Laptops with AMD chips are not necessarily better in this regard.

From my anecdotal experience with an HP laptop (from work), with an AMD 7840HS, the blame is often also with the system integrator. That one has a bug in the power management system, where if you plug the charger in during sleep, the power state gets locked to some very low power sleep mode, until you either reboot, or plug the charger in while it’s not asleep.

HP doesn’t want to look at this because they don’t support Linux, meanwhile AMD kernel devs claim that this is probably a BMC bug so they can’t fix it. Whatever the real culprit is in my case, the BMC can do so much these days that it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of sleep issues are due to bad firmware.

Either way, system integrators like HP refusing to support Linux is in part what allows Intel and AMD to ignore a lot of Linux-specific bugs. SIs have a lot of manpower to help diagnose and fix them, and they have leverage when reporting bugs to CPU manufacturers.

It’s likely also plain corruption, just lawmakers creating ways for their friends to siphon money from government budgets with useless gadgets like this.

Happy VIRM noises at 160kph

Wait… were you arguing for or against AI slop?

So it was a communication issue then

The Académie Française is absolutely not a “committee of linguists”. They’re a bunch of rich conservatives who are way too high on nationalism, and they are infamous for going against the consensus of linguists (who they supposedly consult).

I agree with your overall message, public water in public water can absolutely taste like drinking from a pool.

However, small correction and a fun fact: the chemical you taste is actually chlorine, not fluoride. I actually have no clue what fluoridated water tastes like (if it has a taste at all), because in the EU most countries don’t fluoridate their water.

A small intake of fluoride is good for you by the way, it helps reduce tooth cavities. The amount you need is small enough though that you should get enough from toothpaste.

It makes sense for everybody, except for those with a financial interest in selling and/or haggling over software licenses. That’s not only the companies producing the actual software, but also legal firms and similar “specialists” who siphon off money from this system of complex IP law.

IMO the only way to transition to more software being open sourced, is to deconstruct these vested intrests with regulation. We need to fundamentally restructure the way software development is funded, and transition away from a model where ownership is the only thing that’s profitable.

Doing that is delicate though, because as backlash from those vested interests, a lot of workers will likely lose their jobs. You need to make sure those people easily find new jobs working on open source, and communicate that effectively, so workers’ job insecurity is as low as possible during the transition.

Yes, but also cartel behavior. Those same 3 manufacturers have been found guilty of it in the past, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they were fixing prices again now. See this video by Gamers Nexus.

This is the way

Developers have high workloads and managers are remarkably oblivious to sloppy work.

The way the law is being enforced now, this should be an entirely legitimate argument. A snowball’s chance in hell though that it holds up without a legal team like OpenAI has.

Yeah in all the libraries I’ve been to the standard policy is usually no food, no drinks except water. Maybe it’s the soda lobby which wouldn’t tolerate discrimination between water and soda?

Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

Nuclear waste is a problem for the most like any other. Given enough investment it can be solved, and no I’m not talking about finding better ways to store it. China has made major advances in this regard, their newest reactors generate waste that is much less long-lived (hundreds rather than tens of thousands of years), and they can reduce the volume of that waste through recycling.

I’m not saying nuclear waste is not a hard problem to solve, it is and we must be careful as a society to make sure it is managed well. In the meantime, we have a climate catastrophe which is much more pressing. Coal plants, which provide base-load electricity, are a prime target for conversion to nuclear, because their steam turbines can be reused. This could decarbonize a large part of the electricity mix of many countries.

Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There’s this famous quote about investing which goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can’t be replaced by AI, doesn’t mean there won’t be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.

And even if gender or orientation was a choice (not implying that it is), it would be a choice that is infinitely less harmful to the people around you.