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  • I feel like it's one snap per attempt.

    Like, thanos couldn't permanently limit population, his one snap was big but finite.

    Might as well Snap away the stones. They're a thing. Much easier, very finite, just make sure you Snap away the stones deep into the past.

  • Its likely what we'd get would be a tool to create a normal mod. The tool checks for their requirements and when satisfied, rips oblivion files and repackages them.

    So a clean skyrim installed to create the mod with the tool, but once the tool is done, you could remove the clean install and use it like any other mod.

    This has been my experience with other "created from copyrighted works" overhauls, like rollercoaster tycoon for openrct2.

  • I used to work as tech support and can say that there isn't.

    For instance, in some Asian countries the shutter sound is legally mandated. Apple accomplished this by checking where you are. If the phone's region is one of those areas, It'll always make a shutter sound. If your region wasn't one of those areas, and the phone could still tell it was in the area (like a UK phone taken on vacation) It'll make the sound while it was there.

    There's a bunch of ways to implement that, but the employee-facing article detailing this feature specified that a user who was from one of those countries but moved here could factory restore the phone to get it unregulated again.it had employees who were asked to do that to verify they weren't in the original country anymore as a "cover your ass" legal disclaimer kind of thing.

    This was multiple iPhone generations ago, now, but I doubt they've changed. Economies of scale say having one process is easier.

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  • Yes but that doesn't mean they're not important in ensuring there isn't a messaging monopoly.

    Obviously in an ideal world we'd have multiple interconnected secure apps with some cross-platform interoperability, but until then I'll settle for one government/corporation not having all of everyone's private conversations.

  • This Republican was a voice against it, however.

    There is a minority of Republicans that have actual republican values and are being drowned out, similarly to the socialists within the democratic party.

    Its rare to see one, they have to hide now, leaving the typical "Republican" as a far right soulless thing. But this might be an instance of it.

  • Hypothetically, yes, but during covid was when a company had to truly learn the work-at-home model. Some succeeded, some failed, but the reality is it was an excuse not to try. Automated is cheaper, and laying off employees because a pandemic has closed doors is a great excuse.

    "I'm sorry, due to an abundance of caution we are unwilling to reopen the offices and do not have the infrastructure to have you work securely from home, so we're going to have to furlough everyone until further notice"

    Then they have a month testing the automated system and hit "good enough" by their standards so then they say the furlough becomes a layoff and everyone loses.

  • Lots of people want adjacent room lights or beyond to be on.

    I turn all the lights in my house on at night, despite the savings loss, because I just prefer being able to see into other rooms. (I also use 100w-equivalent bulbs, to really boost the brightness).

    Some people have fears, rational or irrational, about the dark. Children, people paranoid about someone breaking in, etc.

    Some people feel pets should be able to see where they're going.

  • So, most windows installations come with an OEM key because it came pre-installed. OEM keys, last I knew, don't have this support, because the manufacturer is responsible for that.

    If you bought a lenovo laptop, its on lenovo.

    But anyone has been able to buy windows directly with a standard license key and windows supports those computers directly. I've never bothered to use it but I worked with people who did and (again, last I knew, some 10+ years ago) they got someone with a thick accent reading from some support article who didn't know what they were about.

    But they could call. Technically that's support.

  • Just wanna throw in a voice saying your setup sounds completely fine to me. Maybe it's a bit odd but it also sounds like how I'd do it if I had storage needs that large.

    My current storage needs are currently met with a 2.5" SSD connected to a raspberry pi shared with samba over WiFi though so I'm pretty sure every storage nerd in here is gonna tell me my opinion doesn't count, take it with a grain of salt.

  • I dunno about pricing back then but the issue is the amount of wealth that can be generated from a situation like that.

    Like, hypothetically, let's split your grandfather into two people. A landlord, and a maintenance guy hired to maintain those properties, getting paid a fair wage.

    Would the landlord make money, after paying a mortgage and his maintenance man?

    If the answer is no, then becoming a landlord isn't financially beneficial, and your grandfather could've just been a handyman, and made a steadier income, his money not directly dependent on whether or not someone paid rent.

    If the answer is yes, then your grandfather made more money than his labor was worth. While he earned money doing labor, the real issue is the money he earned by doing nothing. It's likely your grandfather made quite a bit more money than his labor was worth, given the fact that property management companies live entirely off of the price difference from labor put into housing and the price they can charge.

    Landlords are middlemen. They're used car salesman for houses. Are there landlords that aren't shitty? Yeah. My last landlord was awesome, he actually sold me the house I was renting, when I told him I was gonna buy a house and start my family. He was nice, reasonable, all those things. The total rent at the time (pre-covid, so a lot better than now, and split among 6 people) was 2250$, and my mortgage worked out to be 900$.

    Did your grandfather put effort in? Yes. Did he make money doing nothing? Also yes, the difference between what his labor was worth and what he got paid.

    That margin didn't come from his labor or his smart investments, it came from other people trying to live, and potentially created hardships. If his tenants could've paid for the actual cost of housing instead of whatever your grandfather charged, that might mean another kid got to go to college, a father getting to retire earlier, a family that could've worked 1 job instead of 2.

    Your grandfather is probably fine, he likely understood hardships and acted like a human being, but he still belonged to a class of people that are better off if they find ways to minimize the amount of money other people have. Some people judge others for taking what they don't need.

  • I do agree it's not realistic, but it can be done.

    I have to assume the people that allow the AI to generate 10,000 answers expect that to be useful in some way, and am extrapolating on what basis they might have for that.

    Unit tests would be it. QA can have a big back and forth with programming, usually. Unlike that, QA can just throw away a failed solution in this case, with no need to iterate on that case.

    I mean, consider the quality of AI-generated answers. Most will fail with the most basic QA tools, reducing 10,000 to hundreds, maybe even just dozens of potential successes. While the QA phase becomes more extensive afterwards, its feasible.

    All we need is... Oh right, several dedicated nuclear reactors.

    The overall plan is ridiculous, overengineered, and solved by just hiring a developer or 2, but someone testing a bunch of submissions that are all wrong in different ways is in fact already in the skill set of people teaching computer science in college.

  • Well actually there's ways to automate quality assurance.

    If a programmer reasonably knew that one of these 10,000 files was the "correct" code, they could pull out quality assurance tests and find that code pretty dang easily, all things considered.

    Those tests would eliminate most of the 9,999 wrong ones, and then the QA person could look through the remaining ones by hand. Like a capcha for programming code.

    The power usage still makes this a ridiculous solution.

  • Most that would die in the street would have an underlying condition, like ague or bleeding or even old age, since most people that starve would try to do something about it.

    If you're sick you might not be able to. If you find a job or charity successfully you've averted the death. If you tried to steal and fail you'll get on the executed list, or if you got wounded but got away, you'll be on the bleeding list, or if you succeed then you dont die on the street.

    I imagine those six would have the "died of unknown causes" phrase attached to them in modern times.