Microsoft is pivoting to become an entertainment company, the Copilot being the final form of what Microsoft Bob has always wanted to become.

Theoretically, courts and judges exist precisely to balance the word and the spirit, and find and judge the actual intent. In practice, I'm in awe that good judgments still happen, despite everything.

But it is running, that's the mystery.

Cool, I always wanted to invade Belgium. Maybe if my plan is good, I could run a successful gofundme?

Hey, if Margaret Thatcher's son can give it a go, why not you? Believe in yourself and reach for those dreams. *sparkle emoji*

Sad. I had this pipe dream of an Apple Silicon system made as a PCIe endpoint, so a Mac Pro could be a coordinator and host to like 4 of such systems in a cluster with very fast interconnect. Imagine the possibilities.

Looks like you are a “harbinger of failure”, like me. I have this fondness for products that ultimately fail.

You try to touch low level HTTP with Python, and once you dive into both RFC2616 and Python deep enough, your brain is cooked, basically. Look at what happened to the author of requests, a textbook example.

Or maybe it is that your brain is cooked already, or is on the brink, and your condition attracts you to HTTP and Python, after which it basically has you.

The only way to not go bonkers is to design a library by commitee, so that the disease spreads evenly and doesn't hit any one individual with full force. The result will be ugly, but hopefully free of drama.

On one hand, that account of the attempted project takeover smelled to me like Jia Tan.

On the other hand, the comments the MkDocs author is making about perceived gender grievances feel so unhinged that I wouldn't be touching anything made by them with a barge pole.

> On one hand, that account of the attempted project takeover smelled to me like Jia Tan.

Oleh was basically the sole maintainer for many years, and the development basically stopped when he left.

Yes, I know you can be legit, but when you first contribute a few useful things, then jump to maintainership and want keys to the kingdom, the pattern looks similar (sans the last step which is embedding some backdoor). At least in how the article described it.

$2k of unconditional income means that the most basic bread at your store will cost $150 a loaf, and a bar of butter $180, $200 if unsalted.

This also seems wildly unrealistic. In a world where we need UBI because automation is destroying most jobs, I'd also expect food to get cheaper. In fact, I think almost everything would get cheaper except real estate, which is actually where I worry you'd see the kind of inflation you're talking about.

IMO this cannot work unless there is enforcement to do such work. Most people would prefer to take their money and do fuck all in return.

If I was a dictator that wanted to institute UBI, I would do it in exchange for every beneficient getting literally conscripted once in a while to do those shit jobs.