That does make sense when you need absolute precision like when doing abstract math. Otherwise you can just use whichever unit and number of significant digits you need and be precise to that amount. That’s what you do with imperial/American customary units as well; a 5/32" screw isn’t going to be manufactured to the precision of a Planck length; manufacturers specify their sizes to three significant digits of an inch.

Let’s say you have a machining project and your tools are precise to 0.1 mm. So you plan things out at a precision of 0.1 mm. It doesn’t matter that a distance is 17/38 cm exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s 4.473684210526315789… mm. You can’t set the tool to anything better than 4.5 mm anyway.

Also note that the metric system doesn’t prevent you from using fractions. You’re perfectly free to work with fractions where useful. That’s just not how people talk about lengths because those fractions have no meaning outside your specific use case.

Those planets typically don’t heave a breathable atmosphere, though. You pretty much need a large biosphere if you want to be able to walk around without a spacesuit. An iceball world or a barren rock probably won’t contain a breathable amount of oxygen in an otherwise mostly inert atmosphere. If you want to breathe pure carbon dioxide or get fried by nearly unfiltered UV radiation, though, they’d be great.

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet?

I absolutely have. The solution wasn’t found in the init system, though, but by giving my NFS mounts the nofail option in /etc/fstab. Filesystem handling isn’t init’s job.

Overall I haven’t had significantly more or less issues with systemd over OpenRC. I’m not a particularly big fan of their approach to things but their init system is perfectly serviceable.

So your argument is that since you are opposed to the app’s very existence it’s immoral to test it for security flaws.

I’d like to argue against that with the principle of defense in depth. I’m also not a friend of OS-level age verification and would like it to be dropped. But if it is implemented I want it to be implemented in a way that isn’t wildly insecure. I can simultaneously argue against the principle as a whole and insist that any implementation of it be secure. If it does come I at least want the damage from a botched implementation to be mitigated.

To use your cage analogy, I can both complain about the principle of caging people and about the fact that the cage is badly made and poses an injury risk to the people inside it. Neither is acceptable.

Struwwelpeter is a mixed bag.

There’s the story about the boy who starves to death because he refuses to eat soup. Or the girl who plays with matches and burns to death while her cats helplessly watch. Or the boy who sucks his thumbs so a tailor randomly shows up and cuts them off.

And those are mixed in with the guy whose extremely bad grooming habits make him unpopular or the guy who doesn’t watch where he’s going and falls in a river. Not quite as traumatizing.

An LLM trained on the PoE ingame chat would try to solve all my problems by asking to buy my Kaom’s Sign Coral Ring for 1ex.

That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.

Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.

Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.

Man, Crank 3 is a lot worse than the first two.

There’s also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.

By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls… Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.

Right. Safe Search doesn’t matter because Google Search has been outclassed for a while now. There’s no drawbacks… other than the fact that apparently OP gets told about this every single day.

The AfD reflexively gave a statement that any suspicions against their MPs are completely unwarranted.

Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

In addition to what has been mentioned already, Garuda is an Arch derivative where convenience is the whole point. No install scripts, just your usual live ISO with a Calamares installer plus a bunch of convenience utilities once you’re set up.

It’s not exactly lightweight by default but it does make for a very comfortable Arch experience.

Perhaps they were thinking of an American doctor.

The bowling pins are for hitting the patient on the head because that’s the only anesthesia they can afford. The ducks are the little birdies circling the patient’s head after the anesthetic bludgeoning has been administered.

The first gun is there because America and the second gun is so you can double-tap the patient in case you suspect they might be an immigrant.

You know I know that you’re not telling the truth.

I’m just waiting for their reaction when everyone is supposed to use cloud desktops and the average application assumes the user has 128 GB of RAM.

RoboCop did. So this is just like RoboCop; a pro-constitutional reform spokesperson was killed by a counterreformist gang and got most of their body replaced by a soulless megacorporation to help them privatize proreformist publicity work. The difference is that this megacorporation didn’t have any robot parts so they used a snow leopard instead.

Obviously.

Also, according to certain “news” publications and an army of totally legitimate people on the internet, he’s as incompetent as he’s evil and he’s singlehandedly responsible for every single problem anyone in Germany has had for the last 20 years.

It’s called group exercise. You’re welcome.