There are certainly consequences in participating in a war against Russia.

There are also consequences in letting Russia take Ukraine militarily.

Whatever you think about the motivations and the desired end goal, actions and lack of actions both have consequences

Plenty of old people now grew up in a phase in history where we were building ugly cheap things

That was all of history.

Being good at matching patterns doesn't mean the patterns you found have the causal relationships you think they have

Superstition in pigeons: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1948-04299-001

but the pigeon doesn't have the benefit of using bayesian priors nor collaboration

"Music Theory, Bells and Whistles"

First review with that as a title:

”Beware, this is just a general book of modern music theory masquerading as a guide specially for the bell or whistle player”.

"BaW Music Theory", for that click-bait effect.

I wonder if we're doing virtual filesystems wrong.

There is a good reason why traditionally filesystem access was mediated by the OS layer, but there are many use cases where you just want to give processes a different view of what they already can access and it could be done as a library in the same userspace process.

However, for that to work across all the processes in a session we'd need a standard way to install such a hook in all peocesses and that's achievable to some extent using LD preload but falls apart quite rapidly with statically built binaries or different libcs

I think there is a good case to be made for these things not to be mediated by the operating system by default.

In Objective-Smalltalk[1], I can access a file as follows:

   hello ← file:hello-world.txt 

This is structurally the same way I would access a local variable, environment variable, database, remote http server etc.

   hello ← https://example.com/hello-world.txt
   hello ← env:GREETING
   hello ← var:greeting         //   hello defaults to var:hello

etc.

And you can also introduce shortcuts

   scheme:greeter ← ref:https://example.com/ asScheme.
   hello ← greeter:hello-world.txt

Or

   scheme:greeter ← ref:file:./ asScheme
   hello ← greeter:hello-world.txt

Sending -asScheme to a reference is just a shorthand that actually constructs a composition[2] of a "path relative" store with the underlying store of the original reference. So the following two are identical:

   scheme:greeter ← ref:https://example.com/ asScheme.
   scheme:greeter ← #MPWRelativeScheme{ base: 'https://example/com' } → #MPWURLSchemeResolver{} 

This composition mechanism can be carried further with post-processing, so for example an img-scheme can be constructed by composing an image-decoder store with the previous store

   scheme:img ← #MPWImageDecoderStore{} → scheme:greeter 
   helloPic ← img:wave.png 

And so on and so forth, caching is also a nice example.

[1] https://objective.st

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359591.3359729

When models start to effectively employ sarcasm were screwed

It's worse than that. No bank will have business with you because that would potentially affect _their_ other customer's ability to operate normally

This is a very big hammer and reveals how foreign entities are deeply dependent on the American financial system and thus exposed to the political whims of the US.

You can read about the Italian police obtained the encryption keys through the Aruba colocation provider in the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati

Italian Postal Police wiretapping (2004–2005)

And renaming things is hard, if not impossible

They haven't done it because their power would collapse if they try to do something and be ineffective at it.