jkf
12hr ago
American problems need American solutions, certainly; Trump is not the man for this job, I propose Larry Fink.
jkf
14hr ago
No worries, the two white dudes are practically Buzz Lightyear from central casting! And they only have to get the woman in proximity of the moon AIUI; piece of cake.
jkf
14hr ago
Simple solution -- elect a leader who has been a globalist neo-con since before it was cool, and coincidentally owns a podbuilding company; et voila:
Non-pod based houses can remain as a Veblen item, and the useless eaters can be happy in their pods; what could go wrong?
jkf
14hr ago
If it's all hype, it is the mother of all hype cycles and something that approaches a mass movement of hysteria. This would be outright falsehoods and lying on a level usually reserved for North Korean heads of state and Subsaharan cult leaders.
Or, like -- every western government except maybe Sweden, 4 years ago?
I'm not really kidding, but to engage with the meat of your argument -- translating natural language documentation to machine code is literally what programming is, and always has been.
If you have perfect documentation, the coding is trivial; so if LLMs can add another layer to this and become essentially a somewhat easier/more efficient programming language, that's great -- but it doesn't so far seem like they are particularly good at generating that documentation based on (complex, real-life) non-technical enduser requirements for broad problems. Which has been the Hard Problem of Programming at least since Fred Brooks.
If a programmer can say to an LLM "hey build me a Salesforce clone based on such-and-such requirements" and make it happen, that is a pretty big efficiency gain, but not really AI. Which would be a pointy-haired boss saying "hey build me this thing I thought of that doesn't currently exist, but is Salesforce scale" and making it happen; this would be kind of scary.
jkf
3d ago
I expect him to claim that he was there doing journalism, and as such not a part of the group disrupting things; a 1A vs 1A battle!
The truth of that claim will probably be more important than balancing the right to worship with the right to journalist, but I expect that is the issue.
jkf
3d ago
One option then, is to hack federal law in order to go after the protestors
In this case it's not really even a hack -- "disrupting a place of worship" is black-letter FACE act AFAICT.
(or maybe you could say that the hack took place when that law was implemented, in that including places of worship was not the initial goal of the legislators -- but that seems neither here nor there)
jkf
4d ago
Sometimes you just get punched.
When is the last time you just got punched? Even in a barfight something like "you want a piece of me?" is usually de rigueur IME, and "stepping outside" is a real thing...
Notably this... actually is still pretty legal in most jurisdictions; "mutual combat" is also a real thing, and even in places where the courts would technically not accept it, a fight in which both participants were on board is highly likely to be ignored by authorities so long as it doesn't get too far out of hand.
jkf
4d ago
No dude -- guns are loud, when one goes off unexpectedly in your hand you do not look elsewhere first. Looking back is in fact much more consistent with the shot coming from some other gun in the area.
jkf
4d ago
You are actually advocating for violence as a response to mean words?
Fascinating -- I do agree that men tend to be politer to each other because violence is always on the table -- but historically the accepted response to unacceptable speech is a challenge to violence, not skipping straight to the party.
If the dude had challenged Kirk to pistols at dawn in defence of his boygirl-friend's honour that would be fine with me -- but sneaking around to get yourself a sucker-punch opportunity is not in fact a masculine activity.
jkf
4d ago
I saw a video where it visibly jumped in the guy's hand,
That's not what I'm talking about though -- I've never had a gun go 'bang' when I was expecting a 'click' (or worse yet, nothing) but even an unexpected 'click' really get's your attention.
If the guy had just accidentally shot the ground next to his feet we wouldn't be doing a frame-by-frame analysis to see if the slide moved; he would have stopped what he was doing, looked at the gun in horror, etc. As it stands he just keeps running across the street; it's completely implausible that he would be this cool having just plucked somebody else's gun from it's holster and having it AD in his hand.
jkf
4d ago
100 billion here and there, pretty soon you're talking about real money though -- if it saved more than it cost I wouldn't say it's a failure per se?
jkf
4d ago
Kirk is analogous those middle-school mean girls who go spread rumors
Even if this were true, "sticks and stones" is much more typical advice on dealing with meangirls than "it's OK if you want to shoot them in the neck"?
jkf
4d ago
The detainee's gun goes off in the agents hands. One of the infamous Uncommanded Discharges from a Sig.
It's highly highly questionable whether this actually happened -- certainly it's an appealing narrative in some kind of Chekhov's (unreliable) Gun way, but the guy carrying it away just does not act remotely like a gun just went off in his hand.
jkf
5d ago
I don't see any AR18/180 on their list -- granted they consider an SKS with detachable mag to be an 'AK-type', so this is definitely not legal advice -- but if you sawed the pistol grip off one of those and glued some compliant palm-grip abomination on there it might pass? (unless that's an "AR type" for having "AR" in the name -- totally different action from an AR15 tho...)
Perhaps -- "President Fink" is a little too good to pass up though.
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