Exactly.

When doctors make mistakes, they can be held accountable -- their malpractice insurance rates go up, their licenses are subject to suspension or revocation, they can go to jail (eg if they are pill mills) or they/the practice get a bad review.

When AI makes mistakes, what happens? How is it held accountable?

Doctors make mistakes pretty much non-stop, and they are rarely held accountable because the system as a whole works OK. AI makes less mistakes than the doctors do (I read a lot of medical notes).

I think the thought is that if they kill one guy who didn't vote for them, the rest of the guys who didn't vote for them will fall in line. They'd rather waste a bullet than lose institutional knowledge.

It has been a known bug class for quite some time.

Jurors?

> that a majority voted for

A majority of people who voted. Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.

No one cares about people who don't bother to vote. If you can't manage even that you don't deserve an opinion.

blah blah some exceptional circumstances, etc you all know what I mean.

> No one cares about people who don't bother to vote. If you can't manage even that you don't deserve an opinion.

It's not so much that people 'don't bother to vote',, it's more that 'we' aren't prepared to vote for crooks that will campaign on one or two issues, but actually have several agendas running. Etc, etc.

The opinion I may not 'deserve', is that I'm not playing your/ this game.

No, I don't have a better solution (apart from many, many, referendums), but don't forget that 'just' my opinions may have changed somebody's pov regarding their vote, as i don't have a horse in the race, and regard the vast majority of politicians in very low regard.

> The opinion I may not 'deserve', is that I'm not playing your/ this game.

It's your game regardless if you vote or not. Not voting is in practice the same as voting for who wins. That is the only choice you have at election day. Beyond election day you can try to participate in a movement that pushes congress to implement ranked voting or help get other primary nominees etc, but anything other than voting for the least bad candidate in a two party system is naive.

You're not voting for someone you agree with. You're voting for someone who you think will give in if pressured by protest and the courts. It matters less what individual issues they think they're going to "solve" while they're in office and more whether they have any shame or willingness to change in the face of protest or court order.

Don't you have an option to vote against all? Don't neglect it

Anyone who was eligible but didn’t vote effectively voted for whomever won. The distinction doesn’t matter.

Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?

I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.

>Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?

I've recently heard a commentary by a man with PhD in international relations* about why has Trump won the elections.

Specialist said that a lot of people who would have voted against Trump didn't vote. That was due to many grave mistakes made by the democrats.

Usually when populists win, it's because the other side blatantly ignores some public issues. This time it was economic hardships, immigration/border control.

There is also the long trend of turning away from the working class and focusing on protecting/supporting the DEI people instead. The working class might feel betrayed and vote against them instead.

"The cost of hubris" - as one of the Minmatar militia missions from Eve online was called.

Or there is mass neurocompromise.

At least we have a pardon czar now. So many people have been coerced into committing crimes, with said coercion taking many different forms, there needs to be mass pardons across the board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marie_Johnson everybody check her out.

I hate Trump as much as the next guy but this feels like nitpicking. You're obviously right, but if you choose not to vote then you're implicitly approving of whatever outcome you get.

I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do.

Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cincinnati perl mongers group. He found ruby and fell in love. He thought Ruby would be a good fit for me and we had a long conversation about why he preferred it to perl. It took me a few years, but I eventually took his advice. As usual, Jim was right, and I haven't written any perl since then.

tl;dr: for me, ruby killed perl.

> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to drive after use.

Ohio recently passed a marijuana decriminalization bill.

Did you get the data in the db from telcodata.us?

Yes, but its 3 years old and slightly stripped down.

> Ask me how I know.

What problems did you have that made you want to roll back the update?

I had some containerized application software break and start misbehaving in odd ways which was indicative of a deeper incompatibility issue. Possibly GPU related. No time to debug, had to roll it back.

This was complicated by the fact that the machine also hosted a MySQL database which could not be easily rolled back because the database was versioned up during the upgrade.

Wait, the containerized application broke because of a host upgrade? That's some leaky container you have there.

This sounds like a business setting, so this sounds like a good opportunity to advocate for testing hardware, a testing budget, a rollout plan, and a sound backup strategy.

For me it's usually been GPU driver compatibility.

The default configuration for tmpfs is to "only" use 50% of physical ram, which still isn't great, but it's something.

To be clear, that 50% (or whatever you configure) is a limit, not a constant.