I know this post is more about the committing on LLM "fixes", but find the other reasons more interesting.
Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:
lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
He is not only attacking the US, he wants to breakup democracies world wide and through causing international crisis and turmoil, push all countries into becoming authoritarian regimes, controlled by oligarchs and one-party systems.
That is the actual goal, and he is doing that while trying to maintain plausible deniability, by staging himself as an incompetent and incoherent buffoon.
And even if he is a real buffoon and doesn't understand the end goal, he has a lot of more intelligent antidemocratic advisors around him that do. This is not coming out of nowhere.
I understand that perfectly, they like the crisis situation because they hope to acquire more, and maybe even loose a couple of aspirant mill- or billionaires on the way.
They do see it as a game, and thus big disruptions create great new chances for them to gain even more.
Well my point is that pretty much all of our laws are build around ethic values, which are developed within a society. There is no logical or scientific reason that would make killing other people bad, but we still should have strict rules about this.
Laws are always built around soft things like "what is obscene", "at what point is someone naked in public", "How much alcohol can a drink have before it is a alcoholic beverage?", "did the person die of natural causes, or was killed by some event years ago, that wasn't properly treated."
Society decides what is acceptable and what isn't and that changes through time and culture.
Your argument is therefore not a good one, you have to make a case based on ethics.
This sort of reminds myself on the discussion on "what is a women". Is Siri a women? Many might say so, but t the same time Siri is not even human.
The question on how old the person on a specific generated image might be and if it even depicts a person at all, can only be answered through society. There is no scientific or any logical answer for this.
So this will always have grey areas and differing opinions and can be rulings in different cultures.
In the end it is about discussions about ethics not logic.
I really hate most subscriptions, because the prices are often too high, they rely on locking stuff behind paywalls, instead of providing a good service.
Here is the difference, I am ok paying monthly for storage space, servers, and hosted/managed open source web services, because there is competition and standard interfaces there. They do not hold you (or your data) hostage to their service, what they provide is good on its own.
For example, if GOG invests money into writing open source libraries, apps and APIs to efficiently and easily share save games between devices. Let people self host the open source backend, but offer up a subscription for a managed instance, with maybe some voting rights for new features or support for games/platforms to be integrated into the open source front & backend, then I would be willing to support this.
And other stuff like this.
Use subscriptions to offer good services, which also allow you to improve the whole ecosystem, while also not putting yourself as the gatekeeper, and locking people into their service.
I got it from f-droid, and AFAIK that version feature complete and free, at least I don't miss anything.
I started using Osmand, before Organic Maps existed, and got used to all its features, when I tested out Organic Maps, it felt very feature-lite and I was missing out a lot (POI search, routing customizations, etc.), I assumed it is just very early in development, but it seems now they are targeting a different audience than I am.
There are a couple of things I am missing in Osmand, coming back from Organic Maps, its nice looking and fast map renderer, and it seems like the text search might work a bit better. Otherwise, the more powerful POI search, and the better internal routing customization are what brought me back to Osmand. Osmand even has brouter support.
I disagree that organic maps has a better search interface. In Osmand you have a very powerful POI search. You can automatically filter for restaurants, that are open and serve vegan Indian food, and so on. Organic maps has just a text search and categories.
Why would wheelchair bound people have to pay so much more to get car they can use, when they can pay the same price as everyone else for a ticket to ride with public transportation?
Also there are blind and other handicapped people that can easily ride public transport on their own, but would have to rely on others to ride with their own car.
Public transport is especially useful for the handicapped and elderly compared to personal cars.
I guess monotheistic religions just have in common that everyone believes in their own truth, and instead of accepting the differences, feel the need to go to war over it.
Maybe all those religions need to be banned, and only allow heno- or polytheistic ones. Especially the polytheistic religions seem much more exciting. But of course it is much more difficult to control the common folk with those.
Not really 11:00 AM +1h becomes 00:00 PM, and vice versa. PM and AM are different prefixes/systems/units. Much simpler to understand IMO. 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM would no longer exist, you just convert them from PM to AM or back when you reach them and set the numbers to 00 again.
I guess we live in a world where things got invented by humans at some point in time, while you live in a world where some higher power just baked 12h clocks into the fabric of reality for humans to just discover. Yeah, I am not sure how we can easily find common ground.
We are asking questions about the world and its rules to learn, study and question them, you demand acceptance and unthinking submission to it.
Well, that could have been fixed by booting from an usb stick, chrooting into you real system and either downloading and (re)installing the python package this way, or, if your package manager depends on python, download the package in the Live Linux and extracting the python package into your system, and then reinstalling it, so the package management overwrites your "manual installation".
Could be tedious, but less so that having to reinstall everything IMO.
In most cases, where you havn't destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there.
The text is hiding a lot of details, but the nurse is pushing a normal chair, as if it was a wheelchair.
And the composition gives AI vibes as well. But all of that could also just be because the photo is poorly staged.