drfloyd51

Sun Crossing-Rocket

I reread my comment. Nowhere did I suggest countries don’t defend themselves. Nor did I say we shouldn’t make war.

We should minimize war and try other alternatives. And maybe try diplomacy and longer term thinking. Plus governments should value the governed.

But countries and people always have the right to defend themselves from attackers as they see fit.

Back in the 2000s MS agreed to port Office and Internet Explorer to the Mac. This was a good move for both companies. Bill Gates appeared on screen during an Apple Conference to talk with Steve. Huge boos. Steve had to work the crowd back from the ledge.

Then Office and IE were ported. It was so weird running Word on a Mac. It was a good port too. They did a good job of embracing Mac UI ideas. I found the Mac Word better than Win Word.

I was kind of new to the Mac back then.

I imagine Apple donated a bunch of early OS 10 machines to MS for development. I wonder if the MS Mac Dev team was a pariah at MS.

Comments like that aren’t “sleepwalking”. They are complicit.

He IS doing it. He could choose to do better.

He doesn’t get a pass.

War is bad. And our reality isn’t some unchanging truth. Our actions and choices, or apathy, help shape our reality.

It is not childish to aspire to be better.

The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver.

Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed locations of our cities. We might not get killbots today but we will get pacificationbots.

The law doesn’t define behavior. It describes behaviors.

Those behaviors can change by giving the doers more power. If a bureaucrat is trouble, and the doers can cause the bureaucrat to be fired, to doers will have more power.

The doers can fire the system 5 people.

Too big to fail. Lol.

Apparently, if your not cool enough to know how to get in the club, you are not cool enough to be in the club.

What is hue zero? That’s green right? Because green is such a common color? Or maybe it’s blue.

No no. You see we need to get rid of conventional commits so AI can make commits easier.

I am going to put in a plug for “Which” a command tab replacement that lets you, among other things, cycle between windows like alt-tab.

Bingo.

That is a far more eloquent way to express my word salad.

My sarcasm wasn’t thick enough.

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When I was a child, I lived in a neighborhood. Every week a garbage truck picked up the house hold trash.

5 guys were on that truck. 1 driver and 4 guys that actually lifted up various shaped trash cans and dumped them into the truck.

Today I live in an apartment complex. 100 families take their trash to the compactor. 1 guy in a garbage truck comes once a week to collect the compacted refuse.

I wonder what happened to the other 4 guys. 80% of the garbage collecting labor… freed up to do something of higher value.

Maybe they cured cancer.

If we understand how a system “emulates” consciousness then we declare it an emulation. If we don’t quite understand how a system exhibits consciousness then we can say it might be conscious.

Basically, we need to leave room for the universal answer (God) to fit into the definition.

If we ever scientifically figure out how consciousness arises in our brains, I think we will have a bunch of very depressed people on our hands. If the truth isn’t met with flat out hostile denial. I fear any answer that doesn’t leave room for God will be rejected.

Since we have the source code to AI, and thus a Godless understanding of how it works, AI will NEVER be deemed “conscious”.

No one who learned how to correctly type.

The “correct way” is garbage. Maybe useful for reaching 300 WPM. But not useful for having usable wrists.

As a coder, the “correct way“ isn’t all that useful anyway.

There are a lot of ads where you are “empowered” to choose between provided choices.

“Manage your privacy your way! Simply sign in to choose what is right for you!”

Nah, I am going to use something else.

I want to use full screen apps. But they are not in the command-tab order. So… no good.

But it does give us an idea to chew over. And we can determine how “real world” that idea is. Some of us can even see how to bend the idea a little and make a reasonable version of it “real”.

That is a lot of misdirection that doesn’t address the main point of the of OC.

This fancy new device still runs windows. And that is a non starter from many people.

Yes. Yes it does. Eliza is a known AI. You choose to expose yourself to its output. You are 100% culpable for your actions that sprang from your interactions.

Are you the best choice to engineer everything your system does? There is no one in your company that might do a better job than you for a specific part of the system?

There is nothing wrong with asking for help or bouncing ideas of people with stronger skills.

I still have the responsibility to code XYZ well. But I don’t have to do it in a clean room.

The gas engine Farraris are a pinnacle of design for an engine, gas tank, drive train, and human occupant.

It would have been trivial for Ferrari to just make their classic style but now, electric! And it would have been full of compromise.

Ferrari has made, in their opinion, the best design for the constraints and challenges of an Electric Vehicle. 4 motors, battery, human.

Good for them for putting real effort into it. And not just making a cash grab.

You’ve already chosen to go lossy. You can’t trust any pixel in the image to be true.

I never liked it either.

Panning by swiping feels so natural. That it breaks on a trackpad feels like a major oversight.

Lol. No.

I am partly named after the doctor in the song Comfortably Numb.

It’s not an either-or situation. A doctor is a human and has a job and a family. I don’t expect my doctor to be spending every second researching everything related to all his patients. There simply isn’t enough time to know everything.

If I wanted that level of care, I expect to pay for a personal physician who only has one patient. Me.

The reality is most of the time my Dr knows more technical info than the patient. But sometimes I know something they don’t. The information asymmetry lasts about 60 seconds before my doctor validates the info against his professional sources.

My doctor is providing a value commiserate with what I pay him.