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There's a comic in which he gets annihilated and regenerates from a single surviving cell. Or from the ashes, or something. In any car, I remember it implying that his power exists beyond his physical body, because when he regenerates he isn't a mental infant - he still had his memories, even though his brain was destroyed.

However.

In the super-hero genre there's a tenancy to one-upmanship. Later artists amplify the powers of the character more and more until they are like unto gods. Superman may be the best example of this; in one series he goes and hangs out at the center of the sun for a few centuries and comes out omnipotent. If you go back to his roots in the mid-century, he was a super man, but not a god. Wolverine kept getting more and more powerful as the decades went on, until that arc where he regenerates from a single cell. I don't think the original creator imagined him being that indestructible.

This is a really good point.

I've always believed - against all legal definitions - that the theft in piracy was (e.g.) copying music and then selling it. Copying for self-use is not theft.

I freely admit the distinction is morally shakey, and you could argue that in both cases the actual theft is depriving the owner of potential monetary gain, but reselling something pirated - in my mind - crosses an ethical line.

AI companies are unethical not because they pirate media, but because they then resell derivatives. If they trained their LLMs and then gave the models away for free, that would be another matter.

Another example: for decades, I resold my programming skills to companies. However, I paid good money for those skills, via my CIS degree, with the explicit understanding of the instructors and the outrageously priced books, that I would be reselling it. LLM scrapers aren't paying anything for the training data. They avoid what little opportunity they have for moral justification.

LLMs are good for some things:

dicewithellen Jun 7, 2017 🟠 Follow

It’s time to roll the dice... with Ellen!

fuckersupreme

Man, fucking Ellen. Every so often she rings me up or shoots me a text asking if I wanna play dice with her and every so often I start to try to say no, but she fucking picks up on that so fast and her fun quirky demeanor drops. No longer laughing and being bubbly, she starts to remind me of the file she has in her possession that would simply ruin me if it fell into the wrong hands. And so with tears in my eyes I reluctantly agree to play dice with Ellen. It’s always in a back alley behind some strip mall. Gross and rank. Ellen hunched over a damp piece of cardboard she insists on is her roll the dice on. I always ask Ellen, I say Ellen you’re so rich and famous, can’t we please play dice in like a highrise penthouse or something? Thinking of the nice all you can eat buffet that would surely be there. All highrise penthouses have all you eat buffets. I’m pretty sure it’s like some sort of requirement. If I’m going play fucking dice with Ellen, let me at least get my fill on some slightly warmer than room temp fries. But she always just grunts a no, and then rolls her dice, not looking at me at all. And holy shit, I’m not a man who believes in luck but… Ellen is not just a believer because she has to be the unluckiest person in the world. Every roll she does, pure shit. I don’t even really know how to play dice but fuck, I play like some kinda world champ when I play with her. And fuck, her goddamn temper. It doesn’t take much to set her off. Screaming and shouting and huffing and puffing. This fucking back alley we play in has a number of cracks in the walls from her just pounding her fists into them after each of my rolls. Fucking cracks. Brick walls. Fucking cracks. At the end of the game when I inevitably beat her, she pulls out a knife and just slices or stabs me before running off into the shadows to go fucking goofy white lady dance as she interviews Channing Tatum or something, fuck!

And holy shit, speak of the devil, would you look at this...

Text conversation]

Ellen(devil): Hey Punk you there? Answer me punk, it's dice time.

User: Please... Ellen...

Ellen(devil): Cool pic of me showing Famous Actor Chriss Pratt your secret. See him laughing like that? He couldn't stop. Wonder how other people would react... hmm...

So I guess I’m playing dice tonight, and then paying the hospital a visit to attend to my future stab wounds. But I guess it beats the alternative of having people find out I sit on the toilet backwards, god how embarrassing.

Alligator. Venison. Duck. Butterfish. Trout. Mussels.

Brendan Fraser is really young in this photo.

You only see it that way because of your age. Old people have mostly aged out of those behaviors, but believe me, people have been doing all of those things you list for as long as the technology to do them has.

people who ate as little as one hot dog a day

Who TF is eating a hot dog every day? That's their idea of a minimum amount of a particular food?

New headcanon.

Except that one is automatically versioned and would have saved you this pain, and the other relies on you actively remembering to reflexively commit, and then do extra work to clean up your history before sharing, and once you push, it's harder to change history and make a clean version to share.

These days, there's little excuse to not use COW with automated snapshots in addition to your normal, manual, VCS activities.

And I believed them. I was responding to the comment about not understanding the hate for AI generated images.

Harder to encrypt though, so I question "more secure."

    
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Very info. Much useful.

Become homeless, I suppose.

Can't get into my bank? Work won't let me in because they don't recognize me? Nobody's going to hire me without ID or a background check. So I guess I'm a bum now.

Folks here hoping to reclaim their identity: how, exactly? No birth certificate, no drivers license, no passport... how, exactly, are you going to prove you're you?

People seem to love grapefruit. I can't stand it; that bitterness tastes like vomit.

I love coffee, but despite the bitterness, not because of it. I go to lengths to brew coffee with minimum bitterness, and then usually add milk just to flatten out the remaining bitterness. I can't tell it I just have oversensitive bitterness receptors, or what, but your comment about high IBU IPAs struck home. Can't stand those beers, myself.

We started with plain text. Then everything got more complicated, and everything came with its own incrutable DB. Now we've come full circle: todo.txt, calendar.txt, plain text markup documents[^1].

Some things don't need to be more complex than they are.

[^1]: Some people never left simple and straightforward, but it feels like the Eternal September happened, and fewer people stayed with simple, and now it's getting popular again.

Minneapolis. Continental US.

Most of Canada live in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver BC; Minneapolis is father north than where the bulk of the population of Canada lives.

Edit: Figured you might want a source. 70% of Canadians live South of the 49th parallel.. Minneapolis lies near the 45th parallel.

There are communities for AI generated images. The presumption for photography communities is that submissions are taken pictures.

The most popular Linux distros are binary based. Gentoo upgrades build all new software from source. If you don't want long install times, don't usr one of these compile-everything-from-source distros.

There's no option to install Windows from source, and it doesn't really come with anything more than the OS, anyway, so it's apples yto oranges. Windows might not even be compilable on consumer hardware.

Yeah, I wasn't saying it was bad; I meant only that Linux didn't have to worry about device drivers for it, because the fob handles reading the fingerprint chip.

I dunno. I have a fair number of packages installed from AUR, and the Rust ones take forever to compile. CPUs may have gotten faster, but some popular languages have gotten much slower to compile.