Simple desktop that works and isn't crazy: Linux mint with cinnamon desktop. Just use it, I promise you won't regret it.
I don't use that, because I don't need the simplest thing, I'm a more complicated person. But my wife does, and it's amazing. I set it up for her. I tried out a handful of desktop environments the other day to see which one is the easiest to use, cinnamon is the only one I tried that I'd recommend, which surprised me. KDE just gets in your way every chance it gets, others just deviate too much from the windows concept of a desktop for someone who isn't into Linux to start using, and the rest have quirky behaviors and bugs that just make life harder.
As far as the distro, you'll hear mint a lot, it's what Ubuntu used to be back when it was the easiest to use distro. I'll always recommend it to people that just need a desktop that works. Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop, your parents won't even notice except that they don't have forced updates and login to outlook and all the terrible cruft, they'll just have a computer that works for them again.
If he could get the small kinks out of the design and modify it for a manufacturing process these things would sell like hot cakes. They'd be expensive but worth it to a lot of peoe.
I don't know a single american who thinks our public school system is functioning adequately. Not a student, not a teacher, not a congressman, not a parent, nobody. We all have different ideas of how we need to change it, but we all agree it is an abysmal failure.
Someone's trying something. That someone was duly elected, partly on the promise to do this. And elected with a Democratic mandate by a popular majority. Do you want a better school system? Let your opponents try something, if they fail, try something else. Public school in america is in shambles, maybe the problem is architectural.
Different LLMs respond to requests slightly differently. So if I say - "here's a log of all the errors I got, can you help me solve it?" - you will get different suggestions than if provided more constraints first. It helps to split the logs and ask to solve one problem at a time, rather than expect it to solve all of the problems at once. So it's easy to just ask for help, but you get better results by helping the LLM with extract directives first. That's one example.
If you ask o1 vs Grok to write something, they have very different styles. Grok is chill and concise, o1 is professory and kind of dull. But, each has its advantage, so it makes sense to give o1 something to make it better, then feed to Grok to make it more fun. Things like that.
The fact that he campaigned on it, brought Musk along and put him on stage to make speeches about it, and even named the "department" before the election and then won seems pretty compelling to me. Open and shut case I'd say.
It seems to imply that living systems (and possibly not simply limited to living systems, potentially including all systems with positive and negative feedback loops) can have an "intention" of sorts. Convergent evolution could be an example of this, and perhaps, given enough time, technological advancement is something that is converged on.
Not much substance in the interview, I'd like to actually understand his reasoning. He's right about the simple concept, if nobody buys the bonds, the government eventually defaults. And if the borrower of last resort, the central bank, buys them up, inflation.
And hes right about the concept that a trader bets on their own worldview. They learn quickly if they're right or wrong about their understanding of the world, they learn it in a very personal way, they don't eat if they don't understand the world pretty well.
I don't dismiss what hes saying, I just want the meat and potatoes.
It's obviously exactly that. Of course, it's not well thought out, its 100% legal from the language in the bill to jerk off with a condom, or pull out. Wouldn't want to tempt your opponents to actually make it the law to empregnate your wife every time you have sex. Also, it makes periods illegal.
It makes sweating, salivating, and sneezing illegal — well, except in some fairly esoteric and scientifically implausible circumstances — but it’s considerably more well-reasoned than every executive order we’ve had, or can expect, from the current occupier of the Oval Orifice.
I don't use that, because I don't need the simplest thing, I'm a more complicated person. But my wife does, and it's amazing. I set it up for her. I tried out a handful of desktop environments the other day to see which one is the easiest to use, cinnamon is the only one I tried that I'd recommend, which surprised me. KDE just gets in your way every chance it gets, others just deviate too much from the windows concept of a desktop for someone who isn't into Linux to start using, and the rest have quirky behaviors and bugs that just make life harder.
As far as the distro, you'll hear mint a lot, it's what Ubuntu used to be back when it was the easiest to use distro. I'll always recommend it to people that just need a desktop that works. Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop, your parents won't even notice except that they don't have forced updates and login to outlook and all the terrible cruft, they'll just have a computer that works for them again.