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By default I use Leo, and I do specify the distro. I tried to qualify by version, but when I do that I lose out on a lot of correct information for things that haven't changed in a…

I've run into major problems with LLMs as I maintain my home Linux systems. If I just copied commands they list, I would have a near 100% failure rate, as most of the information t…

There are different types of writing. If we depend on people writing because it's enjoyable at some level, we're going to lose writing that's important but also a bit tedious.

That isn't true. This is settle law -- states can not prevent people from going to other states to have abortions.

Corporations can't arrest and jail me. The most they can do is file a lawsuit.

Nuclear's top 3 problems: 1. Plant construction is very expensive, and not in small part because people who don't actually understand the technology take every opportunity to tie u…

Which makes sense. The US is a net oil exporter -- in a strategic emergency the US will still have access to oil. China will want to have a much larger buffer, since its economy re…

Nuclear waste isn't a problem. It takes up a tiny amount of space, and can be reprocessed if necessary.

Heh. Oddly, just like cold pizza, it tastes better to me after a day in the fridge.

As the topic article points out, the 2-4 companies in the beef industry are losing money at current prices. If they didn't actually compete with each other you definitely wouldn't …

You don't have to eat everything in one sitting. There's a burrito place near my house I go to occasionally, and every order there is two meals for me.

The entire life cycle of a pig raised for pork is around six months, so pork producers can scale up quickly if the demand is there.

There are certainly people who are insensitive to beef prices, but a lot of people aren't. I stopped buying ground beef when it went over $10/lb at my local supermarket. Pork and c…

Part of the problem during Covid in the US was US lumber mills are set up to do trees of a certain size. If the trees are harvested late they're too big, so we had to send a lot of…

My dad did 20 in the USAF. We would ask him about his work and he would just shrug. He wasn't allowed to say anything. Eventually we stopped asking -- what would be the point? Deca…

Writing code to do a thing is easy. Writing code that's logical and easy to follow, that can be extended in several likely dimensions without major plumbing work, and that doesn't …

There is certainly ample precedent for this. How many stable hands lost their jobs as people switched from horses to automobiles? In 1923 there were 863,000 coal miners in the US. …

Is that what's going on, though, or is it just that with fewer viewers the industry needs consolidation?

Does it really matter anymore? How many people get their news and entertainment from local TV stations?

Sure, it's possible in theory. In reality, the army has other priorities.

There was much celebration where I worked when the engineering manager approved EEPROMs. Not only did we put the eraser into storage, but they had the same footprint as the PROMs.

>Here's a point that I ran across: these long range missiles are there to take out air defences and such (along with stealth sorties), which allows you go go in with 'regular' ordi…

The USAF has a pretty substantial inventory of stand-off weapons, and an absolutely enormous inventory of guided bombs.

>The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raisi…

They announced a Chromebook replacement called the Googlebook in May. It's supposed to be "AI native", whatever that means.