Hizonner

An organization does have to have a clear set of shared plans, toward which it takes a program of coordinated action. That's what an organization is. It's about being organized. A bunch of random individuals who share some opinions, occasionally use similar tactics, may cooperate sporadically, and describe themselves using some term or gravitate toward certain symbols, is not an organization. And it's not clear that "antifa" even does most of those things.

Nor are a bunch of small groups a single "organization" if they don't have some kind of ongoing, systemematic structure for coordinating their actions.

I'm an atheist. That doesn't make atheism an organization.

> How many screws in an airplane?

So you're suggesting that an enterprise that would ever have even considered routinely using any stupid bullshit question along those lines is somehow engaged in a finely-honed and effective process for creating an optimal screening system? It doesn't matter how often you "change course" if you obviously have no idea how to steer in the first place.

... but you can still fail to notice one, and you can gauge and to some degree control your risk of being fined.

In fact, if you sell 10 hobby prototype boards to other hobbyists, you probably have a higher risk of getting hit by a bus on the way to the post office than you do of being fined.

... and if your boss told you never to tell her things she didn't want to hear, her boss might not be so thrilled about that. Nor might the market. You're aware that the people making these decisions work for the public, right?

The reason Stars and Stripes has had so much independence for so long is that bosses who weren't morons saw the value in that. The reason it's losing it now is that bosses who are morons don't.

"Stop liking things I don't like!!"

In other words, you have a religious belief that some technology will always come to save you in the nick of time, but you have absolutely no real knowledge about anything.

> the technological developments which will lead to the avoidance of their dire predictions.

... and what exactly would those be?

Well, that's pretty damned moronic, is what that is.

> This isn't a good dichotomy though. Either "Build it from source" or "Wait for a professional 3rd party to package it for you".

Somebody has to do the work. Apparently you won't accept it for that to be the developer, the user, or a "professional third party" (whatever "professional" means here). What exactly do you want?

> Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.

So third parties. Things that have reinvented "distributions", arguably badly. Are you saying they're not "professional"?

Legitimate in what way? It's obviously fucking stupid. Stupid criteria are not "legitimate".

You'd do just as well rolling dice, and it would be more legitimate because it wouldn't be pretending to do something it doesn't.

"Wasted" is a word people use to mean "used for a purpose I personally do not value".

Try persuading people to share your values.

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 type systems make programs safer). Not to mention being prettier and more ergonomic. The huge advantage of Rust is that it's memory-safe with no GC; it makes your timing and memory occupancy much more deterministic at those times when you have to care.

... 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 listening to raving crackpots, and probably not even if you were.

The people worried about this now are not raving crackpots.

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 it.

Except, of course, that then sites would start lying and sending abridged, poisoned, or nonexistent data.

Nice things cannot be had, no matter how many levels you go down.

> 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?

Jeebus.

> > 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 dispatching subagents.

> Okay, so change it? Any LLM is opinionated, this system prompt enforces consistency across different models which seems reasonable.

OpenCode embeds scatters bad coding policy all over all of its inbuilt prompts, including tool instructions. The only way I've found to fix them is to edit the source code. And, yes, they're also huge and repetitive.

A framework's native prompts should include only information about how to interact with the framework itself.

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, and I'd have to believe you either way.

Of course, Canada was doing the freaking Lord's Prayer in schools until freaking 1988. I don't know about other countries, but wouldn't be surprised.

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 coding the integrations you actually need. And you still get screwed when the vendor decides to make a change, or refuses to support some niche thing you need in favor of some niche thing a few more users need. Not to mention the security nightmare.

SaaS was mostly a bad deal before "AI".

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 PLATFORM" BULLSHIT SENSELESS*.

It's good that a police department has chosen to do this with the misfeature, but the fact that there are non-abusive applications is not an excuse.

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".