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"Communal ownership of the means of production" evokes an image of a hippy co-op trying to buy pallets of GPUs, or something, which is probably why it sounds unattainable. But if you reorient that to something more along the lines of, "the Mullvad of hosted llama.cpp", then it actually doesn't seem that far out of reach.

The comment you're replying to made use of a simile, which is a figure of speech using "like" or "as" that constructs a non-literal comparison for rhetorical effect.

If only. If ICE arrests and deports someone without due process, there is no court case.

There's no such thing. The house always wins or the business collapses.

A few individuals can completely takeover the government

That's not what's happening.

When most people serving in positions of government do so in good faith, most forms of government work, including the American one. When most people serve in bad faith, most forms of government do not work, including the American one.

The American system has checks in place to keep what is happening from happening, but those checks aren't working because those who would exercise them aren't doing so, as withholding those checks benefits them personally, at least in the short term. The underlying theory of the American system is that if you distribute power enough, one or a few bad actors can't seize total power.

But, there are just too many people in elected office right now who did not take their oath to uphold the Constitution in good faith. Namely, in Congress which has simultaneously demonstrated that it is unwilling to effectively wield the impeachment check, and is unable to do effective legislative work, leading to a latent desire for a stronger executive. In this circumstance, no form of government will hold up without a correction towards replacing all the bad-faith actors.

The point is you can't reliably tell if someone's choice of vehicle is wasteful unless you get to know them a bit. Snap-judging someone's entire lifestyle in the second it takes to recognize a make and model isn't constructive.

I think part of this is because people often don't appeal to local government unless they've got an axe to grind. Nobody goes to the city council meeting to comment on how everything is great and things are fine the way they are. So when someone shows up to complain about ice cream truck music, the people who are pleased, or at least indifferent about it, don't show up to oppose the complainer, and the signal the council members get is that it's a problem and a city ordinance or whatever is required. There are typically opportunities in the local law-making process to allow someone to oppose the complainer, and it does happen, but few will match the complainer's level of effort. Then if a law makes it on the books, local LEOs become the complainer-class's customer service representatives, and you get what you're describing.

Ultimately, local civic engagement is often what matters most to your day-to-day life, which is good. I think effective and durable self-governance must start at the local level. But we get blasted by media related to national politics at every time and season, to the point that the thought of trying to stay dialed into local government is a non-starter for many. If all the attention we can bear to allocate to politics is monopolized by the national wedge issues of the day, who will muster the volition to save the ice cream truck music?

Yes. I pine for the ATX of phones.

It's not so perplexing when you understand that Python has long had the best ecosystem of libraries for data science and ML, from which the current wave of AI stuff was born. There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Python, but the reality is lots of people were getting real work done with it in the run up to where we are today.

Just a drive-by thought, but: What you're describing sounds a lot like Temporal.io. I guess the difference is the "workflow" of an agent might take different paths depending on what it was asked to accomplish and the approach it ends up taking to get there, and that's what you're interested in persisting, replaying, etc. Whereas a Temporal workflow is typically a more rigid thing, akin to writing a state machine that models a business process -- but all the challenges around persistence, replay, etc, sound similar.

Edit: Heh, I noticed after writing this that some sibling comments also mention Temporal.

I mean, it probably was a branch that several people contributed commits to that was squashed prior to merge into mainline. Folks sometimes have thoughts about whether there's value in squashing or not, but it's a pretty common and sensible workflow.

For sure, but on balance, during that second: - A smart little girl aced her math test. - A loving father smiled at his kid. - A grandma blew out her 80th birthday candles.

Lifetimes in progress, building their own memories and experiences. So, two people may have died in that second, but 8 billion people lived.

If you actually want to offer substantive contrast, then I'd suggest elaborating on what you find interesting.

