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The Raspberry Pi has been a bad deal for a long time now. Persistent shortages drove the real-world price up (no one was selling them for MSRP) and for some reason they never came back down.

Cheap tiny PCs are better at the high end, and increasingly-capable microcontrollers are better for tinkering. The Pi sits in a weird niche, and its popularity these days is largely based on inertia and network effects.

It's been a slow, strange shift away from a $25 computer meant for kids to learn programming and electronics.

From a brief look at their "people" page, it seems like they're all involved with chapters of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). If anything, this suggests against foul play, as their incentive would be to denigrate for-profit healthcare and overstate support for Mangione.

I am wary of the accuracy of the poll because it was an online one, but it does generally agree with a similar Economist/YouGov poll.

>in this survey, 70% of people polled are negative toward trump. The 2024 election results gave almost 50% of the popular vote to trump

This isn't surprising, as you don't have to like someone to vote for them. Especially in a two-party system. Trump is uniquely disliked by many Republicans, but those voters still prefer to have a Republican in office rather than a Democrat. It's "hold your nose and vote". The (center-)left even developed a slogan for it: "vote blue no matter who".

>(or - let's be honest - imagined new rules after the fact)

StackOverflow has been sending that exact email ("the motivation for doing so needs to be anchored in the merits of the post, not the person who wrote it") for at least nine years. It's not a new policy.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/314073/moderator-in...

Reminds me a bit of The Onion's "A Very Fatal Murder" podcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Fatal_Murder

Those are annual (over-the-prior-year) numbers, not monthly ones. When there is a rapid swing like this it makes more sense to look at monthly inflation (a much better approximation of the rate right now), which is at the lowest it's been in four years.

The relevant graph is here: https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-rate-mom

CNN did an hour-long town hall on the East Palestine disaster two weeks later, which doesn't really fit your narrative. They did a few stories on it at the time and reported it on-air, but didn't focus on the story immediately.

There's a parody account on Twitter that I dearly love for these. In particular: https://x.com/Saythetitle/status/909933269982105605

(It's a shame there's no nice way on Twitter to sort by number of favorites. You can approximate it by searching for "from:<accountname> min_faves:<number>", but it doesn't correct for the number of followers the person had at a given point. Which is a problem with subreddit "top" sorting, come to think of it, as it strongly weights recent posts when the subreddit was more popular. Always wished they'd fix that.)

This may not be exactly what the author is writing about (which is a more about creativity), but I find that Matt Levine's writing is just about the perfect ratio of serious to glib. The playful parts are clever and usually in service of whatever point he's making. Entertaining and relatable without the air of trying too hard.

James Mickens is another example, though he leans toward being a humorist first rather than a Serious Person being a bit playful.

The fun part: it does both!

The cost of cocoa beans skyrocketed this year because of bad weather. There is a huge production shortfall.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-31/why-cocoa...

Isn't Recall on-device only?

Sounds a bit like running out of memory, followed by the OOM killer going after the process... though I'm not sure the OOM killer would act that quickly. Do you get any interesting messages in `dmesg`?

Browsers don't have native support for opening WARC. It doesn't solve the safety problem either: you can still construct a WARC that phones home, AFAIK.

It's a great format for the problem it solves, but if browsers supported offline-only files the container format wouldn't (and shouldn't) need to be that complicated.

Yes, but it's not guaranteed to be self-contained. I wouldn't want to open a random HTML file knowing that it could phone home, or that the content might break one day without me realizing. There's a practical and psychological aspect to sharing `steves_paper_2014.html` versus `steves_paper_2014.offlinesitebundle`. The latter feels safe and immutable.

I really wish that browsers had developed first-class support for offline web page bundles. There's no way to share a page that is guaranteed to be self-contained and not hit the network, especially if you want to use javascript. It's particularly frustrating since browsers supported offline mode as far back as the 90s; it just needed to be combined with support for loading from zipped folders.

That simple change would've largely solved the academic paper problem decades ago. It's bizarre that it still isn't a feature.

I'm disappointed by the conspiratorial tone here.

They had already been acquitted, sinking a yacht in a freak tornado makes zero sense as a way of assassinating someone, and the woman who hit Stephen Chamberlain with her car remained at the scene.

Sometimes things just happen!

The hive does not seem materially different than "the bazaar, but everyone agrees". What are examples that differentiate them?

Note that this is across many locations:

>The Observer gathered the information by filing freedom of information requests to 12 ambulance services. While the information related to more than 30 Amazon sites, ambulance services did not record complete data for a significant number of the sites in question, meaning the figures are likely to be an underestimate.

I sit firm in my belief that the best thing Microsoft could do for their laptop ecosystem is to add support for a "max fan speed" slider somewhere prominent in the Windows UI.

People want the option to make their laptop silent or nearly silent. And when users do need the power, they generally prefer a slightly slower laptop at a reasonable volume rather than the roar of a jet engine.

Laptop manufacturers want their devices to score high on benchmarks. The best way to do that is to add a fan that can become very loud.

The incentives are not aligned.

All laptops should be designed to operate passively 100% of the time, if the owner so chooses. I doubt manufacturers will go that route unless Microsoft nudges them towards it. It would have downstream effects on how review sites benchmark laptops (i.e., at various power draws/noise levels producing a curve rather than a single number), which would have downstream effects on what CPU designers optimize for. It'd be great for consumers.

In casual use, yes. In formal writing, the broad switch to acceptance of singular "they" is only about 15 years old. Up until that point it's the sort of thing that would be flagged by an editor, or lose you marks in an English paper.

Does anyone have a link to the study?

EDIT: The abstract is here, I think. https://programme.aids2024.org/Abstract/Abstract/?abstractid...

For reference, this is the site as it appeared when it garnered the DMCA notice: https://web.archive.org/web/20240727134616/https://clownstri...

>it seems like there's no evidence of the government posting these vote tallies

They were released at a press conference. They read out both the numbers and the percentages. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB7g4y4M4s8

It is still plausible that this is an Excel error, but it's certainly suspicious.

Are you sure that is correct? I was under the impression that US government could order companies to turn over data, but that they could not compel them to actually do work. This was the center of the dispute between the government and Apple after the San Bernadino shooting: Apple was within their legal rights to refuse to provide assistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

The lengths that the NSA and CIA would go to to implant backdoors (interdicting shipments of laptops/phones and doing the work themselves) further suggests that they cannot compel this sort of action.

ShotSpotter isn't really related to current AI/ML products. The company has been operating for almost 30 years.

Possible good news: recent versions of libinput support completely custom acceleration curves! Though I don't know if any wayland compositors expose configuration options for it yet.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pointer-...

The second sentence contains "it's" instead of "its".

Are there any competitors expected to match SpaceX's launch costs or capacity in the next few years?

You should try for a full 3D implementation of Doom! I'm sure it's been ported to JavaScript at least a dozen times.