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In political terms $1000 is basically nothing.

> Standards should be higher for folks with more power.

Joe Biden voted for the "Defense of Marriage Act", Yet many LGBT people supported him becoming president.


Obama opposed gay marriage as well. As did many prominent politicians, left and right.

The swing from opposing it to supporting it was a huge cultural shift, and I'm not sure I've seen anything like that happen so quickly, except maybe during a time of war. It went from being opposed by a strong majority to supported by a strong majority in... maybe 5-8 years? It was pretty impressive, and I think it's a sign that the marketplace of ideas can still function.

It helps a lot that it's really a harmless thing. It's giving people more freedom, not taking any away from anyone, and so as soon as it became clear that it wasn't causing a problem, everybody shrugged and went 'ok'.


Supporting one of two candidates in a first past the post election is simply supporting the lesser evil. There is no other information to glean.

All of those have government subsidies, we just call them national security contracts.

The current UK government has arrested over 2000 people for holding signs on charges of terrorism, and is currently in the process of abolishing jury trials. This isn't about history.

The UK is also not a single person, but a collection of millions of individuals and diverse groups with diverse opinions and actions.

This is what they want. Everyone gasping at their actions but uninformed on what to do about it.

My point is that a country may do reprehensible things, but that does not mean that the people in that country approve of those things -- or even that the people in government approve of them. Countries can be complex, with many contradictions, opinions, and opposing forces.

That seems to be literally it.

This adds a little more context, but it still seems to be a complete nothingburger. It also looks like the user was harassing adafruit for not condemning the use of AI.

https://digipres.club/@discatte/115601133682447929


Literally everyone involved in this sounds annoying.

> our commitment to the open source spirit is unwavering and Arduino’s core mission remains unchanged

Running a proprietary SaaS doesn't really show commitment to open source.


I agree, but that is nothing new. The original SaaS was already proprietary.

And btw, the "reverse engineering" close was already here too. You can check the archive.org of Jan 2025, months before the Qualcomm acquisition.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250120145427/https://www.ardui...

So this citation, is basically fake news and FUD. The *now* part is false and this hide the fact that the "platform" is only the SaaS.

> Phillip Torrone had warned [...] Arduino’s users were now “explicitly forbidden from reverse engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino gives permission.”


I feel like the Qualcomm thing has just woken up a lot of people to how Arduino has been enshittifying for years

They released their first closed source "pro" boards in 2021

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/07/12/when-open-becomes-opaqu...


Spectrum is probably the wrong term. IMO it's probably a bunch of different underlying issues that sometimes occur together.

So something may help type 1 dyslexia, but not help type 2 or type 3 etc.


You might enjoy the fact that some experts call it the "fruit salad of autism/ADHD".

The say that spectrum is inaccurate and the fruit salad is a better name) analogy/description.

Like with fruit salad, you can serve it to a table of people and everyone will have fruit salad on their plate, but it will be randomly varied for all. Some will have a lot of one fruit and a few others. Some will have all but one and so on.


I would also say that dyslexia isn't a single general condition. But in general group of issues that affect textual communication. Person could for example have certain repeating type of issues while writing, but still be able to read well and without issues. This is also a type of dyslexia.

So, spectral (as in fuzzy bands of clumped outputs that may overlap, but may have gaps, and may in some cases be less fuzzy), but not a spectrum (a continuous, fairly smoothly distributed shape over a wide range).

That would also show consistent benefits in controlled studies.

No, not in practise. Its hard to controll for something that isn't understood enough. You would have to have a good ekough sampling across the groups, and esch group would have to be big enough.

It still irks me when people call pages with JavaScript on "static", when they're clearly dynamic.

It's static from the perspective of the server. But agreed, it needs a different term.

This is written by a proprietary CMS company, so they may be slightly bias.

Author here! Of course, I'm biased!

But in that bias is a ton of experience in the CMS field and a lot of observation of actual teams trying to solve for content operations challenges. I think that's valuable to share, even if we happen to also sell a solution to these things.


The original article was written by an employee of an AI company, demonstrating that a CMS is not really needed when you can use AI. Both are probably biased, but nonetheless both articles are worth a read. Re-evaluating established patterns in the age of AI is an interesting thought exploration, from both sides.

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