That's what a singularity is. It's literally a maths term for an undefined point in a function.
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the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known
What's this in reference to?
Is the lesson "why throw snowballs at cars when you could be having a snowball fight with a robot instead?"
Former South Australian Liberal party leader David Speirs was fined A$9,000 (£4311; $5,720) and ordered to complete 37.5 hours of community service by an Adelaide court on Thursday.
For context on that sentence:
It is illegal to make, keep, use, sell or give away cocaine. The maximum penalty for possession, supplying or administering a controlled drug that is not a commercial or trafficable quantity (unless in a prescribed area) is $50,000 or imprisonment for 10 years or both. For larger quantities, these constitute major indictable offences and attract a maximum penalty that varies (depending on the quantity involved) between $50,000 to $1,000,000 or imprisonment for 15 years to life or both.
Seems low compared to the maximum, but I have no idea how similar cases are sentenced. I just hope he didn't get off lightly for being a notable person.
This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.
There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive "engagement"-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.
So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.
When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?
It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows "tech" giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.
That's extremely disappointing. I was thrilled to see a Fusion candidate on my lower house list, as that sheet is usually effectively Lib/Lab/Green, and Fusion theoretically contains several parties I'd love to have the chance to give my vote to.
I'm dismayed to discover the candidate is actually a "Democracy First" member.
For what it's worth, I regularly switch depending on what I'm doing (AwesomeWM for X11 and Hyprland for Wayland)
If you're fine with Wayland, go with Wayland. There are lots of reasons still that people might prefer X11 but the list has been getting shorter.
- The security model of Wayland is more restrictive than necessary for many users and means things like screen sharing and desktop toys are harder and not universally implemented or doable.
- Wayland effectively requires many things to be handled by the same process, preventing traditional modular environments (e.g. separating window manager from compositor no longer possible)
- Explicit compositor support required for more features, meaning having a feature complete environment in small projects is much harder, and the design of Wayland tends to promote a few large desktop environments rather than many small window managers.
- NVidia's support for Wayland is still improving
- Wayland can't rotate your screen to be on an angle to maximise the length of a line
- Several programs I rely on don't support Wayland well yet
- Steam doesn't stream from Wayland
- Transparent bits of FreeCAD show the background instead of what's behind them
- Code-OSS required a very silly workaround for decent font rendering, although I think this might have been fixed in electron
Can't tell if paywalled, or just one paragraph long
This is explicitly described as avoiding entrapment. I don't see it as reasonable to take any political or theological teaching from this. Especially since Jesus left the Pharisees to make the connection and avoided telling anybody to pay taxes.
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar (NIV)
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
Chuck them in an open fire then get out your paraglider for a quick ascent