I totaly agree with the author. Not even the smartphone or the iphone brought such a sudden change to so many people and in many cases, for free. I know we want to oppose this huge thing just because it doesn't make sense moraly but when you learn using this tool there is no way back.
Just imagine what is coming in the next 5-10 years. Even if the tools remain at the same level as today, people have learned to use it so well that ever sector every industry will speed up tremendously. We will see great new products and ideas emerging. Just can't wait for the revolution.
Trackers tend to suffer from mechanical failures. Even 15 years ago, there was only one way to make money out of solar panels: Install them and forget them. If you need to waste time and money on the installation then the small profit vanishes really quickly. I really don't know how those companies convienced the investors for trackers.
It would never have occurred to me that a Greek would assume that Alexander the Great was just a local hero!
In the US, anyone who remembers any ancient history will remember Alexander the Great. He's a part of every single world history curriculum, and for good reason. Whether by his own skill or luck, he reshaped most of Eurasia in his lifetime.
I mean, it was in the curriculum in Fiji where I studied. Stupid of course, because we had to learn the histories of far away places (literally on the other side of the world) more than our own history.
Whatever late corner of earth that didn't yet know who Alexander the great was, that history was forever changed, once personal computers & the golden age of PC computing came to be.
The entire western world draws its cultural lineage through the ancient greek civilizations, most of us sub-consciously consider ancient greek history "our" history. Even relatively un-educated New Zealanders on the exact opposite side of the world know who Alexander the Great is.
Alexander the Great was taught in my US high-school world history class. I was very fuzzy on the details of his life (time period, exactly where he was from and what he did), but he was Kinda a Big Deal for the world, not just ancient Greece.
Isn’t Alexander the Great the most famous (at least in the western world) conqueror of all time? At the very least he’s up there with Ghengis and Atila.
I have a solid example here that bogles my mind every now and them watching people killing other people especially in the US:
I would expect after all those years mental health to be accounted in a serious criminal case like killing somebody. Meaning that a person who kills somebody else definitely has mental issues that come from their childhood. So what about parents in those cases, aren't they having their part on the sick mentality of their child? Why not pressing charges to them?
> Meaning that a person who kills somebody else definitely has mental issues that come from their childhood. So what about parents in those cases, aren't they having their part on the sick mentality of their child? Why not pressing charges to them?
Even assuming the premise of killing someone implies mental illness, and assuming the mental illness stems from trauma, there's a pretty large leap in reasoning here. Why must the trauma come during childhood? Why not in adulthood? Even in childhood, why does it have to come from the parents?
Then you have the idea of continuing up the causal chain. Why are we pressing charges to the parents? If the parent's traumatized their kids, there's good chance they did it due to their own mental illness/trauma, which means the parents themselves were abused in childhood. So we should go after their parents.... except that just means we should go after there parents.... ad infinitum.
> a person who kills somebody else definitely has mental issues that come from their childhood
People that kill other people often function well in their society. It doesn't make sense to me to classify that as mental issues. People are inherently territorial, aggressive animals - at least to the extent being so doesn't make them much of an outlier.
daemonization is the process of running a process in the background and without being attached to a terminal. Many applications exit when they are detached from the terminal they starter even when they yield no output. Maybe that is why it's still there.
Of course back in the day fork() was all about creating background processes that were running quietly in the background were screen didn't exist yet and terminals were actual machines, not just one more window.
Today System D doesn't like daemonization. IT prefers a process that can be attached somewhere.
For me AI helped me to implement all those things I was lazy to do all those years. Feel proud now!
In the actual code writing it helped me a lot on writing boring unit tests. Sometimes it's just a hit of enter key to write the whole test with GH pilot.
Just telling you all those things to maybe help you see AI differently and more friendly.
Writing code and trying to follow all those new technologies is a very mind intense and stressful activity. Maybe it's just this. Changing career was never bad for anybody. You can always make a comeback if you change your mind.
Maybe you try to become a product owner or something?
Well how deep a nuclear assault can reach? In Greece there are some witnesses saying that the major internet provider backbone fiber was found buried 10cm below the road. Just after the asphalt inside the pebble.
Google Fiber was infamous for doing it this way, called "microtrenching" or "nanotrenching", where they either cut a trench into pavement and lay the cable into that and fill over with asphalt or other material. When done poorly (read: most of the installs that they've done), it erodes the road surface and the base and causes all sorts of problems [0] [1] [2] [3]
Also lots of providers just string up cable on poles, which are routinely snagged by trucks, shot by ammunition, run into by cars, etc etc, so even more vulnerable than shallow burial. Some of these cables are major links so damage can cause wide-reaching problems. No match for an out of control sedan, let along a nuclear strike. [4] [5]
Each hop of the internet uses power. The power infrastructure is above ground for long enough to be overpowered by nukes. So even if the internet were entirely under ground and even if it were entirely only fiber it would need an underground-only power feed coming from an underground-only power generation source. Most internet service providers are above ground. Some telco is underground but only useful for old pots lines and some DS lines. Satellite ground station relays are above ground. Power plants are above ground. Solar panels are above ground.
I could be wrong, so after a nuclear event we should all try updating this thread assuming M5 Computer Security is EMP hardened and has backup power and a fuel contract with a fuel company that still exists. Most data-centers are not EMP hardened.
I am using ChatGPT every day. It helps me on my engineering tasks since it has a lot of knowledge. It also helps me on coding a lot but there I am using Github's Copilot.
Certainly LLMs made my life way easier and they simplified many tasks that I was procrastinating and considering them huge hurdles on my everyday work and hobbies as well. This greatly improved my productivity and creativity!
Trying to solve an engineering problem sometimes mind stucks in stupid ways to implement them. LLMs helped me to see another way of doing thigs greatly improving my efficiency!
So we have improvement on creativity, productivity and efficiency. What else do we need from LLMs really? I don't understand why people are not using it.
