Because HP is a role model for poor children, and poor children shouldn’t have the expectation of getting a feast ever. They should see the bare minimum school lunch and think it looks like a horn of plenty because US schools have been shutting down and reducing school meal programs. Real students don’t get anything.

Is this why the US is mad that Africa is bigger on maps now?

Licensing is not community, quit defending Nazis.

You’ve fallen for the paradox of tolerance, OSS version.

The author, and you, were mistaken: OS is not for everyone. It’s not about whether I or anyone else “likes” them. Nazis and corpos don’t come to software communities with honest intent. They lie and mislead to gain power and control. Then they consolidate power and exploit their control for personal gain.

That isn’t “political” it’s predatory, and people who treat it like politics are running cover for the exploiters whether they know it or not.

I don’t want to change their shitty opinions. I want them banned from our communities so their corrosive influence can’t cause further harm.

Everyday my longstanding hatred of DHH is proven correct. I never liked him or his ideas, and seeing his shitty-but-accepted ideas in full context did a lot to help me understand how fascism is more than just ideology: It’s world view, it’s practices, it’s lifestyle.

I don’t remember being ionized in tech in the '10s; these are shocking claims.

Why did 4 people all independently chime in that its “quirky?” Am I missing the reference or is this the new LLM tell?

Nothing is safe from you perverts, not even a humble bar stool.

This article is what’s dumb:

The durable version is agents whose native language is precise, machine-facing state, with the warm, concise, human version generated only at the boundary.

Cool bro, we’ll take the natural lagauage machine, somehow make it generate machine language instead, and then magically convert “machine facts” into “human interpretation” only at the “rendering boundary” which is always very clearly defined, as this article points out when it mentions how sometimes humans read LLM output and sometimes they pipe it directly to other LLMs.

There is no formula that generates only true statements.

Portals aren’t real and so work however you want them to, but people rarely consistently apply their models.

I’d say A given how they work in the games though. Only the object’s momentum is conserved. The portal doesn’t transfer momentum. There may be a slight breeze coming out of the blue end as the column of air in front of the portal-plate is pushed in, but the cube is just going to flop out.

I believe this is a meme, an old tweet from dril, a user popular for surreal and absurdist humor.

Looks like a School House Rock minor character.

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Wear a nice wrist watch. Not a smart watch, something classy. I have one as a gift and I get compliments from other (arguably straight) men all the time. I have never had a woman mention it (I have had women compliment my shoes, shirts, glasses, etc, so this isn’t a " zero sample size" issue either.)

Yes and no.

GOG games run just fine on Linux, some native and some under Wine\Proton (almost entirely on the game’s devs, but GOG does have their support program to get Wine working on older unsupported games).

GOG Galaxy, their launcher app, does not have a Linux version. You have to download games off their website directly or use Lutris, Heroic, or some other third party management platform to manage them. The advantage of using a game manager–aside from easier monitored game downloads, automatic updates, and community features–is that they’re usually set up Wine for you as well, which can be annoying to set up and use correctly.

I have, in the US, never seen a person “randomly selected” for a grocery rescan. I imagine the first store to try it would get sued for discrimination within short order. I have seen many kinds of shoplifting done multiple times though:

• scan a different UPC
• lie about which kind of fruit it is
• scan one, bag 2 (for light items)
• scan one cheap thing multiple times while bagging other stuff
• just straight up “forget” to scan a big item and walk out with it
• walk in with old receipt, skip checkout entirely

Some stores do a receipt check but they almost always just do a count and don’t have time for detailed looks. Supposedly several US stores (Amazon-owned Whole Foods is notorious for it) will save up security footage of chronic shoplifters to wait until they’ve stolen enough to bring federal charges.

There are cameras all over self-checkout but it’s easy enough to palm things or slip expensive items into your bags without it being obvious. Maybe with AI they can start scanning every video for signals but it seems to me that only the really bold and overt thieves get caught.

Heh, happy cake day! Would you like…

…a Twinkie?

Fuuuuck, I forgot how much I like that song and how I knew all that already. Damn. There’s been several bands and singers over the years I’ve had to forget. I’m not very good at separating art and artist.

Aww… I retract my updoot, I thought they meant the good one.

Denied. Continue the experiment.