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which is almost worse than stringing together random fancy words.

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From what I gather (someone correct me if I’m wrong), carriage return and line feed do different things.

Think of a typewriter. It has two things. A large lever you spam which lets you move the writing position towards the start of the page (that’s carriage return), and a small wheel you spin which adjusts the vertical positioning of the paper (that’s the line feed).

Computers were modeled after typewriters. And in typewriter logic, to start writing in a new line, first you need to return the horizontal position to the start of the current line (CR), then feed a new line in (LF).

If you just CR, you’ll start to type over the text already present on thal line, and if you just do a LF, you’ll start typing in a new line from the same horizontal position, leaving a large gap of unused space to the left.

Newer models of typewriters made the large lever used for CR automatically do a LF as well as a quality of life improvement, as it was hard to nail down a consistent line spacing manually.

As computer programs atopped thinking in terms of being a 1:1 logical replica of typewriters (simulating ink being stamped on the page with a mechanical arm and supporting stamping over existibg text), but ratger in terms of layers and text boxes, selecting and editing), editors lost the ability to destruxtively atamp over existing text, so CR doesn’t do anything anymore.

Some systems only use LF (CR implicit) or verbosely say CRLF (what a typewriter would do).

Working for an idiot with peers that are his fellow idiots. Definitely worse than just working for an idiot.

though I’m not sure I’d call it discrimination.

It most definitely is discrimination. Because discrimination is “treating two things differently according to a discriminator”. Such as living alone or with a registered partner.

Now, the purpose of this is obvious (having a child is expensive and a good thing in the state’s eyes). Such cases where the discrimination “makes sense” (as it evens the playing field isntead of skewing it further) is usually termed as “positive” discrimination.

But as it technically fits the core requirement of discrimination, it is discrimination.

shool supplies and gifts

We don’t have that tradition so I get chills at the month of hyperactivity and bad teeth I can imagine. Especially if that cone is 100% candy.

I don’t think you’re supposed to eat them.

At least for me, Pepsi-sogged pasta doesn’t sound all that appetizing.

Sidenote: all 4 include plastic.

Well one person can (in their eyes) look at 5+ self checkouts.

They can still physically do checkout on only one register.

And the entire point of these supervisors isn’t (just) to make sure people don’t take something without checking it out.

It’s to have someone to blame.

Because if the company can’t find out who did it (the customer), yoi can bet they’ll know which of the supervisors is “responsible”. The company’ll pay out that way instead.

Some “smarter” store managers might double-dip and pocket the costs. Definitely a logical personal finance move for some morally challenged.

I’d choose gold. AFAIK most all money laundering rules deal with cash.

Even if a geine were to give you 500 tons of cash or gold, some governments may have a problem with that and choose to redistribute it.

Choosing gold makes the value much more liquid in my opinion.

Not to mention that gold doesn’t rot (unlike USD). In today’s economy gold is probably more value-dense (as in, a pound of gold is worth more than a pound of hundered-dollar bills).

Currencies also come and go but gold stays. If you’re thinking long-term, gold is the vastly better choice.

Wait, you guys reboot after an update?

Actually, both “persona non grata” (latin has cases) and “gratis coffee/beer/bootloader” both make sense.

Just convert the “x is gratis” into “you’re welcome to [relevant-action-verb] x”.

As in, “The kernel is gratis” = “You’re free to [use] the Kernel” (which is basically “it’s free” in everyday english).

For “Persona non grata” it would be “(You’re a) person not welcome (to [come] here)”.

This is what it originally meant. It has nothing to do with price and everything to do with gratuity. I (a provider) am grateful to you and welcome you to use/come/see/do/whatever.

“Gratis” would be the ketchup packet at McDonalds - they’re happy you paid for a burger so they’ll give you a ketcup packet as they’re grateful you did.

“The most uneditable proprietary shit in the world that’s somehow nonproprietary and ultra popular but really has no right to be any of these”

Aka one of the biggest paradoxes of modern computing.

