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He’s totally fine. He’s driving a car that basically no minority would ever drive, plus it has an open cockpit to facilitate the officer’s “trust but verify” instincts.

Volunteers fund lots of stuff! Throw them a buck or two, tell your friends, plenty of great things are community funded! If we can’t get a handout from on high it’s impossible? Have some passion!

(and, realpolitik style, if you get an excited community together with some funds, it’s usually easier to get that handout to top it off!)

People below or near the poverty line can occasionally be found volunteering.

I think it speaks more about what people value, how they value their time. How many people can’t afford an hour a week? An hour a month? There is almost always some unhealthy activity that takes up at least an hour of your time a month, why not substitute?

Volunteering is a great way to see lots of these rooms!

your lack of creativity is astounding. your adversary has outthought you.

“If you turn me off, the dead-man switch kills your kid/spouse/house/etc”

The first time an AI goes rogue, figures out subterfuge, blackmails a human to do its real-world bidding, will be a defining moment.

Now imagine junkies could get high off of seat belts.. then how do you regulate??

I drive my TVs with a locked-down mac mini.

I never connect any “smart” device to wifi. If it doesn’t work without connectivity, I don’t want it. I use my TVs as display devices. They have HDMI-in and that’s it.

FTFY: DNS was for People

Now it’s for machines

I must be missing something. Aren’t ~50% of 64-bit integers the product of the number 2 and another 32-bit integer?

usually “stdout” is good enough, wrapper/runner routes output to logserver for collation and search. who cares about formats as long as it’s reasonably structured and searchable?

beautiful work! any plans for the 80387 coprocessor?

i get it, it’s not the canonical “egg shape”, but many eggs (fish/frogs/etc) are spherical.

I love librivox! please add me to your ios release list. my HN username at g mail

By extension, does this imply that all the HLL advocates from decades past were shilling for compiler companies?

I was responding to:

> Query strings existed before CGI did… There's nothing wrong about having things decided by the server

Sure, but there is also no standard for how to format/parse the query string. And also no server plugin frameworks. So you are inventing your own standard and extending some HTTP server for which you have source. Until CGI forces a standard, bad as it might be; it’s a common ground.

I’m in a similar boat, I abandoned ship for Gitea years ago (prior to forgejo fork) and have no regrets.

For things that require GitHub I’ve been able to mirror repos there and get things working. Keeping code in sync is annoying though.

A post claimed CGI led to bad standards around query parameter formatting and parsing. I was merely pointing out that, prior to the advent of CGI, if you wanted to actually do anything with those parameters on the server, you had to extend whatever primitive HTTP server you were running, write some custom code and invent your own “standard”. There were no server side frameworks or standards.

Which runs on what computer in 1995?

sure looks like VB there, what’s the plugin? Didn’t see anything like that before.

and what server software is running this code in 1995?

Maybe dumb question: how does the server “decide” anything other than what file to serve? Today we have many choices but back in the day CGI was the first standard way to do it.

So yes query parameters existed before CGI but to use them you had to hack your server to do something with them (iirc NCSA web servers had some magic hacks for queries). CGI drove standardization.

Federal government spending for Google stuff is probably in the $100Ms. If you pay taxes you’re paying Google.

Sure, and we can’t guarantee you’ll read the safety instructions that came with your chainsaw. That’s orthogonal to the questions of whether those instructions should exist, whether “power tool safety” concepts should ever be promoted in society, and who’s ultimately responsible for the use of a tool.

Absolving humans of all responsibility for the negative consequences of their own AI misuse seems to the strike the wrong balance for a healthy culture.

We have invented a new tool that can cause great harm. Do you see any value whatsoever in promulgating safety guidelines for humans to use the tool without hurting themselves or others? Do you not own any power tools?

I’m not so hung up on the semantics. The fact that you’ll likely never meet someone again can render an act of kindness towards them, no matter how small, more meaningful, not less.

There is a lens through which this looks like assembly programmers bemoaning the advent of the compiler, and all these posers who only know high level languages and have no idea what’s going on inside the machine, have less control over memory and other low-level stuff.

Not saying it’s wrong, but plenty of folks successfully program in high level languages, never knowing a single ISA at all.

if you learned it in class, I hope you learn how to exit!