Charity just means helping someone. Do you think no one in Chad needs or is offering help? And if you don't know anyone in Chad who's in need of charity then...why do you want to do charity in Chad?
It seems that our notion of charity has been warped in such a way that it somehow doesn't count unless it's some enormous large-scale mission carried about by Charity, Inc for the benefit of some group of people far away. It's all very abstract, and that just creates room for fraud or exploitation.
Paying off a local person's debts or putting their child through college will probably be far more impactful and meaningful than sending your money off to some giant organization.
The problem with buses is that utilization is very low. Most buses, most of the time, run near empty.
This also significantly i creases their overall passenger mile GHG emissions.
Hybrid buses and CNG probably make sense. But I doubt, fully electric buses make sense: as long as dispatch-able power (ie your marginal producer) is a thermal plant you get 60ish% thermal efficiency at best minus transformer and transmission losses.
A bus engine for use in a hybrid can be made more than 40% efficient (miller cycle, high compression, high octane CNG, full throttle PWM operation, etc).
Im in favor of raising the gas tax to fully cover road maintenance.
We're back to square one - it doesn't cover the $100/hr that a cleaner has to subsidize. Give me a proposal, or an explanation, that makes this fair and Ill agree.
So say you buy a car and it serves you well. But one day you get an email from The manufacturer telling you that at a date in the not too distant future the car will stop making left turns - but here is a discount on a new car. Would that even be legal? I don’t think so and I see no reason why this bozostat event would be any different. So what now? Will you be joining the inevitable class action suit that will be coming soon? And don’t you think that Google hasn’t already factored the cost of one into their plans? And what about the cost to Google of lost customers that realize that purchasing anything else from them (including a cellphone) would render you vulnerable to the whims of the marketing guys? I can’t wait to get the email that tells me that the phone can no longer send texts - but here’s a discount on a new one! The idea really blurs the line between buying and leasing, doesn’t it? I’ll leave you with a final comment: don’t do business with people that don’t play fair. And definitely don’t with those that do evil things.
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These are the sorts of hurdles that a wealthy, powerful, amd/or famous person could overcome. If Buffett University or Gates University opened tomorrow you'd have people clamoring to support it and attend it.
As for a draw, the US jniversity system is so flawed at this point that it wouldn't be hard to come up with something better.
I believe enciphered hieroglyphics were covered by David Kahn in The Codebreakers. If memory serves, literate people wouldn't have too much difficulty solving them. The idea was the the plaintext would seem more significant to the reader/codebreaker after they labored for a few hours or a few days working it out. The labor required would add emphasis to what was being communicated.
There is a major important nuance. It is just some people, who happen to control the government (ie: use of force) to achieve their ends. "The people" are diverse and have different opinions, and the "government" represents a small portion of them. I've certainly donated to charitable organizations that are not my friends, but have a proven track record of effectively using money for specific goals. The government rarely meets this criteria.
I always wondered why no one creates new universities in the US. It seems like in the 1800s every rich guy started their own university, many with unique missions.
The existing university model in the US seems like it's ripe for disruption so I'm surprised no one has tried to create their own.
Hm that's good to know, thanks for the link. I'm just using the runner for private solo projects atm so I think my setup will do for now. But I definitely didn't consider the implications of using it on a private project with other contributors yikes.
Can't really help with exact instructions for other distros, but the "in a nutshell" is you need to install qtcreator and QT5.
After you have them installed and working all you have to do is load the .pro file from the Project directory (https://github.com/TheBeef/WhippyTerm/tree/main/Project) you should be able to just hit the green debug/go button and it should work (you do need to be using the gcc toolchain). This is the same for the Windows build.
Have I got bad news for you.... Microsoft announced imposing limits on "premium" models from next week. You get 300 "free" requests a month. If you use agent, you consume about 3-4 requests per action easily, I estimate to burn through 300 in about 3-5 working days.
Basically anything that isnt gpt4o is premium, and I find gpt4o near useless compared to Claude and Gemini in copilot.
As a practicing Southern Baptist, I don’t find Vance’s political ideology contradicts Christ’s teachings.
Could you provide some good exemplar backed by scripture please? Preferably not cherry picked lines that tacitly support your earthly ideology, please.
Exploring how far you can go using JSX server-side without React.
- Uses [mono-jsx](https://github.com/ije/mono-jsx) (a JSX runtime with native SSR support)
- Runs on Bun (ultrafast server runtime)
- No build, no bundler, no React
- Login form with GET and POST handling
- Typed reusable components (Input, Button)
Everything is server-rendered using JSX in one file. It's minimal, expressive, and productive.
You can run it with `bun run app.tsx` — no config needed.
I think if PhDs are bad at code it is because they ain't coding in a team 7.6 hours a day. It is not the PhDness rather than not being a coder. (Sone PhDs might code a lot as a hobby and be good).
You can also write a medical PhD without knowing how to do first aid on a snake bite.
Sorry, didn't see your reply earlier. Let me address each of your points. First, your question about shifting work to a universal validator. The point isn't to create one monolithic parser for all formats — it's to enforce a structural validation layer before any decoder is allowed to operate. Think: byte-level box/frame/atom parsing for formats like MP4, MOV, PNG — where the container format is well-defined and modular. The validator isn’t decoding media; it’s checking that structure matches declared length/type bounds, box trees are sane, and forbidden segments aren’t present. This can be OS-level, just like Apple’s existing xprotect and AMFI — but for structured media, not binaries.
Can’t decoders already do this themselves?
Theoretically yes — but in practice, media decoders are huge, legacy-tangled, performance-optimized, and frequently cross-platform. Asking each one to reliably gate input based on structural sanity is like asking libc to do bounds-checking. Sandboxes help, but they’re coarse — we’re talking about a clean, minimal contract: don’t decode unless the container structure is provably valid. It’s the same logic behind memory-safe preprocessing layers.
What about subtle decoder bugs in seemingly valid media?
True — this doesn’t solve all decoder vulnerabilities. But it dramatically cuts risk by stripping malformed, truncated, recursive, or structurally deviant files before they reach the decoder logic. You can’t prevent every logic bug in a decoder, but you can gate execution to files that pass structural integrity — just like we gate executable code through signing and entitlement checks.
You can use MCP servers without the need to use an extension. You can either add it in the settings.json or use the "Add custom server..." button on the agent 3-dot menu.
The extensions are just for more ease of use as they install the server as well. A one click solution.
Thanks! It's not on GitHub because I don't desire for it to be redistributed by others. I will be releasing a downloadable desktop version (as a Progressive Web App) with even more features for a nominal one time payment. It makes the most sense to do it this way because having some monetization is good motivation to keep improving the product, while people still getting the benefits of running it completely locally.
Besides, most people working with PDFs aren't developers who wouldn't be able to host it locally on their own.
Also, are employers really looking into if a prospect's school was accredited or not?