It appeared to work well enough, but one can infer that it probably wasnt expected to remain working well forever (The original estimate was somewhere in the order of "a few years"). It was *still* a pig kidney, despite some 59 CRISPR edits, its innevitable that at some point either the body will pull a "wtf" and kill it, or some fundamental biological incompatibility would wear the whole thing down, and thats not even going into the mutual incompatibility with the respective natural faunas. (Ie pig bacterium, latent viruses, vs human bacterium and viruses)

However, if they say the person died from something else, well I believe them This person was at deaths door prior to the operation. They *dont* do procedures like this unless the alternative is no worse than getting it wrong.

One can infer that he was likely completely shredded anyway from the damage the failing kidneys where causing (and likely whatever was killing the original kidneys in the first place). This brought him time, but not cure.

Thats the bit that worries me. I'm a year off the big 50, I'm not as robust physically as I was when I was 20 and doing physical labor jobs to pay my way through university, and nobody is going to hire a guy for non labour job that'd probably take a few years to to up to speed in a field I'm unfamiliar with yet. I dont have youth on my side, and I still have a good decade left before I'm anywhere close to financially stable enough to retire thanks to spending my 20s in academia, and my refusal to get involved with managent stuff (I did project management for a bit, and hated it with a passion. I do science, its what I enjoy)

We still have a good year, two if we are lucky, before AI can mostly replace coders, it doesnt have to be inventive, it just has to be able to replace the grunt work aspect, and most of us are well aware that 99% of commmercial computing is more or less the same thing on repeat. We're fooling ourselves if we think most of that cant be automated.

Strange times ahead, boys and girls.

Reread the article dude. It was removed in error. Jackson had nothing to do with it.

And the films where fine.

Yeah my advice with NoSQL has always been that its a last resort, not a first resort. There are very specific things relational doesn't do well at, specifically graphs, column time series and a few things like that. (Though there are some fine relational implementations of time series, notably timescale). Unless your doing that , relational is almost always going to be the better choice. 99% of the time I've seen Mongo and the like deployed, its because the coder just doesn't grasp SQL (it doesnt help when one of the more popular SQL textbooks, SQL the hard way, is written by a guy who admits he doesnt understand JOIN statements, its a trainwreck.) or some marketing droid has bamboozled them into thinking its "Webscale", whatever the fuck that means.

Relational DBs scale like a beast in the right hands, and can be incredibly deterministic in their behavior, making smart planning for scale and breadth possible. Don't fall for the marketing hype.

Yeah. While GPT4 and Claude are extemely impressive, I'm more interested in things I can run myself, rather than shitty cloud services that shuttle all my private data off to some anonymous GPU cloud for disection.

And so far , I've been rather impressed with the likes of Mistral and llama2. Obviously they arent going to win any battle of intellects agains the trillion parameter behemoths. But they still work fine enough for the kind of tasks I'm interested in.

Theres no concern at all for blood transfusions, breast feeding infants or sexual relations, because its pseudoscientific gibberish with no concievable mechanism for it to be true coupled with know known observed instances of it ever be true. Its the fever dreams of paranoid people who never finished highschool.

Yes you might shit out a few acid denatured proteins. But it *doesnt mean anything*. You shit out proteins all day. And that isn't "Shedding".

Shedding is when the body expels dead (and sometimes alive) viruses. That is literally impossible.

Last I saw it was when it first came out , and there where ultra right wing dudes demanding it answer whether there are two genders or not. It was replying by calling them idiots in highly creative ways.

I found it a rather amusing spectacle watching maga fools losing arguments to a chatbot designed to agree with them.

Considering how drenched twitter now is with conspiracy theories and things like antivaxers spamming the site with nonsense about how if you know a vaccinated person you'lll get sick from "shedding" (mRNA doesn't "shed" but mere facts never stopped those crowd) and could catch "turbo cancer". Its an absolute wasteland of disinformation and bots nowdays, and they want to train AI on *that*?

There are actually pretty decent converters from Unity to Godot and Unity to Unreal out there. Naturally they wont convert scripts, but for assets, its a pretty well covered area. (And its not like you necessarily need it. Unreal is very much a batteries-included sort of engine. You need to spend a LOT of money on Unity to get the basic functionality that comes out of the box in Unreal.)

Yeah. The last mile thing is really the best way to keep up with tech. We did that in australia with the NBN and other than political sabotage by the former conservative govt trying to downgrade it from fibre to DSL (which ended up costing more than fibre and we just had to rip it out anyway. Why people think conservatives are somehow better financial managers will always be beyond me, it just flies in the face of the evidence) but despite the setbacks, it got us from ADSL to a network that MOSTLY delivers 1GB fibre and in some circumstances 10GB although due to the "We are a giant desert the size of america" factor some places still havent had that upgrade yet.

I think its a good model. It protects competition by preventing last mile monopolies while ensuring that everyone actually gets a connection.

We've been seriously considering it at work. The problem is theres a whole generation of younger tech kids who have no idea what to even do with a rack mountable server and have no experience with it. Me, I've been racking linux boxes since the 90s, and miss the days when the worst outcome you could expect was a late night visit to the office because the idiot boss keeps trying to code on production. But for kids raised on NodeJS and Lambda, its alien technology.

So really what I wanna do is use one of the open source cloud systems to replicate a lambda type system on a pair of firebreathing AMD servers with some sort of interface that lets them use their skills while giving me the ability to get under the hood and do what I do best.

Also, it helps that our factory was literally a datacenter under its old owners so theres a tonne of fibre connectivity already in place. Hell they even left the backup generator/UPS system there. All the hard bits are already in place, we just gotta rack up some iron and get away from those awful $10K+ a month AWS fees.

Yes it has. And people who live there know about that and have experience surviving in that heat.

We've had temperatures here in West Australia pushing the 50c range (I *think* thats a bit over 120f in american moon units) and the people in those regions know about that sort of heat and that going outside=death.

The problem is when you start getting temps in places where people ARENT used to it.

Here we used to laugh our heads off at reports of 30c (86f) UK heat waves and old people dying in that heat. Thats a comfortable spring day here.But they where not used to it. And now they are getting 40c days from time to time in the UK. Folks in countries where blue is not a color you associate with sky are going to suffer a hell of a lot more than folks who think of 40c as "uncomforable but normal"

This really bugs me. My old Macbook 2011 made it nearly a decade partly by me being able to flip on its back, and replace or update parts at will. It was long a machine in decline, as a mangled third party repair had left it so the back case never quite screwed on right again leaving it structurally a little unstable but in the time I had it I upgraded its HDD to a an SSD, upgraded the ram to either 16 or 32gb (Cant remember, might have just been 16), completely replace the wireless daughterboard with one off a *different model* of mac, replaced a screen after my cat knocked it off the table cracking the screen, and even replace the topcase and motherboard after drunkenly spilling a beer on it. The damn thing was a bonafide ship of theasus, I'm not sure there was a single original part in it by the end. Oh and at least one battery replacement.

Nowdays, you cant replace *anything* in a new macbook. And thats a shame, as this M1 macbook I have is a damn solid machine, and I *ought* be able to expect a good 10 years out of it , but if I break something, or come across a mission critical task that requires more than 16mb ram (Ie, AI), I'm up shit creek without a paddle.

Presumably. He is in the absurdity league of billionares. At that sort of wealth, theres no need to actually do anything , you just hire a guy.

Its been years since I had to resign onto my Apple account except when doing a purchase (which is not only sensible, but ought be mandatory for all online services)

And yes, it does make sense to be able to be remotely signed out. If someone steals my laptop, you damn well bet I'm gonna try and boot them off it.