If there’s no IP barrier, the products can come back when the demand is back.

Which is one of the reasons I’m against copyright and of course reverse-engineering and modding and emulation being legally suppressed.

Say, one can easily understand how 90s’ era of good old software and hardware ended. Modern business models there are more profitable. But those models lead to degeneracy, and they wouldn’t be competitive if the old things were competitive for longer, and the old things would be if not for copyright. More paths is always better.

Trade in to whom, to Linux users?.. Actually a good idea, not sure MS understood which almost logically complete advice they gave.

I won’t read the article now, but

arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance

this is bullshit, a categorical statement.

There are good processes and there are bad processes. Good processes are usually functional for people of (sensibly) different mindsets and mental conditions. Bad processes are usually “one size fits all” in one way or another.

There are things a team can’t have, and there are things a talented individual can’t have.

There’s also experience that covers holes one can’t plan for, yep.

Why do we need that discussion, if it can be reduced to responsibility?

If something can be held responsible, then it can have all kinds of rights.

Then, of course, people making a decision to employ that responsible something in positions affecting lives are responsible for said decision.

I’ve read some weird paper about such an analog channel, where something quantum on both sides was used to create another analog signal used kinda as an encryption key. Stumbled upon it trying to understand some things about optics long ago.

I just took a short look at the JXTA specification ; JXTA is abandoned and this is the progress people are pursuing. So sad really.

I mean, yes, comfort is good, yes, this is like a device from Asimov’s Foundation, but the problem is kinda solved by headphones already. And yes, it’s cool.

(If someone doesn’t know what JXTA is - it’s Sun’s standard for p2p applications, of the “progress of the past that was left unfinished and forgotten” kind, and looking at ZFS, which is a similarly comprehensive thing for filesystems, I have no doubts the world would be better were it finished.)

That’s called a self-proving statement.

I can’t believe you worked a B5 ref into a discussion, much less operational differences between Vorlon and Shadow.

I’m technically not interested in any other kinds of discussions, but even explaining what this particular kind is takes work even from the closest people to me, so - compromises are to be made, weird posts are to be typed and sent.

Major difference even in the analogy is that Shadows actively and destructively sought control and withheld info whereas Vorlons manipulated by parceling out cryptic messages.

That’s the “planted gods for the lesser races”, “taught Minbari hyperspace travel”, “sent that Inquisitor guy with nice former hobbies” kind of Vorlons, right? Very cryptic.

Removing filters from LLMs and training them on shitholes will have the expected result.

I’m glad we don’t disagree.

It seems from the description that there’s the length of the request there stored in 11 bits, hell knows why, so max of 2046 (682*3, that’s 683*3 = 2049 if starting with 1), and one symbol takes an increment of 3, hell knows why.

That’s, ahem, yes, a pretty gross mistake for such rhyming companies, the kind only I am allowed to make.

Zaybatsu. Japan lives in the 00s since the 80s, as they say. Since 1880s.

Just askin’, this company wasn’t called something like Microstrategy, no?

They will fill it with capitalist Red Scare propaganda.

I feel as if “capitalist” vs “Red” has long stopped being a relevant conflict in the real world.

but if I had to choose between China and this America, then definitely China.

Suppose they are equally powerful, which one would you choose then?

Not necessarily, they train models on real world data, often of what people believe to be true, not what works, and those models are not yet able to perform experiments, register results and learn from them (what even a child does, even a dumb one), and real world is cruel, bigotry is not even the worst part of it, neither are anti-scientific beliefs. But unlike these models, the real world has more entropy.

If you’ve seen Babylon V, the philosophy difference between Vorlons and Shadows was somewhere near this.

One can say in philosophy blockchain is a Vorlon technology and LLMs are a Shadow technology (it’s funny, because technically it would be the other way around, one is kinda grassroots and the other is done by few groups with humongous amounts of data and computing resources), but ultimately they are both attempts to compensate what they see as wrong in the real world. Introducing new wrongs in their blind zones.

(In some sense the reversal of alignment of Vorlons and Shadows, between philosophy and implementation, is right - you hide in technical traits of your tooling that which you can’t keep in your philosophy ; so “you’ll think what we tell you to think” works for Vorlons (or Democrats), but Republicans have to hide that inside tooling and mechanisms they prefer, while “power makes power” is something Democrats can’t just say, but can hide inside tooling they prefer or at least don’t fight too much. That’s why cryptocurrencies’ popularity came in one side’s ideological dominance time, and “AIs” in the others’. Maybe this is a word salad.)

So, what I meant, - the degeneracy of such tools is the bias in his favor, there’s no need for anything else.

So apparently some people think Signal can’t see to which number they send that registration confirmation SMS.

Humanity isn’t worth it, these apes are doomed.

Technically they can also store what I said, but yes, in fact it appears they don’t.

Did it ever respond to those “requests”? What would Signal have anyway other than phone number to login association.

What Obama did should be judged by what he really did, not promised, not described, not was close to do.

You can say whatever you want if it depends on majority which won’t ever support you, and then claim that was your real intention.

This is simpler than average intrigue between friends or at workplace, or even of deciding whose turn it is to go for groceries, and politics are not simpler.

Yes, surely people capable of denying someone popular are soft pussies. It’s the opposite, they impose their will upon the party. Evil, not pussies.

I’ve read recently that Poland’s GDP per capita will soon surpass that of Japan.

Stereotypes from 70s and 80s and even 90s, when you think about it, were repeated and prolonged and perpetuated by the Internet, and the mass media, and the whole climate of 90s+. They weren’t so solid when they existed. It was the reality, but the reality changes.

I mean, even in my childhood (born in 1996, so not too old) it didn’t seem so weird that such things will happen in future, but the further the less likely it seemed.

Now somehow everyone treats it as strange that Sony slowly sinks too.

If they weren’t, they’d probably already made a PSP Slim form factor portable PC with a Unix-like OS, general-purpose, ignoring what everyone does with Android and iOS and such tomfoolery, it would be popular even if said OS would be a walled garden worse than Apple’s. Or maybe some other form factor, point being - Sony is that company that always had perfect ergonomics, they’d think of something, and very virtuous hardware engineering, so again they’d think of something.

What they are doing instead - sigh.