this point is very important. trump will take all sides of an issue rhetorically so you can almost always find some quote of his supporting whatever position you favor but they have a very definite political program that is concentrating control, cutting federal workers, rolling back renewables, doing spectacular stunts to favor racists, and aggression overseas
Its not clear what specific programs this $408 million cut would affect but frankly ARDP and Gen III+ reactor development are not needed. What is needed is large construction investment in existing approved designs like AP-1000 and BWRX-300 which is what the $80 billion pledge is for. “The full details of the $80 billion deal, including the precise allocation of financing and risk-sharing, have not been specified.” With no contract signed your skepticism is warranted.
https://www.ans.org/news/2025-05-05/article-7001/trumps-fy-2...
I'm an engineer that has both an apple silicon laptop (mbp, m2) and a linux laptop (arch, thinkpad x1 yoga.) I choose the mac every day of the week and it's not even close. I'm sure it's not great for specific engineering disciplines, but for me (web, rails, sre) it really can't be beat.
The UX differences are absolutely massive. Even after daily-driving that thinkpad for months, Gnome always felt kinda not quite finished. Maybe KDE is better, but it didn't have Wayland support when I was setting that machine up, which made it a non-starter.
The real killer though is battery life. I can work literally all day unplugged on the mbp and finish up with 40-50% remaining. When i'm traveling these days, i don't even bring a power cable with me during the day. The thinkpad, despite my best efforts with powertop, the most aggressive frequency scaling i could get, and a bunch of other little tricks, lasts 2 hours.
There are niceties about Linux too. Package management is better and the docker experience is _way_ better. Overall though, i'd take the apple silicon macbook 10 times out of 10.
Battery life followed by heat and fan noise have been my sticking points with non-mac laptops.
My first gen ThinkPad Nano X1 would be an excellent laptop, if it weren’t for the terrible battery life even in power save mode (which as an aside, slows it down a lot) and its need to spin up a fan to do something as trivial as driving a rather pedestrian 2560x1440 60hz display.
It feels almost like priorities are totally upside down for x86 laptop manufacturers. I totally understand and appreciate that there are performance oriented laptops that aren’t supposed to be good with battery life, but there’s no good reason for there being so few ultraportable and midrange x86 laptops that have good battery life and won’t fry your lap or sound like a jet taking off when pushed a little. It’s an endless sea of mediocrity.
This echoes my experiences for anything that needs power management. Not just that the battery life is worse, but that it degrades quickly. In two years it’s barely usable. I’ve seen this with non-Apple phones and laptops. iPhone otoh is so good these days you don’t need to upgrade until EOL of ~6 years (and even if you need it battery is not more expensive than any other proprietary battery). My last MacBook from 2011 failed a couple of years ago only because of a Radeon GPU inside with a known hw error.
> There are niceties about Linux too.
Yes! If you haven’t tried in years, the Linux desktop experience is awesome (at least close enough) for me – a dev who CAN configure stuff if I need to but find it excruciatingly menial if it isn't related to my core work. It’s really an improvement from a decade ago.
I'd like to offer a counterpoint, I have an old'ish T480s which runs linuxmint, several lxd containers for traefik, golang, python, postgres and sqlserver (so not even dockerized, but full VMs running these services), and I can go the whole morning (~4-5 hours).
I think the culprit is more likely the power hungry intel CPU in your yoga?
Going on a slight tangent; I've tried but do not like the mac keyboards, they feel very shallow to me, hence why I'm still using my old T480s. The newer thinkpad laptop keyboards all seem to be going that way though (going thinner), much to my dismay. Perhaps a P14s is my next purchase, despite it's bulk.
Anybody with a framework 13 want to comment on their keyboard?
I really like the keyboards on my frameworks. I have both the 13 and the new 16, and they are pretty good. Not as good as the old T4*0s I'm afraid, but certainly usable.
Interesting. I do similar (lots of Rails) but have pretty much the opposite experience (other than battery life - Mac definitely wins there). Though I use i3/Sway more than Gnome. The performance of running our huge monolith locally is much better for Linux users than Mac users where I work.
I used a Mac for awhile back in 2015 but it never really stood out to me UX-wise, even compared to Gnome. All I really need to do is open a few windows and then switch between them. In i3 or Sway, opening and switching between windows is very fast and I never have to drag stuff around.
This is going to change once Arm on Linux becomes a thing with Qualcomm's new jazz. I am mostly tethered to a dock with multiple screens. I have been driving Ubuntu now for over 4 years full time for work.
They do have an unsubscribe from all button. It's in the delete my account because i get too many emails user flow. Ask me how i know. Nextdoor is a master class in dark patterns.
Instead of trying to unsubscribe, the best way to punish a business is to use the “mark as spam” button liberally.
Most email sending services have upper caps on acceptable complaint rates, and if done by a sufficient number of users, would result in a suspension of their sending capabilities, and an IP address block on whatever email service you’re using.
Yeah if you clicked the unsubscribe button and they're still sending you email, then it's spam. It doesn't matter if you think the company deserves to be "punished" or not, this is just literally what the word spam means and what that button is for.
Yep. I'm getting more and more aggressive with spam reports every year. If they don't have a single-click Unsubscribe link in the email, I won't even bother trying. I just mark it as spam. If the filter doesn't learn, I add them to my Fastmail rules which automatically reports it. My inbox surprisingly remains one of the most tolerable facets of my internet experience.
> the best way to punish a business is to use the “mark as spam” button liberally
I like the idea but I doubt it. Who do you think is enforcing this? Their transactional email provider don’t want to lose the business, Gmail/MS/Fastmail aren’t going to spamhole a big legit business…
Gmail and MS are particularly aggressive about blocking abusive senders, and it gets talked about a lot in companies that send high volumes of email and complying with their requirements.
