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> ...distros run by volunteers (Debian, Arch, Alpine...) have shipped the fix. Meanwhile Ubuntu, made by a company that sells security subscriptions, hasn't.
This tells you all about the priorities of companies. It's making profit, not protecting their users. Perverse incentives and all that.
They steal video recordings for free, how generous.
This insufferable band of Holy Scouts was the reason I never liked TNG. I find DS9 much more believable, up to and including Trump as Gul Dukat. That character was prescient. There is one difference between the two though. While both are malignant pathological narcissists, the fictional Gul Dukat knew how to fake grace once in a while. The real Trump doesn't give a shit.
How many minutes does your average AI data center last on that amount?
The old adage comes to mind that you don't get answers on the internet by asking questions but by posting the wrong answer.
So you were being serious. Fascinating.
WTF. They should abolish DST.
People love using worse or outright wrong terms for stuff. Especially if everybody has gotten used to the wrong term already.
I invoke Poe's law on this.
> used to discover unexplored combinations
Couldn't actual combinatoric software do this much more targeted, cheaper, faster, and more controlled? What does using a slot machine add here, except heating the planet even more?
> Consuming the seed corn is a road to eventually having no corn.
That's what it means to be poor. You have to eat first. You don't have the choice to not eat so you can save the cost for something else.
> a country can't exactly tax the poor.
Reality would like a word with you...
That makes us two already :)
Everyone else has amnesia.
I was about to think that this is the first not outrageously idiotic thing I hear from Trump, but calling it "super intelligence" instead is of course even more wrong. How could I be so naive and optimistic.
> He signed an executive order in September directing the executive branch to use SI, instead of AI.
He's definitely bullshitmaxxing, which perfectly matches expectations.
> Remark. As a result of the educational trend away from intellectual discipline, the last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language: many people that by the standards of a previous generation should know better, are no longer able to use their native tongue effectively, even for purposes for which it is pretty adequate. (You have only to look at the indeed alarming amount of on close reading meaningless verbiage in scientific articles, technical reports, government publications etc.) This phenomenon —known as "The New Illiteracy"— should discourage those believers in natural language programming that lack the technical insight needed to predict its failure. (End of remark.)
Tell me about it! This has only gotten worse in the meantime.
> From one gut feeling I derive much consolation: I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues —be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili— are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use.
Sadly, this is no longer true. The floodgates are open. And as it turns out, many people get really angry if you curtail their ability to talk nonsense, even if the result it supposed to be software.
> an appropriate workload
Honest question: What would such a workload look like? Why would Salesforce or GitLab not make sense on a mainframe?
"a" would suggest that there was more than one. True for Picasso, not for Frankenstein. Besides, only Picasso can make "a Picasso". Everything else would be fake and plagiarism.
> the features people _really_ care about
And what are those? You seem to assume that "everyone" (except the committee) is in agreement about them.
I like the editions idea. We could have a memory-safe C++ successor without being weighed down by old mistakes.
Even the author of a well-known series of books about C++ has long since "given up" because the laundry list of footguns, caveats and adversarial interactions between different features has gotten too long.
Frankenstein was the scientist. It was his "monster" that was a patchwork of all kinds of things.
And since the problem is mostly cultural, not technical, all the technical means that we do have in theory won't help much in practice. So my bet would be a self-inflicted 2).
> This is infinitely worse than Bitcoin.
It's not meant to be like Bitcoin. If you want Bitcoin, use Bitcoin.
> GNU Taler is a privacy-preserving payment system. Customers can stay anonymous, but merchants can not hide their income through payments with GNU Taler. This helps to avoid tax evasion and money laundering.
> The primary use case of GNU Taler is payments; it is not meant as a store of value. Payments are always backed by an existing currency.
This looks like it could be useful anywhere.
Like I said, not very long.
> distillation is significantly more dangerous than fermenting
So they are concerned about unlicensed explosions?
Nazis and fascism are getting socially acceptable again. The revulsion after WW II didn't last very long.
Thankfully laws are not being enforced when the likes of Facebook are breaking them.