I think you're absolutely on point and right that you shouldn't be listening to me, a potential internet nobody. There's no way you could tell me or anyone here apart from an AI at this point.
You should be listening to actual reporters, such as Jonathan Rauch from The Atlantic: https://archive.is/Maalh "Yes, it's Fascism"
Gabe is pretty cool and Valve is an amazing company that has done great things for both PC and Linux gaming. But this is not enough to counter the absolute shitshow that is USA right now.
But hey, they have midterms coming up this year. That's a great opportunity to redeem some of their earlier sanity. That is, if the democracy still exists then. It's not just the left that is worried -- many american centrists have started to wonder.
If only it was legal, I'd happily replace my alcohol use with cannabis, and I don't think I'm alone in my age group. Not a big surprise that that yields improved brain health.
Sure, but how many people/companies are perfectly served by serverless functions + queues + gateway + database + file service? I'd guess >90%. How much of that remaining 10% can be adequately patched by lauching virtual servers?
Scaleway and OVHCloud both provide all of that. The problem is more about marketing and a modern variant of the good old "nobody got fired for buying IBM".
If you mean to say that OpenStack is made by Huawei, that is not true. They are a major contributor and a platinum member of that open source project, though.
I have used this for a few hours now, and it's pretty great! I'm quite thirsty for replacing American tech with European tech, so it's pretty cool that Mistral is this good now.
It has broken editor integration (Zed) though at least for the time being. But the CLI works. Hopefully that's just a temporary thing -- as much as I like working in the terminal, this is a bit awkward.
Vibe keys seem to be somehow different from other API keys: I wasn't able to create a working key manually, but when navigated via a link that Mistral Vibe gave me, things started working. Or at least I think that was the reason.
>If the officers believed the armed man they were scuffling with fired a shot then it wouldn't be murder.
Is that really how it works in USA? A belief that an incapacitated person fired an accidental shot is grounds for murder and execution? It is technically a murder even if those people legally have immunity, in the same way as the 1930s nazis committed crimes even though they were legal in their country.
Didn't the execution of Pretti get videoed? Wouldn't it be trivial to find out from the audio whether his gun fired accidentally before ICE murdered him?
And to be clear: they murdered him and as far as I can tell, none of them are facing any murder charges.
I was vacationing in New York, and we went to some pretty standard-looking mall bookshop somewhere near Poughkeepsie some time in mid 90s. And I bought an interesting looking comic book, something I had never seen before.
I liked Dilbert for a long time, but Adams's Trump Dementia became so bad in the last decade that it completely tainted his legacy for me. His role in enabling Donald Trump to rise to power is undeniable, and his death makes me wish I had reserved a bottle of sparkling wine for the occasion.
I yearn for the time when it was possible to never meet your idols.
>Can anyone tell me an actual reason to use Org mode over Markdown?
I think the reason in general is simply that org-mode is better, i.e. more carefully defined. I'll mention the things I like more specifically:
- Link syntax in markdown is something I never remember how it goes. Org-mode is [[link][description]].
- Text styles in org-mode make more sense. In markdown, * is used for italics, * for bold. Additionally, * is for lists, which might be confusing.
- Markdown blocks are freaking awful and seem to work by luck more than anything else. Code blocks even worse -- they are made by indenting 4 spaces or a tab! I couldn't come up with a worse way to do that even if I tried. Org-mode has clear #BEGIN_xxx / #END_xxx blocks.
- Markdown has a weird YAML frontmatter syntax. Org-mode has keywords which can be attached to the whole document and properties, which can be attached to every heading.
USA used to be cool (or so I thought) back when I started participating in this place. They have sunk very low in the last 15 years.
Let's make this actionable. This is the last time I read or write here. Bye. You guys won't lose much but I will gain a lot.