After decades of development and billions of dollars in investments can we have just 1 distro that works as smooth as MacOS and then we can get back to having 2000 others for that one time we need to run it on a coffee maker
I don't know that that will happen- not even Windows is as smooth as MacOS. But that's because Microsoft and Linux developers are tackling a more difficult problem- getting an OS to work with effectively infinite hardware permutations. Apple has given themselves an easier problem to solve, with just a handful of hardware SKUs and a few external busses.
That said, Android is pretty stable, because a given Android distro typically only targets a small hardware subset. But I don't think that's the kind of Linux distro that most people contributing to FOSS want to work on.
Apple has also yanked backwards compatibility a few times. I bet Microsoft would love to trash a few legacy API decisions from decades ago.
That being said, I still think Microsoft should have developed a seamless virtualization layer by now. Programs prior to X year are run in a microVM/WINE-like environment. Some escape hatch to kill off some cruft.
I had to use it ~2 years for work and am glad that I am back to Linux. The amount of instabilities, bugs, lack of features or removed(!) features between updates, missing software packages, horrible user experience... was just astonishing. You need a lot of fanboyism to cope with that.
Plenty of things are unsafe and potentially life threatening, including machines with pre-programmed routines that we use today. We already have robots with limited intelligence interacting safely with humans in workplaces.
This learning technology didn't exist until this moment in time. That probably has more to do with why no one is using it in the wild.
It is not. Human coding languages and paradigms revolve around solving problems related to issues that human struggle with. We need AI coding languages that are easy to read and verify by humans, but should solve problems that AI agents struggle with.
from what I gather it's finetuned to use OpenHand specifically so shows value on thsoe benchmark that target a whole system as a blackbox (i.e. agent + llm) more than directly target the llm input/outputs
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know this is completely wrong.
There is a conspiracy theory that “anchor babies” will help undocumented parents avoid deportation from the US.
As far as I can tell, the usual thing that happens when undocumented parents of a US citizen are deported is that they have to give the child to a citizen relative to raise, or they take the child with them.
It seems to be extremely rare, though “prosecutorial discretion” can allow for a parent to remain in the US. There is no guarantee; an undocumented parent can and is often deported later, sometimes for minor crimes. I couldn’t find any stats about how often this happens but immigration consultants stress to their clients that they can’t rely on it.
If the undocumented parents have been in the country for 10 years they can apply for relief for deportation but that is capped at 4,000 cases annually. If the child remains in the US until they become an adult, and can plausibly sponsor a relative, then they can also apply to reunify with their parent. The deported parent may have to spend a minimum of a decade outside the US.
Sooner or later, people will face the unpleasant realization that Putin is just an ordinary right-wing democrat from a past generation. And that he is not building the USSR or a copy of China—but is literally modeling and copying many aspects of how the US operates, only applying it to an even younger nation with a significantly weaker economy.
Eventually, even the Europeans will come to understand that sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, when in reality, they’re all destined to be slaughtered by the shepherd. So don’t be surprised by Trump actions lol.
>but is literally modeling and copying many aspects of how the US operates, only applying it to an even younger nation with a significantly weaker economy
That was funny. Russia is many times older than the US. Hell, even the Bolshoy Theater is older than the US.
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