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Well not demonstrably as that would require you to prove a negative.

The term cult has now a negative connotation but the way I meant it was as little religion, like a carrot an a baby carrot?.

I agree on the atheist rebuttal although I honestly do not think the world is ruled by atheism regimes oppressing the poor religious minority. I have no idea what spawned the whole MAD ideology regarding nuclear weapons, it never made sense to me. It must have stemmed from an unshakeable belief that it was ther right thing to do. This blind faith in something is the problem.

All I know is when the button that dooms us all is pressed, that person will have no doubts that he is making the right choice. Whether he calls himself a christian or an atheist makes no difference.

The issue seems to be the C++ committee, never heard anyone complain about C's committee.

I believe the outrage is not about how good this particular 'martyr' is but because he was found guilty by the same system that decides when a person can reasonably use deadly force in a state that has laws specifically designed to 'stand your ground' and even then he was found guilty by a jury of his peers.

So with everything going for him he was still found guilty, so now someone can undo all of that just because they feel like it?. This spits in the face of the entire state and its judicial system.

This is part of the grift. Here we have Sam 'too dangerous to be released' Altman warning again and again while at the same time doing exactly what he is warning about.

I doubt he actually expects some type of regulation that will make the snake oil he is selling last a little bit longer. More realistically its so drive up the hype and cash out as much as possible until hardware is cheap enough for a good enough model since right now the gap between the pay to use models and the free models will only get smaller and smaller.

If the borrow checker was optional and not baked into the language. If it compiled fast and not slower than c++.

I might try it out if these two requirements were met. I have a mental model between what I write in C and what I can expect the assembly to be.

Or maybe the problem is that we have the same stack for code and data? could that be it?.

My understanding is that at a certain point the only way to keep climbing the corporate latter at google is for other's projects to fail and yours to make it which explains why they come out with a new messages app every 3 months before killing it.

Deepfake sounds a lot more serious than photoshopping a face onto a picture. The case does not give details on what "nude bodies" means but I sure hope it was known CSAM otherwise this sets a ridiculous precedent with image generation.

Were they focusing on the intent, or the "I know it when I see it" definition because there is a reason you sometimes have to add to the negative prompts of these models because you never know what you are going to get. Does this mean that someone running a long batch of images may accidentally get something that can land him in jail?.

They must have had great foresight to know that 4,500 years later using slave labor would become historically inconvenient.

That it was embraced by the ancient aliens crowd does not dismiss the findings. It has what appears to be water erosion, now the claim should be challenged if you do not believe it was made by water erosion and truely believe it was made by something else.

The problem is when things are ignored because they are inconvenient and you settle on attacking the individuals to the point where if you do not 100% believe in what the Egyptologist say then you must be an ancient aliens believer.

I'm sure some people are motivated by such a belief but ancient aliens is the same as giving up and saying that god did it, it does nothing to get you closer to understanding anything, if anything it gets you infinitely farther since in your eyes there is nothing to figure out.

Selling at a massive discounted value coupled with very short notice on what is being sold... doesn't this just lend itself to collusion between those that know when properties will be put up for 'auction' to ensure that the right friends get a heads up beforehand?.

This is of course a rhetorical question as I've met quite a few people whose fortune can all be traced back to having good friends in the right places. This is all sort of open secret so its not illegal but it is a form of corruption of the system.

To me it seems like the perceived problems with memory management happen because of how programs are organized which is influenced in large part by the programming language used. In OOP you have a bunch of interconnected little 'objects' with different lifetimes that needs to be perfectly coordinated with one another. This is very very hard to do which is why you have RAII in c++ as a bandaid and Rust for those that have deemed the patient to be terminally ill and best put out of its misery.

Objects as an abstraction do seem useful and make sense but that is at the program level or at the very least the system level in a multi-system program. Definitely not at the data-struct + some related operations level which is what OOP languages consider them to be.

Alan Kay was right in that the big idea behind OOP is object communication but I think he got the object size wrong, message-passing doesn't seem that important when your object is a string with just a few functions attached. If instead your object is another program you are coordinating with or a different system such as your physics engine then message-passing does seem like a bigger deal.

Its Linux's philosophy now, rip Unix.

I can't recall this being the premise of any book I've read, please let us know the name of the book.

