There are, of cost, open source licenses that don't allow for commercial use without a license.
Also, there are lots of industries that need guarantees about the software, and even CC0 open source software doesn't come with those guarantees; those come from a commercial use and support contact.
It's appropriate to say that.
Absolutely, unequivocally not. No. By doing so, you are trivializing their experience.
You're doing it again, mate. What is being heard by your audience is that your sound sensitivity is as important as (or more important than) this woman being fired at and grabbed by secret police in front of her children.
There are orders of magnitude separation between those levels of trauma. Those children will never be the same, nor will the mother.
Frankly, fuck your sound sensitivity. Contextually wildly inappropriate to complain about, compared to the severity of the situation.
ikr? Can we start labeling this as a Republican choice, not just Trump?
This is a Republican administration operating with support from a Republican-controlled Senate and House and by Republican judges and other appointees.
Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan, it's a Republican plan. Let's start talking about the party that's doing this to America so they can't just claim it was "all Trump" and be believed when it all comes tumbling down around them.
Sodium battery technology is the future, and is still a nascent technology at industrial scale. It doesn't pollute much to make 'em, either. Canada has the highest educated population in the world, per capita. I'd love to see a big plan from Carney's government to offer subsidies for massive sodium-battery storage facilities (and home-based energy storage, for that matter), so long as the batteries are made in Canada (or something like that).
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like a brilliant industry to try to get into. They operate effectively *down to –40°C, too, so they could actually work in cars for Canadian winters, or for in-garage home energy storage.
Just wanted to throw out there that class size and complexity matters a lot.
I taught in an Alberta public high school. I had a class of 47 students. And this was a split Math 20-3/20-4 class. Over ⅓ of the class had IEPs, and another ⅓ (at least) should have had IEPs, but they'd fallen through the cracks of the system and didn't have paperwork on file to support a designation.
20-3 and 20-4 have virtually 0 curricular overlap, btw. I feel badly for the -4 kiddos in that class—they got almost no attention from me. It just wasn't possible. The one EA in the class did what she could to help them, thankfully.
I got reprimanded by my admin for that class, too, since a lowkey fight broke out (nobody was hurt) in that class and I didn't notice for about half a minute.
I left the province and haven't regretted it for a second.
Absolutely. Why bother with the test?
My wife and I both did before having kiddos. It was extra protection for them, especially when they're most vulnerable as infants, but also for us. It was super easy to book and get done and, of course, free.
Even if you still have immunity, a booster will make it more effective anyway.
Can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this:
Here’s the gut-punch for the typical living room, however. If you’re sitting the average 2.5 meters away from a 44-inch set, a simple Quad HD (QHD) display already packs more detail than your eye can possibly distinguish. The scientists made it crystal clear: once your setup hits that threshold, any further increase in pixel count, like moving from 4K to an 8K model of the same size and distance, hits the law of diminishing returns because your eye simply can't detect the added detail.
On a computer monitor, it's easily apparent because you're not sitting 2+ m away, and in a living room, 44" is tiny, by recent standards.
Sure, but there are also lots of other ways around it. Non-chrome browsers (or Chromium-based browsers) still allow for good extensions that can block YouTube ads.
Firefox + uBlock Origin still works great, even when all the front-ends are broken.
Pipepipe has been more reliable for me, lately.
But who knows how long these alternative front-ends will last? It's a constant cat and mouse game between volunteers and Google.
Weird. In Canada, they're called "volunteer" firefighters, but they get paid for training and for every call they respond to. It's only like $18/hr or something, but it's not literally volunteering.
Re: your last paragraph:
I think the future is likely going to be more task-specific, targeted models. I don't have the research handy, but small, targeted LLMs can outperform massive LLMs at a tiny fraction of the compute costs to both train and run the model, and can be run on much more modest hardware to boot.
Like, an LLM that is targeted only at:
The more specific the model, the smaller the LLM can be that can do the targeted task (s) "well".