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Dear CEOs: I will never accept 0.5% hallucinations as “A.I.” and if you don’t even know that, I want an A.I. machine cooking all your meals. If you aren’t ok with 1/200 of your meals containing poison, you’re expendable.

Humans or even regular ass algorithms are fine. A.I. can predict protein folding. It should do a lot else unless there’s a generational leap from “making shitty images” to “as close to perfect as it gets.”

Hard to imagine a CEO doing something that would make me less likely to apply or use their service.

I’m pretty sure browsers don’t even load http sites anymore.

I do that too. I almost never want to hit CAPS LOCK (and can type holding shift) but if you map it to CTRL or even something not on modern keyboards (like F15 or any number over 12, I guess), you can use it as a shortcut key.

Personally, I use CAPS (remapped to CTRL) plus Tilde as my shortcut to show/dismiss a Quake-style terminal overlay window. That key combo actually can be made to work on Windows and macOS too so it’s basically cross-platform.

I’m 99% sure macOS (with iTerm 2 setup for Quake-style) has a built-in system option to remap CAPS LOCK but it only allows a few keys. I forget the Windows method. I used to have to use Windows sometimes but it’s been awhile. I’ve definitely got it working with a third party terminal emulator and WSL2, though.

Trump unilaterally declared certain words in research papers would get funding for your research (and even university) revoked.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.1FgL.3feAf1QvdpOb

Gift link to the list of words compiled by The NY Times.

I was hotter, dirtier, and poorer when I was 23 and it wasn’t that bad.

If you have an old enough circuit breaker, you can stick certain coins in it — a penny in the United States — until you can get to the hardware store and buy a proper fuse. It might burn your house down but not really if you don’t do it a lot.

It’s 2am where I live and I drank too much coffee because basketball playoff stuff was happening. Relax. I’m not sealioning you. We don’t have to argue. I’m just bored.

Ok. I just never know whether “the left” is talking about labor unions striking for safe working conditions or some college sophomores, or a guy I’ve never heard of who wrote a book no one read.

I’m not trying to be antagonistic. I just mean what type of person do you consider the left that’s antagonistic to reality-defining ideologies?

Who is the left?

I thought this was about Linux for a second. Voyager meets all my needs and I like that many Lemmy instances use it as their secondary interface.

I don’t have a list of those handy but a lot of them will have a separate URL with a more advanced or simplified interface you can use. A bit like Old Reddit or Tweetdeck or whatever. Like m.lemmy.world is basically voyager as a PWA.

Plus, the YouTube revenue. Imagine me and Nile Red turning a banana into something where we get a visit from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They’d pay upwards of $14.50.

Mine it for potassium-40. Radioactive products sell for more than one banana, which as others have noted cost $10 but if you can purify the radioactive elements, you can probably get $11 or even $12.

Basically, not ideal and maybe exchanges should have to be the “house” but circuit breakers are there because of awful lessons learned in previous crashes.

I don’t disagree on the principal or fairness but circuit breakers came about the hard way. Sometimes, markets get so many sell orders due to panic selling that they really can’t clear the trades because there’s not enough buy orders to match up. The first level is only a few minutes to give people time to chill out.

Investing is like gambling in a lot of ways, obviously, but there is no “house” to buy whatever you “bet.” Some other person or institution or whatever has to put in a buy order or your trade won’t go through at all. I think of them more that way. If you sell at $100 and no one buys it, you have something worth $0. If the exchange gets a few minutes (the first stop breakers are pretty short: 7 minutes, then 20 minutes, then a day), there will be buyers.

The U.S. has a surprising amount of known rare earth deposits but the deposits aren’t really being explored extensively, much less mined because of economic reasons. The U.S. has the 4th largest lithium deposits, for example, but to mine it wouldn’t be competitive.

A mean, a year ago, I would have said, it’s just cheaper to buy them on global markets than mine them in California. But we’ll see how broke these tariffs make us. We might all have lithium lung and be paid in company scrip again in 15 years.

Here’s how Le Monde covered it in English:

Le Monde isn’t leftwing, especially for France. More centrist and generally known for accuracy.

Here’s Politico.eu:

Politico, in my experience, isn’t generally into taking sides. It’s more like gossipy, access journalism. They aren’t usually full of shit but YMMV.

Not saying you should listen to any one source but those definitely aren’t far-left or far-right.

You think over 500,000 people peacefully demonstrating in 1200+ locations across 50 states, Canada, and Western Europe were Anti-American? A solid portion of the protests were in tiny red counties and protesters were pissed about cuts to the VA, firing of veterans, screwing farmers, rural hospitals, etc. USAID bought American food from American farmers. Trump cut the program where schools get grants to buy from local farms so school lunches are healthy. Trump is managing to piss off everyone, from wine moms to bankers to retirees (so long 401(k)) to military families to farmers and it’s only been 3 months. And the effects aren’t even being fully felt yet. Wait until the tariff-inflation really kicks in.

If you’re just talking about Western Europe, basically all the interviews I saw/read were Americans who were in Paris, London, Berlin, etc. They weren’t Anti-American. (Maybe some in Paris.) I mean, just think about how many veterans were stationed in Germany or another base and married a German citizen. They and their families might live in Germany but certainly aren’t Anti-American.

The one in NYC alone probably had close to 100,000. People were saying 5th Avenue was packed for like 20 blocks. I’m not a professional crowd size estimator or anything but there’s pictures all over social media. Here’s an overhead video: https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lm3scqfwvc2s

Edit: There were over 1200 events across every state and even some in solidarity in Europe. You know Paris wouldn’t pass up a chance to have a demonstration but there was also one in London and a few other places.