I don’t work at OpenAI so, I’m not implementing anything that would change it. I prefer to keep practicing my critical thinking, programming, and creative skills and there is no ethical model to use so, I’ll continue not to use it, for the most part.

In this case, it’s a feature of the language that enables developers to implement greater amounts of parallelism. So, the developers of the Python-based application will need to refactor to take advantage of it.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-free-threaded-cpython

It’s also, I find, much more widely supported on a wider variety of hardware and with easier config automation.

That would be reasonable. The people running these things aren’t reasonable. They ignore every established mechanism to communicate a lack of consent to their activity because they don’t respect others’ agency and want everything.

I am not exactly defending this particular scheme but the source code is available under a free software license. It’s only the binaries that are under a proprietary EULA.

I’ll believe it after review and approval by the OSI. It still is philosophically in direct conflict with the Open-Source Movement by making software less accessible to end users and especially non-technical users than it is to corpos.

It’s not free and open source. And it’s contrary to the F(L)OSS movement philosophy (cost should never be a barrier for one to use technology). Conceptually, it’s nice to try to get corpos to compensate devs but that’s not what this would do. Small businesses and individuals would be impacted while corpos can work around it.

Additionally, it seems a bit ethically questionable to try to forcibly extract fees from end users when, increasingly, they’re feeling economic strain from the continued wealth hoarding and impending recession/depression.

vi in base Ubuntu isn’t really vi. It’s vim-minimal.

Both, last I checked.

Yeah… That’s what I think the idiot is likely doing. Anyone doing so has no fucking business touching code.

Just read that the fuckstick is copying government data onto an external.

Good point.

No problem! I’ve similar goals, though I tend to be too exhausted in my free time as of late. The 6 series are a bit long in the tooth at this point (there’s 3 or 4 newer generations). They probably won’t give amazing performance, though they’re still used in logic analyzers. Probably great to learn on though.

Top row, second column. That chip is a Xilinx (now AMD) Spartan 6 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). An FPGA is a type of chip that contains an array of logic gates, flip-flops, and other elements whose interconnects can be “programmed” (I use quotes because it’s more like configuration than software programming). These elements are collectively referred to as the FPGA “fabric” and the naming of the individual elements varies between manufacturers but Xilinx uses “Logic Cells”.

The fabric of this particular chip has 74,637 Logic Cells (there’s more element types but I’m not going into those because I’m still learning any them).

What makes FPGAs so special? Basically, they contain all of the parts needed to make a CPU (or other digital circuit). An FPGA may not be able to implement a general purpose CPU that is as fast or powerful as custom silicon but, it can do it. A CPU implemented on an FPGA is known as a “soft core”.

What is RV32? Simply, a 32-bit RISC-V processor. There are some open-source RV32 implementations that will both fit in the pictured FPGA and are capable of booting mainline Linux.

That Spartan 6 FPGA can probably boot on a softcore with mainline Linux support. It has enough fabric space (74k logic cells) to implement some smaller RV32 designs.

Yeah… I’d argue, from my anarchist view point, that Marx nearly had it. Humans and unjust hierarchies have existed longer than economics, so, I feel that to be an oversight on his part. To my thinking, economic division is a mechanism of creating or sustaining a hierarchy of classes. The problem isn’t purely economic nor sociological but both, that is socio-economic (like electricity and magnetism are make up electro-magnetism).

Economics (wealthy disparity), religion (castes), and violence are all mechanisms used to separate people into hierarchies of power and allow a small number to exercise power over others. Any hierarchy of societal power results in repression. The Soviets betrayed the Makhnovists, rolled tanks into Czechoslovakia to prevent self-determination, and committed genocide via forced relocation of “problematic” ethnic groups to destabilize any resistance to their hierarchy of power that made all subservient to Moscow.

I’m posting another comment because you seem to be genuinely interested in discussion the concepts that you are bringing up in your essay. I haven’t yet fully read it, though I have skimmed and will spend some time giving out a fair read.

I do not think that I’ll have much positive in my critical analysis based mainly upon my philosophical orientation (anarchist) and neurodivergence (AuADHD so, have strong feelings about what I perceive as just/unjust ex. hereditary rule is intrinsically unjust). From a writing style/communication perspective, it does seem, at a high level, to be well-written.

I’ll try to remember to get some time to read through the rest of it on the weekend.

No kings. No gods*. No masters.

*“gods” here referring to use of organized religion to coerce others.

Modifying software that might not be within the scope of the company that I work for, much less my team, on systems that I explicitly do not have authorization to make such changes on? No, I would not be doing that.

An important thing to remember is that going all-in on a given tool is going to result in a bad time. You suggestion of SQL, for example, excels in querying and modifying data that lives in a database and follows the expected structures in said database. Most data is not in databases, nor is it structured in a compatible manner, if at all. The workarounds needed to coax SQL into performing such tasks would result in syntax both more arcane and more verbose than the regex necessary to transform it into something compatible.

Use the right tool for the right job. For transforming semi-structured and unstructured data into something useful in a practical amount of time, regex is frequently the right tool.

Why would I use SQL to to reformat a poorly structured log file for programs whose source I have no input in during a live debug with a customer on system that I don’t own and can’t install anything on? Or to extract and format things like hosts from a similar file?

That’s stuff that’s quickly and easily done in vim (which is generally part of the base install) with regex. There’s a lot of use cases that have no overlap with SQL.

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