Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it’s not like the current American regime would do any better. I’m not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.

While I welcome anything that improves shell scripting and this certainly does a nice job of it, reading the documentation just reminds me why I do all my automation in Python these days.

Nice! Good job, Mozilla!

Nothing in particular, except the terms generally used to describe models of governance - cronyism etc. - tend to have greek rather than latin roots.

I’m insufficiently educated to figure out how to render “Rule by Golden Fat-tip Pen” in Greek, but whatever it’s called, the model has proven unsurprisingly ineffective so far. Maybe it’s best if we don’t name it and just forget about it. Forever.

Everything tends towards the absurd if taken too far. That is doubly true for bureaucracy.

“Anything to declare?”

“Yeah, I hereby declare that I just survived going to the moon and back strapped to the tip of a humongous explosive tube and that I need a shower, my wife and a fluffy bed in that order. As you’re none of those things, you can piss right off.”

“But, we were highly trusted in Ancient Sumeria, honest!”

“Your grasp of metalworking and material science looks like it belongs in 3000 B.C. too.”

I suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.

Hell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.

That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.

That’s great news! Strengthening ties to other nations more interested in creation than destruction and stimulating R&D across borders are both very worthy aims.

Well, yes. But it’s hard to imagine being more efficient with space or energy consumption than that. Single Cell (Organic) Protein production from yeast (or fungus) isn’t a sci-fi concept taken from Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk took it from the real world. The general process has been known since 1781, although research into its use as animal feed was only kicked off by Max Delbrück much later. It was used by Germany during WWI to counteract food shortages, and later by many others, notably the Soviet Union for the same purpose.

Maybe shouldn’t have listened to BP’s “great” idea of using paraffin refined from oil as the feedstock though. Turns out - surprise! - that the residual alkanes are more than a little unhealthy.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cell_protein#History

So it takes ChatGPT 10 minutes to an hour of servertime and the energy equivalent of a tank of gas or two to complete a simple task the user could have done in thirty seconds using their 40W brainmeats and a couple of pudgy fingers. That’s just great. Good stuff, Altman. /s

0.9438Hz, i.e. 1*(2^(-100/1200)) IIRC.

Sounds to me like your body is giving your sound advice. Now throw in some sort of chilled drink based on coconut, pineapple and dark spiced rum. Your liver demands it.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

This being the Internet, that’s definitely also a valid option.

Frankly, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of yeast oil, although I’m certainly glad that a more ecologically sound (and likely healthier) alternative to palm oil exists.

Not that I was eating anything with palm oil in it as it is, but I’ll be happy to try this ever I ever see it around.

It was nice knowing you guys.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

That’s a good point, even though I’m not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.