RealID is so important to security, it can't be used to prove you are a U.S. citizen. So says DHS, the people administering the RealID program.

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

Provide the the system with the same model, the same prompt, and the same sequence of numbers, and you WILL get the same answer, regardless of how complex the question is, or who asks it.
In theory.

In fact you don't. I gave you already an example, two potential outputs have the same probability, does not not matter which one. So the system has to pick.

The only way to be deterministic would be if the random number generator at the moment of choosing the output, would always be the same number.

Perhaps you want to nitpick about that ... no idea.

There are other reasons when the NN behind the LLM and AI is not deterministic. For example when the traversal through the NN is cut in some directions based on time spent or power used.

If you want to nitpick that the fundamental code is deterministic, you have a point. However we are talking about the user experience. Unless the LLM is just a "Search Engine" and the result is backed up by some Wikipedia articles or similar, and the LLM just makes a summary: it will always give a different answer.

Just try it, ask it to write an Haiku containing the Words "Nonglak, Luck, Dance" and as season spring.

Every time you try: you get a different result.

Works for every vehicle.

Hint: the world is bigger than your Oyster.

If it does not work in your yahoo land, then there might be a reason. Perhaps you can figure the reason and tell us?

Which will mostly be when the drivers sleep: at night.

Stupid nitpickers.

Former males, aka females with male DNA, have an unfair advantage in competitive sports, as they still have the muscle power and bones: of a male.

Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff.
That is wrong.
The area has nothing to do with it.

Agile actually means what the word implied to mean: being agile to change direction, up to canceling the project if it is clear we are going nowhere. Fail fast, fail early, instead of burning a lot of money and time.

Has absolutely nothing to do about the segment of the software development.

And web development - seems to be an anathema for "real developers" - certainly does not really require any "agile" mind set. Because it is rather simple and there are no challenges that imply that you have to adapt "agile" to.

P2P does not reduce the data.

If 10 people need 100MB each, it is 1GB in total.

Does not matter if the original server only sends 10% to each of them and they share them amoung each other.

Everyone of them is downloading 100MB ... just not from the original server.

Well, it is not possible to verify that you are correct.
As this: They are fully orthogonal.
That is simply wrong.
And this: I am an agnostic atheist. 100% agnostic, and 100% atheist. is simply impossible.

As Atheist you are convinced/know there are no gods. As Agnostics, you try to stay on the save side, and consider: there might be gods, but you do not care about them.

It is not possible to be convinced something does not exist and in the same breath say, well there might be something.

If 1% of what you write about yourself is right: you are an Agnostics, and not an Atheist at all.

Are you answering to the wrong person?

I did not claim any such things.

I pointed out that the roman salute and the nazi salute are the same, except for the words.

Ave Maria is not translated as Heil Maria, in German. No idea what you want to say.

In that document, he designed the system that would result in mass oppression and murder
I am not aware that he designed such a system.
Perhaps you want to cite a few lines from him?

"One that sought to have people living like ants in dormitories attached to factories." That is Frank Herbert, not Karls Marx.

I did not talk about computer programs being consciousness.
I pointed out that LLMs are _artificial_ non deterministic.
In other words: ask 2 times the same thing, you get different answers, if the question is complex enough.
Or if it is asked by two different people.

That tracking makes sense, but it is not stored in the LLM you are interacting with, but kept separate to train the next generation.