Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn’t aware off before:

But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.

looking a bit into it i found this article:

https://rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natural-gas-importer-and-re-exporter/

So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.

Is it more? I know Spain is still buying some LNG from Russia, but i would have thought the amount went down, not up.

The German state of Bavaria once did something in the direction of moving away from MS. When Microsoft put their German headquarters into Munich the idea was scraped.

Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?

Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.

I would argue that for the most “tech illiterate” users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.

You don’t need to know anything about Alberta or the region. This is just how politicians talk.

If this was about honest concerns he would have addressed why the city plans to build bike lanes. Instead he just talks about “tax dollars” and increasing capacity for “all citizens”. Which shows that he has a complete disregard for the existence of citizens who do not take a car for every small move.

Does Muskrat seem like a happy and balanced individual to you? What about Coked up Bezos or AI Zuckerberg?

That is unless the bully messes with the wrong person and gets the shit beaten out of them.

Countries as a whole? That is difficult to say. Typically you won’t here much from such countries, as they don’t enforce themselves on others.

Not necessarily. Problem is when patriotism is not defined positively through your countries achievments and striving for self improvement, but through negativity to other people.

The US patriotism evidently revolves around the latter, so does most patriotism i have witnessed in European countries. I cant speak for so many other countries as i havent visited them enough.

I think “cash and run” is rather simple minded.

Imagine doing a larger “raid” at a farm or cobstruction site and take tractors, machines and equipment in the hundreds of thousands or even millions…

As these are also in more remote places it would take longer for any responder to arrive.

“We were able to determine that to the best of our estimation he was an ICE agent. … We will not look into it any deeper than that,” he said.

So having a shoddy fake card that looks like it could be real on a shoddy video camera is good enough for the police to not investigate further? Human traffickers must be having a blast in the US right now.

In a better world the driver wouldn’t be exploited in a gig economy and have little incentive to risk criminal charges for a fucking laptop.

You are completely running past socioeconomic factors to be the main driver of small scale crime.

That doesn’t make sense. Villagers know perfectly well how to make cheese and the cow is the most expensive part of the process. You add some acid to make the curd, add your starter culture from the sheep stomach, and have that rest for some time in a cool and dark space. After a while start salting it, if you have salt available.

You know how we say that Mushrooms are the largest organisms on earth, because the Mycelium is interconnecting all through the forest and we only see the fruiting bodies?

Well, most reasonably modern towns have all their buildings connected by the fresh water and sewage pipes and possibly gas-pipes. I’ll exclude electricity, because the cables don’t really have a volume they enclose.

So you could argue that most towns in Europe are indeed a building.

That makes gender more like “ethnicity”/“race” rather than “culture” don’t you think?

Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality.

That person you gave as an example? In the US, Canada or most European countries he will be treated better than an actual Citizen born and raised in the respective country who is perceived as “black” or “brown”.

I never said that.

The key point is that we are still limited by what LLMs can and can’t do and fundamentally this is no new technology, just refined technology.

Think of it like cars. Cars exist since more than a hundred years. A modern car looks much fancier than a car a hundred years ago. But when it comes to the core aspect -moving passengers and cargo around on the ground- modern cars can’t do more than cars from a hundred years ago. They are restricted by the same restriction (usually requiring some sort of road, requiring refueling points…)

We are pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do, but there seems no indication, that it actually is a suitable tool for automated programming. LLMs are most likely just cars, where you need something that can fly.

Learning a language and forming and expressing complex thoughts in an efficient way are three different things.

Learning the syntax of a programming language doesn’t make you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language makes you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language in an efficient way makes you a good programmer.

You can 3D print a concrete hull with limited structural strength. All the rest still needs to be done by humans.

Also you could achieve the same effect in terms of manpower required for the structure just using prefabricated concrete modules.

A lot of the things that current “AI” is doing exist since the 90s or even earlier. It is just that now the computational capacity is big enough to make much more complex looking inputs and results.