Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
It’s guns all the way down.
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.
A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:
They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.
*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.
Satan Sauron is a baby that lives in the sun.
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.
apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.
I think it’s because that’s the more distinctive part of her name. “President Harris” sounds kind of generic, like the fictional president from an action movie.
It may start to constitute a pattern that the same was true of Hillary Clinton, though in that case it was likely that just saying “Clinton” might cause confusion with Bill.
Also Bernie Sanders is mostly referred to by his first name, so…
Ask him if he knows anywhere good to eat.
No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.
Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.
One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.
The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn’t worthwhile.
The Memex they’re taking about (Angleton is a character from The Laundry Files) is an electromechanical filing system for microfiche.
It was never built IRL, so it’s difficult to get into the nitty-gritty of security details, but I’m pretty sure that Van Eck phreaking would get you at most the index positions of the documents being accessed, and you’d need optical surveillance to discover their content.
Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?
Love Demetri Martin.
But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.
Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.