There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.

By the toochain, do you mean Cargo? I thought it had delightful features, and it was reliable in my small educational programs.

It's way cool to have your API example documentation included in automatic tests.

I was talking to a CS prof specializing in software ethics and made fun of myself for saying the alignment problem was harder than the halting problem. What could be harder than being impossible?
She quickly replied that of course it's way harder because there are special cases where the halting problem has solutions.

They do have an economic issue. The advertisers who keep them in business prefer to have their ads next to non-toxic content.

Nobody has a 1A right to trespass on your servers, or Zuckerberg's, or Musk's.

https://xkcd.com/1357/ as everyone has seen.

I'd like to see an honest administration do antitrust action which might alleviate problems like the suppression (NOT censorship) of abortion information: https://www.emarketer.com/cont...

I plug my Prius Prime into a GFCI outlet because it's in the garage and they've been required there for a long long time. There has never been a problem, and I don't see offhand why there would be a difference between Level 1 and Level 2.

Did I misunderstand the fine article? Was it saying that EVSEs might have ground faults more than 5 mA? Uh, how? With, as you pointed out, their own protective equipment on board.

This is the organization that eradicated smallpox.

There are conservatives on Bluesky, and starter packs to follow them. https://blueskydirectory.com/s..., with a variety of viewpoints.
Anyone who's not a bigot, who makes truthful arguments, who genuinely wants a discussion, them I will listen to.

Well said.

I would also add: if I have something to say about an an issue, I (try to) directly address the issue, not the person. Even when I find them aggravating. What little power we do have relates to discussion and sharing ideas about the issues at hand, and what charities we do — or don't — thoughtfully engage with.

While many are locked to one side or the other in our highly polarized political climate, some people can be moved by reasoned discussion. I even try to be one of those people. Mostly. :)

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To your point, it's ccertainly perfect for this story.

But you know, they have to do something to increase revenue, since they've been entirely unable to update the site's code... you know, like supporting Unicode, which was introduced in 1991. Not to mention a bunch of useful HTML and trivial convenience features like markdown. Or making the firehose useful, or coming up with a modern user-moderation system.

I don't visit https://soylentnews.org any longer — not my cup of tea, community-wise — but it's worth noting they fixed the slashdot codebase years ago.

I still chuckle when Slashdot fronts me with an ad telling me I should put my code on their archive; they can't even manage this place worth a damn, and they want me to trust them with my code? That's a solid LOL. Also, No.

But we've dropped really low if we even skip OP or can't remember it a couple PgDn's further, haven't we.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Now, would you like a slightly smaller burger with your slightly smaller portion of fries?

BTW, that'll be 5% more with the new pricing.

Raising a question is asking a question

Sure. But that's not the phrase. The phrase is "raises the question."