1. Forked an existing app that has all the features you listed.
2. Admit they don't really know the language and tech it uses.
3. Said upstream was too slow, but I don't see any(?) PRs from them on upstream besides the 2 that they list in the post. Their fork appears to have an extra 3,000 commits.
I'm not super against them doing this, but it's pretty easy to see why people don't like it. Hell, this is the same group that upgraded one of my side-projects from a few years ago and improved it into their 'baibot' matrix bot, so I wish them all the best. I like people making money from OSS, more power to them.
It made me think: we don't have to suffer the brokenness of the old bot (https://github.com/matrixgpt/matrix-chatgpt-bot) anymore. Still, I wanted something more thread-based and more powerful than what you had built.. and I wanted a playground to learn some Rust.
To clarify for anyone that might get confused: baibot (https://github.com/etkecc/baibot) is not based on any of the chaz code, nor on the matrix-chatgpt-bot code. It's completely manually-built / independently-built (in Rust), by me, over multiple months of unpaid FOSS work.
This applies to all software. You didn't make the monitor your app is being displayed on. Stop taking credit for the compiler that made your code runnable, etc.
Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.
Chat seems like a really bad way to get patient information. You'll miss out on various cues doctors will use to diagnose you. People can get ashamed of their symptoms and may try to hide them.
They do, there will be a Linux penguin on the supported OSes list if the game has native support for Linux.
If the game doesn't have native support, and you buy the game on a Linux machine, it will warn you about possible incompatibility.
In any case the reality is that every game I've bought on GOG has worked pretty much perfectly on Wine, I use winetricks.
The main problem with Windows games these days is the DRM which on Wine will crash. Good thing GOG games don't come with any.
Doubtful. People will either just eat the higher costs or simply drive. The infrastructure is lacking (relative to airports), and there's unlikely to be any support for expanding it anytime soon - passing costs on to consumers is the current US culture.
Those airplanes aren't going to be scrapped. Demand for flights hasn't reduced much. Other airlines will buy up the airplanes and put them back into service.
Really? Spirit had a very limited route network. And Delta and United have been successfully pursuing a market strategy based more on service quality than low prices. They account for the majority of profit in the whole industry.
For cities where the flight is an 1.5 hours or less high speed rail (300kph) is usually about the same (if not slightly faster) because it's much faster to get in and out.
This works even better when the train station is closer to downtown than the airport.
I think, if you follow the airport guidelines (at least in the USA), trains win (or at least come close) for even longer distances than that. Most airports recommend that you arrive at least two hours early to ensure that you can make it through security and get to your gate on time. That means that a 3 hour flight is actually a 5 hour time commitment. And, as you noted, you've also got to get to the airport first, and airports tend to be far away (45 minutes+) from the main part of the city in a lot of places. So, a 3 hour flight might actually require 6 hours of transit time / waiting in many cases.
No, it's still a problem. The reserve currency just raises the headroom by something like 20 points by making cost of borrowing lower than it would be otherwise. There is no free lunch, just subsidized lunch.
Italy and Greece have been running at over 100% for ~30 years. It's not great, but it's also not the end of the world. It's even less bad for the US, as long as lenders still trust that the US government will pay them back.
30% of GDP would be better, but 100% isn't going to collapse the US economy on it's own.
The ratio itself is less worrying than how fast the ratio is increasing. It was under 80% in 2019 and under 40% in 2009[1]. (This is excluding debt the government owes itself, which I believe WSJ is also doing).
The selection of those data points is rather misleading. Debt to GDP ratio tends to spike during recession recovery. There were spikes in 2009 and 2020 due to the Great Recession and Pandemic respectively. The level was pretty flat from 2001 to 2008, from 2013 to 2019, and 2021 to now. The current growth rate for the past 3 years is pretty in line with what it was from 1982 to 1994.
The Greek economy has collapsed at least once in the past 30 years (maybe more, that's just off the top of my head), and had to be rescued by the EU. So I wouldn't use that as an example.
Great point. Almost by definition, as long as we're going 95mph in a straight line, we're still ok. But some alarmist passenger might get emotional anyway. (Sigh. People are people.)
Borrowing costs have already gone up. The 10 year treasury yield is already double from where it was during the 2010s. There are other factors contributing but it’s worth mentioning as a partial factor
The US dollar is now also the oil exchange currency, and the US is a major oil producer so harder to squeeze. Remember what else happened in 1973 and 1979?
Also, even if true, a lot is likely due to people leaving the countryside and migrating to the cities during the latter half of the 20th century. To feed these urban populations, an enormous amount of food needs to be imported from other countries. So really the deforestation has been exported, same as pollution from manufacturing.
I don't know, Stephen King couldn't write anything that matches the horror that was the management of UK car companies in the second half of the 20th century. British Leyland was a disaster from start to finish.
Besides that flagship vehicle, their other more standard cars are also pretty good. We just returned from Hong Kong, and the cars there were the same brands we saw in South America: Maxus et al. with some MGs. To be honest, they seemed very good. Unless something is secretly wrong with them regarding safety or reliability, the American and European car industries are in huge trouble.
A friend's dad just restored his ancient MG up here in California and it was funny to me to see that car and then go up to Hong Kong and see the modern incarnation of the same marque.
Regarding the MGs, I believe the design is still done in the UK, which explains the style. And from my understanding a lot of of the really good looking Chinese cars are actually designed by European design shops (Italian, Swedish etc). It seems like a pretty good strategy actually to let the Chinese handle the manufacturing while the Europeans handle the design and performance.
I do draw the line when they start putting them in console outputs though.
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