I didn't know until recently that the US had such an effective blockade, so enemies of the US are Cuba's only hope, this is great to see.

https://youtu.be/5Dvu7qiM5rg

Pretty sure all my repos are MIT licensed for the betterment of everyone, but I'm not on the list! So I guess I'm not good enough, or they are failing to follow the attribution clause of it.

As Kohler points out in his introduction, the demand for housing started taking off in earnest after the Howard Government’s reduction of the capital gains tax (CGT) by 50% in 1999.

Very much keen to see this divergence stop, that would be a big difference. Bigger if wages can catch up.

https://michaelwest.com.au/the-housing-crisis-we-didnt-have-to-have-and-how-to-fix-it/

I read it as he implicitly does understand that and is the reason he suggests getting a refund if that is your priority. He is just urging people to see nuance that there is collateral damage for the rest of the people that make mullvad too. A loose analogy would be, I disagree with Trump and I wish my country would divest from the USA, which is all well and good, but the workers don't have great protections and would likely be the first to hurt. Sure a majority of them voted for him I could rationalize, but that's not the same rationalisation companies use to layoff before they actually start to hurt.

How does a credit score help? In my country we have a register for things like cars than you can see if any debt owed on it, so I guess tracking is on the asset side. Otherwise, wouldn't it just be fraud and the banks would take legal action? That would still produce a record that could be checked too.

His party did try, but the voters weren't a big enough fan of that idea apparently. So bringing stupidity into the equation would probably just offend voters smart enough to realise that much.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-calls-for-national-fuel-reserve/u5cjwpc36

Also makes sense for a parent setting up a device, they can enter the age once then not have to worry about a kid lying for every service they try and sign up for at a later date.

It's a very slow roll, but it is a roll, most of the good policies probably won't pay off for years. Turning property developers to make their money on supply instead of hording houses as assets should help eventually. And future made in Australia poised ready to fill the demand as fossil fuels slowly die out. Doubt there is much short term though with all this effort put into fuel supplies and only treading water as is.

It's only good if you live in walking/driving distance from a train line or bus way. Assuming the destination is also walking distance on the other end.

I wonder if your sentiment is common, because being a non American, it appears as a vocal counterbalance to the occasional intangible headlines. This would ironically explain the imbalance from my perspective

Optomisation often has a cost, weather it's code complexity, maintenance or even just salary. So it has to be worth it, and there are many areas where it isn't enough unfortunately.

And Plasma is part of their general branding too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Plasma

My take is that it is all subjective, I feel like I busted ass, I feel like a god interviewed, I feel like it was my lucky socks. Without a study and metrics we can't objectively measure reliably, but that would be overkill for every little thing. So we take our subjective shortcuts and move on. My advice would be focus on the sentiment, "that's impressive, it's good that hard work/gods intervention/lucky socks helped that outcome, because it seems so surreal otherwise.". That or have the heart to heart and put in the effort to align if it's important and they are important to you.

Unless it's Teams apparently, that's the last Electron app I want to install.

There isn't so much of the story elements, especially if you've tried Braid, but The Witness has endless intrigue and abstract puzzles. https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

Sure, that's fine, I tend to agree, I was drawing out the picture of the collateral, so it's considered as much or as little as it is worth, but at least considered.

For the reasons you are stating the snapshot is actually a boon. More than I'd like to admit I've had to write something that has been done so many times before with some slight structural differences. And of course there isn't a library flexible enough nor enough time to write that library. Instead of just busywork mindlessly writing something that should just exist already. You can just slop it out quickly then spend the time it would have taken to write that, to refine it into something maintainable with all the new changes that are actually interesting and useful improvements. I see it as raising the bar of starting point.

That said, I just license my own stuff as MIT because I want to raise the bar for everyone, though I know it's likely the AI companies haven't respected the wishes of those who don't do/want that.

The edge case is software development, for the bog standard stuff I write at work it probably helps me get work done about 15%-30% faster and with costs of $200-$400 USD a month the math actually works out. At current prices anyway. Also the electricity costs of running open weight models is even cheaper and if there is a pop HW prices may make that an obvious choice too. The worst case IMO would be a slow boil of prices to recoup the unsustainable growth then a slow decline to wherever normal ends up. In that case everyone is left indignant.

If you feel like you need to reinstall Windows anyway, Trying out Linux is a pretty low bar if you're curious. In that situation I think everything Linus did seems plausible.

Agreed, However I also wonder how or if LLMs could help with what we don't know we need. With the processing pace of LLMs and the massive context the can processes at once. It seems like it could make the broader connections that are usually the harder to find more accessible.