I’ve always taken it to mean: put your effort into making it work first, before worrying about optimization. Once it works, you can decide whether it’s worth putting effort into optimization. But if you do that first, you might optimize for the wrong thing. Or get distracted by optimization so you never get it to work.

Can we get Ludic to do this? Not a Brit, but he does have a way with words.

Wait, so LAPD is armed with nerf guns?

Surely that guy will now be fired and charged with assault? This was completely unwarranted.

Throwing kids’ lunch away should be illegal. What if s kid has special dietary requirements? But if a school does throw it away, they have an obligation to provide a free lunch that’s at least as good.

There are other countries where kids bring their own lunch. We always make sandwiches and a snack for our kids to bring to school.

I do think school-provided lunches are a great idea and if done right, would guarantee every kid equal access to healthy nutrition. Unfortunately we don’t have that in NL, and clearly the powers that be don’t want it in the US either.

But punishing kids for lunch debt is nuts. That’s absolutely a symptom of the US wanting everybody to live in debt.

From what I know, those agents can be absolutely fantastic as long as they run under strict guidance of a senior developer who really knows how to use them. Fully autonomous agents sound like a terrible idea.

Ooh! I need to look that up.

I recently wanted to send a file from Linux to an old tablet over Bluetooth. Can’t be done apparently. I can send it to my phone, a windows laptop can send it to the tablet, but my Linux PC apparently can’t. Still baffled about it.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package

As if he’d know how.

SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.

Ah, is that the way to address that? I don’t run into incorrect error highlighting often, and it’s mostly great, but when it gets it wrong, it can be very stubborn about it.

Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.

Or is xAI paying for access to Telegram conversations to train Grok?

Over 60?! Can we please classify Friendica as over 50? I feel old enough as it is.

It’s worth remembering that there was a time when the highest US tax bracket was taxed at 90%, and that didn’t stop the US’s longest period of sustained economic growth.

Ridiculously high tax rates for ridiculously high incomes have been done before and are entirely feasible.

There are a few exceptions. JK Rowlings became a billionaire simply by writing some really popular books, and even stopped being a billionaire by giving much of her wealth away. As far as I can tell, she didn’t become an asshole until later.

I’m willing to say more positive things about him. His dedication to Linux is great of course, but I’ve also heard that people working for him get a lot of freedom to choose what to work on. And no crunch. In the games industry, that’s pretty good.

So yeah, he seems to me to be one of the better among the tech billionaires. But in the end, he’s still a billionaire, and he’s god that ridiculous fleet of super yachts.

There was a time the same was true for Elon Musk, before he suddenly decided to jump the queue. I really hope Gabe isn’t going down that path.

The parliaments don’t, and they don’t have the loyalty to the security apparatus that US Congress has.

Either way, this is a distinct and important difference between the US and the EU, and a frequent point of disagreement in treaties and discussions between the two. It’s silly to claim they’re the same on this.