Stripped of religious rhetoric, political discourse in the US is best understood as the economics of brazen greed.
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It's a fascinating learning experience. Birds fall silent and the temperature drops quickly. Our species is too inconsiderate of Sol and nature.
> bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented.
For those who share the interest, here is an article about bees' eyes:
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-bees-use...
One recent US poll (July 2026) reported that the Democratic Party has close to an 8 point lead over the Repuglican Party.
8 points — that's all!
After all the crime, violence, war, corruption and offence to US democracy...
No one observing this thinks that the US will do a 1.8, nevermind a 180.
[0] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Incredibles_charac...
CVE-1972-404: The code is written in C. ^_^
Do use the tool if it offers material/measurable improvement for your use-case, but budget carefully and keep your people. They probably do actually know what your material/measurable use-case really is.
If you only talk to yezbotz, you may zuck yourzelf into a corner and look like a zhmendrick.
If you know of a language that is perfect for all our needs today and tomorrow, please guide us to it.
> What are we missing?
Major concerns would be i) trust in the tooling, ii) quality and accountability, iii) future investment in competent engineering.
Total: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal
Partial: Northern North America, Europe, West Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_...
echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '
Agreed, it's a problematic term that conflates theoretical research with better search results.
Deep learning and machine learning (ML) are both unromanticised (un-hyped) terms.
In some cases, it's just tooling with a better interface. As we have done with other complex computing systems (e.g. Deep Blue, Watson), we might just end up naming it a computing system for querying, e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS
We would like a neutral term for such a system, and in this sense it's better to call it "A.I." than to make a verb from google or bing or other corporate name.
But in refined cases, such tooling may offer a credible (as in "believable") human experience, like Weizenbaum's Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA). Some users of Eliza fully believed that Eliza listened and understood at a profound human level. Eliza was a simple computer programme.
Computing systems are not humans. They have no accountability in real life. People may be so comfortable with the user-experience that they cannot distinguish it from interacting with another human. That doesn't make the computer system alive and accountable. And if it's run by a corporation, it will almost certainly make big promises while energetically seeking to avoid accountability. ^_^
I fear that you have unwittingly led us further into the inevitable Environmental Hamburger-Cost Continuum.
Wherein we will use EHCC units to inform the hamburger voters about a) the nobility of even the smallest hamburgerian sacrifice, and b) the gentle, loving hand of industrialisation.
But if you are using TelemetryOS (i.e. you cannot fully switch off the chatter) and your daily Web browser doesn't offer privacy extensions, you are the product.
Podman has been mature and sane. In cases where $someone's container depends on su privs, I blame the $someone, not Podman.
"We economists understand reality as a set of people responding to optimization problems with restrictions."
Schools needed to be punished too. There was a branch of knowledge called Science, and it was badly run and terribly elitist. These people would talk for hours and never in ALL CAPS. They used alot of big words and produced alot of theories. Forms of lies that they literally called form-you-lies. They were fanatics and would never agree on anything. Very frustrating.
Then a new kind of brave, talented politician made Science accountable to our heroic leadership. Suddenly there were new medications and rocket ships everywhere, enough for every person, woman, man, camera, TV. It was literally called a golden age because the right people acquired mountains of gold. Elections were no longer necessary. They were all rigged anyway.
There was a magazine called The Expertist or The Economix. Not really very good, but sometimes it did praise our heroic leadership, which was good.
That magazine published a long text that said,
> It is common thinking in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC that any regulation would put American firms at a disadvantage because they cannot trust Chinese competitors to abide by the rules.
And this was true, because no one else can be trusted, they should all be punished. Punishing others is how you get the best deals. Only our heroic leadership makes good rules for everyone else in the world to follow.
The decline in quality of STEM students/graduates is alarming, but the decline in intellectual quality of students is generalised.
Little did Dodson think he was being prophetic when he wrote satirically of Reeling, Writhing, and the arithmetical operations of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
[0] _ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Leaders are accountable for their decisions, their statements, their strategies, and their care for the organisation(s) that they lead.
"Nothing more," you say.
The chief focus should be Privacy... Privacy and Performance... Our two chief focuses should be Privacy and Performance... and Cross-Platform Executables with Functional Parity... Our three chief focuses should be Privacy, Performance, Cross-Platform Executables with Functional Parity, and Safety on the Web... Our four chief focuses should be Privacy, Performance, Cross-Platform Executables with Functional Parity, Safety on the Web, and ruthless Efficiency in Preserving Battery Life... Our five... no... Amongst our chief focuses... Amongst our non-trivial chief focuses that users think are easy... are such elements as Privacy, Safety on the Web, Cross-Platform Executables with Functional Parity... I'll come in again.
Software Engineering Apologies to...
[0] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty...
The Nissan Ariya is NOT discontinued in North America. Nissan no longer sells it in the USA because of Trump's tariff war.
The Nissan Ariya is still sold in Canada.
In no Western society that I can name are parents omnipotent owners of their children. Parents may even lose custody of their children. If you know that parents are doing physical harm to children, you have a social obligation to try to do something for those children.
Even though we may turn a blind eye, we do have a social obligation to all children. Human anthropological history reflects this.
Although intellectual harm tends to be seen as sunken cost (and possibly "correctable"), social harm has intolerable consequences.
Nor can it, because it takes a village to raise a human being.
And in this (global) village, we have determined that we will monetise everything... and for the victims, there's thoughts and prayers. [1]
Were you able to suspend your disbelief when watching Idiocracy [1], either in the year of its release or in the subsequent decades? (^;
If we want to understand a phenomenon, we should be careful with technical terms. It is not "psychosis" [1] anymore than bad software that makes mistakes is "hallucinating".
The truth is simpler and less dramatic: hapless ambition-monkeys who climb the corporate ladder are demonstrating that they are not promoted for mental acuity. Corporations, after all, do not serve "the interests of humanity" — they are an organised collusion system that diffuses responsibility and anonymises negligence. And when it works as intended, shareholders rejoice.
For companies that can afford to build data centres, the latter are seen as a sure bet that can't fail, like building a bridge or buying new computer/hardware now with the pile of cash on hand without necessarily knowing which OS/software they will install. They are even planning to restart or build nuclear reactors. [2]
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychosis
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/28/why-microsoft-amazon-google-...
"Suitable human" is a dry phrase indeed. ^_^
The hype is "gosh look at all the bad things this brilliant almost conscious tool found!"
The reality: an insecure toolchain for an insecure language with an insecure compiler produced a runnable but insecure binary for an insecure OS. We couldn't be arsed to address any of this before, but now we're being billed the full price of our laziness.