing.

Things the Democrats could have done with the power they had:

• Reduce the powers of the president
• Enshrine abortion as a human right
• Abolish ICE
• Medicare for all
• Elevate Puerto Rico and Washington DC to state status, thus guaranteeing Democrat dominance for the foreseeable future.
• Reducing the funding of the military
• Stop supporting Israel already

They did… none of that. In the case of genocide, they did the opposite and then threatened anti-genocide voters that they’d better fall in line or they’d get… the other genocider. Fuuuuuuck that.

Some of this is strategic. The Democrats will never make it impossible for the Republicans to threaten abortion rights, because it gives them a stick to beat the Republicans with every 2 years. Same goes for Medicare. Some of it is ideological: the Democrats are just as bad as Republicans when it comes to supporting genociders and opposing socialism for example.

“BuT tHe RePuBlIcAnS aRe ObStRuCtIoNiSts!” I hear you say. “They Democrats could never get any of that done with the Republicans blocking everything!” To this I remind you that they had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency and all the powers Trump is unilaterally leveraging to turn your country into a dictatorship.

The Democrats haven’t had a leader with conviction since Carter, and every successive generation is more cowardly and disconnected from the people than the next. It certainly doesn’t help when people decry the immorality of refusing to vote for a candidate that will do nothing but keep the seat warm for the next Republican.

If the Democrats are unwilling to do their damned job, they should step aside and let someone else do it for them.

What’s 1312a?

The headline is rather vague and seems to buy much of what’s said in the actual article: that the cops raided this dude’s home and charged him with obstruction when he got upset that they were raiding his home and stealing his shit.

Among the things they made off with as “evidence”: computers, t-shirts, a fridge magnet, and a keffiyeh (that scarf traditionally made in Palestine). There’s no mention in the article that this dude was anything other than a peaceful activist campaigning for a free Palestine.

Edit: I just read the arrest report and it’s pretty standard cop overreach stuff. They raided his home, took his computers, thumb drives, etc. and the worst thing they found were “Plans indicating how to cause property damage during the protest;” and smoke bombs.

Definitely a true danger to the public. Best we lock him up so we can get back to bombing children.

I’ve wondered this myself, but at a guess, I’d assume that they’d attach a 1hr window to the time change. So to use your example:

• 1400h egg price is set to £3.00
• 1445h you pick eggs off the shelf
• 1500h egg price set to £3.05
• 1515h Jane picks eggs off the shelf at £3.05
• 1530h you get to the till and pay £3.00
• 1535h Alice gets to the till and pays £3.05

Basically, so long as you’re in and out within an hour, any price rises (not drops, likely) within that hour don’t apply to you.

Alternatively, there’s a continued push to use the self scanning guns, those things you take with you in your cart as you shop. These could track the time of purchase and thus give you up-to-the-second pricing. Of course this only works if everyone has to use those things. I’m sure that’s next.

It’s actually so much worse than that.

With e-labels you can optimise your prices in real time, A/B testing the public across the country in minutes to optimise for the highest rate a population will tolerate indefinitely.

Then, you can offload the management of this service to a third party, which sounds daft at first, but this provides deniability when it comes to price fixing. When EvilCorp contracts with all grocers in a given province/state, they can slowly hike the price of bread by 1% every hour until they maximise profits, screwing you. They can even optimise for time of day/region/whatever, all with deniability.

Surge pricing is a distraction. The real profit is in squeezing the public slowly.