Ending DEI in federal agencies without a substitute policy is a violation of rulings related to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Preventing private businesses, universities, and individuals from applying DEI-like policies in their own hiring practices is a violation of the First Amendment.

Not that anyone is going to stand up to a court dead set on creating the first Unitarian Executive in US history.

America voted the way they did because they wanted the government ran like a business with a CEO holding absolute authority. GOP and MAGA won. They got their dream they've wished for since the Reagan era.

What you're saying here is that no one should ever try to remedy the evils of the past.

That's stupid shit.

Fuck that stupid shit.

Slavery or feudalism is often their end goal. Everything and everyone is property when money is the primary metric in your society (if it can even be called a society at that point)

If someone wants to argue merit then I have a long list of cabinet members who are grossly unqualified for their positions.

You're talking about efficiency in the same breath as the guy who is currently building a $300 million whitehouse ballroom while the government is shut down? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p...

The same guy who spends 25% of his time golfing? https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/

Debian used to just require old school Unix stuff plus Perl, which is pretty old school really.

Then they started requiring Python for some tools.

They just keep adding more requirements which bloat the base install. This is the opposite of the right direction.

The source code is the most important documentation about the source code.

> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?

You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.

Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.

Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.

But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.

Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.

Clearly this not even even being done by an automated tool, let alone a human. An LLM which is given access to a database of actual cases could reasonably be successful at checking whether the cased cited even exist which isn't being checked now!

Using non-local AI in any way in court filings which are supposed to be confidential until filed is glaring lack of professional conduct right up front. Allowing AI hallucinations to get in to your court paperwork even once is the same. They should lose their license for one year the first time, five years the second time, and permanently the third.

I have a UPS package shipped Overnight/Saturday Delivery on Friday and it now appears to be on a truck near Chicago. It was originally scheduled to transit from South Dakota to New England.

New delivery date is Tuesday. I hope the sender gets his money back!

(I didn't need it that quickly but the sender was making good on a delivery date guarantee, at a loss of his profits).

I have a floppy controller on order that doesn't know how to read disks; it just passes through magnetic field data to software which is supposed to be able to reconstruct the disk image.

Hopefully these tapes will be OK to read as long as somebody can build a magnetic read head of the correct type.

Maybe with ML there will be a reasonable chance of reconstructing faded regions. Old audio tape is still mostly fine, so fingers crossed.

BTW, what a great job these folks have!

> No need for all that. Either "Judgement is for the other side" or "Case dismissed." Clears the docket, and slows down these kinds of submissions until they're at least doublechecked.

Interesting. I think you've changed my mind about this.

Economic incentives are probably the way to go.

> Hopefully there are more relevant "science objectives" than this dead issue.

It's an exoteric story. Really they want funding to build rockets and this is a technology demonstrator.

But there is a theory that the asteroid belt is the former crust of Mars. More data on that would be interesting.

It's of course "widely discredited" but not with a scientific method or anything. Comparing isotope ratios would be fun someday.

Slashdot is such a shithole