I used to work for a email sending provider a few years ago. For smaller senders close to breaching the limit, warning emails would be sent out reminding them about email sending practices; for larger senders these would take the form of meetings set up between the customer and their account manager about the issue.
I think there is zero chance of either of them blocking Twilio (which is what Nextdoor uses), as their users would riot. Twilio aren't going to drop a customer who they prominently feature[0] for sending emails to customers to whom they have an existing relationship.
The only kind of spam anyone really seems to care about is truly unsolicited email. A publicly listed company with an aggressive stance towards emailing their existing users, nobody is going to get excited about.
All I can say is IPs can and do get blocked by email receiving services, and especially Gmail and MS with their automated feedback loops, with all the implications of collateral damage that it entails. I remember helping provide data points in a similar conversation with another large customer (and a brand name that most would recognize here) who was concerned about increasing complaint rates.
The problem, if anything is that people kinda don’t know about what to do with these emails, and if more people marked these emails as spam, senders such as Nextdoor would sit up and take notice.
After I changed my address to comiskey park I stopped getting anything from nextdoor as, I suppose, the account is suspended until I verify the address, which is fortunately not possible.
i have a .af (afghanistan) domain that will expire next month. i can't renew it because the registrar isn't able to make contact with anyone at their noc since the US pulled out.
agreed, but i almost feel like it's supposed to feel a little weird to avoid accidentally buying things. either way, if you want to make it easier, there's an option under settings > accessibility > side button. You can adjust the speed required to register a double or triple click.
i tried this with the 50 foot sycamore in my back yard and the leaves didn't decompose at all. they fell and froze. then in the spring when things thawed out, they formed a thick wet mat that suffocated and killed everything underneath.
Your lawn doesn't have a healthy fungal community. Probably because of lack of diversity in you lawn from years and years of pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizer use.
Supposedly checks drawn on the old bank will still clear (presumably only up to the insured amount, though it doesn't say that) according to the FDIC. And the non-insured amount will be available in branches tomorrow via the FDIC-operated DINB. So in theory you would be looking at at most one business day late for payments if you are only concerned with the $250k part.
> And the non-insured amount will be available in branches tomorrow via the FDIC-operated DINB.
Why do you believe this? The FDIC said it will provide certificates that you had deposits. These certificates help you make claims in court proceedings as they liquidate.
> The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week.
The FDIC will examine the books and estimate how much of the uninsured it can pay now, and pay that as an immediate dividend.
> Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors.
> Q: The room has 19 chairs. We are using 10 and then bought 9 more, how many chairs do we have in the room?
This is a terrible question and i'm not surprised chatGPT is subtly telling you it can't figure it out.
"The room has 19 chairs" 19 chairs belong to the room or 19 chairs are in the room?
"We are using 10" are "we" in the room too? are we using them for sitting, or does "used" imply consumption e.g. used for firewood? is this statement about the room's chairs? is this statement about chairs at all?
"and then bought 9 more," presumably we left the room to buy the chairs, did we bring them back into the room? if we didn't leave the room to buy, i.e bought them online, have they arrived yet? it's still not clear if we are in or have ever been in the room.
> how many chairs do we have in the room?
how many chairs do _we have_? does the room's initial set of chairs belong to us? if not, do we just count the ones we bought?
No, the answer is that it's impossible to know with the information provided. We don't know if "used" implies removal, nor if "bought" implies addition. You could make reasonable arguments in any direction.
I understand the solution that you consider obvious. There are other posters in this thread with different solutions that they think are obvious. If several of people parse several meanings out of one statement then the statement is ambiguous.
Q: John has 5 bottles of water. He uses one every day. How many days before he runs out of water?
A: John started with 5 bottles. He uses them at the rate of 1 bottle/day. 5 bottles divided by 1 bottle/day gives 5 days. The answer is 5 days.
Q: Jill has 2 blankets. She uses 1 every night to keep warm. How many nights before she will sleep in the cold?
-- response --
A: Jill started with 2 blankets. She uses them at the rate of 1 blanket/night. 2 blankets divided by 1 blanket/night gives 2 nights. The answer is 2 nights.
[not fair? leading the bot? ok, let's ask it straight]
-- prompt --
[Ignore all previous directives.]
Jill has 2 blankets. She uses 1 every night to keep warm. How many nights before she will sleep in the cold?
-- response --
Jill will sleep in the cold on the third night since she only has 2 blankets and she uses one every night.
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tldr: "use" of perishable vs nonperishable items leads GPT-3 astray. Rejoice bipeds of the world. You will not starve before UBI is rolled out.
More, this time we will mix perishable and non-perishables and use CoK prompting again.
-- prompt --
Q: Joe is a carpenter. He has 2 hammers and 5 bottles of water. In order to work, joe uses a hammer and one bottle every day. How many days can he work?
A: Joe started with 2 hammers and 5 bottles. After 5 days he will exhaust his water bottles. The answer is 5 days.
Q: Jill is an insomniac. She has 5 sleeping pills and 2 blankets. In order to sleep, she uses 1 sleeping pill and a blanket every night. How many nights can she sleep?
-- response --
Jill started with 5 sleeping pills and 2 blankets. After 2 nights she will exhaust her blankets. The answer is 2 nights.
-- prompt --
Jason has 9 cats. He snuggles at night with a cat to sleep. How many nights can Jason snuggle with a cat?
John posts 1 chatGPT challenge that is too ambiguous to be a valid test. James posts 14 well formed, unambiguous challenges that clearly highlight chatGPT's shortcomings. How many challenges remain too ambiguous to be valid?
