DrillShopper

I strongly disagree with Charlie Kirk, but doctors pronounce him dead, not the media or Wikipedia.

Edit: it's official, he's dead (it wasn't confirmed when I originally posted this). Condolences to his wife and small kids.

No, pointing out someone being odious does not equate to saying they deserve it.

This incident additionally is darkly ironic because of his thoughts on gun violence: https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-...

To make it clear - I am pretty much politically diametrically opposed to Charlie Kirk, but I don't think he should have been shot.

Nobody wants it to be, but wanting something to not be about racism doesn't make it not about racism.

Jim Crow "ended" (it's what we tell ourselves) in the south in 1965 with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our last two presidents were adults when that happened, and it's not like racism was solved when those laws were passed.

The US still has a lot of work to do here - it's absurd to me to hear US Conservatives talking about how slavery ended in the 1860s so we should end protections for African Americans because it's been "so long". It hasn't, and they know that.

So what if he was selling kits?

It's legal to sell kits along with instructions for modifying a firearm from semi-automatic to automatic fire, and the results of that have been several mass shootings.

So modding your console or selling tools to do it ought to be legal as well. The damage from that is far, FAR smaller than even a single mass shooting.

Always has been

It's a big club, and we ain't in it.

> One objection that I've seen is that the lead author, Dr. Baccarelli, has a conflict of interest because he was an expert witness in a lawsuit about acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Every charlatan researcher grifting on bogus autism data really is just copying Andrew Wakefield's homework

Yeah in that way the stealing of books is clearly the bigger crime

> As part of the settlement, Anthropic said that it did not use any pirated works to build A.I. technologies that were publicly released.

Oh so now we're at "just trust me bro" levels of absurdity

If that is the world you want, then boy are you going to love living in Somalia. You could even move today!

> PEGI ratings (although overzealous) are a god starting point.

PEGI says FIFA Ultimate Team: Parental Wallet Draining is PEGI 3. Maybe PEGI should clean its house before we defer to it.

Once again showing that the best way to make money in that market is to just break the law.

> NFL is artificial and arbitrary literally by definition.

If so, then why does no other sport match its popularity in the US when NFL football isn't in season? If it's so goddamn arbitrary the something like baseball should make as much as it does. Basketball should make as much as it does. Hockey should make as much as it does. However, as marketed as those sports are in the US (and they are heavily marketed), then why don't they match the NFL in viewership and revenue?

>> I enjoy NFL football because it is a showcase of brain

> You enjoy it because you were brought up by society to enjoy it and it was pushed on you from all sides. If you grew up in, say, Iceland, you probably wouldn't know anything about it or care at all.

You don't know a goddamn thing about me. I grew up in The Netherlands watching (the other kind) of football, not in an area where the NFL existed. Maybe stop trying to pidgeonhole people that like things you don't.

Is there a lot of marketing around sports? Yes. There's a lot of marketing around software, video games, pharmaceuticals, fiscal policy, food, and automobiles. Would you say anybody who enjoys cooking for their family "brainwashed by Tyson into liking something they wouldn't like?

Fuck you for assuming

Another suggestion is Anders Nielsen's channel - his video on a single breadboard 6502 computer (really a 6507) with a RIOT is really good: https://youtu.be/s3t2QMukBRs

Just because you don't understand a sport doesn't make it "artifical", "arbitrary", impractical, or devoid of value.

I enjoy NFL football because it is a showcase of brain (from the offensive and defensive schemes), brawn (pretty self explanatory), and planning (drafting, trading, roster construction). Arguably moreso than most software development (replace brawn with the mental toughness to not crack after the fifth night of sleeping under your desk to ship something).

That you do not understand the game does not make it worthless. Clearly there is some worth because football is something people pay a lot of money to enjoy, and that money, while also concentrating in the hands of owners (and there's a lot to talk about there), goes to support the trainers, assistants, equipment managers, travel coordinators, hotel workers, security guards at the game, stadium staff, concessions staff, bars and restaurants (both around the stadium and at home during away games), and many other people. It inarguably creates value. That doesn't go away because you don't like and don't understand it.

In conclusion: GO PACK GO

> It's an emotional argument, born of tribalism. I’d find it easier to believe many claims on this site that AI is all a big scam and such if it weren’t so obvious that this underlies your very motivated reasoning.

Damn, when did it become wrong for me to advocate in my best interests while my boss is trying to do the same by shoving broken and useless AI tools up my ass?

Counterpoint: fuck them, they know exactly what they do (try to extract more work for the exact same pay out of their subordinates)

Holding on for that sweet sweet pay bump after the coming AI winter

Expertise is second to results - without results, expertise doesn't matter. I'm sure there are a lot of homeopathic "healers" who feel they have a lot of expertise, but the results are sorely lacking.

Ship more or STFU

I cannot recommend enough Ben Eater's 6502 computer build on YouTube[1] if you want to play with a 6502 computer from the ground up. It is meant to be accessible to the ambitious amateur. It is roughly Apple 1 compatible, and he has videos on how to add new commands in Microsoft BASIC as well as how to modify Microsoft BASIC to support the computer.

Seeing him git clone Microsoft BASIC and make the changes atop it was definitely a weird but awesome moment.[2]

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypFbtuVMUVXNR0z1...

[2] https://youtu.be/XlbPnihCM0E

I worked on a project that made a vest with controller vibration motors in it connected to a microcontroller. That microcontroller was connected by a serial -> USB converter and was controllable by the computer it was attached to.

Sadly, it wasn't for gaming. It was part of a study into the limitations of how much information humans can absorb at once, with the haptic feedback being tested as yet another input when there was a lot of auditory and visual input. I joked they should just use smell, but I don't think they wanted to subject the undergrad research subjects to weird smells.

It's this - asyncio is a nightmare to add to and get working in a code base not specifically designed for it, and most people aren't going to bother with that. asyncio is not good enough at anything it does to make it worth it to me to design my entire program around it.

How do I make new Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax account to reset my credit score?

Probably SuSE. We use SLES15 at work and their bizarre decisions in SLES 16 to remove X servers (except for XWayland), remove 32-bit libraries, and complete removal of their AutoYaST unattended install tool in favor for a tool that is maybe 25% compatible with existing AutoYaST files still baffles me. We spent months moving to SLES15 from a RHEL derivative a few years ago and now we basically have to do it again for SLES16 with as big as the changes are. We have some rather strong integrations with the Xorg servers, and Wayland won't cut it for us currently, so we're stuck unless we want to rearchitect 20 years of display logic to some paper spec that isn't evenly implemented and when it is, it's buggy as shit.

I've been pushing hard for us to move off SLES as a result, and I do not recommend it to anyone who wants a stable distribution that doesn't fuck over its users for stupid reasons.

> Just to be safe, we better start attaching these warnings to every social media client.

This but completely unironically.

> the entitlements they disproportionately depend on.

[citation needed]

No, says the man in Hollywood - those cycles belong to the MPAA

No, says the car manufacturers, those cycles belong to us

No, says the nerds in Redmond, your computer belongs to us

Just like they were warned repeatedly and loudly by the cypherpunks and anybody who had two functioning brain cells to rub together.

Compliance with the law and therefore the ability to operate at all

They should be marked by default as non-trainable and you should have to opt each individual chat in as you see fit.

The cognitive load to remember to opt out every new chat should not rest on the user.

Hurts whom that bad?

AI companies will get bailed out like the auto industry was - they won't be hurt at all.