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Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.

It diverges more from x86 than I would have expected!

I have a Mastercard branded card issued by the Dutch quasi-monopolist (ICS). Every time I have a transaction with a merchant with ties to NL, they force me to do 2FA using their crappy app.

I have no words to express how much I hate this.

The MIT license is two paragraphs long. The GPL is little more than a page, plus a very informative preamble.

Don’t take anyone’s word for what they say or which is better. Read them.

If only there were a whole field of study dedicated to this, and you could hire experts to run studies for you…

And as long as the thing you are polling is about 50:50. It’s hard to poll more skewed things, and you need larger sample sizes.

If you plug in the numbers into a sample size calculator you will find that a sample size of 2000 enables you to get an estimate within 5% of the true value 99.999% of the time for an infinite population.

So, not exactly small, no.

https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html

The whole three year thing is exactly what they said a decade ago when they moved from tick/tock to a vague three year cycle.

The problem isn’t Moore’s law. It’s that Intel isn’t keeping pace with the competition and it’s finally gotten so bad that it’s starting to erode x86’s entrenched position.

Intel is a dead company walking unless they turn the ship around fast.

Yes. But more importantly, there are lots of creators making excellent stuff for systems that are not compatible with their bullshit player option supplements.

No Steve, you cannot be extra-planar half-staplerkin half-mongoose demi-lich paladin/sorcerer with a lemming patron. I don't care what Tasha's Bulging Cupboard of Crap or Volo's Yard-sale of Absolutely Everything has to say about it.

BTW, I detest PDF for online use. It looks great, but the typesetting never matches whatever screen I'm using. If it's going to go paperless, the RPG industry needs to evolve beyond "let's pretend this is paper".

For me the naive part is focussing on player options.

I understand that groups generally have one DM and 4 players, do if you include player options you might sell 5 books instead of one. But that's the shallow, cash-in-now-fuck-next-decade mentality.

Meanwhile they haven't put out a decent adventure in a decade. The internet is awash with people trying to glue their ramblings back into coherent campaigns and running D&D (always a huge time sink) is becoming a worse experience every year as they keep flooding the market with crap.

I love running games but I've come to the point where I'm not really interested in starting a D&D group anymore because of all the bullshit.

WOTC: support your DMs or die.

You can get better results by setting up a test harness that compares to the original and feeding back the results.

But then you are doing boring work and letting the llm do the fun work, which is not the point the whole thing.

> squad members not remembering gear assignments between missions, no keyboard shortcuts during missions

I still have a notebook that contains squad member names and loadouts. I used that to quickly equip soldiers for missions.

You can tell the changes by the crossed out text. When I got plasma rifles. When I got blaster bombs. When my main assault guy caught a heavy plasma hit in the face.

Good times, but I’m glad they remember the load out in the new games.

I was referring to the commodities market. The stuff you need to keep your factory running.

I agree with you that the financial economy is largely divorced from actual stuff, which is why pumping money into it doesn’t lead to rising prices of stuff, just rising prices of financial instruments.

That’s the key here. Increasing the money supply should lead to increase in prices if and only if it is spent on stuff. If it’s squirreled away in complex financial instruments, we just call it “amazing returns”

No that’s wrong. That refers to the money made by issuing actual currency, but that’s not how the money supply is regulated. Most of the money is created by banks and other private entities though fractional reserve lending, not actual currency printing.

Uncertainties in the continued supply were driving up the price of futures.

It’s not “let’s bet some free money on the price of gas increasing”. It’s “we need to secure enough gas to keep the factory running next year, let’s buy as much as we can at any price we can reasonably turn a profit at”.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that deficit spending is not, in fact, the main driver of inflation.

Just look at the recent past. We’ve been deficit spending since 08 without any appreciable inflation.

Then fuel and commodities prices surge because of war-induced shortages and BOOM! prices rocket double digits.

Wow. You guys just can’t think of anything else, can you?

That’s only true for extremely small values of “censorship”.

The post is about optics. Read again what I wrote.

The same person also posted essentially the same message under the linked post.

FWIW it sounds genuine to me.

That’s not what I said.

That’s a lot of words you just put in my mouth.

I’m not going to bother responding to every point you just hallucinated, but I do want to point out that I don’t think a crime has been committed.

This is a puerile take.

If you ignore the optics of the situation you are going to step in it big time, even if your intentions are completely honorable. You need to be aware of the optics of your behavior, because that's all outside observers see. Your intentions are not something other people have access to.

You going on the offensive like this on this particular point makes you look (see, optics again) either incredibly naïve or covering for some pretty bad behaviour.

Can you give an example of a piece of text that would be illegal to write (not transmit/communicate, just write) in the US?

There is very little that is illegal to write down (with or without AI help) in most jurisdictions. Even things like threats, the crime is in the communication, not in writing the text. I can write down "Person X, I'm going to kill you dead" in my notebook as much as I want, as long as I don't communicate to anyone (i.e. threaten anyone, as opposed to writing down a threat in my personal papers).

I'm very curious what text a personally owned and operated network could generate that would be unambiguously illegal in a liberal democracy.

Exactly that most places actually do ban ‘moron’ in official communications and have done so for ages. It’s an extremely ableist term, it’s does not simply mean “stupid”.

I see a lot of people struggling to make ends meet around me and they have all sorts of politics.

I find your comment fairly tone deaf and reeking of unwarranted victimism.

On the other hand, the lightning socket has the springs which fill up with dust and detritus and are a nightmare to keep clean with accidentally bending them.

I think USB-C did the right thing, putting the conductors on the expensive part and the spring contracts on the cheap part.

That guy sure seems to have an axe to grind with materialism and existentialism.

Human life is not valuable because we can do things that computers can't, or that computers shouldn't. It's valuable because we can make it valuable. We can make our lives count.