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Integrated car seats were popular in some minivans and SUVs a number of years ago. Then they fell out of favor. I think it was because safety standards changed faster than the vehicle lifespan.

There is a dual ladder setup. Where you can have Administrator, Systems Engineer, Sr. Systems Engineer, Lead, Architect, Sr Architect, etc. These will have parallel tracks to equiv. management positions for benefits and perks (bonus levels, etc).

Now obviously you can't have every employee promoted to a Sr. Architect or Fellow, but that is ok be cause not everyone can (or want to) obtain that necessary skill set. A while back I recall seeing a grid with various levels, what management title that would typically mirror, and the skills that would be required for each level.

Couldn't a stroke of a pen (executive order) specify that US markets must be saturated prior to exporting?

Don't forget that you are having the cloud hosted services generate and send executable code to a device inside your corporate firewall. I can see all kinds of potential issues corporate security would have just based on that fact alone.

The biggest issue with a Linux tablet, is you don't have a lot of tablet apps for Linux. Desktop apps don't translate to tablet usage that well. I found that out when I was using a Chromebook tablet, with the Linux mode add-in. Tried using things like openoffice, even firefox, and there were just too many issues (smaller tap targets, things like dragging your finger on a window selecting text (i.e., what a mouse would do) instead of scrolling like you would expect on a tablet of phone, etc).

So you are either running Linux with a web browser that has a tablet mode, and making sure all apps are web apps adapted for mobile or at least non-keyboard use. Or you re-invent Android. One thing that somewhat worked was Nokia's Maemo -- it used X11, but the defined UI toolkit and guidelines made everything uniform and touch-screen friendly. Not sure about how the successor projects look if they are what I remember from Maemo / Meego (so maybe Sailfish or Tizen, not sure how open these are though).

"Create a single page web app scientific RPN calculator"

Qwen 3.5 122b/a10b (at q3 using unsloth's dynamic quant) is so far the first model I've tried locally that gets a really usable RPN calculator app. Other models (even larger ones that I can run on my Strix Halo box) tend to either not implement the stack right, have non-functional operation buttons, or most commonly the keypad looks like a Picasso painting (i.e., the 10-key pad portion has buttons missing or mapped all over the keypad area).

This seems like such as simple test, but I even just tried it in chatgpt (whatever model they serve up when you don't log in), and it didn't even have any numerical input buttons. Claude Sonet 4.6 did get it correct too, but that is the only other model I've used that gets this question right.

Except that no one has been preaching at you for your entire academic life that you MUST drive a car into someone's house at 18 in order to be able to get more than a minimum wage hard labor job.

My problem with stock photos is that unless it is clearly a stock image, it can mislead. For example, when looking up information on the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House, the article had a stock photo of a modern photo-voltaic panel. So I was initially confused, as what was described was a solar collector that concentrates the sun's heat to provide hot water for the kitchen. Which makes a lot more sense of why it wasn't re-installed during some roof renovations under Regan (the initial purpose of it was more to inspire the nation, that wouldn't be served much by re-installing it after it had been removed for roof work as the original moment had passed).

Honest question. For the purpose of adding a throw-away visual to help set the tone of an article, is there really any difference between shitty AI slop vs shitty Photoshop slop? Either way it is obvious that this isn't a real studio photo, and that wouldn't be expected. I guess the better (or more traditional) article picture would be a hand illustrated piece that an in-house artist would throw together in maybe an hour or two, depending on the detail and desired quality.

Property taxes are usually % of value, so dependent on absolute value changes, not changes relative to the rest of the community.

I may be completely wrong, but this is what I've been told by people I've known in the past that held some local public office (such as a coworker in one case, and a neighbor in another, they were both local aldermen). I've also google searched it, and came up with similar answers.

Typically, a city / county budget is set, and they then need to collect it from the pool of property owners by taking the assessed value and using a multiplier to reach their budget target. Now the budget may increase due to inflation or other factors, but I'm not aware of any local government that suddenly finds itself flush in cash due to doubling of property values. If your elected officials do things differently and look at rising property values as their own windfall, well then you and your neighbors need to vote them out of office real fast.

I've verified this with my own house (both the last one and current one, about 30 years of home ownership). The 2008 - 2009 crash had negative affects on property values, but my property taxes didn't go down, and insurance quadrupled (because the insurance companies lost a lot on investments and had to make up for it). And plotting property tax increases over the last 10 years where my property doubled in value, the taxes were just under 5k when I bought and now are just barely over 5k.

One thing that can happen, is as budgets go up with inflation or new initiatives, absolute dollar amount taxes rise accordingly. And people don't like to pay more taxes, so a lot of people will appeal their tax assessment. And a good attorney can get it lowered to some degree. That means that everyone who hasn't fought (and won) against their tax assessment (the assessed value of their home), will see their taxes increase more as their assessed value is now higher relative to the neighbors who fought their assessment.

Also current homeowners don't care about house prices, since they are locked into fixed mortgage payments - other than how it affects insurance and property taxes. And taxes are mainly affected if your property value rises higher relative to the rest of the community.

