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Amazing Grace is always a good one. The story behind it helps with the impact, IMO; it was written by a former slave trader who had an epiphany and realized just how irredeemably evil he was, and was doing his best to turn it around.

I’m also a big enjoyer of Simple Gifts. It’s a Shaker song and I find it very soothing.

There was another comment in this thread about exactly that situation, a female police officer that noticed a creepy guy following her around during her patrol. But there’s lots of other potential negatives to having open immediate police comms, like criminals monitoring to see whether there are police around before doing whatever criminality they were planning on doing.

Same goal of body cameras, but we all see how that turned out.

Sounds like “we tried it once and it didn’t work, therefore we should never try again.” Instead, we should take into account how the body camera situation has failed and modify the approach to account for it.

Mandate that the buffer be operated by an independent body the police have no control over, for example.

One possible compromise that leaps to mind is to have the radios be encrypted, but they all feed into a several-hours-long buffer and get automatically decrypted and published after that delay. You wouldn’t be able to stalk police or whatever, but they wouldn’t be able to hide malfeasance or incompetence from the public.

It’s not perfect, there are still good transparency reasons for knowing what the police are doing right now, but it might be a good enough balance.

“Awesome” is relative, see Overton window.

But yeah, this leaps straight on top of rule #3 and ravishes it senseless. Probably doesn’t belong on this community.

I’m on both, I like both. Been liking Reddit less and less over the years, I expect at some point I’ll stop going, but for now it’s still okay.

Day 1, I replicate a replicator kit and put it together. I also contact a realtor and let them know I’m interested in buying some land. Off grid, far from cities, doesn’t matter.

Day 2, I replicate two replicator kits and put them together.

Day 3, I replicate four replicator kits. I’ve now got eight of them. I’m not sure I’ll need sixteen, at least not right away, and my basement is starting to get a bit crowded. So I’ll leave it at that for the moment, but the moment I think I need more replicator capacity I can have it.

Unfortunately, it’s still a democracy. The electorate wanted what’s now going on. That could rapidly change at this point, but for now not yet.

Which is an application that generative AI is important for, ironically.

Something similar happened to Babylon 5, it was designed as a 5-season series and then they were told season 4 would be the end. So they hurriedly wrapped everything up for the season 4 finale.

And then they were told they were getting a fifth season after all once that was all locked in, so they had to create a whole season of filler for season 5.

As I recall, the main point of contention was that this was one of the first big “there’s a big mystery and the whole series is one big story to unravel it and we totally have it all planned out, honest” series. And then it turned out that no, they didn’t totally have it planned out, and they were just making crap up as they went and most of the profound “clues” people were trying to cobble together were basically meaningless.

Maybe the show runners managed to cobble something together out of them that was satisfying regardless, but still, it felt like quite the betrayal. History repeated itself with Battlestar Galactica, where the show kept insisting “they have a plan!” When no, they really did not.

I’m not hoping, I know that every possible 1024-character ASCII text file is going to be generated over the course of all this. I’m just hoping that one of them will tell me to do something that will get me out of the loop. If I reach the end of the possible 1024-character text files without escaping, that means that either the solution takes more than 1024 characters to encode or there is no solution at all.

It’s important to increment the count and record it for next time before I read it, just in case one of those 1024-character strings contains an argument that convinces me to do something other than that.

I’d ask why they cared.

If it’s just me; I’d increment it by one at the start of each loop. That is, I’d increment the underlying 8192-bit number that the 1024 bytes represents. On some loops this will form a coherent ASCII text, on most it’ll be gibberish. But I have infinite retries and it doesn’t bother me how many loops I go through. So there will be 2^8192 “initial states” it’s in, or about 10^2467 different states in base ten. If anything is going to get me out of that time loop then I’ll hit on it eventually.

If I see that the integer is maxed out, I think I won’t overflow it back to 0 again. The whole point of this is to avoid trying exactly the same thing over and over again indefinitely. I think I’d have to resort to a leap of faith - that quantum effects are still random. I’d go to random.org and generate something bigger than 1024 bytes to use as “inspiration” instead. Maybe a megabyte? It’d have to be a lot bigger to be on the safe side, since this is the last resort.

Why do you think he’s American to begin with?

Lemmy is a lot “bubblier” than Reddit, I suspect because the communities are smaller. It’s a lot easier for a community to have a preferred view on things, even things you wouldn’t suspect were part of the community’s theme, and if you take the wrong position you’ll get pummeled with downvotes more easily.

Not that it doesn’t happen on Reddit too, but I see it far more here on Lemmy. I’m still active on both and while I haven’t done any formal comparison you’re asking how it “feels” and that’s definitely how it feels. I speak my mind freely on both platforms but on this one I’m more likely to see a pile of downvotes.

It’ll eventually be subducted, I think getting it into deep space is more likely to be long-term secure.

The main downside I can think of, is a Horcrux similar to a Lich Phylactery in that you have to reform adjacent to it?

Though this can result in some pretty cool effects too.

Still not secure enough.

I’d use Pioneer 10.

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AI would be able to do a good first pass on it. Except that an AI that was able to reliably recognize child porn would be a useful tool for creating child porn, so maybe don’t advertise that you’ve got one on the job.