If we can pull it off before they manage to manipulate us into fucking up our world, sure. If we let their slopgenerators produce the drafts for the station, I’m sure they’ll love the breathtaking result.

Me, please. I’m wilting under the sun, and I’m pretty sure wilting under your insults can’t be qoese.

What could be more fun than hiding a landmine in your “convenience pile”? Every time you don’t want to retype a command, you’re gambling. Is it worth the risk to save those two keystrokes on ll?

and made way for one that will.

I think that’s the problem. Have you seen how hard it can be these days to rally volunteers to a common cause? Even if people were to back up and preserve all the content of Wikipedia, WM Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata etc., getting enough of the original contributors on board to found some new organisation without a thousand splinter factions pulling away over some issue or other is a long shot.

And in the meantime, for-profit corporations now bereft of their largest, free competitor would rush to fill the void and try to become the “new Wikipedia” (now with ads, spyware, premium features and blatant corruption, selling control of truth to the highest bidder).

WMF is a behemoth, kept moving through its own momentum. Letting it break in hopes of building something new is a dangerous gamble, unless we can get the successor up and ready to step in beforehand

…but no less popular

it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth

Hush, unbeliever. We just gotta invest more in the technologies that let us escape from the consequences of our greed. Well, some of us. The most greedy, actually. The rest still get to bear the consequences, but they don’t matter.

Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

(You won’t, but I’m hoping you’re gullible enough to fall for it.)

It is run by a complete idiot.

And enabled by other idiots. Musk doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Pretty sure turning off supply is easier than getting an arrest warrant against a person whom the corporate system intentionally makes it hard for them to be held criminally accountable.

I applied to them once, six-seven years ago I think. They had an open position that fit my profile.

I have never been so retrospectively delighted about a rejection. Not only do I enjoy my current job a lot more than I expected, I’m also glad I dodged that particular bullet.

I think their point is that someone who pretends to be really good arrives on the OLL/PLL part (or their method’s equivalent), doesn’t actually know the (valid) combinations and goes off of vague resemblance will take a while to catch on that it’s not them getting their algorithms wrong or missing a case.

An experienced cuber may spot the odd number of flipped edges or swap-cycle hybrid of permutations and know it’s bollocks right away, but the overconfident one may doubt their own judgement and memory first.

peterthiel
thereptile

samaltman
satanlamm

The first kinda checks out, but the second definitely doesn’t. If you interpret it as German, Satan-Lamm kinda works if you ignore the fact that it should be Satanslamm in that composition.

the test data was generated specifically to satisfy the tests

I once saw someone claim that slopcoded bugs would be prevented by the AI testing its code and tried to reason that no test from within the system could fully prevent errors within that same system. This is basically the kind of thing I had in mind: Manipulating the tests to fit the results instead of altering the code to fit the tests.

Testing has to come from outside, and with real data. Otherwise it’s just a meme of the AI giving itself a medal for passing its own tests.

It’s a French instance, so that would make sense

Tja, was ist das Ziel der Regierung Merz mit der Bahn?

Moneten an die richtigen Gönner verteilen.

Da ist mittlerweile jeder Schein guten Willens für mich dahin, geschweige denn die tatsächlich guten Maßnahmen die kompetent korrupte Politiker einstreuen. Der hat nur ein Ziel und keine Scham dabei, das zu verfolgen.

Also, that’s a thing Systemd is (more or less) infamous for.

I’ve never heard of it before. I don’t know where it is infamous, I’ve never had that issue and of all the criticism I’ve seen levelled at Linux in general or systemd in particular, that has never been one. Maybe there was some configuration stuff, as the other reply mentioned?

I don’t think I’ve ever had that issue. My PC shuts down within a few seconds. What kind of things would refuse to terminate?

I’m not sure they can explicitly say that a part of the bible doesn’t count for them. They can tacitly ignore it, but directly quoting scripture is at least gonna annoy them.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.876111&mlon=-86.549722&zoom=12#map=16%2F41.87637%2F-86.54866

Cruelty, misery, exercising power to inflict suffering.

Yeah, my phone clock doesn’t display exact seconds by default and I didn’t feel like gambling with the posting delay anyway, and I also didn’t feel like specifying a timezone offset because I hate timezones (guess what field I’m working in), so I just converted it to UTC and omitted the seconds.

Yeah, I know that my instance’s admins have announced they’ll be shutting down their Tesseract frontend. As I said, I expect others will as well for the reasons you mention, but I haven’t kept track (and don’t see their posts pinned to my feed obviously) so I didn’t want to assume.