One common drawback of GM crops is the monopolistic nature of their seeds. They come with a license and a cost to use, you cannot save seeds and use them later. So it seems like a threat to the sovereignty of a Country.
The article briefly mentions that initially some seeds are given with royalty free licenses, but for how long?
Re 2: on this software engineering forum, the following example will help.
If you have core dependency goes rogue, and you have to switch to an alternate library with similar features, is that a free switch? Think of how many thousands of hours of work are often needed? How many businesses have gone under because of such issues?
Growing a particular variety requires a lot of knowledge gained by each individual farmer from experience. You can't just go back to an old variety for free. It may take several years for yields to go back to previous levels and by then the farmer may have gone under.
Farmers change seeds all the time. One I know tells me that a great variety will terrible in 3 more years, though I'm not clear why. In any case they all are planting several varities ever year - four different ones in a field isn't uncommon - with harvest data to track the difference (different soils need different seeds). Test plots where they do many different side by side are somewhat common. they are always trying different options to see what works to do more. Plus predictions on weather mean different seeds.
Ok but going back to the library analogy, GMO bans are like the government banning react.js because they're convinced angularjs (or jquery) is good enough and facebook might go rogue. Shouldn't it be up to individual farmers to decide?
i experimented with it, i’m a fan of the concept. Ironically the bit i thought id like most (swap jinja extends shenanigans for just composing functions or callables more generally) is the bit that i didnt warm to. I dont really know why, on paper it ticks boxes for me. In practice i felt slow.
Thanks! As soon as I saw Niri I wondered if there was a macOS alternative.
Aerospace has a similar resizing glitch as PaperWM.spoon: resizing one direction ends up looking wonky if you do it fast enough. It’s noticeable at the end of the smooth scrolling demo. That must be a macOS thing…
I may check out PaperWM.spoon at some point but realistically I’ll set up a VM and try out Niri
It's a bit different. Digits is based on the Tegra CPU, which is an ARM chip with integrated nvidia GPU. It's nearly COTS (commercial off the shelf), but not quite. Tegra CPU support isn't in mainline linux, so you have to run their fork of Ubuntu or build your own kernel. The integrated GPU is a special class in nvidia drivers, and some things just don't work on it (they only work on a discrete GPU) for seemingly no reason too.
Keep in mind the digits is part of their server line and server OS, not the random embedded dev kits often used for developers targeting car entertainment systems and often with abandoned kernel + driver.
The nvidia digits uses DGOS, same as their grace+hopper and similar enterprise/cloud products.
Can you expand on this? If I want to run open-weight LLMs and image generation models in the next few years, how likely is it that I will be able to run the "most popular" models (whatever they will be 12 months from now) if I buy Digits?
If you want something more similar to Next.JS but in the python world, now you have https://fastht.ml/, which also has a big performance benefit over Django. Hahaha, same as Next.JS over Rails, because it is much more bare bones. But I would say that fasthtml has the advantage of being super easy to integrate more AI libraries from the python world.
Or if you want more Next.JS like, but still fullstack framework there is https://leptos.dev/ and https://dioxuslabs.com/. Maybe dioxus being much more ambitious in its scope (not just web).
And there are many people that continue to be religious even after becoming atheists. "The little book of atheist spirituality" from André Comte-Sponville, touches on this subject, and many others. I'm would also call myself an atheist-catholic.
I remember a joke in the book where two rabbis are discussing the issue of god's existence during the supper, at the end, they both agree that god must not exist and then go to sleep. At the next day one rabbi finds the other doing his early prayers and confounded asks him why he is praying if there is no god, to which the other one answers "what does praying has to do with god?".
