False dichotomy!

A Quebec diver was attacked by a great white shark recently. C'est tres etrange.

I can't disagree with you. Up here in Canada we have the CBC, which to some extent tries to keep things honest. Even they have been compromised to some extent, though, by politically driven appointments and funding decisions, and the outrageously powerful Israeli propaganda machine.

This is a bit of a twist on what's gone on in journalism for the last hundred years, but it isn't entirely a new invention.

When I was a teenager and working for a small town weekly newspaper, the editor spelled it out for me: "If something arrives all nicely written in CP style, easy to cut from the bottom up, ready to drop into any unexpected hole you might have on a page, you should remember somebody paid good money to get it onto your desk".

Yep.

There's especially the people who say "you can get a refurbished mini pc for less".

Well cool. That's also not comparable!

Absolutely, and by "meh", it's often "fine" or "adequate". And there's nothing wrong with adequate it is by definition good enough. Would I like a machine that's 3x as fast for half the price and fully open source? Well of course. Do I need one? Well... no. I don't think I've ever been in a situation were one of those would be necessary and a Pi would be inadequate.

I've used NVidia Jetson Orin AGXs, but nothing is comparable to them anyway, even a 5x faster pi wouldn't match it.

It's a real pity that the ARM world is such a shitshow compared to the x86 world, which is funny to say. Broadly speaking the first and last time I have interaction with the vendor is when I buy it and the hardware will run for decades if it lasts that long with quite possibly excellent support across the board.

You still need a working Raspberry pi to do that :)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobsolescence.wixsite.c...

I have indeed now keyed a few basic programs in at boot time (well for the emulator not the pi obviously!). It's amazingly good fun and I then understood why octal rather than hex has such pride of place in unix and C.

My advice is to not be a cuck.

My advice is not to use weird dated MAGA terms.

The raspi people made it harder for you to tinker with your own hardware

Yeah generally I don't like this. On the other hand we now have massive widespread acceptance of online scamming where legally sound companies get to cream off the scam profits so basically encourage them.

This puts manufacturers between a rock and a hard place. If the channels are filled with broken re-badged raspi's that is in the world as it is right now Raspberry Pi's problem. And RasPi customer's problem. So what would you have them do? Just shrug and say "lol sux to be u"? In this case 99.999% of their customers will never change the RAM.

They've been customer-unfriendly from the beginning, when they were selling boards with dumb mistakes that ruined them for many purposes (remember raspi A USB fails? remember the MANY power supply failures?

And yet I've been happily using them for various tasks for years. Bugs or design flaws aren't customer hostility and it's dumb to conflate them.

Have they chucked out that steaming pile of crap that is SurfaceFlinger yet?

Everyone loves to say "BuT x11 iS sO bAd" and then always build something that is worse. See also: Wayland.

Yes. That Agile approach has really never worked.

Kind of depends if you mean Agile(tm) or agile-small-a.

This isn't really the generic defense of "if your scrum isn't working, you're doing it wrong/it's not scrum or a true scotsman". After all, scrum is a bunch of large sweaty men (or women) all pushing against each other scrabbling after a moving target and then often just collapses in a mess. Kind of like Agile-scrum so maybe it's well named...

But really agile is an attempt to capture how small teams work on smaller projects with good people on large projects with mediocre people. Naturally it never works because (a) the teams are big and (b) the people are mediocre. It's meant to also offset some of the worst excesses of insane project management by doing things differently but unfortunately if you have an insane project manager who ran things in a crazy and unproductive way they are not going to become not crazy with a new framework of rules.

So in conclusion: agile is great if you can do it, but you can't do it for exactly the reasons why you need it in the first place. It is I believe therefore doomed by its very definition.

Wait, what's the gag?

I mean I would say it's user friendly but very very picky about its friends! I think it's good, but I would not say it's good for general use exactly.

As a far left radical cat hating bike riding commie hippie, I'd dearly love to increase everyone's fuel costs. Unfortunately it appears Trump got in on the act first so there isn't much left for me to do.

Jesus christ, a quiz and a slide show? Are they trying to turn reading a book into a parody of a bad educational experience??

When reading Tacitus, I'd like a tool that helps decipher Roman naming conventions that continuously evolved in the early AD years.

That's called a "translator". Unless you're reading it in the original Latin, that's what a good translator will do in footnotes. It even exits in English. Take "The life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Written in 1760, so modern English and so perfectly readable... in theory.

Except it's basically wall to wall slang, memes and pop culture references in a kind of post-modern (predating modernist!) ramble which makes it basically unintelligible without more footnotes than the entire book has text.

Hmm. I don't know about that. If an AI distilled all of Robert Jordan's or RA Salvator's or Brandon Sanderson's books I think AI could most certainly produce another short book that sounded like the individual author

Well that's the failure right there: you cannot produce a short anything in Robert Jordan's style ;)

Digs at Jordan aside, I think an LLM could probably do a reasonable job at small scales: if you were to pluck out a random paragraph from the author vs the LLM it could do a reasonable job of aping the general word choice and structure.

I'll admit I've not read much AI generated text (because it gets boring to read real fast) but have red a lot of code. It works, but is often long winded, pretentious, overblown, poorly structured and mises the underlying points. I can't imagine the writing is much better.

Writing style is so much more than just paragraphs pasted together.