I don’t get the “especially in Northern Ontario bit.

At least N Ontario has lake systems and navigable waterways, as does N Manitoba. Go further west, and there’s absolutely nothing but forest for thousands of kilometres. You’re not going to be flying supplies and ground crew in, because the only vehicles big enough to get there are too big to land.

The other problem, of course, is that we’ve spent a century and a bit messing with the forests, which used to have regular burns that acted as fire breaks for the next year’s burns. Ground cover grew back thick and green in the ashes, and trees dispersed their seeds.

Now however, we’ve stopped that cycle, leading to overpopulation of insects, buildup of deadwood, and no natural fire breaks, meaning humans have to artificially do all the work that used to happen naturally… right when everything is heating up and weather systems are shifting.

s/leftist/fascist/g ?

He’s not wrong… unchecked threats of violence and terrorism by the far right aren’t getting rid of leftist ideas, and neither are the schools or the justice system.

Now I’m intrigued because another article called it a light-up keyboard, and still another called it a ChatGPT Remote.

I suspect the headline is incorrect though; likely numerous people knew and were smart enough not to say anything.

The other part of the “self defense” mentality is that a well defended entity is more likely to attack others through whatever means is available with the confidence that they don’t have to fear retaliation. It’s Titanic syndrome.

A server is a computer that’s configured to efficiently take network requests, process them, and send network responses. You can use any general purpose computer as a server, but custom built computers will likely be more efficient.

Servers can be self-hosted, co-located by high speed internet connections, or part of server “farms” where a lot of computers and hard drives are stored in dedicated racks where a physical hard drive failure means they pull out that drive and pop in a new one, with no loss of data because the data is written to multiple disks.

ICE has just realized that maybe the administration doesn’t actually have their back, and they’re probably being played as expendable pawns.

My question exactly.

Under ST in the winter it’s dark when I get up and go to work, and it’s dark when I come home. Under DT, it would be the same.

In the summer, it’s sunny when I’m still trying to sleep in the morning and still sunny when I’m trying to sleep at night. Under ST it would be the same.

The only difference would be in spring and fall, when the transition time would shift earlier or later.

Generally it’s best not to focus on losing weight but on adjusting calorie intake. Because muscle weighs more than fat, water weighs more than either, and the goal is generally to feel fit, not light.

When wrestling I used to do the “drop a kilo class” thing by bulking up in a way that could rapidly store water, then running to temporarily shed that water before weigh in, then immediately rehydrate up to the next weight class. That was usually around 10 lbs of weight, but I was dropping it and regaining within a 6 hour period.

Losing weight for health reasons isn’t going to be the same for everyone. Personally I find the best way for me to lose weight is to increase my metabolism, which I find I can do through endurance running in threshold temperatures. But for other people that just makes them tired and hungry without their metabolism adjusting. And without the metabolic change, you don’t get the added benefit of literally burning off stored energy.

Also, depleting fat cells isn’t the same as removing fat cells. Those cells are still there, and it’s going to take months for cellular change to happen in your body. So 20 lbs of weight loss in a month will mostly be loss of water, muscle, and energy stored in the fat cells. And as soon as you stop starving yourself, it’ll all come back. And that can happen in a matter of days.

I started my self hosting journey with email, but I did it in 1993 when things were much simpler. IMO, email self-hosting isn’t worth it today (and if you do it, definitely set up a VPS as a relay and don’t try to MX directly from a consumer IP).

Self-hosting works great for everything but email. Email these days requires a commercial IP for the MX unless you want to get blocked, so the closest you can get is hosting on a VPS.

If the ICC is a credible threat to your citizens, that says more about the citizens than the ICC.

“The ICC and it’s friends” includes pretty much everyone except the current Republican administration and their oligarch friends.

And other criminals globally, of course.

How long until it gets declared an act of terrorism?

Makes sense; his IRS scam just fell through and he needs to distract.

Our only hope is that we eventually get enough of his deflections and scams coming home to roost at once that he’s unable to suck the oxygen out of the current news cycle even by declaring nuclear war on Greenland.

I think I’d remove the “stupid” bit though; a lot of people who live their fantasy life in their head seem to be much happier in general than those of us who hold up such things against a backdrop of critical thinking.

They don’t, however, seem to learn from their mistakes or improve their lot in life, except by accident. But they’re generally quite happy at the expense of the people around them they invariably impact by remembering what never was. Some people will abandon them to their fiction after attempting to help them escape it, but others will enable them, trying to create a semblance of the reality that would never happen naturally. See the US government for a fascinating case study of how this plays out.

Fun… symptoms of anaplasmosis are almost identical to rocky mountain fever, but the antibiotic regimen for the two tick-borne bacteria differs. And anaplasmosis has been found globally on different tick species.

The problem with sharing now is it comes off as insincere — why, after all this time, is NOW suddenly the time to share?

Not relevant to the article which isn’t about LLMs… but it IS relevant to “this isn’t about LLMs, don’t downvote!” Which implicitly implies LLM discussion is intrinsically worth downvoting.

Also, LLMs doesn’t equal generalist trained chatbots.

Remember to move as much of the warm air as possible at night — this means opening all your cupboards and drawers, which retain a LOT of heat. Cooling those down means they’ll help retain ambient temperature during the day instead of continuously leaking heat into the main airspace.