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My worry is not if it can make great things. That was never going to be possible from a system that cant create original thoughts.

My worry is if it can make art that is “good enough”. If some middle manager eschews hiring an artist for some project and the results that AI spits out are enough that they still profit, that’s where the damage is done.

Ansible is US-owned. Even though it’s open source, Redhat, a US company, is the one that controls its lifecycle.

NixOS is based out of the EU.

the measure is primarily intended to prevent third parties from buying lower-capacity boards, replacing their RAM with cheaper parts of uncertain origin and then reselling the modified hardware as a higher-capacity model. The company argues that such modified boards have not undergone its validation process and could subsequently generate support requests if unstable memory is blamed on the company.

The solution to this decidedly rare problem is authorized resellers, not an arbitrary block on a very technically demanding upgrade.

That’s assuming this is the actual problem though. If the problem is actually “We want to make more money by charging extra for ‘enthusiast models’” then this is the correct tactic to ensure that you aren’t undercut by cheap labor.

It’s kind of a difficult problem to solve.

Effective regulation requires lawmakers to have a solid understanding of the thing being regulated. This is not really feasible with something as complicated and nuanced as “information technology” and it’s how you get especially stupid rules like the ones coming into the 3D printer space to prevent manufacturing ghost gun parts.

Guaranteed, those started from a place of “We all agree that a lower barrier of entry to making firearms is bad. How do we control that?”

Theoretically, this is the purpose of a lobby group. You have someone that is familiar with subject matter to propose sensible regulations to keep the industry honest, but in practice it’s just industry leaders that pay for regulation to choke out competition, or to loosen restrictions to be more predatory.

Im a homeowner and I want my property value to plummet.

I have no intention of selling this place in the foreseeable future, so all those unrealized gains just makes my insurance and taxes cost more.

This is a change for the better, and it would be better still to not have arbitrary limits in place. However, considering who is in control of the FBI right now, I can’t help but feel that this is a positive change made for all the wrong reasons.

The best way I’ve heard it described is like if Sherlock Holmes was written by Tom Clancy.

Reacher is not a thinking man’s story and comes with the baggage that the story is delivered through the lens of a stereotypical Republican hero, but I had fun with the TV show despite all that.

You might need thicker tin foil for your hat, mate

How would this even be enforced?

Like, it seems like it would be a trivial process to just install a firmware package without the blocks.

WeChat is like Facebook and Venmo combined into one app. I understand that it pretty much replaced cash entirely in China.

Ah, Checkerboard cave.

That one is not as easy to miss in randomizer because you do a whole loop of the area and get 5 checks with just the mirror, flute, and mitts

Nah, His boss’s boss is just upset that Ukraine keeps blowing up his oil tankers

Mimic cave is super easy to miss because it’s only accessible on that one ledge when you briefly leave Turtle Rock. So if you forget to check it, you have to do the entire first half of the dungeon again.

With regards to randomizer, it’s super fun, but the fun comes from figuring out what you can do with the items you have. The vanilla game is laid out with progression locked in a loose order, so you never need to figure out situations like how to access the rest of the dark world if you’re missing the hammer, but you do have the hookshot

It sounds like you’re more than familiar enough with the game to not get stuck completely. I recommend playing it at least once to see if it’s your jam

It’s been a long time since I’ve played the vanilla game as I usually play randomizer, so I don’t remember if they are heart pieces, but the locations I always forget are:

• Mimic Cave (mirror back to light world when you get outside of Turtle Rock halfway through)
• Breakable rocks to the west of sanctuary (largely because I forget to come back after getting the boots)
• Lumberjack cave (dash into the tree after beating Ahganim)

I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in

It usually happens in 2 steps.

First step is that everything gets connected to the LAN and you can only access the PLC network from within the building’s network. Then some time later, management finds out that keeping someone on-call to go out costs a fortune, so they request that access be made so they can make the change from anywhere.

The IT team argues security, but no new hardware can be provisioned and a developing a new process is too hard. Then the magical phrase is uttered: “Just make it work”. So IT punches a hole in the firewall, adds a NAT rule, and job done.

The specific advice they give is to disconnect all PLCs and only access them through a VPN, enable password protection and change the default passwords, and only allow IPs from known engineering laptops and other critical assets.

This is absolutely doable and any IT professional could manage this change. The only barrier that prevented this from happening before is that you need buy-in from someone with access to the purse strings

The customer is always right.

If people buy the thing, then it wasn’t stupid to make or sell.

The real answer is rough, because there are no shortcuts.

The best way to do it is the same way you learned your primary language. Learn just enough through study to be able to use a little bit of the language, and then actually start using it.

Talk with people who speak it, and learn to read and write all over again. Sound like a tourist for a couple years as you pick up more and more. Eventually you’ll be fluent.

This article is over 23 years old. I’d be curious if they’re still entirely open source.