What I was saying is that one is based on the other

Not in any direct way, no. At least not in any way more rigorous than handwavey analogies.

They work the exact same way we do.

Citation needed.

“Budget” airlines often end up more expensive after all the junk fees

One of those budget airlines (famous for its entusiastic abuse of customers) imposes a size limit on carry-on bags that’s about 5cm in each dimension smaller than a standard backpack. And yeah, their junk fees are not only extortionate, but maniacally enforced. I’ve paid more to take a different route to my destination to avoid those evil sons of bitches.

I’ve noticed that car rental agencies are pulling similar junk-fee tricks, as well as fraudulently charging for pre-existing damage and imposing cleaning fees for vehicles returned in spotless condition. They’ve tried both tricks on me recently, despite my scrupulous documentation of the vehicle’s condition, including photos and inspection forms. I was on business travel, so it ended up being handled by my employer’s legal department, but I could easily imagine an individual traveller being harassed to the point of capitulating to the leeches.

This assumes you wrote the project without company tools and on your free time.

Even then. some employment contracts try to take the piss and claim ownership of anything you produce while you’re employed. Clauses like that are unenforceable in many jurisdictions, but I’ve taken the liberty of redlining them before signing the contract. That means another half-day wating for Legal to look at it, but it’s worth it for the removal of ambiguity about what I intend to do. By the way, I’ve never had an offer withdrawn for doing that.

And if you’re trying to maintain an open ecosystem, use GPL.

A lot of corporations will specifically bar employees from using GPLv3 code out of fear it could force them to open source their proprietary code as well.

That’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of GPLv3, or (more likely) bad faith.

He’s not transactional with dictators, fascists and/or grifters.

That’s because he’s a Russian stooge.

Fine then, kill it.

That’s a really good start. Let me know when you hit zero.

I prefer my unique IDs to be derived from the whole UTF-16 table.

Someone in California had a vanity plate that read “NULL.” Turns out that’s where the state computer assigned traffic tickets where the license plate was unreadable, so he got a shedload, and it took him a lot of work to get that mess cleared up.

Null is also a German surname, so people who aren’t taking the piss get caught in problems due to stupid input validation and bad testing.

What a crock. An LLM is no more conscious than a spreadsheet. The Google engineer has bought into the hype.

You’re not creating life, pal. You’re just making call centers shittier than they already are.

Trump’s the guy who thinks that the only reason a woman would pretend to like anyone is if they paid her, since that’s the only way women will pretend to like Trump.

He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.

They just distort the language of empathy to enable their cruelty.

If it’s racist, why doesn’t Trump like it?

To the Hague with the child-murdering bastards.

Cut off funding and impose sanctions before Germany becomes complicit in another genocide.

He doesn’t like being called out for being Putin’s bitch. So now he’s trash-talking Putin with all the credibility of a WWE beef.