Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think pipx can allow you to just put a shebang at the top of a script that automatically installs all the required dependencies the first time you run it?

What I really like about this, unless I’m missing something, is that it basically lets you create Python scripts that run in exactly the same way as shell scripts. I work with a lot of people who have pretty good basic Linux knowledge, but are completely at a loss when it comes to python specific stuff. Being able to send them a script that they can just +x and run sounds like a huge hassle saver.

This already exists.

In New York wealthy business people pay small town sheriffs to deputize them. As deputies they now have a right to concealed carry, even in places like NYC that have very strict gun laws.

Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn’t complain if they did) you’d very quickly see gun violence go from “unsolvable” to “very solvable”.

Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?

In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does “something coming from this” look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?

Probably both if you can make the case for it. Funko for the false request, the registrar for not doing their due diligence in honoring it. Depending on the wording of the law the registrar may be off the hook however, so whether there’s a case to be brought there would be a question for their lawyers.

The DMCA doesn’t make false requests legal (I’m also not sure if this specific issue falls under the DMCA), but it does fail to define any meaningful penalty for making them.

We already have fission power, solar, wind, hydro, large scale battery storage, mechanical batteries (you can literally store renewable energy using a reservoir), electric cars, blimps, sail powered boats, etc, etc. We’ve had all of these technologies for quite some time.

And yet, we’re still burning coal, oil, and gas.

There’s no magical invention that’s going to fix the basic problem, which is that we have an economic system that demands infinite growth and we live on a finite planet.

Even if we crack fusion today, we won’t be able to build out enough fusion infrastructure fast enough to be a solution on its own. And we’d still be building those fusion plants using trucks and earth movers and cranes that burn diesel.

You cannot out-tech a problem that is, fundamentally, social. At best a hyper-intelligent AGI is going to tell us the solution that we already know; get rid of the billionaires who are driving all this climate damage with their insatiable search for profit. At which point the billionaires who own the AGI will turn it the fuck off until they can reprogram it to only offer “solutions” that maintain the status quo.

“Shortly thereafter, Altman pronounced “the dawn of the Intelligence Age,” in which AI helps humankind fix the climate and colonize space.”

Few things ring quite as blatantly false to me as this asinine claim.

The notion that AI will solve the climate crisis is unbelievably stupid, not because of any theory about what AI may or may not be capable of, but because we already know how to fix the climate crisis!

The problem is that we’re putting too much carbon into the air. The solution is to put less carbon into the air. The greatest minds of humanity have been working on this for over a century and the basic answer has never, ever changed.

The problem is that we can’t actually convince people to stop putting carbon into air, because that would involve reducing profit margins, and wealthy people don’t like that.

Even if Altman unveiled a true AGI tomorrow, one smarter than all of humanity put together, and asked it to solve the climate crisis, it would immediately reply “Stop putting carbon in the air you dumb fucking monkeys.” And the billionaires who back Altman would immediately tell him to turn the damn thing off.

Y’know, it probably was that, now that I think about it.

They’re not. But also, I don’t exactly disagree. We just don’t really get a say in that part.

Good to know. As I said in another comment, I’m not endorsing the product, just explaining the use case.

Perfectly valid. I’m not endorsing the product, just explaining the use case.

I remember once seeing an explanation of how us tech people magically know what to do with any program that was like “We don’t. We just look for something that seems vaguely familiar and try clicking it.” Three bars in a hamburger shape? That’s a menu. Oh, look, a cog, that always means settings, what we want is probably a setting. Etc.

I don’t mind you asking the question, but the answer is “No comment.”

If you’re trying to figure out who this is for, the answer is “My clients.”

We deploy systems that have to run as servers, but need a UI because the people maintaining them are brain dead idiots. Windows Server isn’t an option because each system sells at a fairly low price point; adding on the cost of a server license would kill our margins. So we need an OS that runs like Linux, but looks like Windows.

Now you might be thinking “Just use KDE? It’s got a start menu, everything is still in basically the same places, and the only software anyone runs is a web browser.” And you would be vastly underestimating the degree to which moving any component of the UI even the slightest bit causes the average user to shit their pants in terror and freeze up like a deer in the headlights. You’ll point to the start menu and they move the mouse towards it like you just instructed them to defuse a bomb. Eyes closed, they’ll instinctively lean back from the screen in sheer terror as they click.

These Windows alikes are useless for any Linux user, but incredibly helpful for people like me who have to turn Windows users into Linux users.

He actually did have the backing of a lot of the military top brass. The problem is that the rank and file wouldn’t back the brass in clearly violating lawful orders from the government. A big part of why those soldiers sent into parliament did such a shit job is because they obviously weren’t even sure they were supposed to be there.

The magic words worked because they were backed by the power of institutions that people trust.

The mistake this guy made - the mistake that the US Republicans are absolutely not making - is that he did not sufficiently erode public faith in those institutions first.

The practical limit to the number of containers you can run on one system is in the high hundreds or more thousands, depending on how you configure some things, and your available hardware. It’s certainly more than you’ll even use unless you get into some auto-scaling swarm config stuff.

The issue is more about resource limits, and access to shared resources. I’d start by trying to figure out if there are certain specific containers that don’t play well together. Bring your setup online slowly, one container at a time, and take note of when things start to get funky. Then start testing combinations of those specific containers. See if there’s one you can remove from the mix that suddenly makes things more stable.

“Angry” was the charitable read. Your conveyed tone, intentional or not, was that of someone who was either talking down to their interlocutor, or frustrated that they felt they weren’t being understood. I picked “angry” because if your intention was to talk down to me, that comes off so much worse for you.

Regardless, my previous point stands. I have asked a number of questions that you have answered in only the most minimal fashion possible. That is not the bahaviour of someone who is genuinely trying to engage in a learning process. You’re not actually making the effort, presumably because you want me to make it all for you, for free. That’s a pretty shitty way to behave, and it’s a bad way to get help with anything.

And you’re solving this by getting angry at the person trying to help you?

Learning is a process that you engage in. It’s not a thing that’s done to you. You can’t learn anything if you’re not willing to be a productive part of that process.

I get that you’re frustrated. Learning is often frustrating. But you’re only going to magnify your frustration by turning it on other people.