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According to that website it looks like candidates still have a few weeks to get onto the ballot; I'd be surprised if by then you still don't have a left-leaning candidate.

Out of curiosity - what laptop maker is installing Sway by default?

I pay for the Softmaker Office suite, it's pretty good and has Linux native versions.

I had a few false starts before, but MS force-updating me to the objectively worse and user-hostile Windows 8 triggered my latest (and successful) switch.

If I were to play devil's advocate, it would be that capped rent increases is to prevent predatory landlords from increasing rent more than their costs, but that if their costs go up more then they have a way to cover that without losing the property / going bankrupt.

That provision is maybe more acceptable when you're talking about families renting out their basement suite, but I have zero sympathy for investors who took a risk and lost. And even in the case of non-investor landlords, I'm skeptical that it's appropriate to make the tenant shoulder all the increased costs.

Because they aren't overriding it - the legislation allows for these rent increases in certain circumstances. Not agreeing with the law or the decision, but the arbitrator isn't making up some new power.

I switched jobs earlier this year for a 47℅ 'raise' - I'm absolutely loving my new role.

My understanding is that a potential sale of my previous employer fell through because I was basically the brains that developed / maintained the only innovative thing they had done in the past 15 years, and given their lack of investment in anything else there was nothing else of value for the buyer.

Other way around - the AI is writing a letter "from" the daughter to be sent to the athlete. Still BS though, and I'm sure famous people just love getting spam fan mail where the person couldn't be bothered to draft it themself.

Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.

• He could be an Arab Israeli
• He could be ultra-orthodox
• He could have had a medical exemption
• He could have received Israeli citizenship later in his adult years after conscription.
• He may have served but in a role that isn't committing human rights abuses (say working on missle defense)
• He may have served but his political views have since developed and he's now pro-peace / anti-apartheid.

To generalize and assume that nearly all Israeli men are war criminals is to generalize on the basis of national origin which in most jurisdictions is rightfully assumed to be racist.

You can't not serve someone because of their country - the hotel doesn't know whether this man is a soldier or not, just that he's Israeli.

I think it really strongly depends on what you're programming - I know in some instances Julia's performance can be nearly identical to languages like Rust. I suspect in my case it related to Julia being a garbage collected language, as my algorithm involved creating very large dynamic structures in memory before serializing them, clearing the memory, and building another one. Since Rust has no garbage collector it knew exactly when and what to drop from memory. In my case I had roughly a 10x(!!) speed-up. Funny enough an even earlier version of that algorithm was programmed in Java, and Julia was roughly 10x faster that it, so Julia isn't the worst of the pack.

So at my previous employer I developed using Julia a custom ML model which ran, but the performance just wasn't good enough for what I needed despite trying to aggressively optimize. I ended up rewriting in Rust (and calling through R) which ended up being like 10x faster. At my current job I program a mixture of Rust and Python.

If Julia were more peformant then it could potentially be an alternative to Python/R users having to learn Rust - but if you're looking for top performance, some of your codebase is already written in R/Python, and you're already willing to learn another language, then learning something like Rust naturally seems the better choice over Julia.

The one thing I did like about Julia - it took barely anytime at all to build a working prototype.

Perfect article about exactly this situation.

Not at all surprising. ChatGPT 'knows' a course's content insofar as it's memorized the textbook and all the exam questions. Once you start asking it questions it's never seen before (more likely for advanced topics that don't have a billion study guides and tutorials for) it falls short, even for basic questions that'd just require a bit of additional logic.

Mind you, memorizing everything is impressive and can get you a degree, but when tasked with a new problem never seen before ChatGPT is completely inadequate.

Nobody else here has mentioned this but they stripped out all the web plugin support and tooling with no way to install it, even for paying customers. So if you're working on some kind of web application (perhaps compiling Rust to webassembly, like me) RustRover won't support your use case.

Biden will lose against Trump. Changing candidates this late isn't ideal but it's better than guaranteed failure, and it's better than after the convention if Biden deteroriates from where he's currently at.

I hadn't read this exact article but still commented because I've read about the same events in other publications.

I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

I both agree and disagree. I agree that there isn't going to be a single 'straw', because everyone's thresholds are different. For me it was back when Microsoft auto-upgraded my PC to Win 8, which was also when they started putting in hard-to-disable telemetry and bad UI. It sounds like Recall is the threshold for some other people.

Also don't discount that MS' market share is dominated by a ton of corporate users (who lack a choice) and casual users (who don't care / are unaware), but at least anecdotally they've been losing the power users in my life, which if true in general which will have negative downstream effects for them moving forward (IT departments working to support alternatives, software developers refusing to build on Windows Server / MS software stack, etc.)