Yeah, that was the most surprising part of switching to Linux. It generally takes the same effort or less to get my linux install behaving like I want it than it did with a windows install. Plus windows likes to nagg you to set up shit I didn’t want in the first place.

It was kinda funny because that was the whole reason for switching in the first place, but there was this base assumption that Linux was going to be harder than windows, just without stupid MS shit thrown in. But no, it’s actually easier, just different in some ways that mean some skills don’t transfer.

But LLMs are pretty good for bridging that gap. They aren’t perfectly reliable (made up command line arguments are pretty common) but it’s good for getting command names from a description of what you want to do, which you can then learn about using pre-LLM methods.

Did that this morning with Final Upgrade, which is factories in space and you can automate ships to do things like deliver materials/ammo/energy, build, and fight. Was just innocently playing the game and suddenly it’s daylight out.

I think Japan (and Korea?) need their own category where you take your shoes off but then your host provides you with clean sandals to wear inside.

Alternatively, Cartman is in the files (because Epstein used his paint the walls in shit revenge service to prank one of the actual visitors to the island) and when told he can make the girls do anything he wants, he gets one to make fun of Kyle on video, where he is clearly being an asshole to her.

And Butters is also in the file because they tried to recruit him after he went viral for What, What, In the Butt, which Cartman latches on to and spends the whole episode trying to help Butters clear his name (so that he can clear his own name in the process).

Also Randy is on the list because he was trying to get them to sign Tegrity Farms up as their official weed supplier and he spends the episode trying to supress the information entirely but gets Streisand effected hard, leading to the follow up episode where Trump tries to pin the whole thing on Randy (and everything else, too, and starts bringing up shit that isn’t even public). In the end, Randy gets “one of the harshest punishments ever given to a rich person”: a fine for $3.50, and everyone realizes that it wasn’t a judge presiding over the case, but a 3-story crustacean known as the Lochness Monster and the episode ends with everyone getting together to yell at Nessie (and the incident is never mentioned again).

I’d also argue that however the movie did after the fact, turning down roles you don’t understand is probably the smarter option. Maybe those other movies would have also flopped if they had Connery in those roles.

Like I can’t picture him doing a good Gandalf. It wouldn’t be Gandalf, it would be Sean Connery in a wizard outfit. I can’t think of any roles where Connery played someone who wasn’t Sean Connery. He brought a lot of charisma to his roles but not a ton of range.

It’s two different things being argued about: the legal term “hacking” vs the every day language term, which I believe implies something more specific than “unauthorized access”, something where technical or social skills were used to gain that access.

That’s the parallel I was trying to draw by mentioning the word “hotwiring” instead of “stealing”. It would be like if the legal term for stealing a car was “hotwiring”.

That said, I did see that the OP of this tangent is actually trying to argue the “this isn’t illegal” angle rather than the difference between legal terms and broader language terms.

I agree this falls under the legal definition of hacking, but I also agree with those basically saying that this falls outside of the way they think the term should be used. It waters down its meaning.

Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.

What mass had a force exerted on it over a distance?

Yeah but if I did, no one would say I hotwired the car.

Also, every single name that gets released is a name that Trump was ok with releasing. From my pov, it just turns it into a more effective blackmail tool. He’s not afraid of what’s in the files. If it was going to ruin him, it would have already done so.

Instead it just shows others who know they are in the files that a) he’s one of them (if they didn’t already know), b) that he can protect them, c) he isn’t protecting everyone in the files just because of point a.

Hate to be realizing this, but I think everyone who thought the release of the Epstein files would help anything got played. Just like everyone who thought the Mueller investigation would threaten his first term or result in making a second term impossible.

Personally, I think it should work like this: any evidence found is admissible in court, but if the cops broke the law to get it, there are legal consequences for them.

The current system is abusable if you have connections with police willing to break some laws to make smoking guns inadmissible to court, and even if it’s an honest mistake, the whole “if they looked when they weren’t allowed to, you get away with whatever they saw” is just a second bad consequence to the public, assuming the crime was one of the harmful to the public ones.

That loser mindset is the issue, not the practice date. With a mindset like that, the rest is irrelevant because he’ll just sabotage any chances by being too needy and demanding proof of affection or bouncing between hot and cold, either of which eventually drives the other person away.

Someone who is entirely repulsed by you won’t offer a pity date and especially not a pity bj. They might decide they don’t like you that much anymore based on the date itself, they might even try claiming they never liked you if they feel embarrassed, but I’d argue there were selfish motives hidden behind the “practice date” label.

I mean, the dad did ghost both of them.

And you’d have to get a new wallet any time you got a new phone.

Though I have a feeling that they’d keep quiet about what they can’t break and loudly exclaim that something can’t be broken when they find a way to crack it.

Funny thing is that they really do, but that parasitic creature is us.

Because the language policing trend didn’t happen naturally but was another angle of the divide and conquer, deflecting people to waste time policing language instead of useful endevors while alienating not only people who disagreed about the underlying values but also people tired of people bitching about their use of language.

They needed all of the stops to pull off the elections and one of them was amplifying the most obnoxious aspects of the left, which also affected their credibility, which was important to get the opposition to ignore the warnings about the obvious signs of fascism.

And right now, that same strategy is being used to keep the disillusioned from joining up with the left by amplifying the “fuck you, you’re irredeemable” responses to the ones starting to see Trump for who he is.

As I understand it, it’s actually anyone can be fired for no reason, but there can still be wrong reasons for firing someone. Not sure if this is one of them, though.

Not doubting you, but how do you define the quality of the light?

So yeah, they built a new product and tried to force everyone to use it, when it had no improvements for the users whatsoever. And surprise, no one is excited to use it.