Good luck with that

I think that it’s too early to start making rules. It’s not even clear where AI is going.

What a do nothing argument. We know where it is now. Lets quickly afapt to this situation and then we'll adapt to where it goes nexf

Will this result in more polarizing candidates since the party is determining who is elected instead of electing a specific person?

It could, but under the current system, candidates who are affiliated with major parties (i.e., essentially everyone who ends up winning an election) already need to win the support of their party, and the process for this is generally opaque and largely controlled by often less-moderate insiders

Also, having viable third party choices puts more pressure on larger parties to field more widely palatable candidates, or risk losing their majorities

I just think that seeing the current gerrymandered districts where I live and the crazy people who come out of the party, I would rather voters choose individuals than parties.

If someone doesn’t tow the party line, the party would immediately replace them the next year and this would give parties even more power.

As a previous Thinkpad user who moved onto Mac. I think you’re missing the appeal of the Track point and how well they were made to run something like Linux. They had better driver support and were more likely to use intel chip sets then the propriety crap that HP or Dell would sell you. Framework and the Dell XPS line eventually caught up and Linux driver support improved, but this was a huge benefit to owning a think pad.

my last job I used a mac for 10 years and missed the track point. Now, In my current job I miss the gestures from the mac book, and don’t even use the trackpoint anymore.

I haven’t gotten into gestures since I mostly use desktops or docked macs.

Now if there was just an easy and efficient way to drop a bunch of files into a directory.

Wow, I’m really shocked that something like Javascript and Typescript which models tend to prefer wasn’t the most efficient.

I think the trackpoint nub would have been a better choice.

While I do use one daily (when I'm laptop only), I would say that it seems to be made for fingers, not thumbs. It's hard to be accurate with thumbs.

Re thumb vs finger control. RSI researcher once told me "Which could you live without, a finger or your right thumb?"

I don't know what this particular author has against LLMs, but a lot of people are bothered by the very intense, robots.txt ignorming, scraping of their sites.

The website being blocked by the scrapers would be a positive outcome.

or an agent block?

If you read via the RSS feed the flagged discussions and original links often still exist in it. FYI

Just want to point out that people have said it’s been very very hard to get Goldman Sachs to dispute a transaction, so I’m hoping that Chase will offer better service than Goldman as Goldman’s actual service is supposedly not very good.