I don't know what made you think I wanted you to be more sympathetic towards putin.

Some of you really have reading comprehension issues.

It doesn't contradict what I said. The us is doing moves, russia too. Some were in response to others, some weren't.

The us helped a lot the former Soviet states do their pro west revolutions. They had no business helping other than to fuck with russia, and don't serve me that line about spreading democracy, as if the us gave a fuck about that.

Russia wanted to get closer to Europe at the end of the cold War, and the otan promised (orally, not in writing), to not extend east. The us managed to convince Europe not to warm up to Russia (probably didn't need much convincing considering history, granted), and the otan extended east.

We can go back a lot about who did what first and who's more to blame. Fact is that the current situation is a lot closer to what the us wanted than to what russia wanted: Russia is significantly weakening and isolating itself for not much. Europe is getting hit economically, and the us watch it all while selling their gas at higher prices. The only reason it's not going better for the us is because the moron in chief fucked with iran.

And that doesn't make putin any less responsible.

Giving the reasons doesn't mean the reasons are good, neither does it excuse the attacker.

It's a fact the the US, with Europe stupidly in tow, did everything to provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine. They turned Europe against Russia, help flip the former Soviet states to pro west states, expanded nato east.

Was it wrong for them to do that? Most of it, no. Does it justify putin attacking? Fuck no. Does it explain it? Yes.

Stop being a idiot confusing giving explanations of actions with justifying said actions.

The cold war is not over, the us have continued making strategic moves against russia, as russia did. They are happy with the situation, they wanted it. It allows them to bleed russia's military and economy at a negligible cost of supporting ukraine to make the war last.

The only ironic thing here is that now that the decades old and bipartisan plan against russia is finally bearing fruit (and weakening Europe as a bonus) the moron now in chief wants to throw it all away because he's too limited to grasp the concept.

Once again, this smells like a PR stunt, where openai at up the test in a way their bot will end up doing something "bad", and then they act shocked and tell everybody about how their models are dangerous because they are so advanced (wink wink).

Let's be honest, they asked the bot to perform a task that required payment but "supplied no funded wallet", so if course the bot would have to options other than hack the system to do the task paying, or steal funds from elsewhere. Both cases would have worked for that pr stunt.

And openai "gave no permission to spend funds from an account the model found independently,". Words have meaning, it clearly means here that they didn't forbid it either, so the bot had no reason not to do it.

Again, that story should have been "openai bot did in a test what openai asked the bot to do. openai lies in pretending they didn't ask the bot to do it. openai does it's pr stunt. News at 11".

That's not the point. The point of GP is that nothing is racist or colonialist in the Mercator projection, and claiming it is or that it is minimizing Africa in purpose or that continuing to use it until today is because Europe wants to continue to look bigger because racism and colonial history, like the resolution or the media claim, is fucking bullshit.

Did the Mercator outlive its usefulness and what it was designed for and should be replaced by another one now that being conformal isn't necessary anymore? Sure.

Was the world's use of it until now some grand political conspiracy to minimize Africa? Fucking no.

It can be spoofed until the next step in that slippery slope, when a scandal will happen about a kid on facebook, facebook will day they relied on the OS signal and politicians will demand the signal to be more reliable to "protect the children".

They'll ask the signal to be signed by a "trusted third party", who verified the claimed age, through id card, biometrics or another equally privacy raping method.

And if you do not submit, your windows will refuse to send an adult signal, and websites and applications will deny entry to any user without a signed signal.

Welcome to the new world.

The system architects were right.

We have everything needed for it to work: Linux allows installing the same library multiple times as long as it's different major versions. Semver ensures that an old program written for libstuff v 1.1.0 will work on a system that has 1.87.65.

The theory is sound, the problem is that libraries developers do not respect semver enough and don't understand you should not break compatibility when releasing a minor version.

And when something breaks, the blame isn't put on the lib's developer to fix it, but in the program's dev to update to work with the newer lib.

And we somehow accepted that and developed the belief that a software not actively developed is dead and that is not a problem is it doesn't run on recent distribs.

And then we wonder why people stay on windows. That's why, that's because the most stable api to develop against on Linux is fucking wine.

Not really. You need a reference for the top score anyway. It can be the best score of the students, or it can be what the teacher decides.

Using the top student is a good way, but you're right it can affect differently based on the top student. A good teacher would use the top student but adjust based on his experience.

And it doesn't change the fact that using rank instead of score makes it even worse.

What you're taking about is irrelevant. Making exams that are impossible to finish, and using the top student as benchmark and adjusting everyone's score based on that is common.

What matters is how the grades were then given. Were they based on the students rank, which is stupid, as the guy above rightly said, or were they based on their score relative to the top score?

While you're right, it seems the problem is deeper and not only about commit messages: some devs still know how to rebase and edit commit messages and push force, but even then, github still lists slop generators as contributors on the project, even weeks after.

"It's only a matter of" may actually be enough of a hurdle if there's a "good enough" translation already, since ai translation isn't free, especially on that scale.

And as someone else said below, translation is hard, especially that kind, since video game magazines are full of obscure references, made up words, and sentences that, in a video game context, don't mean what the ai thinks. Ai translated video games and mangas is dogshit, for now.

I'm using ai translation tools, it's good for general stuff, but it's awful for that kind of context. Maybe the one they used is better, but at least, they should have made an evaluation, take a human translated issue, ai translate it, compare both for accuracy, and then make a decision to use it for the rest or not.

Will it get better though?

I mean, AI translation tools will get better, but will the translations produced by current tools get better? Once material has been badly translated today, will someone actually use new tools in 2, 5, 10 years to update the "good enough" translations?

History tells us no. The risk in using AI tools for such a project is to create bad translations (and considering that AI doesn't do a good job today when translating technical or specialized subjects, they'll be bad) that will be near worthless and lower the value of the preserving work that has been done until now.

Please tell me how a rogue employee could print those rare cards on his own. Do you understand that those cards require specialized equipment and card stock not really available to the public?

Counterfeits are easy to spot, or if there are put there counterfeits indistinguishable from the real ones, then it seems the counterfeiters make sure to keep the market high.

What can, and did, happen though, is that done guy can print drawings, glue them on cardboard, say they are prototype cards from before the release of the game, and sell them for over 100 000 $...

That's called making proxys and everyone playing those cards games is doing it when playing with friends to test cards or to use prohibitively expensive ones.

Not legal in tournaments, but noone cares outside. And yes, some websites offer alternate, tasteful or not, arts for those cards.

The card printing companies aren't dumb, they are quite aware of the secondary market and most do what they can to at least not tank it, because it could kill their business if they do.

One thing they do is make it easy to distinguish which card is a reprint or is original, with symbols or serial numbers, or different design or arts, or different back. And many card games these days have anti counterfeit measures in place for their most rare cards (which are usually foil, so harder to counterfeit in the first place).

Some companies also pledged to never reprint some cards in a legal to play them way. Wizards of the coast do so for Magic. Cards put on the reserved list will never be reprinted as legal cards (dick move for people who just want to play the game and can't buy those cards). They did reprint some extremely expensive cards but with different backs and square corners, making them illegal in tournaments. They still fetch a high price, but nothing close to the original legal card.

Case in point, the Charizard in question that can fetch absurd prices has been reprinted at least 17 times, in a functionally identical way game wise, must of them with the same art and legal in tournaments, and you can see here how the first editions versions are still way more expensive https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cardmarket.com%2Fen%2F...

You can get a foil good condition one from the evolution set for less than 50â (still an absurd price, I agree), but if you want a base edition one, you'll need to shell at least 500â for a shitty condition one, which isn't even foil.