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For what cost? Last I saw you had to pay at least a few hundred dollars a year and run enough network infrastructure to justify it.

Scored approval voting takes care of ten candidates. And sure let’s say after 3 elections with no winner fines could be imposed too, Australia style. But I would hope that having no representation while having the opportunity to have representation would be motivation enough.

Yes and the idea would be to change both politician and voter behavior. To me these arguments are like saying that because we have always put water into round glasses it would never fit in a square one.

I think my idea for this is that a candidate doesn’t win the election unless they get more than 50% of all eligible votes, not 50% of the votes cast. If there is no clear winner the seat is vacant, but a new election is scheduled for two weeks later. Districts and states that don’t care to vote simply don’t get a say.

When I was in undergrad we used CF quite a bit for the custom university applications. I cut a lot of my wed development teeth on it. But everyone hated it. So we were actually quite excited to get a PHP server. It could run open source alternatives to Blackboard after all!

I played around with PHP quite a bit in my senior year and got a job as a developer working for a PHP shop when I graduated. Boy was I absolutely disillusioned within 12 months. PHP nearly ruined my love of computers. It was an abusive relationship: I would spend my working hours writing horrible little patches to ancient systems that were made of spaghetti 10 miles long, then go home and night and weekend try to write beautiful code in PHP. The more little patches I wrote the more I felt the need to somehow make them right.

I escaped to Python and JS and have done a lot of therapy since. Doing much better these days, thankfully. My addiction to C seems like such a minor vice in comparison.

So you are trying to DIY a government but with no prior experience? Sounds like a nightmare.

I didn’t say it was good. I said it was better than Temu and AliExpress.

Those flashlight are amazing and amazing value. I would also include in this Triangle Labs and MKS offerings for 3D printer parts.

There are some differences.

Temu’s UI is unusable. You are constantly presented with roulette wheels for coupons you can’t dismiss. Its dark patterns have dark patterns. AliExpress is only mildly better in that you can dismiss stuff.

Both T and A still have listings for things that will likely result in you getting something entirely different. This usually applies to more expensive and physically larger items. You might order a greenhouse and get a photo of one or a schematic of one. And I don’t mean that the description will make it clear.

Both have a pattern where they might list let’s say an MP3 player which costs $30 but the price on the listing will be $3 because one of the product variants is just the case.

Amazon has comparatively reliable shipping and it’s included with the price on a majority of products if you have a Prime membership. While Temu and AliExpress do have US-based shipping they still don’t guarantee when the thing will arrive and if you are looking at these products the price difference basically disappears.

I am not defending Amazon by any means, but purely on usability it wins hands down.

Is too. They could have thought through the law they were writing and predicted malicious compliance. Or written a stronger law. Or revised the law when they spotted malicious compliance.

I have a love/hate relationship with OpenSCAD. The idea of coding up shapes is neat and for some things that’s the path of least resistance. On the other hand nothing in OpenSCAD really makes clean code the happy path. Sometimes it is just easier to hardcode a known value or to design a part in a way that is difficult to modify later. Yes you have modules but what a module is is arbitrary. The idea that by default things are positioned globally and you can’t attach two parts to each other is rough. The fact that it generates surfaces and not solids means you can’t export 3D models into other software if you use hull().

Yet I tried alternatives and found them way too complex with their UI. I have a FreeCAD tutorial bookmarked so when I find a dozen hours to learn it I will. In the meantime when I need something simple and quick, OpenSCAD gets me there.

Mac got the Command key right. Windows got the Home and End keys right. Wish we could have both on one system.

Now that this work is done and out in the open what in theory would prevent the next generation of LLMs from ingesting it and eventually a non-Apple employee creating yet another driver “from scratch” but with the knowledge of how the hardware works acquired from an LLM or with the help of one?

Basically, aren’t we facing a situation where LLM-assisted knowledge laundering is becoming a thing?

It can still invoke them in subagents and does this.