You mean Love & Thunder? That was the 4th one.

His encounter with Carol seems to have clued him in to the idea that “wait, maybe there IS some value in interacting with them, in order to learn about them” so he’s not completely dogmatic. And yo ve fair, Carol definitely treated them the same, at first.

Badass, for sure, but I get the distinct impression that he’s NOT a terribly good dude, either.

I could be proven wrong, since we still know so little about him, but he seems to have NO personal reason to hate the joined, like Carol does, and yet he is SO much more extreme about all this than she is. From refusing food to refusing medical care to burning his car to the extreme physical peril he puts himself through, none of his actions with regard to the joined seem like those of a reasonable person. It makes me think he’s more than just highly motivated, he’s got a few screws loose, and eventually we’re gonna see this expressed in ways other than just resisting the joined.

Looking forward to either option.

I don’t hate Carol as a person, but I certainly don’t like her much. LOVE her chatacter and portrayal, and LOVE seeing someone unlikeable thrust into the situation.

By doing something every human naturally does, that she’s been trained for like 40 years to understand is harmless.

The fact that all of humany was PUT in a position where something normally harmless could kill them is NOT her fault.

Case in point: I’m just engaging NOW, after finally catching up with the show.

Tell you what, I’ll just link a couple of recent posts/comments from elsewhere:

https://midwest.social/comment/22303985

https://midwest.social/post/42063982

Vast improvements. No regrets. Still working through a few growing pains, though.

Well, THAT wasn’t on my bingo card. More power to 'em, I guess.

I never really understood the appeal of jQuery, it doesn’t do anything that you can’t do natively, and it’s not like it does any of the things it DOES do significantly better than native. Just not worth the cost of adding a dependency, for me.

No no, nothing like that. There just seems to be a baseline attitude in the blog post that monetization is the end goal of all OSS. Like, the idea that OSS developers deserve to be compensated fairly for their work, I fully support, but I don’t read that as the argument being made here. It reads more as “OSS is no longer a viable way to make money, so I’m going closed-source.”

There’s a big difference between being an adult and seeing everything exclusively through the lens of how it can be used to turn a profit for yourself or some other capitalist.

No shade at all on this guy’s expertise or work, or even the point about LLMs being made. But based on this I’d have to say this is not written by a software developer. This is written by a businessman in the software industry.

5 Repeat until completion

What the fuck IS completion here? Just running indefinitely until the user manually kills the loop?

The generator episode infuriated me greatly, yes. I still really enjoyed the show and am looking forward to more.

It’s kinda remarkable, because there’s depictions of practical engineering later on in the show that are very good.

Season 2 in particular ends with the best depiction of a particular theme I’ve ever seen.

It’s a hobby that allows for a LOT of different types of creative expression, does not require any monetary investment to get started in, or to pursue long term, and even has a small chance to MAKE you money, if it turns out you enjoy it enough to purse that end. It has the potential to make a GREAT hobby.

The Owl House, for sure.

Also, Infinity Train comes to mind.

2018’s Christmas Chronicles was an instant staple for us.

I enjoyed my brief time with gRPC and protobuf, when I was trying them out, and I’d happily use them again, but I think it’s obvious why JSON and REST are more dominant.

For one, gRPC works great for simple server/client apps, but it makes them VERY tightly coupled. If your product is an API itself, open for public use, tight coupling is a hindrance more than a benefit.

And more to the point… have you ever tried to DEBUG gRPC traffic? The efficiency of gRPC is top notch, t optimizes for serialization, deserialization, and bandwidth, all at once. But JSON is human readable, and when you throw in HTTP compression, the efficiency is close enough to protobuf to serve the vast majority of scenarios. JSON is just far more practical.

Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The “Visual Studio Mode” doesn’t really help.

On top of that, I’ve had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.

I don’t think so. As far as I’m aware, it’s never come up before. The way it would play out, I think, would be something like…

• Future president issues an EO or whatever rescinding the pardon. This doesn’t really accomplish anything, though. It’s really just a signal to the DoJ that the president proooobably wants them to pursue charges against the individual in question. Which they’ve probably already discussed directly.
• DoJ brings charges against the individual.
• The individual, files a motion for dismissal of charges, on the grounds of the prior pardon.
• The judge hears arguments from the DoJ about why that pardon should be considered invalid, and rules one way or the other. If I had to guess, I’d say most judges would rule that the existing pardon can’t be overturned, as it’s a power defined explicitly in the Constitution, and overturning pardon’s isn’t.
• Regardless of the ruling, the decision gets appealed and escalated through the appeals court system to work out the final outcome.