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  • I think that the age data there is the most interesting bit.

    There’s very little difference in perception for the 18-29-year-old demographic, with 16% of Republican/lean-Republican voters saying that the economy is excellent/good, and 21% of Democratic/lean-Democratic voters.

    But every time the age cohort rises, so does the separation in perception of the economy. For 65±year-olds, it’s down to 7% for Republican/lean-Republican voters, and 55% of Democratic/lean-Democratic voters.




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    Just searching Kagi, like googling on Google.

    Kagi provides a subscription-based service; the user pays a subscription fee, rather than the search engine generating a return via data-mining and profiling users, which is something that I’d wanted for some time; at some point in the past year or so someone pointed me to it. It also provides some other features, but what I really care about is the no-log aspect.

    If Google would sell some kind of analogous subscription for YouTube (rather than just ad-free service with their “YouTube Premium” stuff) I’d happily get “YouTube Private” as well, as I think that that’s probably the other major source of online data-mining that I very regularly use and don’t have a great way of dealing with today. But as things stand, that’s not something that they have on offer.



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    Bill Kristol really dislikes Trump.

    kagis

    This looks like a recent article. He’s not exactly pulling punches.

    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-will-trumps-win-mean

    The American people have made a disastrous choice. And they have done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open.

    Donald J. Trump will be our next president, elected with a majority of the popular vote, likely winning both more votes and more states than he did in his two previous elections. After everything—after his chaotic presidency, after January 6th, after the last year in which the mask was increasingly off, and no attempt was made to hide the extremism of the agenda or the ugliness of the appeal—the American people liked what they saw. At a minimum, they were willing to accept what they saw.

    And Trump was running against a competent candidate who ran a good campaign to the center and bested him in a debate, with a strong economy. Yet Trump prevailed, pulling off one of the most remarkable comebacks in American political history. Trump boasted last night, “We’ve achieved the most incredible political thing,” and he’s not altogether wrong.

    Certainly, even before he once again assumes the reins of power, Trump has cemented his status as the most consequential American politician of this century.

    And when he assumes the reins of power, he’ll start off as a powerful and emboldened president. He’ll have extraordinary momentum from his victory. He’ll be able to claim a mandate for an agenda that the public has approved. He’ll have willing apparatchiks and politicians at his disposal, under the guidance of JD Vance and Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson and Stephen Miller, eager to help him advance that agenda. He’ll have a compliant Republican majority in the Senate. And it looks as if Republicans may narrowly hold the House.

    It’s hard to imagine a worse outcome.

    If you think, as I do, that Trump’s agenda could do great damage to the country and to the world, if you think of deportations of immigrants at home and the betrayal of brave Ukrainians abroad and you shudder, if you think that turning our health policy over to Robert Kennedy Jr. will cause real harm, you’re right to feel real foreboding for the future.

    And of course there is no guarantee that the American people will turn against Trump and his agenda. They knew fully well who it was they were choosing this time. Their support may well be more stubborn than one would like. It certainly has been over the last four years.

    Sounds like this website he’s currently writing for is also pretty opposed to Trump.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulwark_(website)

    Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[6] editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that “the murder of the Standard made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism.”[7] The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501©(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by The Weekly Standard co-founder Bill Kristol.[8] Several former editors and writers of The Weekly Standard soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces.[5] The website has frequently published pieces critical of Donald Trump and of pro-Trump elites in politics and the media.[1]


  • In some polls I’ve seen before the election, the top item for people – this is in general, not a specific demographic – who said that they would vote for Trump was the economy.

    But you can break that down more than “economy”. “Economy” can mean a lot of things. How the stock market is doing. Unemployment. Inflation.

    And when people were asked about that, in the polling data I saw, prices were the top concern.

    I commented well before the election and pointed out that inflation is extremely unpopular with publics. In a study – and this is an old one, but apparently a well known one – that looked at the public in Germany, the US, and Brazil, the public – and particularly in Germany and the US – said that they’d rather have a recession than inflation. That is significant, because in contrast, the mainstream economic position is that it’s preferable for a country to have inflation than a recession.

    I also listened to some interviews of people voting Trump, and a lot of people said “I was better-off under Trump than Biden”.

