As entertaining as this is, I am concerned that it downplays the very serious threat Trump and his cronies pose simply because they aren’t particularly intelligent.

My concern here is whether anyone is actually going to stand up to him. He’s clearly flagging that he’s going to go after these people and it’s going to be dependent on whether the DOJ actually pushes back or not.

A well-written article and worth the read.

Probably the main thing I disagree with him about is the economic aspect and that’s only because it’s Trump we’re talking about - I’m not sure the economic costs will actually stop Trump doing something as stupid as trying to take Canada, Greenland or Panama by force.

Precisely what I am doing. Too many devices that still do what I need simply to ditch just because Windows 10 is EOL. I’m a bit over half-way in my migration (still have a few programs to sort out - may have to run a W10 VM for a couple of them as they don’t work under WINE and there is no Linux equivalent).

This is unhinged. I hope it doesn’t pass.

The question now is whether Trump and his cronies are going to obey the judge’s restraining order or take immediate action.

Me.

Or so that he can control other countries’ trade. He would be the gatekeeper unless ships wanted to take the long route around the Americas.

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning suggested next year for Canada and/or Greenland.

Both the US and my own country (Australia) are below the replacement fertility rate (~2.1). Without immigration, there simply won’t be enough people to keep things going over the coming decades as the population slowly ages out. I seriously doubt the average anti-immigration rightwinger understands this.

Sounds like Usha (her daughter) made a bad choice for a husband (Vance). Must make for some very tense dinnertable conversations.

His base won’t realise it was him either. Too long ago.

Yes, but he didn’t mean that he would be one of the people in pain!

This whole situation is appalling.

You’d think that being able to approve voluntary deparature on the spot would be high on the Trump administration’s list for political points - a “quick win” to get people out of the country as soon as possible and help meet Trump’s deportation targets. But being able to process people quickly means resources and a functional government, which is not consistent with Trump and co’s agenda.

Wow. I wonder if that’s only being rolled out in the UK at the moment? Definitely don’t get it here in Australia.

Here I was thinking that we’d get to the end of the decade before China invades Taiwan, but at the rate Trump is going China will probably be convinced that the US wouldn’t intervene if they acted by next year.

Rail (and public transport) should be publically owned. As someone who lives in Victoria, Australia, it is painfully obvious just how much damage the privatisation of our rail system in the 90s did. There was virtually no investment/expansion of the network for over two decades and it’s now too late - we’re stuck continually playing catch-up to the increasing infrastructure demands of our cities.

I’m not familiar with the ownership of Amtrak, but it should be fully government owned and operated. A vertically-integrated transport system was the most cost-effective approach for us and that lasted about a century before the more conservative of our two major parties sold it off.

Music to my ears.

Why? LLMs are built by training maching learning models on vast amounts of text data; essentially it looks for patterns. We’ve seen this repeatedly with other behaviour from LLMs regarding race and gender, highlighting the underlying bias in the dataset. This would be no different, unless you’re disputing that there is a possible correlation between bad code and fascist/racist/sexist tendencies?

Notepadqq seems to be catching up to Notepad++. In my case the feature that I was sorely missing was the function list, as I am not a heavy macro/plugin user.