Yes, at a very cinematic 24 fps

The problem is that without some credentialing process, it's very hard to show that a person can actually do things. This creates perverse incentives such as cheating on exams (and generating thousands of low-effort AI-generated PRs for every github project...)

This sort of thing never happens outside of the united states. Nosiree, everywhere else is a paragon of the moral highground.

So do you think having easily-cheated exams is progress? Do the benefits of remote exams outweigh the cost?

Every piece of technology is riddled with flaws, the financial system is pretty much an unpredictable casino, and healthcare is in the toilet. Maybe we should more aggressively filter out the pipeline that creates the professionals that keep our society running?

What an utterly naive interpretation of world history you have. I can assure you, if you'd been a Jew being rounded up for extermination in WW2 you'd have a different opinion. Likewise, if you were Chinese or Korean being subjugated by Imperial Japan, you'd have a different perspective. There is such a thing as a "just war" even though you somehow ignore the concept. It's usually when your opponent starts the war and is hell bent on eradicating you and your way of life.

Alas, you sit there in perfect safety and comfort, passing judgement on those who sacrificed fa more than you can ever imagine so you could impugn their sacrifices.

Banned for who? And who's going to enforce this ban?

You have to remember any treaty (a) must have signatories that agree to follow it and (b) there must be a method of enforcement. If you lack either of these two conditions, the treaty has no effect.

Not sure how you think you could pull that off, but whatever.

Again...exactly how do you plan to accomplish this? It's not like Iran hasn't been firing missiles at our carriers this whole time. Yeah, it's a halfhearted effort by the Iranians, but what exactly do you think would happen to Iran if you managed to even damage one of our carriers, much less sink one? I can describe it thusly: the American gloves would come off. Iran would be plastered into oblivion via conventional bombardment, and there's very little Iran could do to stop it. Sure, we'd take losses, but the Iranian regime would cease to exist in totality. America has had this option available to it since day one. We haven't exercised it. Not because we couldn't do it but because we chose not to. Do not mistake restraint for a lack of capability.

Wow this comment came off weirdly aggressive, but whatever.

Those companies are all run by people that are by-and-large not computer experts, pay a lot for software, and are just salivating that the idea of not paying so much for software. They've been sold a fantasy by the AI con-artists, and now they can't possibly change course because that would be embarrassing. The entire AI industry is an incredibly successful con at this point.

What were they doing before? Boiling the oceans, buying all the ram in the world, gaslighting investors (Mythos is scary! we can't show you but trust us!); they have never been about anything *but* the detriment of all.

Yeah, it's a funny mistake assuming anyone on slashdot in 2026 is young...

I have been off of robinhood for a few years (since the gamestop thing happened) but at least as of a couple of years ago there were no transaction fees. Is that no longer true?

having a higher probability of one outcome vs another doesn't really negate the randomness though -- even probability isn't a requirement for true randomness. It only means that the outcome can't be influenced from the outside. A truly random 1-bit generator with a 10% chance of 1 and a 90% chance of zero can still be truly random. What you're describing is "a truly random number generator with a uniform distribution of outcomes"

You're assuming 6-sided dice here...

This seems like a big assumption -- it's somewhat likely that they're managing that in userspace, with a module that just does the memory mapping.

Or you're a *Really Good Teacher*