Didn’t he find no connections for Russiagate? Why is he so mad at him?

Edit: I’m being sincere with this question. I didn’t think he had a beef with Mueller and forgot the original report was never made public.

You mistook William Barr's partisan "summary" for the conclusion of Mueller's investigation.

Yes you are right. I forgot the original report never became public.

The full, unredacted report has never been released to the general public.

The Trump White House asserted a “protective” claim of executive privilege over the redacted portions and underlying materials, which helped prevent Congress from obtaining the fully unredacted report, though this did not block release of the already‑redacted public version.

In other words, the criminals in charge prefer to work in the dark.

He referred his investigation to Congress because his boss (William Barr) said the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president.

The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.

It absolutely said Trump was connected to Russiagate and very much broke the law, Mueller was forced to shut down the investigation.

We'll never know for sure, but the most likely scenario is that Trump did not collude with Russia, but also did not impede them or create any friction for them trying to get him elected.

Russia wanted Trump to win, because they understood him as deeply destabilizing.

I really love Zed, but my only issue is the Emacs keybindings they ship doesn’t seem to work as well as the VSCode Emacs extensions. Hopefully they can fix this in newer updates.

This is high praise coming from an Emacs user :) I also formerly used Emacs with much joy, but I'm even happier with Zed now.

Zed has a lot of issues in flight; maybe these are useful to you? Here are the issues that have been filed under the label "area:parity/emacs". Some also have the label "state:needs repro" (needs reproduction). I wonder if any of them scratch your itch? Weighing in might help get your pain points resolved a bit faster?

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20...

Thank you! I’ll look into this!

I have a similar issue with vim support, they have built-in support which I really appreciate but don't currently support pointing to my own .vimrc. This is unfortunately a dealbreaker for me.

In the same boat, I try it every few months but give up because the emacs mode still isn't good enough. It's been getting slowly, slowly better though.

This is Opt-In. People really need to cool it with the Firefox hate.

We’ve all got enough history here to know that “opt-in” is a short step away from “opt-out”, which is a short step away from “we removed the toggle to simplify the user experience.” At this point any new “opt-in” feature in any piece of software or service is Chekhov's gun - all that announcement means is that at some point in the future I’m going to have to figure out how to remove this thing or replace this software or service.

It is understandably hard at this point to trust Firefox to do right things

Cool it with AI hate? Love Firefox, I don't understand slapping "AI" on a browser.

Just because you don’t want the feature doesn’t mean other don’t. I certainly would - assuming the implementation is privacy friendly

Ok, then install an extension for it? FF doesn't even come with ad-blocking yet which is useful to a lot more people.

>Ok, then install an extension for it?

Or build it in and people who don't want to use it don't?

Your stance of FF should only have the features I personally want and the features others want should be in extensions is frankly laughable

To me it is just usual Firefox behaviour chasing some trend or other. Adding features for sake of adding features. I wonder what is the over-under when this feature will be deprecated...

Do you, honestly, not see the benefits of LLMs, particularly in a browser?

If this was them bringing over window.ai from Chrome I'd say it would be good. I love the offline translation they added, and wouldn't mind something similar for LLM. But having a separate panel that's just basically chatgpt & co isn't impressive.

I'd much prefer an offline capable, leaner LLM that lets web devs do cool stuff.

I honestly don't. I do understand that others see benefits in it, but I don't really understand why.

What benefits do you think others see in it, and why do you think they're not benefits?

I'm not certain what benefits others actually get, but what I hear most often is translation and summaries.

I need translation rarely enough that it doesn't matter if the browser does it or not, and I have no interest at all in summaries of websites.

Do you, honestly, not see the benefits of blockchain, particularly in a browser?

Looks like by next LTS (for kernel 6.10 and 6.11) we'll have some good support for these chips. I wonder if any OEMs will make any Linux laptops for us to buy.

There is the Huawei Qingyun. It's about 500-600 USD on Taobao

That's Kirin, not Snapdragon

I used a Huawei laptop and it's great. Huawei's build quality is significantly better than Asus. Not Apple level, but maybe half way there. Lenovo is also pretty good in quality (depending on the model though). Asus laptops are either cheap plastic or extremely thin metal that flexes - even on top end models. They also have a bad track record with support for their Tinkerboards. Not sure how the country of origin matters

It's a moot point if they can't get access to the chips.

don't forget that ASUS is so bad with warranties that GN not only once but twice now called them out and there are YouTubers who refuse to review ASUS devices.

I guess you need to avoid using any phone, tablet or laptop then unless all its chips are built in Taiwan. I know Apple Silicon is built there but what about other chips in their hardware?

Some chips are not a concern, but a CPU with its firmware most certainly is. NICs would be too, for obvious reasons.

For example, simple gate chips, or I/O chips are likely not a concern.

