I am a worrier. I worry about being hit with IP violations. I worry about correctness in context, which isn't something that is easy to convey to an AI (context, that is). Since I'm responsible for the code I write and any harm it may cause, I worry. Requirements are never complete or even consistent, so the act of developing code is itself a form of requirements analysis that an AI doesn't understand (yet).

On the other hand, writing code with an AI is probably easier, so I'm in.

Pff. I live in the United States of America! Our Congress can certainly do better than that. I bet we can get that number down to 8 years old. It's like golf, right?
  Lower is better? USA! USA!!!

I hope there is a sudden break in the middle of the movie when Strong Bad reads and reacts to his email.

How angry are you about the lack of Cowboy Neal options on recent polls? Options: Furious, Blindingly Furious, I am Cowboy Neal.

So... are you telling me to go outside and touch some grass?

You don't need to worry. There is no way Facebook would sell data to, say, Oklahoma or Texas about your appointment in another state with an abortion provider. Just to give one very specific example of what would never, ever happen. Never.

The same thing is true for your kids' data. No way they would store that information, blaming it on a system that was “not yet operating with complete accuracy,” and then sell that data. Accidentally. Everybody makes mistakes, but not Facebook!

Also inadvertently leaking appointment data that might be used by abusers to find their victims? Simply impossible. Computers are super-duper secure, dummy.

Googled⦠and this was apparently posted last night and is soooo on point it is almost physically painful. https://youtu.be/xqf-vKXPLN4

You know what makes it hard to land people on the Moon and then return them safely to Earth? Not having money or a high-tech industry, and being in the middle of a massive technology "brain drain."

The problem with this (eventually taking Ukraine) is that Russia then has the much, much, *much* harder problem of *holding* the country. It takes many times more troops and material and *money* to hold the country than it does to seize it... and they haven't shown that they can seize it. And ethnic Russians in Ukraine seem to be turning against them, so there may be no friendly population center to help.

An issue for selling more Russian oil and gas to China and the east is that, as I understand it, there are no pipelines or other means to carry oil and gas from the fields in the west that supply Europe across the country to the east so they can sell it to China, and building a pipeline would take a decade and cost money Russia isn't going to have. Shipping the oil is also complicated by the sanctions regime.

In all seriousness, though, I hope the people who created CPRewritten did not end up using any Disney IP (images, sounds, etc.) in the site but, well, *rewrote* it.

I'm not familiar with European (or UK) copyright law, and I know there are treaties with the US that may apply here, but if there was not explicit reuse of copyrighted material (and I hope there was not) then this seems like maybe more of a *trademark* dispute, and that might be harder for Disney to litigate.

Of course, if even one cute penguin sound was lifted from the original CP site... The sad thing is that the litigation might kill the site even if they did nothing wrong. It takes time and money, and Disney has pretty much all of both. :-(

Thankfully Disney was able to shut this down before... something... uh... socialism? Anyway, I shudder to think what terrible fate could have befallen Disney had this website unaffiliated with them been allowed to bring joy to people. Tragedy averted.

If you aren't adding bugs, you aren't adding features! Now make those phones lock up! People want more emojis!

1inMM did, in fact, make films: Curvature (2017), Hell is Where the Home Is (2018). "The actor" in question was also in two films during this time: The White Crow and Last Moment of Clarity. He is slated to be in some upcoming films, too. In short, it looks like this all started off completely legitimately*, and then, when things didn't quite pan out (the two films mentioned at top were not blockbusters) it shifted into what seems to be "grift mode." I point all this out because the article makes it seem that the company was never anything but a grift, and that Mr. Horowitz was not really an actor.

* As legitimately as one might expect for the film industry.

Interesting note: this was not implemented in Rust. The C++ hipsters won out this time because the code has to talk to the existing pile (technical term) of C++ code that is the Ion MIR backend.