Your entire comment is threat modeling, which is great! But it demonstrates my point: using an old, insecure thing is sometimes obscure enough to fly under the radar of one class of threats, but presents a juicy attack surface for another class of threats. And one's own personal risk for any given class of threats will vary depending on one's circumstances. So the parent comment's unqualified statement of, "security is not a consideration for such devices," isn't quite right.

Security is not a consideration for such devices, because of their very limited number. Nobody is going to crack into your internet-connected Amiga except maybe some of your friends, as a prank.

This depends pretty heavily on your threat model. You're right that a device like this is exceedingly unlikely to get exploited by attackers casting a wide net against common vulnerabilities. But an attacker targeting you-in-particular would love to learn you've put ancient hardware and/or software on the network.

The basis for my understanding is a convo with a Google engineer who was working on self-driving stuff around 10-15 years ago -- not sure exactly when, and things have probably changed since then.

At the time they used just a single roof-mounted lidar unit. I remember him saying the one they were using produced point cloud data on the order of Tbps, and they needed custom hardware to process it. So I guess the point cloud data isn't necessarily harder to process than video, but if the sensor's angular resolution and sample rate are high enough, it's just the volume of data that makes it challenging.

My (tenuous) understanding is that the challenge with lidar isn't necessarily the cost of the sensor(s) but the bandwidth and compute required to meaningfully process the point cloud the sensors produce, at a rate/latency acceptable for driving. So the sensors themselves can be a few hundred bucks but what other parts of the system also need to be more expensive?

To be fair, some international keyboard layouts actually have variations of key shapes and locations. The shape of the Enter key and the cluster around it is the main example. So it's more than just the labels.

I'm not sure I follow. Your complaint is that Framework only sells direct and not through retailers?

FWIW, I have a bind to toggle relative/absolute. You can have both!

It's ok. Turn on relative line numbers and you'll see the light. :)

Short selling a stock means borrowing shares and selling them.

Would you mind talking a little bit about the threat model that would lead you to using Graphine on a new device? IIUC, you have to unlock the bootloader to use a custom ROM, which makes the device vulnerable to physical access in cases like theft, confiscation, etc. So you have to trade that for whatever the custom ROM gives you?

I'm glad this is something we're starting to figure out. The more something you read or hear makes you immediately mad, the less you should share or repeat it without additional verification. Our instinct is of course the opposite, which is why some are looking at Free Speech as a hindrance when attempting to address bad faith reporting and demagoguery.

But our instinct when someone else has more food than us is to go bash them over the head with a rock and take it... however, we've spent great effort to raise all children not to do that, for obvious reasons. So the answer has to be that we preserve Free Speech, knowing that misinformation and demagogues will exist, but broadly train our critical thinking to override those instincts to the end that we can effectively divide truth from lies.

We've had millennia to suppress our aggressive tendencies to the point where civilization is possible. But the retweet button is, like, 20 years old? We'll get there, but probably on generational timescales.

I'm well aware your take is a visceral reaction to the marketing copy in the FAQ (which to be honest, I can't blame you), but that's why I asked the question you didn't answer. :)

I'd just encourage anyone with a knee jerk feeling like this to actually take a peek at what the buzz word actually alludes to. Your heuristic may have a false positive.

In the spirit of promoting curious conversation, I'll ask: Can you identify the specific feature(s) you don't like?

You're seeing vinyl wraps, most likely.

Pidgin supports lots of protocols, including xmpp, via plugins. It just sounds like they choose to make breaking changes to the plugin API for v3. I'd expect popular protocols to get ported at some point before GA.

Having your wages garnished doesn't mean you starve to death. He's perfectly capable of making a living, supporting himself and his dependents, if any, but his ability to build wealth will be restricted. I don't know the particulars of this case, but generally:

"The garnishment amount is limited to 25% of your disposable earnings for that week (what's left after mandatory deductions) or the amount by which your disposable earnings for that week exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage, whichever is less."

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/if-wages-are-garnish...

My guess is it would break stuff like `ps x`, but ideally tools that use the procfs would gracefully degrade in cases like this?