It’s not pointless. If we all complain when conservatives flush the rules down the toilet and kick open Pandora’s box, then do nothing when liberals lick their corporate donors’ toes while fretting over the propriety of the tiniest changes, then the Overton window keeps moving right and we’re all fucked.

DAMNED LIBRULS

For not taking action when they had the majorities.

Seems like a fair criticism.

I opened the article thinking that, surely, the painting had been sold for cheap and gone through several hands before ending up above this person’s couch.

But no, the house actually belongs to the daughters of the Nazi officer who supposedly fled with it.

Ken M… now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

I’m sure Baofengtech makes a version for liberals too, probably in a brown box marked as recyclable.

Many major interest groups in New York believe a Mamdani victory would be disastrous

Disastrous for their interests, that is.

Mamdani really should distance himself from the “globalize the intifada” comments – that is an unveiled call to violence against the international Jewish community – but in the end I seriously doubt that the Mayor’s office will do anything that negatively impacts the Jewish community in NYC. Mamdani is just virtue signaling.

law enforcement and crime reduction

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr001/crime-down-across-new-york-city-2024-3-662-fewer-crimes

What do they think Mamdani is going to do, exactly?

I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.

Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.

Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

Hey, beating up an online streamer is our pleasant distraction from those things!

Fere hys taxation doth weighty hang upon mine mills and tanneries

I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you just said, but none of that suggests that the LLM was “manipulated into this outcome by the engineers”.

Two models disagreeing does not mean that the disagreement was a deliberate manipulation.

It’s not even manipulated to that outcome. It has a large training corpus and I’m sure some of that corpus includes stories of people who lied, cheated, threatened etc under stress. So when it’s subjected to the same conditions it produces the statistically likely output, that’s all.

The phrase in question has no verb.

No dialogue is ever static; every conversation offers an opportunity to reassess and refine one’s viewpoints in light of new insights. In coming to genuine agreements, we learn not only about others but also about ourselves, gaining awareness of how our internal values align with the broader spectrum of social beliefs.

with price increases a frequent occasion in recent times

Good grief this article was padded for length. Who speaks like that? How hard is it to write “with recent price increases”?

But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he’d never eat MY face.

Honestly I’ve daily-driven Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu and I can’t say I saw a fraction of the problems that you did.

I will say that I struggled with PopOS – despite claiming to be the most Nvidia and gaming friendly distro, it gave me endless trouble with the Nvidia graphics in my gaming laptop. Mint and Ubuntu, though, never had a whiff of trouble. I’m on Ubuntu now with no complaints.

Small steps are how engineering gets done. It’s a rare technology that proves its value overnight.