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Areweaudioyet has been lost... Audio in Rust cannot use Jack on Aarch64 The jack crate is broken. A sad state of arrairs

> Can we catch up under this administration? No. The future is Chinese, if the Chinese can maintain good governance. A big "if"

> Money attracts people who want money. Yes. I think the future lies in organisation's bound by ties other that money In my home town there is an example: Kai Tahu ( https://en.wikip…

Need to save state for an HTML form? UUencode all 354 fields (64MB string) and put it in a hidden input field! Twice!!

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How incredibly stupid, on the face of it. A conspiracy minded type would say: Wreck people's health with processed food for profit, then make more profit getting them dependant on drugs to amelio…

Yes I prefer this sort of story to a scientific study!

Many places, many times. Trust in institutions is fundamental to a society that is goof to live in. USAnian institutions are particularly corrupt, all the way to the very top. It is not like that eve…

Have you a source? In NZ the cattle stand around in paddocks in all weather's with no shelter, but how do you know they are not fed supplementary feed? Dairy herds almost all are

Interesting In New Zealand dairy herds are routinely fed all sorts of supplemental feed (palm kernel leftover from pressing palm oil, imported from Indonesia is particularly popular, with cows as well…

In my country the lowest fat milk has added lactose. It did twenty years ago, when I noticed, I have not bought it since

> all they did was not accept a change, A change to make the documentation easier for LLM scrapers to inhale. What would be the point? It would, in no way, improve anything. Probably not even for L…

> Germany is increasingly authoritarian in order to keep heterodox parties out Please explain? The Greens are doing well, and certainly are hetrodox. Do you mean "keep fascists out"? Or d…

The USAnian system imploded dreadfully in 1861 It came very close in the 1930s, it is arguable that the New Deal headed off revolution The USA should have been considered a pariah state since the Gulf…

Where I live (Ōtepoti Aotearoa) charging at a charging station works out to be about the same price as petrol I have a plug in hybrid, and close to zero expertise, but I only charge at home, now I am …

Golly I have been using Emacs since 1989. I have seen so many editors come and go, and Emacs was never the best, but it was always good. And it has stuck to its (very broad) knitting. There are AI too…

Google these days are a collection of monopolies. There are no incentives, beyond law, for them to "Do the right thing" And the law is in the hands of literal bandits in the USA right now

> Google won't talk to us normies because They really should.... > ... it's a cost and they don't have to There are much bigger costs looming for Google if they continue to ignore…

AI companies are spending billions of dollars constructing data centers at warp speed around the world. It's the reason why Gogia says the demand for these chips isn't just a cyclical…

AI can't do your job Your boss hired an AI to do your job You're fired

When it comes to art, description is after practice It does not matter if they are labeled "composer" or "director ". It is the product that counts. "....I know what I like&qu…

> Its still a small portion of the total energy use and already powering a lot of things. data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approx…

I think you miss the point, I looked at that Substack, it is way off point It is the training of models, is it not, that requires huge quantities of electricity. Already driving up prices for consume…

> The creators of Agent Village are just letting a bunch of the LLMs do what they want, What a stupid, selfish and childish thing to do. This technology is going to change the world, but people nee…

Umm... are they not correct? The energy demands of existing and planned data centres are quite alarming The enormous quantity of quickly deprecating hardware is freaking out finance people, the waste …

Apply this generally to all frameworks

> Fighting complexity is deeply unpopular. Fighting complexity is literally the job of a computer programmer It is a hard job, and made much harder by the (usual) disconnect between management and …