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Sure, why not? I’ll send an email tomorrow.

sxan,
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They’re not kids anymore. Eleven just got married. No way they can pass them off as younger now.

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How so? Like the ones they’ve done before? The season jumps ahead a few years? That’s what I’m expecting; I guess I’m saying it’s not quite right still calling them “kids.”

They could do something like X-Men: Days of Future Past, where the Earth has become a sort out Vecna hellish nightmare and they go back in time to fix it, maybe run into their younger selves, or around themselves, like the DS-9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations. It’d be a pretty sad knock-off plot device, and it’d be expensive for them to run an entire season like that.

Anyway, all I was saying that they’re not kids anymore. I think it was the recent announcement of Millie Bobby Brown’s marriage that really made me aware of how much time has passed. Season 1 first aired 8 years ago.

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That’s probably wise. 90’s nostalgia seems to be “in” these days.

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Oof, I mean, CGI can go a long way, but still… some actors stay young-looking (Johnny Depp did, for a long time), but it’s a large cast and not all of them will. And they have to do it for an entire season, which gets expensive.

But, we’ll see. My money’s on a fast-forward into the 90’s, like someone else suggested.

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This cannot be emphasized or repeated enough. Before the acquisition, Boeing was led and run by engineers. After the acquisition, MBAs and Finance people were put in charge.

This happens at all large companies, eventually, and it’s why they all inevitably shit the bed. It’s just in this case, it’s killing a lot of people in the process.

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Loved that novel; it was one of the first Discworld books I read. And Pratchett had a great way of representing the fundamental truths of governments of whatever structure, except that we should be so lucky to have as brilliant (and, perhaps ironically, benevolent in that he mainly just wants things to function smoothly, despite his Machiavellian ethics) a statesman as The Patrician in charge.

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People seem to hate the concept of enshittification for some reason

Probably because it makes everything more shitty for everyone but the shareholders. I don’t believe that CEO’s like knowing that that everybody hates what they’re doing: their customers hate them, their employees hate them, and they know it. But I’d they don’t satisfy the shareholders, they get fired - just as you say.

The infuriating thing is that it isn’t about profit; it’s about maximizing profit. Companies can be profitable without enshittification. It’s the sin of gluttony that drives profit maximization, and the best thing these people can hope for is that the atheists are right and there is no heaven, because they’re for sure going to hell for bald-faced greed.

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    sxan,
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    1. They absolutely do design it for the intended users: themselves. It just isn’t you. They’re scratching their own itch, not your’s.
    2. The OP opinion conflates free/paid with closed/open source. Paid software can still be open source, and so beholden to the paying customers. Free software can be closed source.
    3. The objection is really someone who isn’t contributing anything complaining that people giving away something for free aren’t acting like they owe them something.

    This is a Choosy Begger situation. Want someone to work for you? Pay them. It has nothing to do with whether the software is open source, but whether it’s free or paid.

    sxan,
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    Spell check won’t fix stupidity, or bad grammar. “Their” -> “They’re”.

    sxan,
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    Archaeopteryx… archeozoic… archeobacteria… dammit, neither can I!

    sxan,
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    That may be what they meant, but that’s not what it says.

    sxan,
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    You can’t install FireDragon on any other Linux distribution?

    sxan,
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    It bugs me a little that he calls it “water” at one point; it’s literally not water, and I’m pretty sure he’s aware of that.

    sxan,
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    They hate it for different reasons, though, and the devil is in the details.

    sxan,
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    This is true of any ideology. Heretics have always been prosecuted and punished far more vigorously than pagans.

    sxan,
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    Sorry to hear that about your dad. I’ve got two of those in our family, too. Well, my dad would be, but he was a cop himself once and is a staunch, practicing Christian and I think his ethos is founded on profound respect for authority - even if he doesn’t agree with them. The one placed he breaks any laws is a tenancy to speed on rural roads. My MIL, on the other hand, is practically an anarchist, except not really; she just thinks she should be in charge, and everyone should be doing what she believes. She’s the one with dementia, and even if I didn’t think QAnon/OAnon weren’t insane grifters, I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to her. She wouldn’t be nearly so bad if she didn’t consume that idiocy.

    Dementia destroys families. It really helps if the person was diagnosed early and accepts the diagnosis and gets medication. Undiagnosed, or late diagnosis, of Alzheimer’s and dementia is the worst case. Paranoia is a common symptom, and once they decided that it’s not that they’re not going crazy but that The System and their family is out to get them, it’s just a living hell.

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    My condolences. I have some people in the family who are furious with my MIL, and I keep having to remind them that it’s the disease. I’m probably the most patient with her, but even I struggle to be with her for any length of time without getting angry, even with the knowledge that it’s not her.

    My step-father is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, and he’s been on medication from the start, which has been a mixed blessing. He’s hung on for longer than usual, but just stays on this side of palliative/hospice. It’s sad because he’s such a drain on my mother. He’s much easier to deal with than my un-diagnosed (and refusing to see any doctors) MIL, but my mom says the hardest thing about my step-father is that he’s not the man she married, and it’s like living with a complete stranger. It’s eerily similar to what my wife says about her mother: she says her mom died years ago, and the woman in her body is a stranger.

    Personally, after these experiences, I have warned my entire family, and have an agreement with my wife, that if I start to decline in this way, before it gets that bad we’re going to take a visit to Switzerland and I’m going to get in a Sarco Pod. No shade on people who don’t want to do this, but I neither want to experience it, nor inflict my symptoms on my loved ones.

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    sxan,
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    Does it run on ActivityPub? Is it federated?

    https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-12-2018/HfTOkO.gif

    sxan,
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    And so raised rents on themselves.

    They’re killing the company so they can feast on the carcass. I get it; it’s not like it was a thriving chain with a lot of prospects for future growth. I just think the title of the article implied something different than what’s really happening.

    sxan,
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    So, I’m curious: do you feel soiled?

    I once worked for a company that I, in retrospect, wish I hadn’t. It wasn’t as bad as a VC firm (in my opinion), but it did leave me feeling… dirty. not so bad that I’ve committed my life to charity, but it certainly has changed and drastically limited the kinds of companies at which I’m willing to apply for jobs.

    sxan,
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    Wow. I’m really sorry about that, but I’m glad things turned out better for you. Did you consider completing your degree?

    sxan,
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    I agree that his team has been extraordinarily incompetent, for months.

    He has handlers. They all do; they employ strategists to plan and coordinate getting them elected. Biden has a full time job being president; he’s not managing his election campaign directly. His failing is employing completely incompetent campaign managers.

    sxan,
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    Oh, believe me, I don’t. At all. I’ve been working in the software engineering sector since the mid 90’s; I’m quite aware of the rapid pace of change in this sector. I was briefly considering a focus on AI when getting my degree, back in the early 90’s.

    But this specifically mentions LLMs, and the fundamental way LLMs function is not going to lead to self-aware AI, or any sort of system that is going to be able to self-evaluate for accuracy or “truthiness.” It’s going to take an advance in neural net science; maybe in combination with LLM - but LLMs by themselves will only ever be dumb machines that generate predictive text based on - I don’t know, Bayesian probabilities, or whatever.

    sxan,
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    And all of those things are then analyzed and verified before anything is done with them. No reputable scientist is taking those results and dumping it straight into a paper; the deep learning engines are pointing scientists in the right direction; they’re taking the haystack and making it a handful. Protein folding is a little different because the results can be directly verified programmatically (I think; I’m not an organic chemist, or biologist, or whoever is doing this research).

    The output of LLMs can be great outlines. They can also be wildly, and confidently, wrong.

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