Not everything as a conspiracy

These are completely valid points absolutely worthy of discussion, and I fully agree with both of them, FWIW.

I was just responding to the point that Torvalds was making here.

Yeah he’s smart and he has the boring take which is probably the wisest take.

The wisest takes often are. He also has the benefit of decades of experience, dealing with trends and fads and upstart programmers with strong opinions.

I hate to admit it, but he’s right. I’m no fan of using AI either, but there are times and places where it can actually be a useful tool when used correctly. What’s really important is the quality of the contributions made to the project, and the usefulness should be judged on its merits alone of those individual contributions, not the “icky“ feeling people get from the idea of using AI at all.

Torvalds is clearly not here defending “vibe coding”, and he’s perfectly happy for people to not use AI at all. But when AI, as a tool, is used to responsibly, it can clearly be quite useful. And for the coders who can use it in a responsible and useful way to make meaningful contributions, I also think they should be permitted to.

Doesn’t the rest of the world observe standard time? Why would we be permanently out of step with the rest of the world?

No loophole. It’s just that the law, itself, is weaksauce bs and is mostly bluster that accomplishes little more than making politicians look good before the midterms. It’s mostly remarkable that such a huge piece of bs got passed by a supermajority and by such a hatefully divided congress, and that, right at the moment of triumph, Trump tried to sabotage it by holding it hostage to his Make Elections Corrupt Act, and refused to sign the bill.

But, because it passed with a supermajority in both houses of congress, it just became law anyway without the president’s signature, making Trump look like an even bigger embarrassment than he already is, not to mention a bigger loser than he already is. That’s what makes it such a big deal. He’s the first president who’s ever thrown this big of a bitch fit over a congressional bill he didn’t like. And still lost the fight anyway.

The bill, itself, has a few good things in it, but is mostly just meh.

Crazy morherfucker trying to start a second war while he’s in the middle of a first war with the same damned country.

All I know is we’re about to get some more hilarious Lego AI videos from Iran

This was 10 years ago, long before the “no more wars“ bullshit. Trump didn’t start that up until after he left office and someone pointed out that he didn’t happen to start any wars while he was in office the first time, and he leveraged that into a campaign slogan for his next run for office

But I understand… It all seems to run together now

strategery/lock-box

I can respect that, but there are better ways to go about it.

lol, I repeat my previous statement

But, yes, I agree

calling Trump’s conduct “breathtakingly improper” might be so light-handed as to risk oneself being labeled a sycophantic apparatchik for failing to call him out for the child (and adult)-raping serial felon he was before even taking office.

as you should be.

thanks Napoleon, I’m just sayin’

and is she “the enemy”? I don’t really know enough about the Wisconsin gubenetorial race

here’s the thing: the vast majority of what Trump does/tries to do gets overturned in court. like 99% of it. but, before it does, the devastating damage gets done. permenantly

for example: all that billions of dollars of public funding to the Corporation for Pubic Broadcasting that funded PBS, NPR, and thousands of public broadcasting stations nationwide that got shut down? Reversed in court. But the funding gone, as is the CPB, and all of the mechanisms of funding dispersement and the vast majority of the network of public broadcasting channels that took the better part of a century to build. You can’t just snap a finger and bring it back. not today, not tomorrow, not in a decade or even two.

the same goes for the hundreds upon thousands of programs and initiatives, etc. affected by Trump’s actions that court decisions have reversed/overturned/etc. The damage is done.

don’t even get me started on USAID

The best we can do is pick up the pieces and try to rebuild, but… eh…

Ha!

Magnificent

when you’re making major press releases about how you’re financially mismanaged, maybe you should be rethinking your campaign strategy rather than making major press announcements about how financially fucked you are.

I’m no campaign director, but that’s my advice.

as if that somehow makes it better?

Only in that he is a stump that speaks

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