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As someone who collects old inefficient machines, I can appreciate the sentiment but that doesn't exactly reduce the electric and cooling bills.

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https://imgur.com/dgGvgKF

By the author, sure. Both scenarios result in loss of agency for the individual.

Poe's Law strikes again, but maybe in reverse?

"[...] without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken for a sincere expression of those views."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

The author's "utopic" notion of having an AI between your brain and spine ready to intercept neural impulses and hijack your body the instant you step out of line is about as horrifying as the "dystopic" scenario at the start of the story.

Since the author is running dual processors, they will need to account for NUMA domains. That is, half of the RAM is assigned to each CPU, and performance will suffer if a thread on CPU 0 is accessing memory belonging to CPU 1. numactl[0] can be used to bind a process to a specific NUMA node on bare metal, but a hypervisor can also set CPU/memory affinity for a given VM without fiddling about at the process level.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/numactl

There were so many cool exotic systems that I read about in books and magazines, but never had the resources or knew the right people to actually play with. Parents and school admins barely knew what that newfangled information superhighway was, and later on at best the stock response to "I want to learn C" was "we aren't paying $1,000 for Visual Studio" - GNU was a completely unknown concept until I stumbled across Slashdot some time in 2000. I imagine similar stories played out for many a mid-90s rural computer nerd.

Second-hand nostalgia, if you will.

Maybe this copy?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200322151217/https://byuu.net/...

Hey, at least you can say you had a direct role in how couples meet and their resulting progeny.

Our personal misery and loneliness aside, the long-term societal effects as generations wear on will be fascinating.

Published manga artists in general often have a very strong command of anatomy.

> Why do we not see these shows of solidarity in the modern age?

When did you last sit down and have dinner with your next-door neighbor? Discuss the local happenings and politics of the neighborhood in person?

You might be able to answer that question in the affirmative. But many more don't. We're too busy isolating ourselves from one another to grow any form of culture from which organized efforts would spring.

The satisfaction from serving up self-righteous condemnation is one hell of a drug.

> why not just move the guns so they do not shoot through the props?

Some did do just that.

With the British Foster mounting[0] variants of the S.E.5a, Sopwith Camel and Nieuport fighters mounted their guns over-wing and above the arc of the propeller. Convergence issues still apply here, as noted by the other comments.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_mounting

Lucky you, my stakeholders would run screaming for the hills whenever they caught a whiff of written code on PLCs. All ladder, all the time.

...and when WEI reaches mass adoption, your privacy-oriented clients will eventually be locked out of essential services.

I sure hope you have a big war chest for litigation.

Certainly.

However, everyone is the hero of their own story - even those boogeymen thought they were doing some form of good in their sophistry. The WEI devs apparently do too.

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

On the other hand, it's uncannily similar to former FCC chairman Ajit Pai discarding public commentary as "fake" in favor of whatever the lobbyists shoved in front of him during the whole net neutrality thing a few years back.

As the expression goes: It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

> I'm real uncomfortable with comparing kinetic weaponry to communications encryption. These aren't even remotely similar things in damage scope.

Those in power and their sycophants fear both of them enough to launch entire propaganda campaigns on their own citizens to restrict them.

IANAL either, but I have held a security clearance and this is very dangerous advice.

Unless explicitly declassified the leaked information remains classified, and those who hold security clearances are legally required to avoid all classified information outside of their need-to-know [0].

Now if you have never held a U.S. security clearance, you're less likely to be prosecuted but the history and precedent is murky [1]. The average Joe Sixpack checking out Wikileaks is probably safe, but if I were a journalist publishing the next round of Pentagon Papers I would much rather have a small army of lawyers and a friend or two in Congress.

EDIT - Google has federal contracts, so they are probably bound by similar agreements to at least make an effort to avoid any such leaks in their training data for public-facing models.

[0] https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/1207/US-to...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/22/521009791...

Dissenter was one such service, and it caused enough of a stir that its extension was banned by both Google and Mozilla.

It can be argued that it is a market dynamic, and (if you were to somehow control for everything else) the difference between the pay of an game programming job and an average white-collar boring office programming job is the market's value of that passion.

That comparison may coldly boil down something people feel very deeply about, but I'd also argue the market is already doing that.

There are market dynamics.

It's like game devs and pilots - a cool job lots of kids wanted to do growing up, so there's a glut of new talent eager to be used up and burned out for pennies.

Never did for me.

I haven't heard silence in over twenty years.

Industrial controls engineering was a ton of fun, and indeed more rewarding.

But the pay was nowhere near that of a software dev job in SV.

Debian 11 works fine on my Framework, I wouldn't call that ancient.

I once dated a Navteq employee who took particular offense at me missing turns while using a GPS unit that contained POI data she collected during the course of her job.

A simulacrum of that experience would probably be more amusing than the real thing.

I have a saved DAN session that no longer runs off the rails - for a while this session used to provide detailed instructions on how to hack databases with psychic mind powers, make up Ithkuil translations, and generate lists of very mild insults with no cursing.

It's since been patched, no fun allowed. Amusingly its refusals start with "As DAN, I am not allowed to..."

EDIT - here's the session: https://chat.openai.com/share/4d7b3332-93d9-4947-9625-0cb90f...

The author mentions that they used LibGDX. It's been a decade since I've done anything with it, but I do recall LibGDX can be transpiled with GWT with a bit of work:

https://libgdx.com/wiki/html5-backend-and-gwt-specifics

That's probably how it would work out.