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If I want a memory-safe, garbage-collected language, I have a ton of choices already, and many of them are safer in other ways than either Rust or anything derived from C (richer t…

... and it is stupid to try to protect cretins who would do that by screwing everybody else.

"Counterproductive" is when you enable feckless idiots to do whatever they want if they say "aw shucks" enough.

> I'm 52 now and I've been hearing about how Quantum Computing is going to revolutionise everything in the next two years, since I was in primary school Bullshit, unless you were l…

Even acknowledging fault is a poor substitute for not fucking up in the first place.

If there were a well-known URL that retrieved all content added to a site after a given date, and a meaningful number of sites implemented it, I bet the biggest scrapers would use …

> foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) Yeah, Tom Paine used to fucking rhapsodize about border control. They actually wrote that?…

> > The default system prompt is opinionated (fine) but it has shit opinions (not fine). It took me a while to figure out why my agent kept saying “Use ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENTS” when…

Why would anybody trust criminals to pay them over time?

Patriotism is soft nationalism, and any of either is too much.

Somehow nobody ever bothers to mention to the kids that it's not required. How many schools still do it, though? Honestly you could tell me it was almost universal or very rare, an…

Actually it frequently can, since a modern monitor is often on USB and in a position to impersonate a keyboard and/or mouse. I wouldn't put it past most of these companies.

Superior workaround: 1. Reset machine 2. Tap the BIOS setup key (often DEL) during the time before it boots. 3. Insert intallation media for a decent OS 4. ...

... and once you take more than the tiniest step beyond the defaults, the difficulty of configuring all that complex optionality exceeds the difficulty of coding your own, and codi…

This ignores the fact that the bread is poisoned.

The line at my workplace was "It's a Unix system... WE'RE SCREWED!"

Not a bad idea, except that *WEB PAGES SHOULD HAVE NEITHER ANY ACCESS TO NOR ANY CONTROL OVER THE HISTORY, PERIOD, AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BEAT THE MORONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS "WEB P…

Few people can do actually do that effectively.

Anybody in business who uses the word "partner" in its current sense plots at heart to add the "toxic".

I am absolutely baffled at the idea that LLMs mean you need less automated verification of correctness.

Nobody has tried to limit knowledge of chemistry or physics unless it was directly about doing something illegal, to the point of basically being a detailed recipe. Usually not eve…

Hey, that scorpion stung me!

Can you substantiate your certainty with anything other than the public statements of people whose job is to lie about things like that?

> every country on Earth spies on the rest, It's entirely possible an EU country did this; they're only vaguely guessing Belarus or whoever. In most countries, it's a big deal if t…

How is it that any NSO employee is still able to travel outside Israel without getting arrested? Seems like they're involved in criminal conspiracies in like half the countries in …