Specialised skills in a specialised industry are worth a fortune.

Unlike all that computer crap, which is, thankfully, finally all solved.

We can tell because our computer, phone, Internet connection, shopping websites, and government services websites all work perfectly, all the time, without any security breaches, now. (This is sarcasm).

So the older video games told me the truth! - that the slightest contact with any body of water is instantly fatal from any height.

Sounds like you’re ready to join the cult club of Debian.

It’s stable, performancet, and adaptable. Tons of window manager options. And I’ve found that anything I like from *buntu distros I can backport into Debian by finding a .deb file.

They quoted me! I’m famous, now!

MIT Professor David Tinsdale believes that concerns over automation may be overstated. “Artificial Intelligence can already beat most programmers in their three major skill-sets: writing code, automating repetitive tasks, and lying about their level of knowledge,” the Professor claims. “However, that doesn’t mean it will eliminate programming jobs. It’s just going to the nature of the work programmers do. For instance: previously, programmers spent most of their days fixing errors and writing boilerplate code. In the future, they’ll have new responsibilities – like driving an uber or filming homemade pornography.”

He did the right thing.

“Go to Browns for Agains” needed to be destroyed.

True!

I take comfort that if my kid can figure out setting up their own VPN or DNS, then I’m sure they’ll earn enough later to support their porn habit.

I’m also in the “I don’t care” camp.

A lot of us just want a piece of nostalgia that the big companies choose not to produce.

If it looks close enough that it inspires my happy nostalgia, and it plays fine in my console, that’s what I’m happy to pay for.

If the license holders are still selling the game, I’m happy to buy from them. If not, I’m happy to buy from someone else producing reasonable facsimilies (of abandonware games).

I get how someone could be upset if they thought they were getting the real thing.

I haven’t, personally, felt misled by makers of abandonware facimilies.

I’m desperately hoping for the second of those options. The MCU is way overdue for him to make his appearance.

(Edit: I liked the one we got, but it was barely a cameo. Bob deserves a recurring on screen role.)

The big ones that affect gaming are removing and reinstalling various runtimes (C++, .Net, Python, Java).

In most cases just getting them all installed side by side by side is great for both development and gaming.

But once in awhile, I just got a favorite game working, and it relies on the exact redistributable that I need to upgrade, tweak or reinstall to try out a new code library.

After procrastinating a couple times from such experiments, I started running separate gaming and dev boxes whenever possible.

I’m actually a beautiful woman. They will both have to agree to substantial surgeries before they agree to play me.

David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, with a made-up face surgery scene mid-film to explain the change.

Julian and the Grand Negus. Julian because he’s lucky at games he’s just learned, and the Negus because if the game isn’t pay-to-win today, it will be before the end of the contest.

Earth, obviously. Or rather, where we think we left it…

This also my answer, but better explained than I would have.

Wait a second, Alan Turing was a queer icon?

Yeah. He’s a queer icon, and a god among humans to computer science fans.

It breaks my heart that he didn’t get to see the current era of queer federated computing. If there’s any kind of after-life, Alan has got to be rooting for the Fediverse.

I’m officially pretty un-excited for this, since it looks like it skips right over the phase where the Thunderbolts “fake it till they make it”, and it feels like a huge missed opportunity.

But…

That poster does a great job highlighting the acting talent they have gathered. I want this to be good.

If nothing else, give us the chill lazy slightly entitled C-list villain Taskmaster that their fans have been waiting for.

Bare minimum place to start: See if you can get the team to agree that these documents should exist in every project root folder:

• README.md - What is this even for? Audience: Managers.
• CONTRIBUTING.md - What steps are needed to build this? What steps are needed to be able to run the tests? Audience: Developers.
• CHANGELOG.txt - Describes the contents of every tagged release. Audience: end users.

Stretch goal: pick a spot (readme is fine) and make a list of sources (data in) and sinks (data out). Include contact information for whoever can reset the credentials or fix the firewall.

Now hold me in the materialization phase for several minutes…

Good point.

I figured out how to remove most of the safeguards from some AI models.

Nice.

How do you feel about this?

It’s another kind of power. I try to use mine responsibly, but also to give myself a break when I don’t meet my own standards.

Some good advice I got once was that it’s impossible to “un-say” something, so it pays to think twice before speaking.

If your gut is telling you to pause, listen to it. Wait to move forward until you feel better about it.

As someone else pointed out, responsible disclosure is an option.

You also have the option to just quietly enjoy a better copy of the AI than others have.

If you decide to publish your discoveries, be aware that others will judge you for how you go about it. For me that means the two options are responsibly, or anonymously.