CapstanRoller

Reconsider using that NanoKVM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I

Please don't troll.

Let’s say we can get people to 200 by keeping them immobile and cold and nearly starving them of calories and oxygen—dramatically suppressing their metabolism. Who would want that?

I can imagine quite a few people. Maybe they are already in pain or have mobility issues. At that point why not say "yeah just feed me painkillers and keep me half-frozen. i can do everything in VR/online"? It's better than hospice.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_House

I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever died from bisphenol-A poisoning.

That's like talking about cigarettes and claiming people don't die from nicotine, therefore smoking isn't a problem. Missing the point terribly.

They're synonyms, per your link. Also check out Wikipedia

Quantum Jump

Redirected from Quantum leap (physics))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general

A quantum leap is actually a tiny event e.g. an electron energy level transition

There are always downsides:

your personal card can get fraud-flagged, which is a huge pain to fix.

It can also get banned by Stripe/Braintree/etc, which will really mess things up until your bank issues you a new card number.

Never use a personal card for testing, maybe with the exception of being the sole proprietor of the business or if it's a hobby project.

It is wrong and definitely illegal in California:

Here in the state of California, labor laws define that an employer cannot require a team member to take on expenses that are an integral part of the job.

https://www.asmlawyers.com/what-your-california-employer-can...

Any job that asks you to buy your own equipment, especially a computer, is a scam (unless you are a freelancer, in which case you should already have equipment)

Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk.

Why? This doesn't seem natural (or ethical)

In today's world, farmers need to have more cows than they could ever milk by hand.

Why? This doesn't seem sustainable (or ethical)

Ask (pressure) the developers into buying some cheap stuff from your shop with their own credit cards

This is illegal. I've always refused such "requests" and asked for a company expense card.

Anarchism isn't a belief, but rather a political-philosophical framework with some very specifically-defined foundational aspects.

Imagine discussing math and programming with someone who insists that pi=3 and GOTO is the best control flow mechanism.

It is possible to decrease entropy locally, but not globally. You can only push entropy somewhere else, and that pushing creates even more entropy.

This is why refrigerators keep food cold but heat up the room, and why it's impossible to "air-condition the outdoors"

For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there.

Doesn't this require leaving the computer unlocked?

It "says nothing whatsoever" only if you fell off the turnip truck yesterday, or have a vested interest in defending a massive corporation.

The decentralization proposed in the technological field is closer to anarchist ideals

Anarchist ideals? From right-wing billionaires like Musk and Thiel? Or by centrist billionaires like...?

Because that's who is driving the technological field, ultimately — people who have more money than entire countries, to whom we are basically just bugs to be squashed if we bother them.

I believe that the market (controlled and monitored by nations and supranational entities) functions better because it is an imperfect model that, by leveraging people's selfishness,

lmao

This doesn't feel like a serious discussion. I'm out.

You're probably not allowed to discuss it here because the people who own this website are currently making a lot of money from content stolen by bots, to be ingested by other bots.

You didn't really make any points worth addressing.

If you want to drink Soylent, go ahead. But even the predominant ingredient, soy, comes from agriculture.

I can't envision a decentralized technological and scientific world that wouldn't set us back 300 years.

And yet you are here arguing for more capitalist market-based solutions, which are inherently decentralized and have a tendency to create unrelated, wasteful (duplication of effort), and often pointless competition and profit-seeking?

Very odd.

How many actual farmers are involved with this project, or were at least consulted?

This thing looks like an out-of-touch nerd hobby project, not a real tool one would use in the real world of farming.

The "Commercial Production" link goes to a page mostly consisting of... art projects. https://farm.bot/pages/research

Having watched Clarkson's Farm, I can't help but feel that farming is extremely antiquated.

That's like saying you watched The Bachelor and now have Opinions about marriage.

www.deere.com

This technology and science must necessarily be funded by the market.

Why?

the best chance to get out of it is to make carbon capture economically viable

Same energy as "yeah we got addicted to heroin, and the best way of getting out of this mess is to subsidize heroin so we can keep buying"

How about not putting that carbon into the atmosphere in the first place? Oops, that upsets The Big Line.

democratic/capitalist

The fact that you put these words together with that symbol clearly demonstrates that you Just Don't Get It.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair, probably

Your math is bonkers somewhere

Not my math. Industry's math. And it's bonkers because "green products" have to sell, electric cars have to sell, etc. The economy has to keep growing. Big Line has to keep going up.

What doesn't sell, but might actually help us get out of this mess? Mass transit, dense subsidized housing, remote work, degrowth (negative GDP). None of this stuff sells, especially the last one.

they can

I'm not arguing hypotheticals here

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2023/7/3/solar-pa...

OK, that's fine. Not everyone has to know everything.

So why aren't their employers investing in educating their devs & PMs about security? (rhetorical - we all know why)

The hassles of cert pinning, etc. should not be laid at the feet of the customer/integrator/whatever. Regardless of whether that person is an HVAC tech who learned about serial ports & busybox yesterday or is a seasoned expert with Ghidra & Wireshark & binwalk.

Companies are being incredibly lazy (at our expense), and the author states this obliquely:

virtually the entire software landscape has been designed with the assumption of internet connectivity

Most of your questions can be answered with these two weird old tricks: site-to-site VPNs && VLANs

Why has everyone seemingly discarded these ideas or forgotten? Yes, it is a pain to manage. Industry could reduce this pain, but investing in good security isn't profitable.

Blame the profit incentive. Blame the VCs (especially the people who own this website)

We also accomplished quite a bit and cleaned and improved a lot of land over the last century.

I'm reminded of a classic @dril tweet:

drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762

Wait, who is talking about profit? You can make "profit" appear anywhere by playing with spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets do not reflect the actual reality of our rapidly-heating planet and dying biosphere, though.