Watching the clip is just the usual "Who you gonna believe? us our your lying eyes?". Thing is that the days of a media fully controlling the narrative are gone. Before it was easier since all you had were rumors of what was really going on but now anyone can take video and give direct proof, how are you going to Baghdad-Bob your way into the narrative you want?.

The best they can aim for is trying to create a narrative that at least somewhat aligns with the reality that is impossible to fully hide now.

Its not but it is being banned because people are getting their news from there and its not following the right narrative that the 'real' news agencies are failing at peddling to the public.

Then again I could be wrong and the U.S government just doesn't like people people dancing, hard to tell which one is the reason behind it all.

The sheer amount of wasted time is hard to comprehend. How many man-hounrs or rather man-centuries have we spent trying to make python fast and trying to install it?. We just keep on polishing that turd.

TLDR but I'm responding to let you know that I'm grumpy, got that? I am grumpy, carry on.

Are people looking down and flicking their fingers the hip crowd and the air pinchers the lamers?.

This isn't a vim vs emacs debate. We're talking about smalltalk and what do you know! emacs was made to resemble the big expensive lisp machines which were in turn made in the image of smalltalk but with lisp as the language of choice.

With this in mind, recommending emacs when someone states that they are interested in a system where the "code runs in a GUI that is also the editor/debugger/etc" does not seem out of place at all to me.

Pharo can also be recommended but its a lot more resource hungry and with a mouse centric workflow compared to emacs which is keyboard focused.

I have both and the switch has been relegated to stay connected to the tv in case the kids want to play together on it.

Since the steam deck can also play all my switch games plus a lot more, this is what I tend to use and carry around for my personal use. The only problem was installing and letting them know that they can play roblox and minecraft on it so now they constantly want to use it instead of their switch.

I see a lot of complaining by armchair experts regarding the cybertruck.

I will admit that I know nothing about it but I know this isn't the first car that Tesla has built. They are a very successful company with plenty of cars on the road and they are setting quite a few of the standards that others follow. I also know that there are federal regulations that all cars must follow regarding safety.

Given all of that, is it still possible that this is a car designed by a lunatic to win the robot wars? it could well be true but you can buy it with the ease of mind that when you are stomping everyone else in these wars, you will be perfectly free from liability since its government aproved.

Damn these kids keep stepping on MY lawn and the god damn time!.

I remember watching Hellbound and the most incredible thing to me was watching the scene where a a gang of 'minors' storm a police station because apparently nobody could stop them that they felt confident in attacking a police station full with armed police.

The series itself is pretty good but I just found it funny that this particular scene broke my immersion in a sceries with interdimensional deamons that come to take souls to hell.

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Deterrant?, I honestly do not fear Russia, NK or any other nation but the U.S in starting a nuclear war, why? for the simple fact that some idiot think tank somewhere has convinced themselves that such a war in winnable.

Deficit aside, how does a nation "borrow" money and must therefore pay interest on it, which rich trillionaires are financing the U.S?.

Paying interest on money that only exists because others trust you seems too stupid to actually be true, right?.

I can follow your logic for basketball players beause I know the players compete with each in grade school, middle school, high school etc.. until being recruited to play in the NBA.

Does this mean that I have been missing the CEO tournaments? surely they must compete with one another after all how else can you compare who is better without a direct face off?. It seems like the big companies always get the best CEOs so they must have scouts all over the place on the lookout for that great undiscovered CEO talent.

Or could it be that big companies always produce "great" CEO because its a lot harder to fail and a lot easier to win when you are stearing the biggest ships.

While lsp has brought the best utilities that used to be locked away inside IDEs. I just don't see how you can build upon it when its been shown to struggle pretty much since the beginning.

JSON is okay if you need a format that is human readable but how did the engineers at microsoft ever think that it was a good choice for interprocess communication?. Most of the work is wasted on decoding the json itself. We should not have to increase the interval between request and batch calls in order to make it usable.

Not a Dyson sphere, a Dyson swarm makes more sense and its doable since it can be very sparse at the beginning and grow denser with time.

don't see Big Booze having to serve any sort of penalty for addiction treatment, I know a lot more addicts of alcohol than whatever drug is illegal.

Jail shouldn't be a business, there shouldn't be an incentive to send people to jail. We want to prevent police, judges, prosecutors from profiting from the kickbacks they might get if they can manage to find ways to send more people to jail.