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I don't want this to become a vent account but this shit is so demoralizing =_=

LMFAO

Also...

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Not an AI issue so much as a "dictionary with too much slang in it:" was reading some scanlated smut last night and, just sayin', if you describe someone as a "lude girl" I'm going to assume she's sleepily stoned, not energetically horny.

So Smith and Marx were trying to find a more tolerable system, but their insight was incomplete. When someone quotes either of them directly, they're engaging in veneration and tradition. They're avoiding chang. They're not trying to improve the human condition.

Chemistry is stochastic: depending upon the reagents, you can get a little or a large reaction and new substances. And humanity runs on what's tolerable: is the system keeping us alive or killing us?

Every project, every insight, when it meets the real world, requires empirical evidence and adjustment. The closer to the human condition that insight is, the more adjustment it will need. Physics can be positively boolean: it either works for doesn't.

Project founders have a key insight and write code to satisfy whatever shortcoming that Insight was meant to address. But founders are often not experts in every software field. Any project above a certain size requires a team to review, validate, and bring technical expertise.

Adam Smith is said to have "founded" capitalism the way Darwin founded evolutionary theory or Marx founded communism. And Founders are often venerated for having a key insight. In software development, "founder's code" is the polite term for a particular kind of technical debt.

"Republicans like having a militarized police, especially one with no set rules of engagement."

I suspect that's one of the reasons people are baffled by the "data center center versus residential electricity" problem. Most of us experience electricity by turning on the lights and paying our bills, and our hazy notions of how commodity fuels are distributed are much hazier about electricity.

"Most people don’t know what a kilowatt-hour of energy is." That's true, and one of the huge mental leaps I had to make when I bought an EV. A gallon of gas is easy to visualize, and its relationship to a car's mileage can be learned through habit. It's much harder when there's no substance to see.

As Dave notes, this is very bad. If you’d like to know more about data centers and resource management from someone who actually studies this stuff for a living, may I humbly suggest this, instead news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Debt is supposed to be the mechanism by which we encourage productivity, expansion, and innovation, thereby creating more money. Everything else, all of the shenanigans and tranches and collateralized structured debt obligations, are alchemy intended to corrupt that simple core mission.

You know those images of orange-suited immigrants in shackles and coffle chains being herded into an airplane that ICE sometimes shows? The company that makes those shackles and coffle chains first made them for slave ships over to centuries ago. Same company.

The libertarian weenies will start to whine, "But Adam Smith said..." yet, when you go read Adam Smith, you'll find he said exactly the same thing Max is saying. He was deeply suspicious about how centers of money could become centers of power and believed it was the state's job to prevent that.

Link to the poll (MW: PDF): www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...

The question on the survey says this: "In your opinion, which political party has a better plan, policy or approach to each of the following?" Fox News effect in full swing.