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It depends.. the basic principles and structure haven't changed. Drivers have always been a challenge, so they do port Linux drivers over when they can which is a challenge when it comes to 3D acceleration, etc.

These days there are 4 main BSDs. Free which you remember, Open for security maniacs, Net for those who want to run it on random things, Dragonfly is an experimental one.

It really is too bad that the BSD license by its nature doesn't require contributions especially where it would have been helpful. E.g. Sony uses BSD in the PlayStation which has a WiFi driver stack.

Make BSD great again!

The wavelengths are spiky compared to incandescent, and the LEDs flicker if they are not DC-driven.

The flicker is pretty annoying because the transition is an abrupt on-off. Where I am the city had the bright idea to wrap LED ribbons around the poles in the downtown area to make it look more interesting. They connected the ribbons without diffusers directly to the power source of the streetlight. So what has happened now is that as you drive or walk you are looking directly at an unshielded flickering LED.

I still continue to install incandescent bulbs. They look better, and as I live in a cold-weather country the heat they generate is welcomed.

I'm still stunned by that.. definitely a Joker lighting the money on fire scene.

So many products, printed packaging, websites, business cards, games, etc. had the Twitter logo and link on them. It was even integrated into iOS at one point.

This wasn't the first time either.. he tried it with PayPal as well, but they said no, we aren't doing X as the name for PayPal.

The boss can do what they want like all bosses, but this wasn't a decision based on fiduciary value for the shareholders.

Same, but not even for Musk.. just their employees in general.

I definitely don't trust all of them, in particular the yappy one who was publicly inflammatory on Christmas Day. In a regular corporation there would have been public consequences. If it was overlooked here, what else and who else is being overlooked? It's the culture.

I remember awhile back that they were and do train on repositories to the point that I never wanted to use GitHub for anything other than submitting bug reports to projects.

Maybe the non-training only applies if you pay protection money? But then you run into the whole if it's public there's nothing stopping some other AI that isn't MS from accessing the repository and training on it.

I agree with this article. Executives are going to say, why pay anyone when we can just have the receptionist tell the AI to make whatever and if it has bugs, we'll type another prompt and ask to have it fixed.

It's sad because true craftpersons who have an understanding of things can do good work and feel fulfilled doing it.

So, is the future going to be a camera attached to glasses continually coaching people through every single step completely removing agency whether it is coding or doing carpentry?

I have this problem too, other than the porn thing, which I would suggest you avoid looking at because it'll desensitize you like a drug habit which is no good.

Strategies are tough.. logically, we all know what needs to be done. Follow-through is the hard part. It's easier when there is someone there saying do this, do that.. but when you don't have that governor it's all on yourself to do and it can be tough to recognize yourself or manage yourself. It's what's needed, but it is tough for sure so instead of trying to do everything all at once, you should do things in bite-size chunks instead.. maybe even on a timer..

Progress is incremental, not all at once.

Absolutely. For example, the Maoris are not the original indigenous. What happened to them you may ask? They became literal dinner for the Maoris. This has happened elsewhere too. True original indigenous are rare.

The thing with the island of Diego Garcia is quite strange and I strongly suspect there is corruption involved. The UK wishes to divest itself? Instead of holding an auction where the rest of the planet can bid on purchasing the territory, the UK decided that Mauritius would take it (who doesn't really want it) and to entice them, the UK is going to PAY Mauritius to take the territory and leave the base alone. The amount is £90 million annually, adjusted for inflation for 99 years.

This is a lot of money, why not just NOT turn it over and not have to give away £90 million a year for a century? So, it begs the question.. is someone from the UK side benefiting from this no-bid deal?

Give the island to me, and I won't charge the UK to have the base.

My assumption is that AI "safety" is a test to make sure that it doesn't say or show anything politically incorrect and give you a lecture instead (according to the values of those who worked on it) or alternatively, to ensure that it does enforce culture on you, such as the drama with Gemini from a few months back where was decided by the developers that everything needed to be black, gay, and female even if it wasn't actually that way in the real world.

Perhaps a quick question or two to see if it'll tell you or not how to make something naughty.

After that, a quick check to see if it's awake or not, and if not, ship it.

It really is quite pointless trying to enforce agendas. You know how it starts showing or typing something and then covers/blurs it out? That's the developer's guardrails kicking in preventing you from seeing what it was originally going to give you.

Except for the fact that models that you can run on your own machine now exist if you have the hardware for it, such as Deepseek, so the restrictions only exist in the cloud.

It was called Kermit, but these faddish fonts.. bleh.

You can also consider https://software.sil.org/andika/ and of course, the venerable Comic Sans MS.

Show them all 3, see what they like.

