I also like to have active, open conversations with the police after I've borrowed things from the store...

Is there any writeup about those, or why they are there? Is this just to separate the different "networks" in a compose setup, or is there more going on?

Both -satz (in the sense of set, kit or bank) and -werfer are technical terms often used for modern military equipment, so the word sounded a bit too "real" for me.

But that might just be different tastes.

"Wurstbeschleuniger" would work well, if you're ok with going scientific instead of military.

But from your suggestions, "Wurstbeschleuniger" is very clever, "Wurstsatzwerfer" sounds a bit technical, "Fleischgeschütz" is um... how a german redditor might call his best piece.

Vienna is probably because of Wiener Würstchen, i.e. the hot dog sausages.

Yes, as a German, I was appropriately confused and expected some horrific contraption to get better in hot-dog eating contests or something like that.

But that's nice too.

I find it interesting that programming newbies are usually scared of C/C++ because "you have to deal with pointers" unlike in Java, Python, JavaScript etc.

It's interesting because all those languages of course use pointers and heap-allocated objects. The thing that sets the other languages apart is that they only allow pointer access and thus can make the language easier to reason about.

So what's "unusual" in C, C++ and Rust is really the parts that are not pointers, i.e. the ability to manage a data structure and its layout in memory directly, with all its consequences.

One senator makes a press release saying that he plans to introduce a bill protecting game ownership.

It's not clear if this bill has any chance of being voted in - and even if it does, we have no idea what is actually in the bill.

I actually thought that one of the two registrations would be denied.

The only (barely) sane way I see how a registrar could offer both 2nd and 3rd level domains at the same time would be to keep them entirely separate:

Maintain two lists: One is a list of ordinary 2nd level domains that were directly sold, say something like whatsina.name.

The other would be a list of "commons" 2nd level domains that cannot be sold, because people own individual 3rd level domains on it, like doe.name above.

Which domain belongs to which list would realistically be first-come first-serve: If Jane Doe got there first and purchased doe.name, it would become a directly sold domain, and John Doe's (and also Jack Doe's) registration requests for john.doe.name and jack.doe.name would be denied.

Conversely, if John Doe got his registration for john.doe.name through first, doe.name would become a "commons" domain and Jane Doe's request would be denied, but Jack Doe's request for jack.doe.name would still get through.

Though I guess management at registrars doesn't like the phrase "cannot be sold" so I guess that wasn't how it was handled?

> If intelligence becomes less uniquely human, we may come to value more highly what remains uniquely human: our capacity to relate and to care for one another.

Lol. How does the author think relations between people work? (At least those outside the family). Relationships require something that fills them with meaning - a reason why you would want to have that relationship in the first place. Without meaning, no relationship.

I recommended reading this other post that was on HN earlier today: https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it...

It describes in pretty grim words what happens to collaboration once you have nothing anymore to collaborate on.

> Mathematicians may still teach proofs, argue over what they mean, translate alien logic into human insight, and pass that understanding to students.

This would people to have time to understand and dissect those proofs - it doesn't work if there is a new breakthrough proof every week.