Not GP, but in this context I would interpret the next administration[^1] holding the current administration to account as a willingness to use the court system to prosecute actual crimes committed while in office[^2].

That is by no means a given.

[^1]: Assuming there is one.

[^2]: That is, not petulantly prosecuting those deemed to have slighted you.

SCOTUS has already given POTUS immunity in any form other than impeachment followed by a conviction. The problem with that is that just removes POTUS from office. It does nothing to punish for those crimes that were deemed worthy enough of being impeached/convicted. SCOTUS said that POTUS cannot be held accountable for things done as official acts of office. So Congress cannot hold POTUS criminally accountable, but removed from office to stop the criminal acts. Once POTUS becomes a citizen they are free. At this point, I can only see where the newly sworn POTUS would use their new pardon power to end the question as well.

However, all of this is very far away from the legality of quantum computing

> SCOTUS has already given POTUS immunity in any form other than impeachment followed by a conviction.

That's not exactly accurate and that nuanced difference may be the key to holding the executive branch accountable, now that we're in this disastrous state of the world.

Should have added IANAL, so any inaccuracies are definitely introduced by my layman's explanation.

What nuances are left then? What small amount of hope can be gleaned from the ruling?

Specifically, POTUS has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that are within their constitutional authority, presumptive immunity from all official acts (but not absolute), and no immunity from unofficial, private acts committed by the president.

Congress could also pass legislature or constitutional amendments to revert the effect of that tragic decision, though of course those also come with their own sets of challenges.

(IANALE btw)

Congress can pass whatever, but POTUS would still have to sign it. Even this Congress is not veto proof

A future POTUS might be willing to sign it, though yeah, it doesn't help with the current situation. That would still need to be artfully litigated.

I am curious of that allows the new President, while in office, to assassinate the previous one and insta-pardon himself.

It's amazing how much of America's political stability might rest not on the law, but rather on the self-restraint of each cohort's leadership.

Let's not forget the complacency of this Congress. POTUS could not get away with this nonsense if Congress would do its job. The right has been working their way to this perfect scenario for decades with gerrymandering at the state level, Congress refusing to accept a SCOTUS nominee from POTUS holding out that the next POTUS would be their guy, and all of the other nonsense that has happened to get us to this spot.

There are many people to prosecute besides the POTUS.

You just identified what (some) people dislike about it. It's the disconnect between your final two sentences.

It would have worked fine with a much lower price and if it were badged as an Apple car.

That has not been my experience of Firefox on Linux.

Whenever I encounter a broken site, it's because I blocked some advertising scripts and the whole thing fell apart with a slew of JavaScript errors. I'm quite happy to avoid such shoddy sites.

Not my area of expertise, but this article appears to completely ignore several factors which were true when I was growing up as a leftie in 1970s UK (admittedly some time ago):

1. Some schools actively punished children for writing left-handed.

2. Pretty much every utensil was made for right-handed people. I don't recall ever seeing left-handed scissors, for example.

3. You learn by copying those around you. If your parents, teachers, and peers are predominantly right-handed (and are even actively encouraging you to be right-handed), then you're likely to toe the line.

I imagine the final point would remain a factor long after the first two are addressed.

That's some catch, that catch-22.

I see everything twice!

It's the best there is.

They have, but you don't need to let them get away with it.

As opposed to what happens in the US, you mean?

Come on. We all know in the US a chicken place would never hire you, you would be 'too overqualified'. You have to do 'consulting' work for scraps as a tech person for out of favor industries as your wardrobe slowly goes out of date/becomes threadbare.

Given your chosen quotes, I don't understand your confusion.

The author explicitly acknowledges that Apple makes excellent hardware, and the desire to switch is driven solely by problems with the software (OS).

> All this made me realize Liquid Glass and Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated, yet their hardware is universally loved. So credit where it's due, they make great hardware.

I have no issue with liquid glass. IMO it’s a few people making a bunch of noise about vanishingly minor complaints. So, like all things, not universal.

Me neither. Much ado about nothing, just fodder for podcast fillers. I've been on the Mac since System 6. It's not a badge of honor, it's that we've been there before. Ups and downs all along, but at least for me who doesn't run anything in production on a Mac, all these squeals are annoying noise. Don't like it, get something else, it's just a machine, dude. Turnis will not read your emails.

Exactly this. Whenever macOS updates, I avoid any and all posts here, on Reddit, on wherever because it's just full of complaints and threats to leave macOS.

In the meantime, I update, note the minor (to me) changes and go about my work.

In what way is this statue state sanctioned?

