It’s probably easiest to ignore what lib Dems say because they’re don’t have to put out a coherent policy platform, because no one expects them to be in power.

Instead look at the seats they want to win. Their plan has always been to mop up Tory votes in places that can’t bring themselves to vote labour.

It puts them firmly in the middle between the torries and labour. It’s also why e.g. they played down rejoining the EU at the last election. It might be their official stance, but it doesn’t play well in the rural Tory seats they’re targeting.

And all the doom games.

That’s just what they want you to think.

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It really comes down to what you’re used to. If you use Windows tools then you already know many of the workarounds for Windows and you don’t know the tools that haven’t been ported there.

For example, you know not to use Python directly, but that you have to install anaconda instead, or whatever the current problems with Python development on Windows are.

The big obvious thing that you can’t get away from is that you have to do things differently if you have develop for two different OSs with a view to deploying on Linux.

In particular support for shell scripts is crap on Windows. I could learn powershell or there’s workarounds using WSL and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t need to care about, but I’d rather not bother.

I mean coding is difficult enough as it is, I wouldn’t choose to use an OS that makes it even harder.

I use Linux because it makes my life easier. It has better support for development. Some of the other stuff is maybe not as easy or polished, but the support for dev tools and the ease of deploying to from local machines to servers that are also running Linux makes up for it.

If I wanted more effort I’d still be using Windows. It would force me to work on cross platform development and deployment. The idea that there’s value in making things unnecessarily hard is just weird. I want Linux to be as simple as possible to use, so I can spend that effort on things that actually matter.

Although it’s federated nature is kinda dying.

If you’re not on one of the major providers good luck getting people to see your email.

It just says can be activated. Not “automatically activates”.

Kill switches are overly dramatic silliness. Anything with a power button has a kill switch. It sounds impressive but it’s just theatre.

Amazon are also dicks about sick leave. I’m sure forcing people to work, and work hard, when they’re ill leads to complications.

The app phones home to access recipes.

Maybe it works without access to the server, but maybe it just refuses to do anything.

It’s all pure CEO bullshit though, and none of it is real.

It doesn’t cost money to send a Bluetooth signal from your phone to a sous vide. Maybe the WiFi server costs money but it’s their own fault for adding stupid functionality that phones home.

I’ve got one of these and I’m prepared to bet money that almost all of their server costs come down to every recipe in the app just being a link to a web page with lots of photos. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/

Lots of people still split latex documents into one section per file, because subversion used file locks and we only knew how one person could edit a file at a time.

Nah, you’re forgetting how fucked the US is.

Citizen’s United mean it’s absolutely fine for billionaires to spend as much money as they like supporting geriatric fascists, providing they don’t ask the fascists how they’d like the money spent.

Providing Elon keeps going off half-cocked and making decisions on his own and isn’t following instructions from the trump campaign this is all perfectly legal.

And even if he is acting on orders, how could you ever prove it?

Unfortunately, this is bad statistics.

The Teslas in self driving mode tend to be used on main roads, and most accidents per mile happen on the small side streets. People are also much safer where Teslas are driven than the these statistics suggest.

Pi is predictable and deterministic.

Computer programs exist that can tell you what the next digit is. That means it’s deterministic, and running the program will give you a prediction for each digit (within the memory constraints of your computer).

The fact that it’s deterministic is exactly why pi is interesting. If it was random it would typically be much easier to prove properties about it’s digits.

No. 1011001110001111… (One 1, one 0, two 1s, two zeros…) Doesn’t contain repeating patterns. It also doesn’t contain any patterns with ‘2’ in it.

But pi is believed to be normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

So it should contain all finite patterns an infinite number of times.

I wish. Ai is much shitter than that. Current AI (basically everyone means an LLM when they say AI) is just repeating plausible bullshit without fact checking.

It’s Boris Johnson on an industrial scale.

His nanny.

Mommy was too busy so they had to pay someone to spend time with him.

Brexit means Brexit Russian interference.

That line about competent bastards is running right through the Tory party at the moment.

Saatchi - former party chairman and the guy who came up with “labour isn’t working” has been saying the same thing.

It’s interesting that their response to this is always “we should be more competent” and never “we should stop being bastards”.