I asked ChatGPT to generate a Seinfeld episode for me. It generated a story where Kramer starts to collect mustard sauce, and becomes obsessed to find the perfect one. I thought the idea was hilarious. But then I asked it to generate the dialogs, and they were crap. (But, then again, it was a Seinfeld episode, maybe the dialogs were on point).

That's how Joshua Wars II started.

When I taught programming at college, I actually had to teach students to read error messages. Not once or twice, but multiple times every semester.

I tried it to see what kind of results I could get with it. It happens that I have some different implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform that I use to benchmark these kind of things. What I found out is:

It doesn't implement every Python module. I couldn't get the array module to work. But this might be in their future plans.

It can get a little picky with variable types. For example, multiplying an integer with a complex won't work, or trying to print an integer using a floating point format. Maybe they're working on it too.

It can take some time to compile and run.

While the scripts indeed run faster, it was nothing close to 10x the speed, much less 100x. In general, I got a 2.5x speed up. It was outperformed by Pypy in every test I made.

Just for the record, I have the same algorithms implemented in C, and Pypy performs comparably to C. Disclaimer: they are not optimized, instead, I made an effort to make the same operations as much as possible, with the intent of comparing speeds. Also, not a scientific assessment, so take it with a grain of salt.

I always think of Plasteel whenever I hear about this.

I can think of better things to do with one hand.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

In Brazil, there is a door manufacturer called "Fuck". This is their page, but they seemed to have changed their name by adding SA to the end (which, in Brazil, means a private limited company). They have nice door models -- every single one of them with women names -- Catarina, Cecilia, Polyanna, etc.. So, when you want to buy a door, you just ask to "Fuck Catarina", or something like that. I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

It's a matter of jurisdiction. The current identification most people carry (Carteira de Identidade, CI) is issued by the state-level Publicy Security Office. Two things here prevent using this data for voting: first, the data collected for issuing these ids are technically property of the PSO, and can only be used for forensic reasons. Second, this is state-level, while elections are organized at a federal level.

The federal government is starting to introduce a new document, the Documento de Identidade, DI. This will actually be the first federal level identification document in Brazil, and should replace all other documents people carry right now (state-issued id, voters id, cpf). This is currently in trial in a few states, and it will be at least 10 years or so before people are required to carry them, however.

One in a million. We're doomed.

Here is mine:

Just like every other woman with whom I chatted before. Sounds perfectly human to me.

And then he threw a chair.