@Dan_Ramos @sensei The actual Exec Order is here
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EO-N-4-25-Rebuilding-Final-signed.pdf
It cuts red tape is the new structure is essentially the same as the prior structure.
Whether that unfairly benefits Blackrock vs the existing owners is open to interpretation.
@RandomDeamon Correctamundo
Did anyone see Blackrock woke up and keft Net Zero in the dust https://oilprice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/BlackRock-Continues-Wall-Street-Exodus-From-Net-Zero-Alliances.amp.html
My Dad told me that I should learn COBOL because there are so many businesses running on COBOL software, yet not many people are maintaining it.
Though I always wanted to write a full-length video game in a language that was totally not intended for it, so I'll take that into consideration.
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=8-kazxQBolM
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=qaApxBPKOdw
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html
There are crucial differences between hardware and software, This will not come as a surprise to you, but based on them I conclude that it makes no sense under present circumstances to talk about "free hardware". What does make sense as a concept is "free hardware designs". That article addresses many issues about freedom raised by digital hardware.
First whitepill of the year:
While everyone was distracted by recent events going on the past few months, it seems like all 6 major world banks have left the net-zero alliance. Even BlackRock is withdrawing from the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, and major oil companies are scaling back on renewables. The entire net-zero agenda is collapsing.
We are winning on this front.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/2025-predictions
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/jpmorgan-says-leave-net-zero-banking-alliance-2025-01-07/
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/01/09/bloomberg-news-blackrock-leaves-major-climate-group-amid-wall-street-exodus-as-donald-trump-returns-to-the-white-house/
@Hephaestic I think every artist has a few shelved paintings.
@Hephaestic My art teachers in elementary school did finish paintings and even sold them. Maybe they didn't make enough money so they also had to teach as a second job, but they were involved with the medium.
@Pawlicker I should've said that it was VB.Net, so basically C# without the curly braces. XNA was supported on it, but only briefly as Microsoft would discontinue XNA entirely shortly after.
They probably went with VB.NET only because of the drag-and-drop interface for GUI programs (our class skipped CLI programs entirely). This was high school so they didn't expect that many students to actually enter said field.
@Pawlicker I took a programming class in high school and at the very tail end of it we were programming games, but it was in Visual Basic using Windows Forms, and moving images across said forms. Obviously, they couldn't teach us XNA due to timing, but those games looked like Hong Kong '97 in terms of quality.
@Pawlicker I wondered why they couldn't just do what Bob Ross did and give a step by step tutorial while encouraging people to give their own spin, but then I realized that he could only do landscapes and his painting style required the use of knives which obviously can't happen at school.
I don't know why they couldn't at least have one project that just involved drawing simple cartoons. That's what kids love.
@Pawlicker They never taught any technique. They just give you some example picture, sculpture, etc and tell you to make your own version of it.