If the motor is geared it could make a difference. For comparison, most people put out about 100 watts with their legs, but need to downshift to go up hills. This looks like a mid drive unit, which should be capable of varied gearing.

What I'd like is for the AI to interview me for what my personal preferences are, and for what policy areas I feel comfortable enough with even if they aren't my personal preferences. Better yet, I want to be able to supply the questions too, because question selection could be biased. Then I want it to research each candidate's past voting records and causes they supported, and analyze any recent shifts in their messaging, then give me original sources to read through along with a summary of that source documentation.

As for biases, in the past when you could actually have political engagement discussions, I had often recommended my non-preferred candidate to other people based on what they felt was important to them, and I would spend my energy on presenting what was important to me, and understand their priorities too.

How many pixels can be defective on a display before you want to return it?

Especially when it was caught early on, and was one of the few variations of a horrible cancer type that could have been successfully treated at that stage, but that treatment plan was refused.

A one time pad would be unreasonable.

Edit: Unless the one time pad is a well known relative document, such as the Declaration of Independence.

I had the double whammy of property taxes AND insurance increases on my last house. Budget was a bit tight, but that almost sent me over the edge. I learned my lesson on my next house purchase, and made sure there was a ton of leg room in the budget, along with things I could very quickly drop from the budget if needed.

I take a hybrid approach. I will describe a simplified problem to the LLM, have it generate a well commented and reasonable approach for the problem. I then use that as a cheat sheet for implementing my actual code. This still gives me hands on codi and more control, without needing to agonize over the details of each coding technique.

They also tell you if a product has a high return rate, which is helpful.

Wouldn't the interstate commerce clause automatically override any state level regulations on AI, except in cases where a company and its customers are all in-state?

The courts have ruled in several cases that a work someone created was too close to another work and therefor infringing. If you are looking at someone's painting or photograph, and then paint your version of that subject based on what you are looking at, you then have created a derived work which may infringe.

And,even if customers are slower, having 20 self checkout kiosks is still faster than 3 cashiers.

My biggest gripe with self checkout is if I make a mistake, they call it theft. I haven't been trained and certified on the register, so I can't accept the potential for getting a criminal record due to a scanning error. Example: Walmart will successfully "beep" when scanning, but will display "system busy" on the screen, and the scanned items don't show up on the receipt.

I was going by the number of memory channels the CPU spec says it supports (12). But apparently I was wrong, as that gets bottlenecked by the number of CCDs on the chip. In which case you would need to go with a much higher end epyc processor, and then there are other limits. So much for napkin math

You can also get an Epyc 9115 for $800, motherboard for $640, and 12 16-GiB ddr5-6400 dims for $1400, that gives you 614.4 GiB/sec, for around $2800. You may also want to add in a small GPU to do prompt processing (inference on a CPU is memory bandwidth bound, prompt processing is processing bound).

For fractional scaling on my Fedora setup under Gnome, I just load up the Tweaks tool, click on Fonts, and adjust the Scaling Factor on the bottom. This seams to work about as good as fractional scaling would (at least for me). I used to need to also set the default scaling factor in Chrome / Firefox separately, but they seem to be picking it up correctly now too.

Using myself as an example -- I'm a long time C programmer (occasionally in a professional setting, mostly personal or as a side-item on my primary professional duties). I've picked up other languages through the years, had to deliver a web based application a few years ago so I did a deep-dive into html5, css3, and javascript. Now javascript has evolved since then, and I lost a bit of what I learned.

So now I want to do a new web application -- If I fall back on my C roots, my Javascript looks a lot like C. Example: adding an item to an array. The C style in Javascript would be to track the length of the array in another variable "len", and do something like myarray[len++] = new_value;

I can feed this into an LLM, or even say "Give me the syntax to add a value to an array", and it gives me "myArray.push(newValue)", which reminds me that "Oh yeah, I'm dealing with a functional/object oriented language, I can do stuff like this". And it reminds me that camelCase is preferred in Javascript. (of course, this isn't the real situation I've run into, just a simplified example -- but I really don't have all the method names memorized for each data type. So in that manner it is useful to get more concise (and proper) code.

For one good example, look at the Soundcore Boom 2 "SE" -- the "SE" is specific to Walmart, and has some features cut.

Back to denim, Walmart caries "Levi's Signature" -- those are lower cost (and lower quality) versions of the normal lines.

The corollary to that is to make sure that not everything that looks like DEI is actually DEI, or has a good reason for it. For example, applications for telescope time had an acceptance rate skewed towards application proposals from specific demographics. When they changed it to redact the person's name prior to being evaluated for merit, the distribution followed a more normal curve. Is this DEI, or is it taking action so that the most scientifically beneficial proposals get pushed through?

You could also be a mixed skilled developer. Good at regular code, architecture, and algorithms but not as familiar with a given UI framework. Having the LLM generate the html and css for a given layout description saves a lot of time looking through the docs.

What I do is go back through the conversation history, select the response that has the somewhat working code, then submit a prompt with what I want changed. By selectively including context and adjusting temperature, top_p/k and sometimes swapping model or system prompt for a given query will give better results. Combine this with repeating the query multiple times with that same context, then select which result is the best and move on.