That’s why OLE from ORACLE is becoming Rer and not getting his A torn?

Surely they have some explanation how that doesn’t happen, otherwise they are making strange plans.

1. Artists need to eat.

2. Art needs to be a commercial success to defend itself from commercial successes it hurts.

3. Computing industry notably positions itself as replacing art (I don’t mean digital art like tracker music or 3d modeling), in many things where, say, car industry doesn’t. But the suggested replacements are not that. Similarly to how journalism can only be adversarial and offensive to most points of view, otherwise it’s just public relations, because it doesn’t improve anything. Improvement is always adversarial.

And eventually “we” might come to the thought that for many things analog computing is enough. Symbolic calculation, cryptography and such, of course, need digital. But when we are talking about airplanes and satellites, perhaps not.

One thing I somewhat like about the general idea of all those LLMs is that in theory they are closer to something that can work on non-deterministic technology.

I wonder if some sort of FPGA but for analog circuits is possible. To have the advantages of re-configuration that programmable things have, but also advantages of continuous signals.

Steve Jobs knew something about forces not for good.

The industry is not that bad, but it’s just one of them.

People need art. And art doesn’t survive in environments where there should be a winner and winner takes all.

Art is the social alternative of recessive genes. It allows to preserve more than needed “right now in this particular situation”. Without art there’s degeneracy.

That’s how every successful fraud works. If it’s not attractive to people who see it’s a fraud, it won’t have their support. If it’s hard to discover as a fraud, it’s also hard to maintain and always has the risk of discovery.

So the best frauds are those where everyone knows it’s a fraud, and plenty think it’s a fraud they can profit from.

It’s not that. Nobody really expects to achieve firm satisfactory result in something never done before, to justify the risk.

It’s a bubble. That they found money to make such an input into inflating it just means the outcome of said bubble bursting is this good for them.

I’m interested what exactly will happen when it bursts. A dictatorship, or a blitzkrieg against half of the world, or what else.

About me? Well, I don’t object, as I’ve just said. Perhaps I’m just tired of computers. I like them as tools. But I don’t worship wooden planks or vinyl panels or concrete from which houses are built.

That rudeness was in self-critique anyway.

If that helps, Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle” I prefer much to “Citadel”. But it’s not matter of preference, I can’t hide from what that book says.

Or if that’s about Rubio, I don’t think anyone doubted.

No Cyrillic.

Well, infrastructure is built by the government in an environment where its use is regulated, and for essential things.

Electricity for data centers isn’t essential. They should build their own parallel grids, a bit like Google and Facebook and such build their own infrastructure.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t develop, but correct management from the governments here would be making them pay for their toys in full. That will also be optimal - they know best which infrastructure and how much they need. No loading the common grid with non-essential things that hurt lights, heating and basic connectivity.

EDIT: Perhaps even a centralized, but separate second grid, for that.

At the same time it’s reminiscent of “caliber”, which one would expect to appeal to good Christians.

It’s a good font. It doesn’t impose style, it’s easily readable. I’d use it if there were a version with 1) Cyrillic support, 2) monospace variant, 3) not too bold in standard weight.

Garamond does look somewhat Apple-ishly pretentious, and Lucida does evoke associations with Sun and some corporate spirit, and Arial\TNR\CN trio does feel like “Windows font classic” combination.

But banning a more readable font to show you have “decorum” … there’s a word “чмошник” in Russian, I’ve recently realized I’m that, and also a whole crowd of adults and peers around me 13 years ago. Actually there’s just one girl who wasn’t that, and one adult. Who got the shortest straws in that story.

That word means someone miserable and envious enough to look for confirmations and signs of coolness in all things they use and do.

I’ve also recently realized that I don’t like computer people, and of other professions dealing with calculation and materiel. They are glorified bookkeepers and managers. The reason tech workers dislike management so much is because the whole industry is much like machine-assisted management. Paradox of small differences.

Yeah, I know you lot like being perceived as magicians and the industry as having something to do with intelligence. Read de Saint-Exupery’s Citadel, there’s a passage on “a special book for generals”, and you will recognize that whole industry, from its lowly brick layers to its prophets.

Deregulation would mean these things can’t use public infrastructure.

EDIT: Actually this seems a very fine idea.

so long as I was very clear in all advertising that I’m only building houses and not in any way related to the cars - but if I start putting Lamborghini cars in my advertising I could get into trouble for creating confusion

That’s fine. But suppose your brand is Lambozucchini and you have cars kinda similar to Lamborghini, but with the brand clearly different, just with homage, a bit like Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola, where in the world is the problem with that? That should be legal, from common sense.

EDIT: Also nobody confuses Lambo with Lamborghini, a nickname is not confusion and trademark owner doesn’t own nicknames. And they don’t own everything in the world connected to their trademark.

This is a shame honestly. I’ve just remembered about Lucas’ narrative art museum.

Current contents of the shell don’t say much about past contents of it.

I don’t get it. Since when are similar words and cultural references and nicknames too owned by the trademark owner?

It was pretty normal for most of the age of trademarks’ existence to use such derived references, including commercial use.

"He tried to claim … a word play on “lamb” and not … " - why would he have to?

I’m (ok, not really identifying as a fan of anything, but it’s good) a Star Wars fan and I can point out plenty of such references there to other authors’ creations, and George Lucas notably doesn’t hide or deny that, actually the opposite.

Capitalism works fine if it’s regulated either by governments or by workers through unions.

Both at the same time, and the third necessary component - customer associations, three independent forces as a minimum.

EDIT: This is free market, “market” and not “jungle” - because there are regulated rules, “free” - because all participants are free to associate, including association to delegate association choices. “Capitalism” is a bad word because it’s a term for everything from semi-traditional economies to mercantilism to libertarianism, that has interoperability of resources and assets.