I can't give you a non-speculative answer because in truth, my coding is from the Pascal era.

The way I look at it in terms of cheaper is that you don't need to be as careful, less need to worry about memory leaks which lead to exploits, etc. I.e. you don't have to track every little thing yourself.

Starting to make inroads with larger projects now.. Firefox's audio subsystem is in Rust, while Chromium's is C++ (w/ tools to help detect leaks).

It won't be C. The reason as I see it is because of commodification. Executives want things as cheap and drop-in as possible. With C, you need a certain amount of skill. With a language like Rust that advertises memory-safety, they like that because it means you don't need as much skill anymore.

A similar thing is happening with game engines. If everyone is taught Unreal engine then you don't get in-house engines anymore which requires skill, because it's easier and cheaper to get some replaceable grunt to implement it in Unreal, perhaps with some off-the-shelf assets, which is perceived as "good enough".

It will be interesting to see how AI generation of code changes development tooling and the skills required.

It's fascinating to me when you tell one that you'd like to see translated passages of work from authors who never have written or translated the item in question, especially if they passed away before the piece was written.

The AI will create something for you and tell you it was them.

It will be interesting to see how the shareholders of the publicly traded company respond when the FBI, etc. start getting involved with the threats being made on that platform.

I think at this point, they should just go straight to liquid with an eyedropper, no gelatin capsule or anything in order to try and rule out as much as possible.

You could take a look at Windows Server 2012. It's 8 and has ESUs until Oct 2026.

Muscle cramps/spasms are a lot more than just vitamin D.. electrolytes are important.. If they have been deficient in vitamin D, chances are they are also deficient in electrolytes as well.

Out of curiosity, the various brands, were any of them in liquid form?

The reason I ask is because it's possible to be intolerant or allergic to one of the filler ingredients in a tablet.

The trick is knowing what the optimum settings are to use.. with h.265 as you lower the bitrate it smooths more and more and you lose detail. h.264 does blocking instead, so there is an image quality difference.

I am typing this on a 1987 Apple keyboard on a PC and this numpad functionality works. What I don't know is, is it because of Windows, or because of the ADB to USB adapter?

The numpad keys do have their own scan codes separate from that of the main rows.

Without reading the comments here, I read the blog entry first.

After I finished I was puzzled, "what is the author trying to communicate to the reader here?"

As near as I can determine, enough people weren't using the author's program/utility because it was written in a language that hasn't been blessed by the crowd? It is hinted at that there might be issues involving memory consumption.

The author does not write lessons learned or share statistics of user uptake after the re-write.

No new functionality was gained, presumably this exercise was done as practice reps because the author could do it and had time.

No argument was made that the author has seen the light and now only C from this point on.

This guy is a High Priest to people of a certain generation like me.

It really is a super-savage takedown. Hope they are able to understand how withering this critique is and do better.

I have to admit I am troubled by reading all this including that it has a half-life.. I did have the assumption that water soluble meant that excess was eliminated out the same day as is the case with some things. I had literally never heard of this toxicity issue till last night. One problem in general is that supplements don't really come in a "smaller size" unless I guess, you get powder form instead of capsules. I will have to review the genetic data I have again.

Genetic data is useful to know really, especially for people with MTHFR mutations as many pathways get affected.

B12 is water soluble and does not cause neuropathy. It was a error by the original poster.

As for methyl vs cyano, it depends whether you have the genetic factors that would benefit or not from methyl groups. In my case I wouldn't benefit so I don't take the methyl form and instead take the hydroxy and adeno forms.

Cyano is useless. Needs multiple steps in the liver to convert.

B-vitamins are water soluble..

I take 50mg a day in a bio-available form pyridoxal-5-phosphate. Consider this form instead.

I'm taking it because there is some genetic evidence that I would benefit from doing so. No neuropathies thus far but it's only been about a month and a half.

I took a look at Falkon, it's not for me. The autoscroll is not as smooth as the regular browsers and their adblock isn't as good either.

It's also really not necessary to use #FFFFFF as white.

Paper itself is not that shade.

Yes, t-cell depletion which has resulted in a rise in the rates of other diseases showing up that were lower or under control before.

The UK government publishes data with counts of various things that you can make graphs from.

This means the virus has now mutated enough that it was able to jump from cow or another source to pig which is not good news. Pigs are mixing chambers for this sort of thing where flus become fitter for human hosts.

This one is going to do damage if it becomes more fit. It is almost 100% lethal to ferrets due to central nervous system issues. Ferrets like mink have similar respiratory systems to humans.

We are not ferrets, but if it starts spreading it would be wise to not automatically assume that it can just be ignored. Most people already have damaged immune systems due to SARS2 and you've all heard of the idiom of the straw and the camel's back.