The foreign reseller can understand how to follow rules. AliExpress collects taxes for different states in our country and also won't ship some things here.

Yes, non citizens and their corporations can own land here

That's because you haven't looked into it even slightly.

What happened in the nineties? It sure wasn't people not living in cities

Wow, the idea that "racism was invented in the 18th century" is the wildest thing I've read in a while. I'm trying to imagine a defense of that statement but I just can't.

I was not trying to heap praise on the guy (I did compare him to Epstein... ) , but if you want to blame him or praise him, I think he's very much responsible for the modern LLM commercialization.

Back in the day most of the computer magazines had one of those. I think it was Nibble magazine that published several programs for the Apple ][.

IIRC you'd start the program in the background and it would watch what line your cursor was on and display a two digit checksum in the upper right corner of the screen that would update as you typed. Just make sure that number matched the check on the end of the line in the magazine and you were clear to hit Return to save the line.

A different magazine had a similar method, but I believe it provided line-by-line checksums after you were done entering the program, and would also generate a "program checksum" at the end that would match if all lines were correct.

I also remember several occasions where there was a printing problem in the magazine and everyone's checksum was wrong, they'd publish a correction in next month's edition and everyone would cry "THAT'S why I couldn't get it right!" (probably after receiving hundreds of letters in the mail complaining about hours of frustration trying to key it in!) This was frequently due to the magazine omitting a line of code. (all the line checksums matched, but not the total at the bottom)

ahh the good ol days of Human OCR....

The primary hazard being discussed here is shared hosting. The whole point of shared hosting is that other people can run software on your computer, whether they can traditionally "log in" or not.

It does not and it will not as long as it doesn't even have the concept of having the concept of something like respect. It doesn't have concepts. It has a model which it churns through and poops out patterns.

Nationalized infrastructure is a good idea and usually provides good outcomes... except when you're doing it specifically for the purpose of keeping excessively old nuclear reactors operating.

We have more than enough people to address multiple issues at once, if only people like you didn't need everything so simplified for them that they argue against addressing them because it's confusing.

It wouldn't now. I agree. But I think Sam deserves some.. Credit for this current AI cycle. He was the one bold enough to unlesh LLM's and market them to the masses. Google was too timid to do it. Ironically, Open Ai was supposed to prevent this from happening. But Sam is Sam, asking him to show restraint is cuckoo bonkers, its like asking Epstein to start a preteen modeling agency so they don't get trafficked. It would take some one stupid as Musk to put him in charge.

You are 100% correct.

Britain left the EU in part because of immigration fears. They largely regret it.

I don't want to get it from Apple, I want it to be open source and standards based, but it's still the kind of thing I want. But I definitely don't want it to be this heavy or bulky, either. To have the gall to charge that much for such a goofy thing is bananas.

I install a lot of stuff from backports, but I've also had bad times doing that with important packages, so I'm not in a rush to do it for big complex things in particular.