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Comment Nope, not weak password (Score 1) 117

Sheer negligence. That's what drove this company into bankrupcy.

Incompetence doesn't even begin to cover it, because that would mean they tried *something* to have backups of the heart of their business.

If your business can't run without it, perhaps you should have contingency plans on how to protect it?

Especially these days. These attacks aren't uncommon. If you don't have backup plans you are simply hoping they don't find you, which is stupid.

Comment Don't understand why some people are against this (Score 1) 267

It allows fine grained strategic control of autonomous agents.

You set the overall goals. They provide all the details in the tactical battlefield with those goals clearly in mind.

It's an excellent example of strategictactical control. You allow the teams on the ground to assess what to do, but they are driven by concrete strategic goals (such as capturing enemy troops).

Comment Re: in deathrace 2000 you get lots of points for (Score 1) 267

>Turning off smart quotes will still leave a plethora of situations like my currency symbol or ellipsis that result in a mess. I will not change this setting for one website. Get used to it.

No, I just skip posts with that kind of shit embedded in it. I don't care enough about your opinion to try to read something that's not English, but some mismash of (TM)'s and other shit. NO THANKS.

I'll just move on, so whatever you said is basically wasted and useless.

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 267

Yeah, he is such a failure compared to the others in his slots on the other stations that is was "financial".

Meanwhile:

Emmy Awards: 10 wins (from 44 nominations). He won for his work on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and one for a 2020 election special.
Grammy Awards: 2 wins (from 3 nominations). He won Best Comedy Album for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! in 2010 and Best Spoken Word Album for America Again in 2014.
Peabody Awards: 5 wins. He won for his work on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Producers Guild Awards: 6 wins (from 12 nominations) for his work on The Daily Show.
Writers Guild of America Awards: 4 wins (from 12 nominations) for his work on The Colbert Report.
He has also received other awards and nominations including Daytime Emmy Award nominations, Satellite Awards, People's Choice Awards, and Webby Awards.

Comment Excellent example of AI! (Score 1) 43

" isn't ready for commercial use by non-technical users."

No shit!

"Lemkin had initially praised Replit after building a prototype in hours, spending $607.70 in additional charges beyond his $25 monthly plan."

Well, I guess that's what you get for that kind of money anyway. It's as good as the money says it is.

Comment Re:Uh... I have a bad feeling about this. (Score 1) 29

Despite my attempts, it is obvious that you are incapable of recognizing the difference between what someone says and what someone writes as an utterance for a character they created.

If you're going to quote from Douglas Adams A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy then you attribute it to "Douglas Adams, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

If you're going to quote from plain old Douglas Adams, as in something he said himself as his own opinion, rather than wrote as dialog for a character, then you just attribute it to "Douglas Adams."

That is the way quotations work.

Over and out.

Comment Re:Uh... I have a bad feeling about this. (Score 1) 29

If Douglas Adams wrote the words a character said in one of his novels, then he himself did not say those words, the character did. I can't make it any clearer.

Every word from every character in every work by Douglas Adams is a word written by Douglas Adams.
I can't make that any clearer. Every single word.

Not. Relevant. Adams wrote the words. That doesn't mean he "said" them in the sense of expressing his own opinion.

But I'll try. Shakespeare once wrote dialog for one of his characters (in Henry IV Part Two, I think) who said "The first thing we do, let's kill. all the lawyers." Did Shakespeare say that, or the character in the play? The answer is:

William Shakespeare wrote that.

Dick the Butcher doesn't exist, he's a fictional character.

See above.

Comment Re:Uh... I have a bad feeling about this. (Score 1) 29

If Douglas Adams wrote the words a character said in one of his novels, then he himself did not say those words, the character did. I can't make it any clearer.

But I'll try. Shakespeare once wrote dialog for one of his characters (in Henry IV Part Two, I think) who said "The first thing we do, let's kill. all the lawyers." Did Shakespeare say that, or the character in the play? The answer is: the latter. The character was a terrorist, and he spoke in the context of overthrowing the government. Shakespeare would not have agreed with that opinion, but the character in the play did.

I repeat: authors are not responsible for what their characters say, although they may or may not agree with those characters.

Comment Re:This is good (Score 2) 124

It's woke garbage. It will not be getting my dollars.

Superman originated as the ultimate Good Samaritan. He stayed that way for a long time. Too bad MAGA don't like good people.

This. Also, note this article, which talks about how Republicans of the past would have embraced the ethos of Superman.

It's sad that we now live in a world where giving a shit about someone makes you suspect.

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