That’s crazy. Also they make good coffee.

Oh boy, yeah that’s a nasty problem. I have nothing for you unfortunately. 😔

A China-linked islamoleftist trans terrorist based in California used his open source CCP-made AI agent to take down the all-American freedom AI. Time to ban open source AI as it’s communist terrorism.

It’s great, I basically forget about it. Makes some mess in front of it over time if using a portafilter to grind into. That’s the only negative I find with it. But I’m used to it and don’t care. AFAIK the DF54 is slower but other than that, the same. Avg 18gr goes for 6s on the DF64. I would’ve bought a DF54 if the DF64 hadn’t gone on steep sale at the time. Just get either, depending on the price. The 64 is only more interesting if you’re going to be swapping burr sets.

E: Acctually there was a new even cheaper PRC flat burr grinder that looked really interesting. Don’t recall the name. Was under $200.

That’ll be expensive so I don’t think it’ll be happening. They’ll be OK with collecting data from the 95% of their customers who don’t know how to block the TV from having internet access.

Ours just woke up so I’m firing up the DF64 for 6 seconds of terror and then I’ll be on the balcony doing the same. Going back to work from parental leave tmrw so today’s espresso will be extra relaxed.

Yup, it’s great. It used to be PulseEffects for PulseAudio. It glues tofether a bunch of audio processing software and libs into a nice GUI that makes them trivial to use. I used to do this with PulseAudio config files.

Then she added one more layer of data — where people were getting help paying their electric bills each summer, from public programs or local organizations.

An obvious pattern emerged. There were big clusters of dots collected in certain areas: lots of deaths, and little assistance.

Those clusters turned out to be mobile home parks.

Yup, the poor are first under the bus.

Holy mother of psychopath…

Thanks for the explanation. That’s informative and unfortunate.

Stihl warns: "We no longer have the productivity advantage over key competitors that used to justify our high labour costs. That is why I advocate increasing weekly working hours to 40, without any pay compensation.

These people are great at giving us the examples of not understanding what productivity means and how it gets improved.

1. That’s my bet for the reasons I outlined. It’s not a bet in vacuum. I think it’s strong enough to consider it “certain,” colloquially speaking. Is it certain in mathematical terms? No, as you said - nothing is certain.
2. That’s not inconsitent with my bet. We can get into why but probablt don’t need to.
3. No idea what that’s about, not using PieFed. They limit what? Why do they do that? I read your explanation.

E: BTW I’m not unaware of the ability of for-profits to siphon people away from existing corporate platforms into new corporate or corporate-adjacent platforms, for example. E.g. Twitter -> Bluesky. I think that would be insufficient in the long run to halt the fediverse growth because every time this cycle occurs, some people fall off into the fediverse and that’s usually the more aware people. They tend to create more content.

That’s crazy. The Canadian ones are monstrous compared to what we used to grow in our European backyard thirty years ago.

And are part of NATO. I think other members would side with Canada rather than the US if it came down to it.

Honestly I wouldn’t count on NATO at all. At least not for actual milirary support even if they side with us. I think everyone realizes that going against the US in a hot war is likely some form of WWIII event and they’d rather throw this or that country under the bus.

Corporate owners (the oligarch class) who fund and therefore own the Rs and establishment Ds destroyed it. It’s why swapping between Rs and Ds, or swapping individual Rs and Ds within the parties hasn’t produced a measurable halt in the decline.

I’m excluding the recent progressive insurgency, we’re yet to see where it goes and what its effect would be. There’s some hope there.

and consistent quality

Kinda wild that most store-bought chicken doesn’t taste good at all. At least it’s not making us sick. 😄

I don’t diss supply mgmt. Just personal taste opinion. I think supply mgmt is very important for us and its benefits are obvious.

There’s likely pros. Not sure if the cons would be less. Has anyone not-oil&gas-funded made an analysis?

Certainly. Don’t know how large and when, but a significant (relative to our size) bunch of people would likely show up. That plus people who dabble in both would increase their activity here. The threadiverse is more or less guaranteed to grow and form a solid contrubutor base. We don’t seek to increase profits YoY so our services are only going to get better over time. For-profit socials have to grow profits over time, so they are going to get worse. Increase in service quality for for-profit platforms is a temporary stage of their development. The threadiverse will be around in 5-10 years time, in some shape or form and it’ll be larger and better than it is today. This is why I keep pushing the vote buttons and type words every day. Deliberately spending more time than I’d like. 😄

Missile and drone program like Iran’s? Seems to work well enough against US air defences.

Do I still need this chat template if I’m using the Unsloth version?