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"I'm sorry, Dave, I can no longer do that."
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not long ago I was part of a discussion about using mechanical things to demonstrate computing concepts (such as building a learning Tic-Tac-Toe game out of matchboxes). I'm guessing no DOOM?
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Go down to basics: YouTube: Lego Turing Machine[^]
(Sure, the wood version, Turing Machine in Wood[^], is better looking and even better handiwork, but the question was for Lego, so this one doesn't qualify.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices. Good year for it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good year for it
Because of the second part of the latest attempt to put Dune to film?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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 The spice must flow!
TTFN - Kent
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In late December 2023 (Christmas Day to be precise), CPython core developer Brandt Bucher submitted a little pull-request to the Python 3.13 branch adding a JIT compiler. Does it also come with just-in-time whitespace?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it also come with just-in-time whitespace?
Even better, it comes with a Tab of 1 space length that still gets compiled in another way 😈 
M.D.V. 
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Watchout, Python 3.14 will allow circular references.
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Ouroboros[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Just like humans, AI-based large-language models have characteristics such as morals and values. "I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after"
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Article wrote: Just like humans, AI-based large-language models have characteristics such as morals and values.
No fvck Sherlock... as if the fed data were so "objective", "ethical" and / or "neutral"
How was the say? "Sh*t in, even shittier out"?
M.D.V.
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Ahhh - where's your optimism? "Point a hose of sh*t at a field, and grow some wonderful mushrooms!" 
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David O'Neil wrote: Ahhh - where's your optimism?
I lost it when I start seeing how our society "gets more advanced" and understanding some hidden agendas behind many "good acts"
And if you can't really trust acts... don't get me started about texts explaining that acts (there are as many different versions as there are people writing about the same fact)
David O'Neil wrote: "Point a hose of sh*t at a field, and grow some wonderful mushrooms!"
mmmhhh... "Happy" mushrooms could actually be an idea 
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My take is that I don't need to bother with deciding to trust/not trust acts or worry too much about hidden agendas.
If I really want any mountains moved any certain direction then worrying with what rocks other people are moving is just wasting time I could be spending moving my own rocks just the way I think they oughta be moved.
Results-driven?
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The problem is when they are moving their rocks to the position you are taken yours... 
Eventually, you will empty the slot anyways (if they are not many or not powerful enough), but it is going to be longer and harder
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This is only a real problem if it's a real problem to miss the destination.
You're still gonna stick the landing (and lots of future ones) because you have really strong legs now from moving all those rocks.
There are only absolute failures if you allow there to be.
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I like your attitude, but life is sometimes more complicated and out of control than many would like to.
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It's easy to talk big on the internet. Now just let me see if I can go walk it a bit.
Sometimes you are absolutely right. Stuff is way more complicated and out of control the world over at the moment.
Be willing to accept some unknowable consequences (if you aren't already). I've been maybe both risk-averse and risk-prone about too many of the wrong things.
So dropping things (and people, at times) and listening for what screams helps to part wheat from chaff. It's what actually needs my attention. Sometimes, I just don't know how else to move any rocks.
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Mushrooms... the silver lining of sh*t, or some sh*t at least.
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If a Microsoft product or service is still in preview after more than 18 months, it is likely time to move on. Preview considered harmful
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If a Microsoft product or service is still in preview after more than 18 months, it is likely time to move on.
At least Google does it easier for the users... they cancel it way sooner and you HAVE to move on... 
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Piggybacking off the lessons of "fail fast"? That's good enough to be real.
"Don't start nothin' and there won't be nothin'."
I want to believe that's intentional... not letting things get "too big to fail".
I'm not sure that I do. But maybe they've said so, I have no idea.
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