I have this problem in most cars, but it's because I am very tall, and most of the height is in my trunk. My arms are not especially long, so if the column isn't telescoping I generally have to sit pretty well upright to have decent ergonomics. And you also want to be sitting upright for the lap belt to work properly, if you're laid back you have the submarining problem.

Mental illness is a real problem. Encouraging it doesn't help anyone. Except for televangelists and other crooks. Those guys make a bank off of abusing the mentally ill...

I don't think so. In that case you had an already mentally Disturbed person who just happened to be listening to some heavy metal music.

In the case of that the Ozzy Osbourne album in particular the song and question is literally saying don't drink yourself to death.

basically there was no feedback. The problem with AI is it has a feedback loop where as you engage with it it is trying to keep you to keep engaging.

For suicide they already saw that was a problem and so every AI on the planet will just repeat generic instructions on how to contact suicide hotlines.

And I think the fact that they did that and it did it in such a blunt and simple manner shows that they know that their system does more than just provide an excuse for somebody who is already going to do something.

I don't think I'm expressing myself very well here. Maybe to try to put it in another way if you look at those heavy metal songs they were completely misinterpreted and the point of the songs was being actively lied about but people who didn't bother listening.

In this case there is no misinterpretation if you talk to a lot of these chat bots long enough they are happy to tell you you are God or they are God or whatever the hell it takes to keep you engaging with them and providing them with data and user bases.

It would be like if Ozzy Osbourne saw a kid killing himself and decided to write a song about how great it is to kill yourself and then he wrote 20 or 30 or 100 other songs about the same thing refining them each time to be more encouraging towards suicide.

If I wanted to use software with other licenses, I have other options. Some people even buy proprietary software!

I see you haven't read the readme on the repo.

So this is a little bit more than that. AI chatbots will reinforce mental illnesses.

If you think you're God or if you think the chatbot is God the chatbot will be happy to reinforce that because it's been programmed to encourage engagement. So it doesn't like to disagree with you and it will go out of its way to tell you what it thinks you want to hear in order to keep using it.

It's the same thing social media does but it's much worse because these advanced chatbots are good at sounding like real human beings, especially to somebody who is already struggling with some form of psychosis or mental illness.

It's not that they're creating the problem it's that they are exasperating the problem. And we really do need to do something about it. Or you know we could just have the occasional person who is already going off the deep end pushed over the edge...

So while I do love to hate a good moral panic there is something actually here to be concerned about.

All of this bullshit. And Nixon's drug war. It is a historic fact that it was started to attack Richard Nixon's political enemies. The people who architected it for Nixon felt guilty and came out about it years and years ago. I suppose if I did something that caused that much death and destruction I couldn't go to my grave with it either...

Legalize all drugs. Treat the hard stuff as a medical condition and don't allow private corporations to sell them for profit. Have the government give away hard drugs in clinics with addiction services on site. Provide drug addicts the support they need to get and stay off drugs.

It is infinitely cheaper and infinitely less cruel. If you happen to be religious it's probably what your God is commanding you to do. Especially if you're Christian. And if you're not it's just smart policy either way.

The only downside is you're going to have some people who just aren't functional human beings and never will be and we can't just slap them in prison... On the other hand the money spent tossing them in prison for no particularly good reason could be going into your pocket instead.

I would call it more in Apocalypse than a revolution but other than that yeah.

Our species is not ready to make 20 to 30% of it redundant. If you know history, and not a lot of people around here do, then you know that there was massive amounts of technological unemployment following the last two industrial revolutions.

The actual solution to that was two world wars.

I'd be lying if I said I understood all of it, but then I never claimed it had to be thrown away. What I understand is that I've been using X11 for decades, and programs I was using when I started using it will still work with it. And I've used it on machines with only megabytes and megahertz, and not too many of either. The least maybe had 4MB and 16MHz? And even that could run R5.

Maybe Wayland will make sense eventually, I don't know. It hasn't worked well for me. It also has dumb intentional limitations that make me think it's always going to be a PITA until it gets forked, so there's likely substantial chaos ahead for it before it gets good.

When people complain about DEI they are usually complaining that they are not being permitted to act like a butthole.

I use his license and software which comes under his license by choice because I agree with his views and the results are good, which is one reason I agree with them.

There is still plenty of stuff to do to improve X11, and the ecosystem. The people working on it just decided they would rather do a clean sheet implementation of a system they thought should work a different way. It turns out X was designed to do certain things and evolved to do certain things in certain ways because they were the least worst way to do them at the time, not on a humbug.

Yes, there are multiple layers and also other stuff in the way. Also, the leak can just not be easy to find on the outside at all. The part I don't really get is why they can't tell whether or not the leak is affecting other modules, but at a guess it's because the leak is slow and there's variation from thermal cycling and such that makes it difficult to monitor losses that small.

Correct he's going to steal houses of every slashdoter.

I mean yeah strictly speaking Trump is just a senile old man and it's the billionaires in the banks that are going to take your house. They will slash funding to the programs you use to keep yourself alive, you are blissfully unaware of that Chesterton's fence or literally any of the other ways our heavily interconnected economy affects you, so in a few years you'll end up bankrupt and mortgaging your house. Then the bank takes it and gives it to a billionaire.

Might be Bill gates, might be George soros, might be any one of the other 2000 some odd billionaires all vying to see who is going to be the first trillionaire

You're still going to be homeless.

By that, do you mean minimizing to just a title bar? That's a weird thing to not work, given that it's basically just not drawing a window.

Whoops, that's fair. They went concentrix, concentrix, some other employer unnamed. I wonder if it was lifted directly from TFA or if the "editor" mangled it. I guess we'll never know because of the paywall fuckery.

Those people decided it would be too hard so they did Wayland instead. Except now it's 15 years later and Wayland still doesn't do what X did, and the performance is worse as well. So they proved themselves wrong, but they're still married to their bad decision.