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  • I can guess what it is well enough from the context, but for future reference, what does "MRA" stand for?

  • Well, that's unnerving.

  • A little light on the broth, but it sure does look nice. Kudos!

  • Sometimes you get what you pay for, and other times you get the US armed forces. To be fair, the US military apparatus is only partially meant to be a fighting outfit. The primary purpose is to be a set of social programs - education, housing and retirement - for people without better prospects.

  • And that's the only argument against this misadventure anybody sane should ever need.

  • If you don't enjoy human opposition to you being rude, mean and grossly inaccurate, you could always just go find the nearest LLM to obsequiously agree with everything you say and pat you on the back for your bad behavior.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  • "See, this attitude is why your company will never be all it can be, no matter how expensive a suit you put on."

  • Thanks! That was just the kind of thing I was hoping for.

  • This is a really good read, and I highly recommend it.

    In practice, this means anyone under 18 isn’t supposed to create a computer account on their own.

    Most System76 employees installed operating systems and created accounts on their computer when they were under 18. They did this out of curiosity. Many started writing software.

    I started programming in BASIC on a C64 when I was six, moved on to MOS 6502 assembly when I was seven, then onward through ANSI C, C++, and numerous other languages over the years. If, back then, my introduction to "computing" had been to simply consume the software of others on a locked down smartphone that I could neither truly control nor understand, well... I would have ended up somewhere very different, and not, I think, better.

    And it's worrying me. Knowing at least something about the inner workings of the machines and software upon which so much of our lives now depend is more then merely empowering - it's liberating. Now it seems like we're all going to be mindless consumers of vibe-coded software on platforms we can only use but aren't allowed to learn how to control. That future disgusts me. It's not just personally repulsive, it's incredibly dangerous.

    Because the logical opposite of liberation... is slavery.

  • It's not that I doubt you, but do you have some sort of source for this? I'm interested in the metrics.

  • While it's definitely a source of income that could be used for the betterment of New York City, alternatively you could always just tax the kind of assholes who can afford to pay $60k in fines for the privilege of potentially turning somebody into a smear.

  • Maybe - and hear me out - he shouldn't be allowed to drive.

  • I guess age restrictions for a goddamned text editor is what you get when you build it for "collaboration with AI".

  • "Right after you slam the door and loudly yell "Daddy's home!" like you were Tucker Carlson in the middle of removing his belt."

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  • And implanting them all over the place, apparently.

  • Goodbye, sweet hardware. You deserved better and so did we.

  • Thank you! No need to go through all that trouble. This will do just fine.

  • Looks absolutely fantastic. Any chance we could get the recipe?

  • Listen, it happened that one time... Okay, maybe twice.