OTOH, your laser distance meter may need you to set it in metric or imperial.

So far there is no moral dimension to any of this. I think that is correct - the morality of a political stance depends on the member of the polity and the outcome that stance will have for them (which breaks down into perceived and actual outcomes). A functioning political system (the thing that governs political stance and political action) will ensure the balance of actual outcomes benefits the whole of the polity.

The delta between Resistance and Domestic Terror is then a question of whether the actors are party to the political system. (Back to the circuit analogy: domestic terror is the massive bulk capacitor charging off the energy in the circuit but with no defined discharge path in the system - until it hits a charge limit, short-circuits, and discharges.)

The Bible as a RAG is very interesting for me even as a non religious person - A document that has survived and guided millennia of civilization should be accessible as possible. But also seeing how concepts of the modern world and different ancient worlds map to the Bible via a RAG is fascinating.

天照大 (Amaterasu)

> He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house; and I saw at the door of the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the LORD’s temple and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

神武天皇 (Emperor Jimmu)

> As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

(To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

This in itself is a shallow argument. While it is rational in isolation for a given static mindset, it's not rational for anyone who looks at society, and the economy as a larger dynamic system that they have. multiple points of access to. I assume that is basis for the argument John is making. I've read his biography and ofcourse seen his work, so I'm pretty sure this is not a guy who has ever had a static relationship with the world!

For now they seem to be dealing with observed problems, and applying actionable solutions. If they keep that up they may be able to resolve all manner of economic issues.

Ensuring the methodology survives contact with the "meatspace" is what a leader should be doing - and even if the process is perfect for the project and business this can still be a lot of work.

You would need the agent to be a processing step owned by someone responsible. But the intelligent part of an agent is what makes it viable as something more than a processing step. What to do with an intelligence that can't take responsibility? Not answering this question leads to cognitive debt.

Smaller teams have more agency to move and usually team members with broader responsibility and understanding of the systems. Also possibly closer to stakeholders, so are already involved in specification creation and know where automation can add value. Add an AI agent and they can pick and choose where they can be most effective at a system level.

Bigger teams have clear boundaries that stop agency - blockers due to cross team dependencies, potentially no idea what stakeholders want, just piecemeal incremental change of a bigger system specified by someone else. If all they can do is automate that limited scope it's really just like faster typing.

Of course, we have had compilers and tooling, but those are the pencil and drafting board of the draftsperson. An ecosystem of packages, dependencies and APIs has evolved, but those are often just spells the software magician invokes after reading the spellbook^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H stackoverflow^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H API documentation.

We are going to need to build a new set of boundaries and abstractions with new handover protocols to manage this mess.

Very common to walk past cars stopped at the lights and see tv showing everywhere. they dont turn it off when they start driving either ;-)

aarch64 has cntvct_el0 status register that can be read from userspace.

Is it clean? Not always, it gets messy. On the other hand it is deterministic and traceable to specifications. Specifications as state machines can be easier understood and shared than raw code or raw prose.

I also think more effort is needed to synthesize a clean set of state machines with hierarchy for a system at scale and I'm sure there are times when that effort is not warranted.

Although i do wonder what my son's 国語 text books teach if Japanese is not the official 国語.