I think out of all the things I’ve heard about Elon Musk, this might be the thing that disgusts me the most.
I think out of all the things I’ve heard about Elon Musk, this might be the thing that disgusts me the most.
I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his “AI” research even then. It’s scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that “true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country”.
For the other poster lower down, I’d almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it’s painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that’s even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.
Maybe, but I’m betting that the CEO who floated the idea that FPS players would be willing to pay per-reload didn’t push back too hard against the board’s ideas.
That’s fair. nixOS can be savage. But I think it’s also helpful for a beginner since you can’t break it. A beginner is much more likely to break their system than an expert.
nixOS , because it’s a completely atomic distribution, like a docker container OS style. You define the state of the system in a configuration file, which can even control the kernel, and you can switch to an older configuration file in any reboot. It’s more of a pain than the others, but it works ok out of the box and when you fix something it stays fixed so you’ll never end up in a situation where something breaks and you can’t fix it.
Also, all the packages bring their own versions of their own libraries and directly link to them so they’ll never break during upgrades, but conversely a lot of Linux installers that try to link to system libraries won’t work.
Possibly. It also suggest you’d get all these benefits by just disabling one of the GPUs, because unless battery life is a concern for your gaming laptop the difference in power draw on the desktop will be fairly minor.
This actually sounds like a really cool feature.
ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.
The reason I say this is that I’ve been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven’t made any perceptible progress in that time. They’re at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.
Agreed. I’ve been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I’m reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it’s so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it’s time to make the jump.
I’ve never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably, so “better than bluetooth” is not hard.
Absolutely. The security argument is used so often I’m surprised people aren’t more cynical about it.
They’re not offsetting anything, they still charge money for the boxed copy sold in stores. This is pure profit for them.
I think they’ll go even harder, making Windows only run stuff purchased through the Windows Store so they can completely lock in the market.
I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.
I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.
Harsh but true. I also need to sell stuff to people, and I hate ads, I realize that other people hate ads too and that in fact ads generally suck. The solution is word of mouth advertising, not ever-more-intricate tools. The real truth is that what the ad companies are selling is the idea that ads are actually cost efficient and worthwhile, and the gullible customers are actually the advertisers, not the people who they’re trying to flog stuff to.
Even that wouldn’t be unworkable, it would be worse if you’re stuck with the brain equivalent of serial ports just before everyone switches to the USB standard.
Because art is made up and people keep quoting things from it as if they were factual things that have happened.
I’ve thought about it and I’ve decided that I can live with that. Besides, I don’t think it will make it to that level of popularity before “the incident” that shocks everyone and triggers a senate inquiry.
Either there will be horrific side effects or Musk will cut quality or make an ‘executive decision’ that beams ads into everyone’s head. I don’t know the final implementation, but I think they won’t resist the temptation to make the firmware up-gradable remotely, and once they have that, they won’t resist the temptation to meddle.
They probably are, but it’s not really about cost, it’s about fear. I fear that while it costs $x to switch to Unreal Enigne now, it’ll cost $x+10 after a few weeks when they do their next decision, and $x+20 a month or so after that.