So, how do you say “J” then?

“ᒋ”?

It isn’t Jason, it’s Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.

And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.

Love how all of the ones labeled as “tie” have a bowtie, yet the only one with an “actual” tie is not a “tie” one

Yeah, Lemmy is a bit over-the-top anti-AI, but most of it is based in reality.

There are a bunch of problems with AI. And they outbnumer any good ones by a mile.

The main cause of that fact is the entire AI bubble.

AI wastes a fuckton of energy. Of course, this energy isn’t free: communities pay. Electricity demand goes up, and so does price. Then, most electricity isn’t green. And on top of that, the rise in demand causes more electricity peaks, which almost exclusively get “fixed” through fossil fuel-based methods.

From another angle, AI disrupts markets. And not in a good way. Companies dump millions into AI while neglecting their employees (who get laid off because AI “can replace” them), and their customers as well (since instead of doing useful stuff for consumers they pump out AI-branded bullshit no one wants or needs).

Then, big AI companies spit in the face of copyright and have the audacity to turn around and claim copyright on their models’ outputs. If inputs are free game, so are the outputs. Copyright is a very vague, misunderstood and misused term, and no argument I’ve heard claiming feeding stuff into AI is fair use was grounded in reality.

That all veing said, AI is here to stay. I’ve been thinking long and hard about similar fundamental changes to how human society functions, and I think i found one. Photography.

Way back when, you had to do things painstakibgly by hand. Drawing, copying books by hand, etc.

Then the printing press came. Revolutionary? Sure. But not as revolutionary as photography. Instead of writing by hand, you had to typeset by hand before printing. This made the process scalable, but it was still painstaking work.

But photography is a different matter. You just have to make (or buy) a camera and other required supplies (film, developing media, etc), and then you merely have to set up the camera, take the photo, develop the film, and make the photo.

Even in the early days of photography, while these processes took some time, it wasn’t painstaking. To take a photo, you set up the camera, and wait. To develop film, you dunk the film into a chemical bath, and wait. To transfer the image onto paper - a similar ordeal. Set, forget.

Photography fundamentally changed how the entirety of society works. Painters complained and lost jobs and livelihoods - like the “jobs stolen” by AI. Instead of drawing stuff, which required a lot of skill, taking a photo is much simpler (abd faster).

Yesterday, instead of having to paint stuff, you’d take a photo. Today, instead of taking a photo, you ask AI.

On the copyright front, the paralels are obvious: Taking a photo of a book is fair use. But photocopying a book isn’t. The problem with AI is that it does some transformations to the original, so it’s obfuscated inside the model. But the obfuscation can be undone, as AI often happily spits out certain inputs verbatim when asked. Take a photo of a page - okay. Photocopy the entire book? Not okay.

The situation is the same when we look at artwork instead of books. Taking a photo of an artwork in a museum is okay. Scanning an artwork (duplicating it verbatim) - isn’t. Same for movies. A frame is probably gonna be okay. The entire movie - won’t.

Going by the closest analogue, there is absolutely no justification to indiscriminately feed everything and anything into AI, for indiscriminately photocopying and vervatim copying the same material is clearly protected.

The opposite of “cow steak”

Eh, pedoisland is too conservative.

Make it be called Pedo Land.

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Honestly, this idea has me pretty mortified as well. Just seeing ”rm -rf /” as part of a string sends chills down my spine.

Granted, any reasons or explanations to cause a string being cut short to this godforsaken form and accidentally run is extremely unlikely, but a valid theoretical possibility: I can easily imagine someone mistyping the first letter after root and, wishing to delete it, pressing Backspace while simultaneously accidentally grazing the Enter key.

Sure, the chances of it happening are about the same as a gun user accidentally dropping their gun, clumsily catching it in the air and accidentally shooting someone right in between the eyes as a result.