One thing I recently learned: Canadian Tire stores are franchises. 🤯

This doesn’t relate to AI directly but you can imagine a bunch of franchisees who know nothing about AI “wanting it”.

And I thought I had finally got the kiffness song out of my head…

https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA

His latest album is an impressive work of art; a love letter to Puerto Rico.

It might not be everyone’s jam.

Andreas (lead engineer) has told the story of how he got that money - they just happen to know each other and $100k is peanuts for the Shopify founders.

But you’re right to suspect anything of the sort!

It’s worse. My music is on Spotify - while I would no longer meet their minimum for payments, even before that change they refused to pay me or provide stats until I provided a twitter or Facebook page/IG page, none of which I have - despite publishing through an established publishing company who could absolutely handle payments and play stats.

Spotify is cancer.

Didn’t work for me. Got blocked with a subscribe pop up.

I have a shortcut that automatically gets or creates the links so no biggie - and I prefer the archive links anyway because there’s so much other noise on articles these days.

Paywall bypass for the Atlantic article: https://archive.is/hjUb1

That’s a a great idea. Would you like me to come up with a business plan?

Panasonic dumb plasma is going on 14 years. We’re hopeful we can get about 6-10 out of it.

We pinky promise to follow through on being nice and not detaining/disappearing you.

James Hoffman called bullshit on this one and it’s fun to see Huberman squirm in the comments. https://youtu.be/yCJr49GU9yY

TLDR: it might nonsense.

Wait we’re pretending WhatsApp isn’t spyware now?

Fair points.

One thing I think we all miss: what happens when an overzealous government makes something a crime retroactively? Say, um, disparaging two Cheetos in an ill fitting suit masquerading as a world leader.

That’s part of why we should care about privacy and why we should care when data we expect to be private isn’t.

Most tech users are victims in a system they don’t understand. We might complain that they don’t want to understand but the truth is the providers don’t want them to understand - as it’s easier to sell them whatever crap they’re shilling.

They will never be happy.

Seems like a good way to sell very expensive hot ends.

Totally fair and exactly part of my original disdain. I was happy with SysV and Upstart. But here we are and I’ve got things to do. ;)

I hated repackaging all my software for systemd. lol. We waited as long as we could before eating that pie.

It was highly contentious for a number of years - largely because it had a lot more functionality and touched more parts of the OS than the init systems it was designed to replace. It was seen as overzealous by the naysayers.

I was in the never system-d camp for a long time because I felt like my ability to choose was being removed. Even some distros that provided alternate init systems eventually went systemd-only.

But I’ve come around - it’s fine, good even - though ultimately I had no choice or say in it.

It’s very straightforward and easy to write one’s own units. It’s reasonably easy to debug and often helpful when something isn’t working as expected.

Like all things in the world of software, many folks are going to try (and eventually succeed) to make a better mousetrap.

This particular init system’s design goals seem (at least to me) to indicate a focus on small, embedded and/or more secure systems where the breadth of tools like systemd are a hindrance.

Phenomenal in “the unbearable weight of massive talent,” “adaptation” and “dream scenario”.

Also: wild at heart. Loved that film.

Edit: Oops replied to wrong parent. I’m with you on Leaving Las Vegas.

Here here.

We live in a town that’s one of the richest per capita in my country, thanks in no small part to several billionaire families.

It’s next to one of the poorest where many of the workers are supplied for the billionaires’ businesses.

Gee, I wonder how all that wealth got “created” or “transferred”?

Click bait title (by the source not OP!)

Severe turbulence causes emergency landing, 25 injured.

This title is designed to make us go see “what corporate fuckup happened now” when this has nothing to do with the carrier.