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Comment Very naive of Anthropic (Score 3, Insightful) 131

Dear Anthropic - You develop AI and get into bed with the worlds largest defense - sorry "war" - agency so what exactly did you expect they'd ask you for - rifles and bullets?? Of course they're going to want hands off munitiions, thats the whole damn point of involving AI in the first place!

Its amazing how some people who are so smart in one area can be so moronically naive in others.

Comment An interesting project (Score 1) 133

And useful if you want to dual boot something other than windows, but if all you want is a version if *nix just stick with MacOS. It has its quirks and the use of objective C for a lot of system calls is royal PITA if you're a C/C++ dev like me, but other than that it has little benefit over linux if you just want a nix enviroment and I write as someone who uses and develops on both in a daily basis.

Comment Not even that (Score 2) 110

I'm still using whatever version of vim came with my initial distro install since as far as basic text editing goes it's been feature complete for decades. I'm sure some people like writing vim scripts to do... drawing a blank frankly.... but only once in my 30 year career have I met someone who did and that was just to do some company specific search and replacing.

Comment Re: Why is Contact sharing legal? (Score 1) 50

A tiny percentage. OTOH theres a limited amount of abuse possible with a landline number compared to a mobile phone. The main privacy issue with phone books was publishing home addresses so any nutjob who knew your full name and area you lived in could track you down, phone numbers were a secondary concern.

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