In addition to the other explanations (it's in the heart of London and not being removed), it's also advancing the government position of deconstructing national identity (for Britons): https://britainmagazine.co.uk/diversity-built-britain-50p/

It's on display in downtown London dude. Also who do you think paid for it?

It was erected surreptitiously in the dead of night. That does not imply state approval.

As for who paid for it, I don't know, possibly the extremely successful and wealthy artist who created it.

If you have any evidence to the contrary, by all means present it.

Anecdote, a close family member of mine is a director of arts for a very large city in the US. They typically install/uninstall at night - she's told me this is especially important with cultural or otherwise edgy pieces.

It not being taken down yet implies state approval (4 days now?). It's on Pall Mall ffs, right near a statue of a King

It's not like the wealthiest city in the UK is lacking in resources to do something about it.

It's not government funded or planned. Although the establishment seems to like it unlike that one on the law courts.

> I don't know how to tell you this, but people have been writing custom software for personal use for decades. I've been doing it since at least 2009!

GP never claimed otherwise.

As for the rest of your comment, it's frankly a bit patronising: are people too cheap, are people too lazy to read, are people unable to type...?

No, people are busy, a fact which GP made abundantly clear in the very first paragraph.

> I would never have done this if it weren’t for AI - I simply don’t have the time otherwise.

But if people are so busy, when are they planning to use their suite of bespoke software anyway? Like isn't this all about recreation anyway? This blog post certainly seems to be that at least. Is this really all about spending money on AI to write something that you then are using just for job? Because, apparently, you have no time otherwise?

If its not for fun, what's it for? It doesn't really seem like anyone is making stuff they are going to use next month anyway? But, I totally get how its recreational, and can be fun in the "computer, make my program" kind of way.

Otherwise, why not, e.g., just use or fork vim?

That’s one question never answered. It’s way easier to write a vim/sublime/emacs plugin than a whole new brand editor. These days, I try to use single purpose programs that does one thing and compose them instead of trying to get the “one true” software.

> But if people are so busy, when are they planning to use their suite of bespoke software anyway?

The original blog post, and the ensuing discussion, is about creating software that fits your specific requirements, for the purposes of daily use.

As for using vim, the author did, for 20 years. The article discusses that in detail.

I don't want to be too tsk-tsk here but please remember community standards here. Its not appropriate to assume bad faith and we should strive to be charitable in the comments section here [1]. Saying vim here is clearly in reference to article, where they have a whole section about it. To borrow some of that AI lingo, we are already sharing all the context here, why speak past me like this?

Further, the article does not mention "requirements," it mentions the "joy" of having software "fit" just you. It goes through I think a certain amount of care in the writing to say they are enabled by their system only insofar as there is a "satisfaction" to not dealing with something from without that is for a more general audience.

At the end of the day, life is what you spend time doing. I don't think the author or anybody really thinks cumulative time is saved one way or the other here. This is all a product of what we want to spend time doing. And I am just saying, that's recreational! It doesn't have to be the case that something is lesser if its not about maximizing productivity or making more money. Either you have a "decades-long" project configuring a system, or your spending a decade writing new software for you, that's a "quiet pleasure to use." It's clearly either way about the project of it. Do we really think anyone is going to vibe code a vim clone and, insofar as they use it, not continue to tinker with it? Isn't that like the whole upshot here? That you can make things forever?

A guy who uses i3/sway and rolls their own DE even before vibe coding world is already a particular kind of person with certain priorities and judgements about time! And that's cool! I am that kind of guy, fwiw.

A lot of people into the synthesizers and related stuff talk about so-called "gear acquisition syndrome," where, in the search for hardware that fits their "requirements" as serious musicians, the time (and money) they end up spending just getting new things ends up eclipsing time doing the actual thing (making music). Depending on how much money they have, this doesn't necessarily become bad, one just realizes they are maybe a synth collector more than a composer.

Even if I had all the AI money token blah blah in the world, I would still hesitate spending time rebuilding an IDE or editor on my weekends, because for me personally, that's time getting in the way of using the computer to make my things. Like I am hungry, I do not want to forge my own chef's knife first, but I do think the people that do have a kinda cool hobby! Or, if its about spending my weekend making an OS so that I can, come Monday, read work emails exactly how I want, well that just terrible to me but everyone has their own work-life balance I think.

Again, I am not trying to explain away or I guess be negative here. There are lots of kinds of people, that's ok! I think it's just interesting how we know traffic concepts of "time" and "productivity" and "serious computer work vs. recreational computer stuff" these days!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html