Which is a shame because state law has a much bigger impact on the actual day-to-day lives of people than federal law. If there aren’t actual journalists then nobody is hanging out at the state house, let alone the local courthouse, to report on what’s going on. So the news is just outrage at federal politics and corporate/political press releases published verbatim.

For people not familiar, each US state has its own legislature. As bat-shit crazy as the federal legislators are, the state ones are even worse. They’re wild. Salaries across states range from low six figures to literally $100 a year. In many states its not even a full-time job. Each representative is the guy who owns the biggest car wash in his small town and thinks Bigfoot keeps breaking the gas pump. Most Americans probably couldn’t even name their state reps and probably aren’t even aware there’s government apparatus at all between the level of local school board and governor.

At this point let’s just go back to manually using command line GPG/PGP.

The fix is now published (see “Assets” section): https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/tag/v0.23.2-beta

KDEnlive is improving, however Resolve is still more powerful and mature. That said, DaVinci’s business model seems precarious. It feels like they could, at any moment, enshittify Resolve and force users into a subscription just to maintain access to old edits. I think for that reason KDEnlive is better for almost all users. If you are a professional filmmaker then the color and vfx workflows of Resolve are probably worth paying for, but in that case it’s probably a FinalCut vs Resolve question anyway.

It’s just a grift so I doubt that will happen unfortunately. They’re just going to be used for military parades, Elon will have one with humongous fascist flags on the front, and the rest will sit rusting in some field on an army base.

It was the city of Elbing in the German Empire, now known as Elbląg and located in Poland.

My great, great Grandma was an illegal immigrant from a country that no longer exists and a city that is now in Poland, though she spoke and considered herself German. So where would I go, modern Germany? Poland? Neither would take me. So probably just sent to die at a work camp.

The study of this is called allometry, and if you know the bone lengths of a creature you can generalize the formula to figure out when that animal will change from any one gait to another (like trot, canter, gallop, etc). This was used on Jurassic Park to figure out when the T-Rex would run (although I believe they ended up fudging it for coolness factor).

Back when corporations were first really being invented a judge complained they had “no body to kick and no soul to damn”. That was 18th c. England when 12 guys would form a corporation to build a bridge, or whatever, and that was basically it.

Plenty of choices out there…

Not for me unfortunately. There’s a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky’s son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that’s how you find the phone number. It’s like the 90s again, except there’s no phone book now. I don’t understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.

The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, “Honestly? You’re the only one who returned my call.” I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn’t return calls and he wasn’t sure.

I really didn’t want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.

Yeah, disappointing.

I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn’t want to be shown to other people as a potential “friend”.

I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

Cops can ignore. Prosecutors can decline. Judges can “sentence” to unconditional release.

The people can nullify.

Coming from Python I feel like it’s my partner and best friend. In fact the whole damn tool chain is amazing.

Ubiquitous in the games industry unfortunately, for at least the art side but often code as well.

That’s one kind, and Rust’s “ownership” concept does mean there’s built-in compile time checks to prevent dangling pointers or unreachable memory. But there’s also just never de-allocating stuff you allocated even though it’s still reachable. Like you could just make a loop that allocates memory and never stops and that’s a memory leak, or more generally a “resource leak”, if you prefer.

Rust is really good at keeping you from having a reference to something that you think is valid but it turns out it got mutated way down in some class hierarchy and now it’s dead, so you have a null pointer or you double free, or whatever. But it can’t stop the case where your code is technically valid but the resource leak is caused by bad “logic” in your design, if that makes sense.

Last place I was at called them build “masters” for this reason.

Back in the day TCL was used in a few places in Pixar’s Renderman renderer (called PRMan), and in its connection to Maya. You could write little TCL scripts within the Renderman Artist Tools (RAT) that would be evaluated during scene export. I think this still exists in some form inside Tractor, which is their renderfarm management software.

It’s been a long time since I used prman but generally Python has replaced everything as the “glue” language, which honestly makes things a lot easier. VFX and game dev used to have a hundred different scripting languages rolling around.

Yeah this is an extremely thin wrapper on GPT4All, literally just feeding in the above prompt. I’m not knocking the author for trying/sharing this but you’d probably be better off just installing GPT4All. That said, do you think this would have kept Ted out of prison?

You: The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Model: Honestly, I think the whole Industrial Revolution thing has just been a total mess for humanity as a whole. Like, what was supposed to be some kind of progress or advancement ended up causing way more problems than it solved. And don’t even get me started on all the environmental and social issues that came with it… ugh, it’s like we took two steps forward but then tripped over our own feet and fell back a few paces.