No, we’re really all grug cavemen.

Edit: Maybe the programmer gets a copper spear, but we don’t get to be hyperintellegent and still write code this shit.

Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one. Symbols of tribal loyalty are as big as ever in fascist land.

Looks like somebody’s backpedaling on a definite political statement after it became personally inconvenient.

It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it. It’s less that you’re forced to use whatever thing than that people forget not everyone does.

The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.

It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just fully public.

Honestly I have less of a problem with that than the illusion of privacy that’s been created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that’s based on creeping on people, which couldn’t possibly exist if it was noticeable.

Dope. This one is new to me.

Generally questions like these vary by jurisdiction. Some allow trying a minor as an adult, like others have pulled out of their ass. Some don’t, some might not distinguish or don’t bother with a right to trial of any kind.

It’s a pretty typical principle that you try someone as they and the laws were at the time of the offence, though.

Image generation often happens in a kind of region by region way, too, so not just continuing the arm might be hard.

It’s annoying that she asked ChatGPT why it was doing that and they reported the answer uncritically.

Continue using a custom ROM.

If more brands start locking down their devices I’ll have a conundrum, and it’ll start being about antique hunting. More apps requiring an “approved” OS would also do it, but geopolitics will stop that from going too far in the near future.

Hmm, the graph given is sus. The trend starts before the AI sector was really a thing, like literally 2010.

If I just look at the extra degree to which it came back after covid, it’s maybe double the dotcom bubble and a lot smaller than 2008.

Seems like a reasonable thing to bet a whole economy on. /s

I mean, back when it was a huge, poorly understood leap past previous technology it maybe was, but we know now that this is pretty much as good as it can do, just by scaling.

Don’t hold your breath, they’re pretty mid at their actual job.

It’s little known, but Thomas Midgley Jr. also invented IE.

It was a great way to cash in on leaded gasoline all over again, if it weren’t for that one invention that just strangled him.

Who can forget 2006, when >70% of Americans were murdered?

Damn, so you could basically drive like a madman and not lose any significant power because of it.

It’d be more correct to say round or unround.

Irrational specifically means infinite non-repeating decimal values, or equivalently that a number can’t be represented as any fraction. This is independent of number system.

Sometimes “more irrational” is used as a way of saying further from any small-integer fraction by some measure, but that doesn’t really work here.

with a maximum regen deceleration of 0.68 G before the carbon-ceramic friction brakes take over.

That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot?

Good to know, and helps me understand code dealing with filesystems a little better. I’m curious how the kernel keeps track of it all, just a counter maybe?

On Linux/Unix you don’t delete the file, you just delete it’s name, which is merely a link to the actual file.

Is that different on other systems?

We’re on like, what, three levels of reverse psychology now?

Ah, okay. So it comes down to a strict definition of “belief” which requires total certainty. I’ve seen it used that way before, but when I say I believe something in everyday conversation, I never mean there’s no chance I’m mistaken.