    My guess is that you can probably chalk a considerable amount of this up to:

    • Not understanding that inflationary policies weren’t simply adopted in isolation, but to avoid a recession resulting from COVID-19.

    • Not knowing that it’s normally considered that inflationary policy is preferable to a recession.

    • Not knowing that the Trump administration also adopted inflationary policy.

    I also remember reading some stuff going well back saying that in general, people tend to credit the President pretty directly for whatever the present state of the economy is. If there are issues, they put it at the feet of the President, and if it’s going well, they put it at the feet of the President…even if the President didn’t have much to do with it (or if it was actually policies from a prior administration that took time to have effect). So to some extent, the politics of being the President always, not just in a situation with a fair bit of inflation as we had stemming from COVID-19, have to do with that voter attribution to the President of the short-term state of the economy.

    I’d also add that political organizations know this and will – not always honestly – aim to exacerbate that take.

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/sep/08/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trump-on-the-scale-and-causes/

    Donald Trump

    stated on September 7, 2024 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.:

    Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.”

    So if one wants to avoid the executive being unreasonably penalized for – or taking credit for – the economic state of affairs, then there’s probably a hard communication problem that hasn’t been solved for decades and decades that needs to happen.



  • Assuming that this is the episode and the Factorio dev post that references, I think that that’s a different issue. That dev also was using Sway under Wayland, but was talking about how Factorio apparently doesn’t immediately update the drawable area on window size change – it takes three frames, and Sway was making this very visible.

    I use the Sway window manager, and a particularity of this window manager is that it will automatically resize floating windows to the size of their last submitted frame. This has unveiled an issue with our graphics stack: it takes the game three frames to properly respond to a window resize. The result is a rapid tug-of-war, with Sway sending a ton of resize events and Factorio responding with outdated framebuffer sizes, causing the chaos captured above.

    I spent two full days staring at our graphics code but could not come up with an explanation as to why this is happening, so this work is still ongoing. Since this issue only happens when running the game on Wayland under Sway, it’s not a large priority, but it was too entertaining not to share.

    I’d guess that he’s maybe using double- or triple-buffering at the SDL level or something like that.


  • tal@lemmy.todaytoGames@sh.itjust.worksTried Stardew
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    my thought was, '“oh am i going to have to do all this myself?” Idk why I would want to spend my time and effort doing what someone in Rimworld does without needing micromanagement.

    Not really my cup of tea either.

    I don’t think that Stardew Valley is really all that similar to Rimworld. Maybe Oxygen Not Included, Satisfactory/Factorio, Kenshi, or Dwarf Fortress if you’re looking for something similar.





  • Lynne Ingram, a Somerset beekeeper and the chair of the Honey Authenticity Network UK, said: “The market is being flooded by cheap, imported adulterated honey and it is undermining the business of genuine honey producers. The public are being misinformed, because they are buying what they think is genuine honey.”

    The UK is one of the biggest importers of cheap Chinese honey, which is known to be targeted by fraudsters. Honey importers say supply chains and provenance are carefully audited, but there has been no consensus on how technical tests should be applied, or which are most reliable.

    A fun bit of perspective that I like to mention in discussions about this. Roll back a bit over a century:

