You should have bought a squirrel.

Has he actually said he’d pardon anyone but himself?

I don’t anticipate him doing anything that doesn’t benefit himself based on his previous behavior.

Being born in the same town means there is a high chance of it being a relative of the girl and her grandmother.

Microsoft and Nvidia are investing but they are both positioned to gain a return on investment by cloud hosting and hardware sales respectively.

Apple dropping out indicates they saw behind the curtain, did the math and realized they can create their own platform for less.

There is no path to profitability for them. Unlike other recent billion dollar tech companies there are no human workers to squeeze. Hardware doesn’t work for less than minimum wattage.

Just a moment. Need to find the tweezers and magnifying glass.

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”

👏Always👏be👏refactoring👏

It would be easier to record than upload. Since upload requires at least a decode steps. Given the fleeting nature of existence how does one confirm the decoding? This also requires we create a simulated brain, which seems more difficult and resource intensive than forming a new biological brain remotely connected to your nervous system inputs.

Recording all inputs in real time and play them back across a blank nervous system will create an active copy. The inputs can be saved so they can be played back later in case of clone failure. As long as the inputs are record until the moment of death, the copy will be you minus the death so you wouldn’t be aware you’re a copy. Attach it to fresh body and off you go.

Failure mode would take your literal lifetime to reform your consciousness but what’s a couple decades to an immortal.

We already have the program to create new brains. It’s in our DNA. A true senior developer knows better than to try and replicate black box code that’s been executing fine. We don’t even understand consciousness enough to pretend we’re going to add new features so why waste the effort creating a parallel system of a black box.

Scheduled reboots of a black box system is common practice. Why pretend we’re capable of skipping steps.

And you’re obsessed with giant cocks. This is very interesting. A therapist could write a book on you.

Hating an operating system such that someone wouldn’t use it in exchange for a million dollars is quite the flex.

Congratulations! You’ve leveled up in the game of life.

Unfortunately much of the world feels entitled to the labor of others and refuses to acknowledge the mental gymnastics we accept as a society.

One has to look no further than the way we treat food service employees. People demand to be served. They feel they are entitled to their basic human needs being serviced while blaming those servicing them for being under valued.

It’s sick and twisted; our society is mentally ill.

Same. I’ve had several refunds. No request to return. Just full money back.

I don’t think people recognize how often a purchase made to Amazon or some similar seller platform is actually coming straight from China; always with a 2x or more mark up.

I’ve taken to always searching on ali to see if I can get the same thing for 1/10 the price. They don’t try to hide the shipping information like Amazon does. Where as Amazon won’t report anything until it’s in country and passed customs.

The rainbow table would have to include every four word combination. At around half a million words in the English dictionary, that’s not a small number.

As another XKCD comic illustrates, it’s cheaper to use a wrench.

I don’t know what to tell you that could satisfy your internal struggle here. If you have a style worth stealing it will be stolen. Copyright doesn’t protect that.

For what copyright does protect, it is only enforceable if you have the funds to protect it.

The system wasn’t designed for people like you, it was literally designed during the same time in which only the wealthy were able to peruse art. It was created to protected monied interests, not the commoner.

If you expect to make a living on your art, you need to plan to collect earnings up front. Commissioned work is exactly that.

This idea that you’re going to create some initial idea and then coast on it for life does not align with any reality.

Sometimes, if you create something new and interesting, you’ll end up with a following and they will fund your endeavors but there will still be copycats and you either waste your life perusing that or spend your life perusing your art. You cannot do both. Paying someone else to peruse your “rights” doesn’t change this equation, you’d be creating to fund the protection. Enforce it too hard and your fans will turn on you, as the original post here illustrates.

There is no winning move via copyright that leads to the land of riches. That’s the problem. That’s what copyright is bullshit.

It’s not designed to protect us but so long as the monied interests can convince us otherwise, we’ll go along with it like temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Always convinced if we’d play the game too, we could win.

The system is rigged and it’s not in your favor. Whatever appears to favor you is a facade meant of not to keep you playing the game.

C should show some overflow corruption of the problem graphic.

All of the scenarios occur today. Every single one of them.

You do see that, right?

Artistry predates copyright law.

I hope the ChatGPT and its siblings bring about the end of copyright. Unfortunately it’s more likely we’ll pervert the idea of personhood yet again and claim these things are people same as was done with corporations.

And why do they make those offers? Perhaps because you’re complaining about your device and the problems are things that Apple users never encounter?

And that doesn’t explain why android users complain in pseudo-anonymous forums about Apple users. Apple users aren’t making memes about how android users are foolish.

If it’s because real life friends and family suggest they get an iPhone, that’s incredibly passive aggressive.

Constantly amused at how hard android users defend their choice and act like it’s iPhone users doing the same.

Always reminds me of the way right wing / Trump supporters behave. They are obsessed with liberals and the Democratic Party in then same way android users are obsessed iPhone users and Apple.

As an iPhone user, I spend no time thinking about android users and I certainly don’t post threads looking for others to validate my purchase.