Why, a hexvex of course!
Remember, copying a film or picture is theft, so technically a copied thing is an object in its own right. A copy of bald JD is an illegal object.
Also, remember, if you find something illegal or stolen, you should be turning it in to the authorities.
Sounds to me like people should be emailing these in so they can be safely disposed of…
But we already have dune video game at home.
Coding is a very… emotional activity. We get a bit salty sometimes.
I remember commenting a particularly bad routine with “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”.
There are also phrases such as “by the process of offending god, this somehow outputs…” and “This block was written by someone whose sanity was not so much questionable as it was entirely reprehensible - but it works”.
I also remember doing a search and replace of every instance of the word “fuck” with “[fornicate]” when bringing someone new onto a project.
Eh, the actual odds of getting that longevity are about one in a billionaire;)
Only the very very wealthy will likely benefit from such things.
“The millennials will be the first generation to have the option of eternal life, or the last generation whose death is certain.”
Uno reverse: Invite him to your country and play videos about the horrific human rights violations in the USA.
512gb of ram you say? That’s legendary 3rd chrome tab territory.
There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.
Some academics out there are just really friendly people.
Short Answer - Universities
Long Answer:
To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.
“High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.
So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.
Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.
Either that or medication!
I abandoned hope long ago when I learned that excel was turing complete.
The darkness has already consumed me, there is no salvation from this sin.
Worse - pulling data from a web page, then using the power of pure jank to parse this input, and then invoking a sheet of reference string builders to construct formulae and execute them using too damn many @indirects nested into vlookups before finally adding in date aware data reveals, because no excel abomination is complete without trying to parse dates.
Or false regret, either or.
I’ve done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.
I have absolutely 0 regret.
The key concept they’re missing a lot of the time is that software sits within the file system and not the other way around.
This is largely because apps hide this and data is generally stored in one place on your phone (the downloads folder).
Best way to fix it - have 1–2 lessons entirely devoted to finding shit on their computer. My favourite activity is “ok, save your word file, close word, you now have 10 mins to find that file without opening word”.
Sure are a lot of suckers making policy over in the USA at the moment…
The fastest way to do that is leave him in a room with Luigi _
DROP TABLE Musk
sudo rm -fr - -no-preserve-root
The magic spell that removes the woke mind virus, but only if used on the main twitter server as a high level admin user with full access.
Ah, so we’d be turning in twice as many illegal copies? Sounds like good citizenship!