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But what prevents anyone from developing an OpenCUDA?

It's been almost 25 years ago, but this was the crux of the Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft lawsuit. It's why OpenJDK exists. Even three years ago the Supreme Court ruled that you can't copyright an API.

I mean, it feels breathtakingly obvious. Not only is there historical precedents for just doing this, there're legal precedents as well.

Pssst. The Earth moves. It’s not always on the same side of the sun.

We could just build giant bomb shelters. It’s cheaper, holds more people, and doesn’t require nearly the investment in a completely closed ecosystem. But that ain’t sexy.

If you want something that uniquely requires leaving the planet for somewhere you have truck in literally everything except rocks, you’re pretty much limited to the sun becoming a red giant. That and gamma ray bursts. That’s pretty much it.

Worth the investment of an extraplanetary colony? Because that’s the investment we’re talking about.

Nothing like moving the goal posts, conflating a whole bunch of different issues, and then projecting statements on to me when you’re called out nonsense.

Hope that works out for you.

Where do you get these ideas?

Yes, Filipinos did vote for a territorial government as laid out in the Philippine Organic Act of 1902.

Yes, Puerto Ricans vote. It's a territory. They have their own devolved government.

Bro. Don't literally admit to engaging in ad hominem attacks, and then get all pissy and try to gaslight and then condemn calling out your behavior as an illegitimate ad hominem attack.

We can read the the entire thread.

Take your L and go home and cry.

This is the lamest of all excuses.

It's a very unlikely for one, we haven't had an extinction asteroid in 65 million years. Detection and mapping is very good today, and they're relatively simple to deflect given even with current technology, and a long enough lead time. Obsessing about asteroid impact is just an excuse to engage in fantasy.

But saying "We can improve our understanding of ecology by [designing] artificial biosphere", is just the chef's kiss of bullshittery. It's like saying, that we can understand the ocean by getting a fish bowl. Not exactly, and it certainly won't teach us anything about the actual biosphere. Instead, all you'd learn about is atmosphere scrubbers and water reclamation.

That's literally the SLS.

A gleaming metropolis of glass and steel is fashion though.

You could easily chalk that up to fashion. Glass and steel wireframe polygons are all the rage in the rich countries. Why would a poor country want to look poor?

Also, if it's comparably cheap and fast in the rich countries, it's still cheap and fast in poor countries.

This is an absurdly credulous take. If we took this face value, then we'd have assume that Carl Sagan really did keep an invisible flying dragon his garage.[0] This position is the exact opposite of rational thought.

Say it with me, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

Even famed psychonaut, and inventor of the self-transforming machine elves meme, Terance McKenna said the only way to prove that it wasn't all in your head was to ask the elves a question that was easily and objectively verifiable, but you didn't know the answer.

He couldn't do that. He said so. He still publicly said that he believed they were real transdimensional intelligences, but he made no qualms about the fact that he had no proof, they're just a hallucination was very real possibility. (They are.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World#Dragon...

Weird. As an anecdote my "Daily Mix 1" has 50 songs, and only two bands I didn't recognize. 62% of the songs are by artists with more than one song in the list. The most songs by an artist? 7 songs over 3 albums. Of the 50 songs, only 4 were put out this decade, only two bands did I not recognize.

"Daily Mix 2" is better with 30 bands, with the top band having 4 songs across 2 albums. Coincidently 62% of songs are also by artists with more than one song in the last, but the most common artist only has 4 songs across 2 albums. 19 unrecognized bands, so that's something.

That’s odd. I was just talking about how Spotify falls into the same cul du sacs that all similarity based recommendations fall in. Like it might show you some decent stuff for a few days if you give it a hard kick by finding something outside of Spotify first, but soon it’s the same three bands and two albums.

Sea lion.

Not really

This is a bad article, primarily because multiple people, myself included, have no idea what this person is talking about. I thought he was talking about Twitter. Someone else suggested X11, and a third group says he’s talking in the abstract.

If you fail at making it clear what the topic of your writing is, then you failed as writer. I shouldn’t have to guess what the subject under discussion is.

Now assuming he is taking in general, the whole article is just content free, because the writer is reduced to literally just brainstorming anything and everything, and saying, “See? There’s lots of reasons for something to be slow!” Well, fuck dude, I think we all know that.

Douglas Rushkoff talked about how the bunker billionaires specifically asked about hot to maintain compliance by their “security forces” and asked him about how to withhold food rations. Putting aside the fact that there are always lackeys looking to show sempai how much the love him. The most effective way to not get killed an eaten for sport, is simply maintaining a community and stop trying to horde everything. But then again, I wouldn’t expect dragons to understand that.

I mean, if you weren't smugly comfortable in your biases, you could always just do a search, say for "FBI crime rate by year", or "police clearance rates by year", or "police funding per year", but I guess not.

> Gen X and older are not digital natives.

You do realize that Gen X literally grew up playing video games and with `Apple ][`s & `Apple //e` in every classroom right? You know Gen X led Web 1.0, right?

Let's also not forget that cops also pointedly refuse to their do their job when their feelings are hurt when people complain that they don't clean up the corruption and abuse in their ranks.

See: Chelsea Boudin and the SFPD. See DeBlasio and the NYPD.

I'm sure your anecdotal experience is true for you, but funding is not linked to clearance rates. Counter to copaganda, police are worse at solving cases compared to 30 years ago, even as crime rates have fallen dramatically and funding has increased.

If you think preventing and solving crimes, then American police are objectively bad at their jobs. If you think of police as revenue generators, then they're good at it. Because the police spend all their time on things like traffic citations. Even the police unions occasionally say the quite part out loud, like when the NYPD union famously said that they would not arrest anyone "unless absolutely necessary". Unsurprisingly to people that have looked into policing, crime doesn't increase during police work slowdowns.

Codpieces with erect penises are a tactical.

https://youtu.be/C6XqBsosHwM

I had t realized nano had progressed beyond being a pico clone. Happy to see that.

The parallels with “European plate armor was too bulky to be used and knights couldn’t stand up when they fell”, shouldn’t be lost on anyone. It’s a common belief handed down over the years, but it’s complete bollocks. We know it is, because back in the 60s or 70s someone had the idea of actually putting the armor on, run around in it, and even get knocked down and stand up in it. There is like a BBC film showing this or something.

It’s kinda weird that people keep dismissing the armor of the past as completely impractical, even though the people in the past keep saying or implying that this is exact what they wore into battle.

At most you can say is 3 out of 4 are neutral. Excluding my the middle is a basic logical fallacy.

> Can't remember where but saw a comic not too long ago when an employee uses AI to generate a long email and the recipient uses AI to summarize it

Bruh. That was a GOOGLE PRESENTATION from like last year.

Of course, since it was more than two weeks ago, it’s been memory holed, but it was Google IO 2023 or something when demonstrating Bard in GSuite.

I honestly don’t think they think about a nonchromium browser, and if they do think of it, they reject it for unfounded reasons. If they did use a nonchromium browser, Firefox would have a larger market share.

Firefox has 2.9%. Safari has 18.12%. Everything else is Chrome or reskinned Chrome, with Chrome itself being 65.3%.

Unless you’re running that 20%, Google controls it, and they basically write the standards anymore.

I guess we’ve gone full circle to back to curses like UIs in terminals now.