WSL2 isn't exactly a distro. there's CBL-Mariner, which is a distro used for utility/plumbing, but it's pretty hidden internally. WSL2 is mostly:
1) a lightly-patched Linux kernel
2) a bunch of esoteric bridge stuff, namely:
2A) 9P for mounting the Windows filesystem on Linux and vice-versa,
2B) a Wayland server implemented via RDP(?!)
2C) Hyper-V NICs, dynamic memory and other VM integrations.
2D) even weirder esoterica like whatever magic lets CUDA work (and... directx? for reasons??)
but there's no canonical (pun intended) userspace. there are many Linux distros available; adapting a distro is usually pretty easy. for example, NixOS-WSL is lightweight and works quite well.
philosophically, WSL2 is a VM, but it's not an emulator, if that makes sense. there's a kind of convergence between OS and VM that's been going on for a decade and WSL2 has been riding that wave.
(disclaimer: I work for MS but not on Windows or WSL. I just think the arch is neat.)
I'm extremely curious how these models learn to pack a lossily-compressed representation of the entire Internet (more or less) into a few hundred billion parameters. like, what's the ontology?
I think the Administration is likely to get its toys taken away soon.
the Major Questions Doctrine, the end of Chevron deference, the mandate for Article III courts from Jarkesy, have been building towards this for a while. the capstone in this program of weakening the administrative state, overturning Humphrey's Executor when Trump v. Slaughter is decided, will likely revive the Intelligible Principle Doctrine, as Justice Gorsuch has hinted. the same trend is apparent in the IEEPA tariffs case, where non-delegation got a lot of airtime.
EOs lose a lot of their punch when the Executive's delegated rulemaking and adjudication powers are returned back to their rightful owners in the other two branches.
But they rule in his favor more often than not. They gave him freaking immunity for any crimes he may commit. This alone enables him to disregard the law without any fear of repercussions.
> This alone enables him to disregard the law without any fear of repercussions.
That does not apply to his lackeys though (unless there's a preemptive pardon).
If (!) there's a change in the President eventually, there needs to be a reckoning for everyone that didn't push back on instructions/orders (including all the folks down the line who are blowing up (alleged) drug boats).
I fear by reducing control over executive power to one, squishy standard like the Intelligible Principle Doctrine will let SCOTUS pick and choose which laws have intelligible principles. When conservatives are in power, suddenly all laws will have them. And swing back when liberals are in control.
the Task Force can try to challenge state AI laws. they can file whatever lawsuits they want. they will probably lose most of their suits, because there's very little ground for challenging state AI regulations.
models are derived from datasets. they're treated like phonebooks (also a product of datasets) under the law - which is to say they're probably not copyrightable, since no human creativity went into them (they may be violating copyright as unlicensed derivative works, but that's a different matter.) both phonebooks, and LLMs, are protected by freedom of the press.
LLM providers are free to put guardrails on their language models, the way phonebook publishers used to omit certain phone numbers - but uncensored models, like uncensored phonebooks, can be published as well.
it's remarkable to me that NixOS manages to run so well despite breaking the FHS so thoroughly. and not just in superficial ways like not calling it /bin, I mean forsaking dynamic linking (hence /var/lib and /usr/lib), keeping man pages, resources and config bundled into the same derivation as the binary sometimes, and occasionally hacking up binary blobs to rewrite rpaths.
on the other hand, there's a place for legacy distros too.
1) a lightly-patched Linux kernel
2) a bunch of esoteric bridge stuff, namely:
2A) 9P for mounting the Windows filesystem on Linux and vice-versa,
2B) a Wayland server implemented via RDP(?!)
2C) Hyper-V NICs, dynamic memory and other VM integrations.
2D) even weirder esoterica like whatever magic lets CUDA work (and... directx? for reasons??)
but there's no canonical (pun intended) userspace. there are many Linux distros available; adapting a distro is usually pretty easy. for example, NixOS-WSL is lightweight and works quite well.
philosophically, WSL2 is a VM, but it's not an emulator, if that makes sense. there's a kind of convergence between OS and VM that's been going on for a decade and WSL2 has been riding that wave.
(disclaimer: I work for MS but not on Windows or WSL. I just think the arch is neat.)
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