There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.

By the toochain, do you mean Cargo? I thought it had delightful features, and it was reliable in my small educational programs.

It's way cool to have your API example documentation included in automatic tests.

I was talking to a CS prof specializing in software ethics and made fun of myself for saying the alignment problem was harder than the halting problem. What could be harder than being impossible?
She quickly replied that of course it's way harder because there are special cases where the halting problem has solutions.

They do have an economic issue. The advertisers who keep them in business prefer to have their ads next to non-toxic content.

Nobody has a 1A right to trespass on your servers, or Zuckerberg's, or Musk's.

https://xkcd.com/1357/ as everyone has seen.

I'd like to see an honest administration do antitrust action which might alleviate problems like the suppression (NOT censorship) of abortion information: https://www.emarketer.com/cont...

I plug my Prius Prime into a GFCI outlet because it's in the garage and they've been required there for a long long time. There has never been a problem, and I don't see offhand why there would be a difference between Level 1 and Level 2.

Did I misunderstand the fine article? Was it saying that EVSEs might have ground faults more than 5 mA? Uh, how? With, as you pointed out, their own protective equipment on board.

This is the organization that eradicated smallpox.

There are conservatives on Bluesky, and starter packs to follow them. https://blueskydirectory.com/s..., with a variety of viewpoints.
Anyone who's not a bigot, who makes truthful arguments, who genuinely wants a discussion, them I will listen to.

They're commonplace where I live, at least according to the locator apps. The reality is much more frustrating.

Take away the ones that don't exist at the stated location, then subtract the ones that are out of order, then subtract the ones that are in no-trespassing garages, then subtract the ones with incompatible connectors, then subtract the ones where the cables are cut off and stolen, and it's a challenge to find one. Once you find one there's a good chance it's occupied.

I was a child prodigy who skipped a grade, not dissimilar to Sheldon Cooper, except I was better socialized, and excelled at athletics and was a leader in the Boy Scouts.

I had a real problem getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning. I would read in bed until late at night and be late in the morning.

At some point in my early 20's I experienced a period of unemployment, and at my doctors advice I started tracking my sleep. We determined that I had a 27 hour biological clock. He said it was unusual, but happened to some people, mostly young men, and that I would grow out of it as I got older. Which didn't really happen, but kind of happened. I have a 24 hour clock but I only sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes less.