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  • I follow the evidence where it leads. These days, that's often to a dying world, and it is sad.

  • Americans overwhelmingly [...] do not identify with socialist or leftist labels

    So, you agree that what I claimed "Right + Center > 50%" is correct.

    Thank you.

  • You don't appear to have read the second source, which contains almost identical numbers for Left/Center/Right labels. That shows that (a) both of my sources are relevant because (b) in the U.S. party politics does track left/right politics.

    In addition, you have still failed to provide any evidence for your claims.

  • We don't even have standards that strong in programming languages or even fucking machine code (ISAs) anymore.

    I think I would like to return to that ideal time (if it ever existed), but... I feel like I'm in a vanishingly small minority.

    I think it comes down to incentive structure, and the most clear incentives push away from strong stnadards. The big advantage to (a) strong standard(s) is(are) interoperability, but that's something end users have to demand because it's an anathema to rent-seeking-behavior (a central facet of surveillance capitalism, choke-point capitalism, enshittification, and technofuedalism). But, even there, natural incentives fail us, since most users get more utility from "innovative" features instead of low switching costs -- or at least the think they do until they actually try to exit a platform/service.

  • We are still a FPtP system, you don't get to write off the majority, if you want to gain political power through elections. Right+Center > 50% of electorate.

    Taking resources away from "bad" organizations, and using them for the socialist project is a good thing. The trick is not given them (as much) value in return.

  • I'd also vote for Bernie (VP or Pres.), still. But, I think there are younger progressives that could fill the role quite well.

    I'd even take someone more centrist for the VP role, since that might make it easier for them to attract (Super)PAC monies.

  • I'd still vote for Bernie, but I don't think he wants to run again. I'd also vote for Sen. Warren.

    I generally don't (think I) vote based on demographics. I am more interested in platform (primarily) and past performance (secondarily).

  • The video covers that "option".

  • If you buy a Bambu P2S, you don't really own it. Bambu can see and control each file printed, and are suing anyone that attempts to rectify that change.

    If you buy a Prusa Core One, you do own it.

    The boycott just makes financial sense.

  • I know very little about them, I was just quoting the expert from the article.

  • "As weird as it sounds, I honestly have to say I am not totally surprised by this. Remoras are just that weird."

  • Plus, at the end, the only thing that Valve required was a statement that the two named entities are, in fact, both DBAs for one particular person, signed by that person.

    Funny headlines, but 100% normal IP CYA behavior.

  • Sort of. A friend used it to generate some "tests" of questionable quality, a cousin is using it to help her learn and use a DSL (my term, not hers) for interactive tasks for her students, another friend was using it for source code generation, but I don't recall the specific results.

    I disagree that it is no longer development, I see LLMs as yet another tool for generating code, and we've had generated "source" code since before C was standardized. I think the any code output by most LLMs is derivative of so many works under so many licenses that it is likely not possible to distribute it at all without violating some copyright and is certainly unacceptable for any Free Software project.; I think this is ethically true even if courts find LLM outputs are not derivative works or not subject to copyright protection at all -- at least as long as copyright protects Disney. But, I know people that are working on a Free Software LLM, and "the Stack" provides enough information that you could provide all the necessary attributions for works derived from it.

    While LLM hallucinations are a real concern, they can be less impactful when doing code generation because of all the automated static checks plus the culture of peer-review. But, I also tend to favor languages with static type systems.

  • But, with shorter terms, they also get reviewed/replaced more often, in fact with 9 year terms, they get at most 2 executives / 2 senates safe.

  • As a member of GenX (1980)...

    Yep, that sounds like my peers. Most of them believe the marketing or are at least convinced enough to indulge. The hold-outs are getting more infrequent.