Also, many other places in the world than Taiwan make chips, they just make a lot.

For some things, we have more options than for others. It makes sense to make more choices where more choices exist.

System76 uses Clevo and Sager notebooks with little modifications. Both of them are purely Chinese. With your logic anything produced after ca. 1995 is unusable.

Clevo seems to be Taiwanese, not (mainland) Chinese?

I really hope system76 takes a look at them

I think he means 18% of crashes that the police report have an airbag deployment.

Yes thanks that is what I meant.

I believe the MLX examples allow for it. Seems like a general purpose framework rather than a Mac specific one.

I couldn't find any training code in the MXL examples.

The difference is 0.2%. Honestly thought the difference would be much higher. I'll need to read the actual paper to get whether they found this statistically significant.

Compared with other factors like day of admission.

> Patients admitted on a Saturday and Sunday have a 10 per cent and 15 per cent higher risk of death than those admitted on a Wednesday.

But isn’t that because in weekend admits are rare and only done in serious situations where death is more likely?

Also worth considering publication bias: any result in the other direction will not get published.

They know a lot of people only read the headline, so how difficult would it have been to add five characters to the headline:

"Patients 0.2% ‘less likely to die’ if treated by a female doctor, study reveals"

It's borderline dishonest not to.

It will be statisticaly significant but if there's any confounders at all it's a correlation but not necessarily causation.

Cheaper subscriptions if there is no Apple tax.

Not defending web apps or anything, but sometimes the way to a customer is through their wallet.

These samples look pretty amazing. I'm curious the compute required to train and even deploy something like this. How would it scale to making something like a CGI Pixar movie?

Honestly it's the one thing I don't miss about Android. I always felt compelled to tinker with things a lot more than I should've.

Yeah, and equal time spent futzing with your launcher is better spent tinkering with a raspberry pi or similar. At least then you may develop a skill.

Android customization is sort of like junk food - enjoyable in the moment, but not meaningfully improving your life.

I don't get it, how is it different from customizing any other OS, except that Android has many more options to do so than the very-limited iOS? You spend countless hours on your phone, why wouldn't you sit down for an hour to make it suit your needs better if the defaults bother you? I tweaked Nova Launcher on mine, spent an hour or two doing that, what, 8 years ago now? Definitely worth the time.

I very much hate the default Android and iOS experiences. I guess the downside is that making my phone more usable means, well, I actually use it more (i.e., too much).

I really disagree.

I use my phone more than any other device and having it be "beautiful" is an important part of my user experience

At this point any decoration in real life is useless because not productive

> Android customization is sort of like junk food - enjoyable in the moment, but not meaningfully improving your life.

Hard disagree. I assume you have some technical background, that's why you consider it not meaningful. Go speak to someone that knows nothing about it, which is the majority of the people I assume, I'm pretty sure they learn a lot in the way.

That may be true for purely decorative skinning for some people (although personally I enjoy using interfaces more when they have excellent visual design, iconography, layout and consistency). However interface customization can go far beyond aesthetic visuals to adding functions, default behaviors and time-saving shortcuts, improving interface hierarchy and surfacing frequently used options. Another key area is speeding up navigation by hiding unused things and increasing legibility with better UI density and typography. I find these kinds of customizations do meaningfully improve usage efficiency and utility, making a real difference on devices I use constantly.

For instance, taking control of my phone's three physical buttons with custom double-press and long-press actions that are contextual is so useful I can't imagine using a phone without it. I've also added a custom contextual action to double-tapping the back of my phone that I use constantly. This uses the phone's accelerometer and, surprisingly, works perfectly with no false positives. I use my phone a lot for reading e-books, controlling home automation, photography and other use cases where I'm switching between portrait and landscape modes frequently. Customizing automatic screen rotation to be per app, by time of day and even by location is another one of those seemingly little things that's just so nice in constant daily usage.

Some people argue all these things should just be built-in to phones and "it's a bug" the designers didn't just set-up everything "correctly" in the first place. But the reality is people have different innate preferences about some kinds of usage modes and defaults. For example, I'm highly spatial vs my wife who's very sequential. She prefers contextually adaptive "smart" interfaces that change to list the most likely options first. She can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want that. However, my brain expects stuff to be in the same place it was last time and it throws me when things keep moving around. I think this is more than just a preference or learned behavior, it's an innate trait like handedness. While people can force themselves to adapt across this divide, it will always be uncomfortable and slower.

Then there there is the current UX design obsession with "simplifying" interfaces by removing features, reducing density and increasing the remaining spacing and typography sizes to the point of, IMHO, insanity. This is another reason when it comes to devices I'll use constantly, I consciously choose those I can significantly customize and adapt (eg Android, Windows, Linux, Firefox, etc). Of course, I don't customize every use case. What matters is having the option to do so for those usages which make a meaningful difference to me.