The problem isn’t the reward for becoming an MP, it’s the cost of campaigning. Candidates are expected to put up £10-30k of their own money to contest a seat. Some spend considerably more.

Personally, I don’t think paying MPs more will do much harm, but it won’t fix any of the problems with the quality of the politicians we get.

You know, the more I think about this, the more I bristle at Dyson claiming this will solve Britain’s food security problem.

Firstly, this kind of system seems limited to small cash crops rather than staple foods. (Good luck growing wheat on these.)

More importantly, Dyson has personally done far more to harm British food security than this gadget could offset. He was an ardent Brexiteer, which resulted in substantial barriers to importing food from our closest neighbors. (He also then immediately started relocating his business to Singapore in a stunning show of confidence in post-Brexit Britain)

These people don’t want to save the world. They just want to look like heroes

Yes, but it’s still competing with a field full of dirt. So the value add has to be pretty substantial to justify any cost.

Not saying I disagree, but out of curiosity I looked up the yield of a conventional strawberry field, which is apparently 15-25 tons per hectare, or 11-18% of your threshold.

I agree that this would likely never be economically viable for strawberries, as I imagine it’d cost way more than £1M for a “hectares worth” of this setup.

More importantly, I don’t consider strawberries vital to our food security, unlike Dyson

Seems like a pretty fun language with an unfortunate amount of 90s baggage.

However, I firmly believe that trying to de-parenthesise lisp is a distraction. The main reason being that s-expressions make the beloved code=data concept very obvious.

A suitable editor makes it really easy to ignore the parens (until they’re useful, e.g. for navigation). When reading, the structure of the code is inferred from indentation and line breaks. Just like C.

Most of their quotes come from this Ono guy…

Ono, who is also a freelance mathematical consultant for Epoch AI.

Ahhh, there it is.

I think the article said CVLR would be battery powered to eliminate the need for overhead cables. I’m not saying I believe it is worse than e.g. and electric bus. But even the company producing it seems to struggle to articulate its advantages.

The reason I care is because I really want more trams in English towns/cities. But not if it’s a pared down version that gives the entire concept a bad image

That’s kind of my concern. I’m worried they’re cutting so many corners that the competitive edge over busses all but vanishes and, best case scenario, this ends up being a bizarre PR campaign for public transit.

Whilst this is very cool, I’m a little concerned about how the pros for “very light rail” basically amount to having better vibes than busses. Not that I even disagree with that premise, but I’d want something more concrete…

Witcher 1 really has old-school difficulty syndrome. Getting past act 1 was a nightmare for me, then somewhere around late act 2 the combat became trivial and I could just stunlock everything.

There’s something chilling about an expert being asked if a statement represents their opinion, them saying “no”, then the statement appearing regardless but attributed to “some experts”

If you’re able to easily migrate issues etc to a new instance, then you don’t need to worry about a particular service providers getting shitty. At which point your main concern is temporary outages.

Perhaps this is more of a concern for some projects (e.g. anything that angers Nintendo’s lawyers). But for most, I imagine that the added complexity of distributed p2p hosting would outweigh the upsides.

Not saying it’s a bad idea, in fact I like it a lot, but I can see why it’s not a high priority for most OSS devs

The project’s official repo should probably exist in a single location so that there is an authoritative version. At that point p2p is only necessary if traffic for the source code is getting too expensive for the project.

Personally I think the source hut model is closest to the ideal set up for OSS projects. Though I use Codeberg for my personal stuff because I’m cheap and lazy

Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

Or “Green Is My Pepper” if you ask RMS…

Just to lob a controversial thought in there: There may be some challenges the game industry faces that aren’t solely “capitalism bad”. The most compelling one I’ve heard is that, as games as a medium they have to increasingly compete with a growing back catalogue of classics.

Between that and the rise of indie games, it gets increasingly risky to invest in large projects.

(To try and preempt some comments: I am not saying that investors are “right” to pull out of the games industry. I just want people to consider whether the problem, and hence the solution, is more complicated than they first thought)

Whether or not he represents Americans, as head of state, he represents America

I think it means client-server basically. You can host a server in “the cloud” then access a frontend to it via your browser.

Might also mean it has features relevant to debugging/deploying cloud services.

Cloud is often a BS marketing word, but I’m sure there’s ways to make it justifiable in this case. (Not that any of us has to like these features. I for once can’t stand the idea of having my editor run inside a browser…)

Guy Fawkes wanted an absolute monarch beholden to the Catholic Pope. Just because someone wants to tear down a bad system, doesn’t mean that they actually want a better one…

There’s a river Foss that runs through York. Brings a new meaning to sending patches upstream…

Yeah, I’m leaning toward this option tbh.

If we got to the point where popular machines had custom images with all the necessary extra drivers etc, it might be a value add. But for now I’m not seeing a huge benefit