It’s been a while since I used Plex, but is it really that much less complicated than Jellyfin? When I switched, it seemed like roughly the same amount of complication, but that was a long time ago.

What makes you think they want good press? Their current strategy of openly embracing corruption and greed has been working out pretty well for them, and the fans are still giving them hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Is that hell caused by the Cuban government or the American sanctions?

It’s probably both, but from my perspective as an outsider, the American sanctions seem to be doing a lot more damage.

The debris will be microscopic. It won’t “land” anywhere noticeable.

The fine particulate matter may not be great for the ozone layer, but it’s actually pretty negligible compared to all of the other pollution that we’re not addressing either. That doesn’t justify the pollution, but hopefully it helps contextualize it.

My mom is from Singapore and I’ve visited many times.

I don’t agree with their drug laws (or capital punishment in general), but there are dozens of warnings throughout the airport and on the passport control paperwork (in bold red letters) that you have to ignore to get to this point. They make it as clear as possible that importing drugs is a capital offense.

WW2 wasn’t just, but that doesn’t mean it’s not just to defend yourself or others.

Starting a war is never just. Participating might be just, but it doesn’t make the war just.

By not going, I was only saving $7000 a ticket when they first went on sale, but now I’m saving $11k! By Grabthar’s hammer, what a savings!

Short term tariffs can allow domestic manufacturing to reach the design and scale to be competitive without tariffs. This was, in theory, the idea behind the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. Of course, none of the American auto manufacturers are doing anything with that leeway other than continuing to be terrible.

I’m honestly not even sure what talk about the Epstein files is supposed to accomplish.

Everyone knows the truth. The relevant authorities have the unredacted copies and are straight up refusing to do anything. The administration and all agencies are doing blatantly illegal things every day, and no one is willing to arrest or stop them.

The victims (of all of this administration’s crimes, not just the Epstein victims) deserve justice, but I think, at least in America, justice isn’t coming from the legal system. It might come when player 2 joins the game.

I’ve seen recipes, which are basically just cocoa butter and cocoa powder, and they seem pretty simple, though I’ve never tried them.

Most chocolate “making” just starts with chocolate callets. Melt them, temper it, put it in moulds, and add filling. I’ve done this, and it’s not that difficult. Of course, the quality here depends on the quality of the callets, so if you start with Hershey’s (not sure if they even make callets), it’ll still taste like vomit.

Look, AI is dumb, and probably not a good thing to integrate into a browser. But if it turns out to be an important thing in the future, then not integrating it right now would be worse than having it.

There’s a measurable fixed cost to adding AI features. There’s room for potentially infinite losses (i.e. entire loss of market share) if they don’t have AI features and need them. The calculus on this decision is pretty lopsided towards integrating AI, even if everyone thinks it’s likely to be unnecessary.

“Da ba up up upppp! Mik wa mik. Wah du ree yahhhh! Wush.”

At least, that’s what my toddler just said.

Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.

Edit: it’s an “annual” prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he’ll win that one too.

Presumably the politicians accounted for this in their negotiations. They may have some high level engineers from China, but I can’t imagine they’ll be allowed to bring in a whole migrant workforce, especially with the current climate around immigration in Canada.

And then they may elect Mr Beast

I can’t wait for welfare to be replaced by “Survive 30 days in Guantanamo, win $500,000”, and “100 people in Alligator Alcatraz. Last one standing wins $1,000,000”.

The Cartel le of the uhhhh cartel.

From China’s perspective (and in theory, Taiwan’s perspective), invading Taiwan isn’t the same, because they both officially recognize One China, they just disagree about who’s in charge.

It would more akin to USA invading Puerto Rico, if the governor of PR asserted that they were in fact the proper leaders of the USA.

Should cars have been outlawed because it put farriers and stables out of business? Were shipping containers a bad idea because they required fewer longshoremen?

Technology comes and makes jobs obsolete. It happens all the time. It just happens that this technology has come in a big, visible way, and many of the ways its used and marketed are useless and/or awful. That doesn’t mean it’s entirely bad, and there’s certainly no way to stop it now.

AI will replace jobs. We can’t get around that fact. Companies that fail to adapt will fall behind. Whether I use it at my job or not has no bearing on the industry, and I’m not in a position to push for industry-wide change (nor is the company I work for). So we can either use it, or also fall behind.

I work for a mid-sized company. We still hire junior developers. I don’t think we have any plans to get rid of them entirely, but I’m not involved in that process. But after a couple decades of huge growth in the industry, developers (especially junior ones) are going to have a rough few years as the industry realigns with the new normal. There will be job losses, there will be companies that disappear entirely because they either depended too much upon AI, or didn’t adapt fast enough. But pretending that AI isn’t a useful tool when used in specific ways is just sticking your head in the sand.

20 bucks a month is basically nothing for a developer who’s making $100 an hour.

My employer pays for copilot, and yeah, it makes mistakes, but if you pretend it’s a junior developer and double check its code, it can easily save time on a lot of tedious work, and will turn hours of typing into fewer hours of reading.

Ukraine wants EU membership. Trump doesn’t want to feel like the US is being left out, so Ukraine will pretend to negotiate to spare his feelings.