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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • IMO, there are some ethical concerns but I don’t have a reply that I think I’ve spent enough time time thinking about.

    In terms of legality, I’m pretty sure there are lots of issues but I’m not sure of the specific terminologies.

    Personally, I think it is going to be really hard to tell one way or the other without some lengthy investigation but as long as the team is being open with using AI for inspiration rather than complete end products, I’m more likely to believe them since there would be legal concerns otherwise.




  • Kotlin Multiplatform is just a system that allows code to be shared between target platforms.

    JVM is a target platform, meaning that once your application is compiled, it can run in a JVM.

    Kotlin/Native is another target platform, meaning that once the application is compiled, it runs natively rather than through something like a VM.

    Kotlin Multiplatform is not a target platform, it just makes code sharing easier.




  • From the California Legislature’s document site:

    This bill would enact the Right to Repair Act. The bill would require, except as specified and regardless of whether any express warranty is made, the manufacturer of an above-described electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances, and in those same circumstances but sold to others outside of direct retail sales, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, to product owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, the means, as described, to effect the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the product, as provided. The bill would also require a service and repair facility or service dealer that is not an authorized repair provider, as defined, of a manufacturer to provide a written notice of that fact to any customer seeking repair of an electronic or appliance product before the repair facility or service dealer repairs the product, and to disclose if it uses replacement parts that are used or from a supplier that is not the manufacturer.

    SB 244 has been around since the start of this year, at least officially.

    If anyone is interested in seeing how legislation changes over time, I implore you to look at this service; I would go as far as to say that educational instruction would be aided by directing students here.

    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB244

    There is a lot of content in here but becoming accustomed to reading the text of legislation allows you to be more independent from mass media.


  • Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.

    Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

    The jet, which was flying from the capital to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

    They probably don’t mind losing the crew and Piggy might have been the target (assuming this was intentional) but who else got disappeared along with him?




  • I’d wager that the larger portion of aircraft owned belong to institutions like universities and other sources of flight education as well as companies which own fleets of these things.

    Some commercial air travel still occurs using these planes also.

    You’d be surprised at the kind of people that own private aircraft, they’re not always the kind of “throw money at my problems” people that’ll just lobby the government (they probably don’t even have the money to do anything), bigger interests would likely focus on switching to a new, proprietary, and expensive fuel as a political issue.


  • From the FAA:

    There are approximately 167,000 aircraft in the United States and a total of 230,000 worldwide that rely on 100 low lead avgas for safe operation. It is the only remaining transportation fuel in the United States that contains the addition of TEL.

    TEL meaning Tetraethyl Lead, it is used as a fuel additive in avgas to increase octane ratings (required for safe operation of engines).

    Now, the post says “propeller” aircraft but this isn’t exactly true.

    Turbine-driven propeller aircraft (Turboprops) don’t use avgas.

    The unleaded fuel they’re talking about is probably G100UL and that’s only been around for like a couple years.

    Nobody wants to use leaded fuel (unless someone inhaled too much of the emissions) and it’s on the way out whether our representatives want it to or not.




  • Speaking with FedScoop, the officials expressed concern that USDS, led by Mina Hsiang, and GSA, led by Robin Carnahan, in the past year have focused on small, niche projects while deprioritizing big ticket items like redesigning government websites, setting tech policy standards and improving agency branding. One such niche project, cited by two officials, was a public benefits studio run by GSA’s Technology Transformation Services team, which is a pilot text notification system.

    It sounds like too much progress is being made for the sake of progress.

    We should be hearing about budget concerns rather than these agencies focusing on non-priotity issues.

    I don’t want to start saying that these agencies are bloated or are set up in a way to benefit political partners without any work being done but it seems that way.

    Perhaps it would be better to get people with real passion into the rosters rather than people interested in entertaining the public.


  • Pinellas County’s transit agency could introduce fares on the popular SunRunner rapid bus route, which has been free to ride since its inception, sooner than planned.

    The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority planned to charge regular fares beginning in November, at the conclusion of the downtown St. Petersburg-to-St. Pete Beach route’s first year. But the possibility that the authority’s board members could vote Wednesday to move up that timeline has little to do with the money the agency stands to make.

    Wait for it…

    Instead, it comes in response to pressure from Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and residents of St. Pete Beach. They say the fare-free bus service also has proven popular among homeless people. Residents of one of the county’s wealthiest enclaves depict those riders as troublesome and potentially violent; in reality, officials said, they’re mostly getting in trouble for panhandling or sleeping on the beach.

    Classic anti-homeless mentality.

    If people without a home had a place to go, people would be able to ride the bus for free; they’re not just designing systems to ignore the root causes, they’re making homeless people an enemy.

    Despicable.




  • I got all four removed at the same time, my dentist put me on anti-inflammatory medication for a couple of days before the procedure and gave me a steroid to take the morning before the procedure.

    I was maybe 20 years old or something like that, roots were so messed up he asked if he could keep the teeth and show his colleagues how messed up they are.

    It doesn’t take long, there is no pain but it feels really uncomfortable, normally he would have just given me more anti-inflammatory medication but after seeing the roots, he gave me a small supply of Vicodin to get through the first few days.

    Afterwards, my mouth was pretty sore and I pretty much only had broth for a week.

    Popsicles are great, keeping your mouth cold will help with inflammation, and you might want to try to sleep on your back, rolling over and hitting a cheek won’t be fun.