    Scientific American, November 2, 1907

    Artificial Honey

    Prof. Herzfeld, of Germany, recently brought out some interesting points regarding the manufacture of artificial honey in Europe. It is noticed that when we bring about the inversion of refined sugar in an almost complete manner and under well determined conditions, this sugar solidifies in the same way as natural honey after standing for a long time, and it can be easily redissolved by heating. Owing to the increased production of artificial honey, the bee cultivators have been agitating the question so as to protect themselves, and it is proposed to secure legislation to this effect, one point being to oblige the manufacturers to add some kind of product which will indicate the artificial product. On the other hand, it is found that the addition of inverted sugar to natural honey tends to improve its quality and especially to render it more easiIy digested. Seeing that sugar is about the only alimentary matter which is produced in an absolutely pure state, its addition to honey cannot be strictly considered as an adulteration. Bees often take products from flowers which have a bad taste; and the chemist Keller found that honey coming from the chestnut tree sometimes has a disagreeable flavor. From wheat flowers we find a honey which has a taste resembling bitter almonds, and honey from asparagus flowers is most unpalatable. Honey taken from the colza plant is of an oily nature, and that taken from onions has the taste of the latter. In such cases, the honey is much improved by the addition of inverted sugar. Prof. Herzfeld gives a practical method for preparing this form of sugar. We take 1 kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of high-quality refined sugar in a clean enamelware vessel, and add 300 cubic centimeters (10 fluid ounces) of water and 1.1 grammes (17 grains) tartaric acid. This is heated at 110 deg. C. over an open fire, stirring all the while, and is kept at this heat until the liquid takes on a fine golden yellow color, such operation lasting for about three quarters of an hour. By this very simpIe process we can easily produce artificial honey. Numerous extracts are now on the market for giving the aroma of honey, but none of them will replace the natural honey. However, if we take the artificial product made as above and add to it a natural honey having a strong aroma, such as that which is produced from heath, we can obtain an excellent semi-honey.




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    You’re probably better off asking on [email protected].

    If you want to try there, I can throw some ideas out.

    Asklemmy, despite the oft-confusing community name that generates a lot of these sort of things, isn’t really intended as a general “ask any question” community, but for “thought-provoking” questions. Their Rule 5 excludes stuff like this.

    The mods tend to delete stuff like this; I’ve had a few questions that I’ve spent time answering and then had the post deleted with the answers, which is kinda frustrating if you’ve put effort into an answer.

    If you ask there, I’d suggest indicating which system you used to generate the image, as it’ll affect the answer.



  • The only way you can do that is if Congress signs off on it.

    Every other state has an incentive not to permit that, because then that state gets two senators of its own.

    Congress has only ever permitted a state to split a single time – West Virginia from Virginia, during the American Civil War, where West Virginia was willing to side with the Union, and contained some militarily-important rail and water infrastructure.

    Texas also negotiated the right to have the ability to split into five states if it wanted down the line at the time it joined, but I recall reading that it was considered to no longer be an exerciseable option after the American Civil War.

    EDIT:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union

    Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1:

    New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.[4]

    EDIT2: Correction; Kentucky was also split from Virginia and Maine from Massachusetts. The Kentucky split happened before the US Constitution was ratified. Maine was part of the Missouri Compromise, to keep slave and free states in balance when Missouri joined as a slave state.


  • Well, for me, the selling points are:

    • Versus earlier versions of USB, it’s reversible. This isn’t a game changer, I guess, but it’s definitely nice to not have to fiddle plugs around all the time.

    • I don’t know if it’s the only form of USB that does USB PD – I’d guess not – but in practice, it seems to be pretty strongly associated with USB PD. Having USB PD isn’t essential, but it makes charging larger devices, like laptops, a lot more practical. I can lug around a power station that doesn’t need to have an embedded inverter.

    I still feel that it’s kind of physically small and weak compared to USB A. That’s an okay tradeoff for small portable devices that don’t have the space for larger connectors, but I’m kinda not enthralled about it on desktop. I worry more about bending connectors (and I have bent them before).

    So for me, I’d say that it’s definitely nice, but not really in a game changing sense. I could do the things it can do in somewhat-worse ways prior to USB-C.


  • despite editing the .sh file to point to the older tarballed Python version as advised on Github, it still tells me it uses the most up to date one that’s installed system wide and thus can’t install pytorch.

    Can you paste your commands and output?

    If you want, maybe on [email protected], since I think that people seeing how to get Automatic1111 set up might help others.

    I’ve set it up myself, and I don’t mind taking a stab at getting it working, especially if it might help get others over the hump to a local Automatic1111 installation.


  • venv nonsense

    I mean, the fact that it isn’t more end-user invisible to me is annoying, and I wish that it could also include a version of Python, but I think that venv is pretty reasonable. It handles non-systemwide library versioning in what I’d call a reasonably straightforward way. Once you know how to do it, works the same way for each Python program.

    Honestly, if there were just a frontend on venv that set up any missing environment and activated the venv, I’d be fine with it.

    And I don’t do much Python development, so this isn’t from a “Python awesome” standpoint.