As of former DSO and prison guard I can say with some authority, it isn't record keeping that causes recidivism. More likely is lack of opportunity, lack of education, and a severe sense of being indoctrinated in the system. Many of these guys don't KNOW how to act on their own and without supervision they go off the rails. I don't know how you categorize a generally likeable person who makes the worst possible choices in life, frequently, other than convict.

"Try the European system of treating criminals as human beings, not as a profit making workforce.
Put efforts into rehabilitation rather than being highly punitive"
Genius Idea. For profit prisons are an abomination in any country, the US included...

Well, not just one young arrogant engineer, also most of the maintainers of the major Linux distros in the world.

If it's really a bad idea, the blame doesn't really fall on Poettering. Many young, arrogant engineers have built things that were stupid, and their things got ignored by the world. Some smaller number of young, arrogant engineers have built things that were stupid but were able to convince their PHBs that they weren't stupid and they got deployed. I don't think that's how I'd characterize the leadership at Red Hat (I never worked there, but I have good friends who did), but let's suppose that they were clueless and that's why they deployed Poettering's stupid idea.

But then how do you explain why so many others looked at it, experimented with it for a few years, and then decided to adopt it, and even extend it?

The systemd opponents are loud and forceful on social media. The people who actually build the systems, however, disagree. And It's not just one or two groups who are somehow beholden to Poettering, nor is it people who don't know anything or have no technical stake in the decision.

You might want to consider whether you're living up to your nick here.

I don't personally care that much. I find it mildly annoying that the old scripts my finger muscle memory still wants to type by default don't always work... but honestly I rarely need them any more, because my systems Just Work. And I have to consider the possibility that systemd is part of the reason Linux requires so much less maintenance than it used to. There are multiple contributors here. A lot of it is that drivers have gotten a lot better and other aspects of the system have matured (like the audio subsystem :^)).

But given its broad adoption by nearly all open source and commercial Linux distros, Occam's razor says that it's probably better than sysvinit. Or BSD init. Or Upstart. Or OpenRC, or... <insert favorite system manager here>.

I don't think it'd technically be illegal to write up the counterclaim with prompt injection attacks

As amusing as it is to think about I can think of multiple ways that would not just be civilly unlawful, but criminally illegal. Our hypothetical scumbag lawyer would well be in danger of triggering all sorts of wire fraud, contempt of court, and tortious interference claims and charges.

Then what you are describing is not at all a license.

316 years of copyright legislation and litigation since the Statute of Anne says otherwise.

They sort of have been doing with the steam deck. I've had one for around six months and I'm consistently surprised at how well the thing runs. Not everything runs superbly, but those that dont I just run on lower settings, and my eyes are too shit to tell the difference half the time.

Hmm. Not so fast. Part of the value equasion with the steam deck and steam controllers is they get to exploit the control scheme mappings already in place for the steam decks. The big thing tthere is the twin touchpads that replace the mouse on the steamdecks (Though they also have touch sensitivity, but the screens on the decks are a little small to make that particularly accurate). I'd hold out for an alternative that better maps onto the control scheme.

US: 66% (Wall Street's numbers aren't those found in official statistics)
UK: 28.9%
Holland: 23%
Norway: 16%
China: 6%

US' conclusion: The rate is a complete mystery, we've no idea how to decrease it, let's do more of what we're currently doing differently to everyone else.

There is a slight possibility this may be flawed.

What keeps me up at night, is the fate of Tim Smith from the Cardiacs. In my view possibly the closest pop music ever got to a Frank Zappa league songwriter. The man wrote crazy complicated , surreal and energetic music that admitedly is an aquired taste for people. Anyway, at the height of the bands fame, he was out one night at a sisters of mercy concert, and he got robbed for his wallet, and immediately had a massive heart attack. Rushed to hospital and clinically dead for 7 minutes before they revived him. This triggered a stroke of sorts. When he came too he was completely paralyzed down one side of his body, completely mute, and suffering massive pain signals up and down his body.He was fully cogniscient of what was going on around him ,the stroke did not affect his cognition, but unable to function at all. He never left hospital and stayed in limbo in hospital, for a decade before another heart attack kileld him. Ten years in hell. Fucking nightmare, and popular music lost one of its greatest songwriters.

Look after your tickers people. A full coronary heart attacks can be horrifying what it'll do to you, and thats if you survive it at all. And contemplate buying one of those Apple or Samsung watches that'll call an ambulance if you collapse.

The real annoying thing about the climate stuff, is in 2026 we have all the knowledge in place to actually solve this cursed problem. Its literally cheaper to get power out of renewables than almost any other means, and if we are prepared for a lead time and a bit of cost, we are quite capable of going nuclear too, if we sort out the red tape and bullshit. But 50% of the population vote for parties that campaign on "DIG BABY DIG! PHYSICS IN THE SKY IS A COMMUNIST PLOT" and the other 50% of the population are content to let their slightly less mouth foaming prefered party move deck chairs around on the titanic and not a knob of goatshit ever gets done.

Appropriateness of the response to the emergency is part of the legal considerations. Congress granted the power for a reason. Taking that and assuming it means arbitrary power is not operating within the law, not for Trump, not for Biden.

In what way? Please correct me.

Bah. If a human driver increased their safety and reliability by avoiding certain situations, would you call them a worse driver for it?

They provide full access to the regulators, and they've allowed academic researchers full access. Putting it all online would be more transparent, but they're a business and they have up and coming competitors.

Do you honestly believe that mass debt forgiveness -- after COVID was already over! -- was a necessary emergency response to the pandemic? Suspending payments (and interest) during the pandemic made perfect sense, and that was not struck down. I don't recall that it was even challenged.

No, the debt forgiveness clearly had nothing to do with the (already-ended) emergency, it was just an attempt to skirt the law, and the courts were quite correct to strike it down as executive overreach. If Biden wanted to do that, he should have lobbied Congress to change the law. He didn't do that, of course, because he knew Congress would refuse -- even though his party held both houses.

Your comment mischaracterizes what has happened. The Supreme Court has absolutely bent over backwards to let Trump do what he wants in temporary rulings, including jumping in to to stay lower-court orders that no previous court would even have responded to. But their on-the-merits rulings, when they have to issue a full opinion, have been much less friendly to Trump. There have been some incredibly bad ones (e.g. immunity) but Trump has lost more than he has won in SCOTUS final judgements.

It has seemed to me, for a very long time, that modern AI systems would need to be integrated with standard RDBMS systems for reliable persistant storage of raw information, some sort of no-sql database (memcache or some variant) for persistant storage of associations, some sort of document database for blocks of textual information, a SPARQL system for searching semantically-marked information within the document database, and a more old-fashioned back-propogation NN to provide a store of understanding that the user can directly manipulate.

Probabalistic classifiers are all fine and good, but only for a subset of the tasks needed. The above structure is a very loose, wildly-speculative initial framework. It's almost certain that if you actually tried building an integrated multi-model system, that you'd end up making a lot of changes to this basic idea, but that you'd end up having to implement the same core concepts that are identified in it.