Oh, no disagreement there

This is the real answer. Optimize for comfort. Don’t worry so much about aesthetics.

Now emulate the 4004 logic design in redstone on the 4004

I mean… if it didn’t, we’re probably gonna need at least one new international law.

Oh yeah you can do it that way too, but if you want it all containerized, that’s roughly how to do it. That’s all I meant.

It’s convenient if you want to see gluetun up as the only way a container (say, your torrenting container) can get to the open net, in the interest of avoiding getting directly pinged by DMCA rats. That way, if the VPN goes down, your torrent client isn’t just downloading stuff nakedly. Also, if you want to set up different VPN connections for different containers, it’s pretty easy to set a handful of replica containers for that too.

I don’t know what sort of batteries you use, but the ones in my devices tend to be hermetically sealed. Otherwise they become spicy pillows.

Then it should have no effect.

This is just a nice way to define file-discrete .rc scripts. Like, maybe you have one for shell stuff, one for your custom collection of command aliases, one for initializing pyenv+pyenv-virtualenv, etc. That way, you have domain-constrained .rcs, and it’s easier to scan through things to see if something funny is going on / is broken or whatever.

Russia’s been imploding since they got out from under the USSR (technically, Russia is NOT the successor state of the USSR; the geopolitical lineage of the USSR passes through Kazakhstan, as the final member of the USSR; they’re the ones who turned the lights off and disbanded the club, as it were).

Yeah, because there’s a positive correlation between mental health issues and homelessness. I’m not super shocked that people in that line of work have difficulty seeing the distinction between homelessness and a strongly nomadic lifestyle. The “they seem offended” vibe might actually be more along the lines of frustration and sadness that they THINK you need help but are refusing to let them help you. At the same time, I dated a girl who was a social worker years ago, and she absolutely knew some people in the field who just straight up had a savior complex and would get angry at people who wouldn’t accept help… so it could be that too.

I’m just waiting for them to threaten to nuke the pickle jar because it’s resisting being opened too much

That’s gonna be a nope from me, dawg

It’s kinda interesting in how it actually roughly parallels the dawn of the nuclear age in some specific ways. Namely, that there’s a clear “purity” line established by the advent of the technology - and I mean that literally, not figuratively. Content on the internet is going to have a very similar dividing line. But it’s also going to be way harder to definitively source data from before that line, unless someone clairvoyant happened to offline and archive a huge storage array with a complete internet snapshot right before ML made its public debut. And I know exactly what the scale of that storage commitment would be, and how much it would cost. So I’m certain nobody has done that.

Uh, good.

As an engineer who cares a LOT about engineering ethics, it is absolutely fucking infuriating watching the absolute firehose of shit that comes out of LLMs and public-consumption audio, image, and video ML systems, juxtaposed with the outright refusal of companies and engineers who work there to accept ANY accountability or culpability for the systems THEY FUCKING MADE.

I understand the nuances of NNs. I understand that they’re much more stochastic than deterministic. So, you know, maybe it wasn’t a great idea to just tell the general public (which runs a WIDE gamut of intelligence and comprehension ability - not to mention, morality) “have at it”. The fact that ML usage and deployment in terms of information generating/kinda-sorta-but-not-really-aggregating “AI oracles” isn’t regulated on the same level as what you’d see in biotech or aerospace is insane to me. It’s a refusal to admit that these systems fundamentally change the entire premise of how “free speech” is generated, and that bad actors (either unrepentantly profit driven, or outright malicious) can and are taking disproportionate advantage of these systems.

I get it - I am a staunch opponent of censorship, and as a software engineer. But the flippant deployment of literally society-altering technology alongside the outright refusal to accept any responsibility, accountability, or culpability for what that technology does to our society is unconscionable and infuriating to me. I am aware of the potential that ML has - it’s absolutely enormous, and could absolutely change a HUGE number of fields for the better in incredible ways. But that’s not what it’s being used for, and it’s because the field is essentially unregulated right now.

Oh, I agree.

But at the same time, the CEO of JPM isn’t conducting an unprovoked genocidal invasion of a neighboring country.

They’re both clearly very fucking evil, but in different ways.

If this is ML-targeted, frankly it’d be a great test case for making the judicial system decide whether content generated largely or wholly by a machine learning system shall even be considered as “speech” in the traditional sense, since it’s the system doing the “speaking”, not a human, and the Bill of Rights does not offer any protection to non-humans.

I mean I’ll buy their shit from time to time, but not unless it’s basically on firesale on steam

Iran and NK? Agreed.

Russia (Putin et al)? They’re on the same level, to be honest. Putin literally conducted false flag “terrorist” bombings in a series of apartment buildings across Russia, and one of the teams was even caught (the FSB, of course, swept it under the rug. The FSB is the successor to the KGB. Putin was a Lt Col. in the KGB before turning to “politics”). His campaign promises to crack down on the perpetrators were a major part of what helped him clinch his initial hold on the Russian presidency.

The concept of the letter is being audited

One law, which took effect immediately, makes it illegal to distribute “materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate”

Genuinely fantastic.

in the 120 days leading up to an election and in the 60 days following an election.

…why would you restrict it like that…?