I've had it with these motherfucking eels on this motherfucking hovercraft!

Honeywell? In Europe? What a load of Bull.

There was a good example of this problem in the recent /. article on bird-identifying binoculars. They don't seem particularly useful for learning, since they don't tell how they came up with the results. If it's not a completely black box, it should be possible to extract this "how", but it probably wouldn't make much sense to humans. Current AI makes a very bad replacement for teachers, as it cannot teach the actual process but only gives answers.

I remember looking at Gemini some time ago, and I thought it would be a great fit for my minimalist website. But I don't really see much point in it besides the geek factor. If I'm trying to reach a wide audience with my website, it should be accessible in a standard way without extra apps.

If you like the minimalist geek esthetic of the early web, you can still do it using the same HTTP and HTML we used back then; genuine vintage tech instead of this wannabe retro approach. There's also no need to include social media integration or tracking.

we are programmed to deceive.

Speaking of X's, isn't Twitter's X an obvious rip-off from X.org/X11?

It's not the first /. Bitcoin article. I first learned of Bitcoin in Summer 2010 from this Slashdot article. I joined the forum, started writing helper scripts, and ended up learning fun things like Verilog during my journey.

But on the main topic, Bitcoin was released as a response to the 2008 financial fuckup, it's even mentioned within the first block of the blockchain. It was created to fight the man of debt-based money and all those financial games. How in the hell did it end up partnering with the man?

People used to pay for fuel for their ICE cars with cash or credit cards. Why did this have to change when they switched from fuel to electricity? Is there any other explanation than "ooh ahh apps eThis eThat AI Web3 blockchain disruptive leverage synergy bingo"?

The world is changing and we shouldn't try to hold it back arbitrarily. It's simply idiotic to drive around burning fossil fuel when you're going to work on a computer anyway.

OTOH, there are a lot of jobs you can't do from home, and a lot of reasons for people to live in cities. Education is one example; remote studying might work at the university level to some extent, but not for everything and not so well at the lower levels. Old prestigious universities have seen half a millennium of societal and technical change, and people still come back to study there in person. Then there are things like entertainment, you can't go to a restaurant or a theatre over TCP/IP.

I'm looking at this from a Finnish city of about 150k people, living in a quiet neighbourhood with a 15-minute walk to the city centre, and my mental image of US cities and offices is rather different -- I expect a huge urban sprawl where you need to drive miles away from the centre to reach your gigantic office complex. If your offices are already spread around the countryside, I don't see what it has to do with cities.

Cities have existed for thousands of years because of various reasons, but what they all have in common is the need for people to get together. I think office work is a pretty small part of this in the big picture.

I wonder if we could make very long and thin, so far as to be flexible, and choose the materials so that the laser light stays inside the "rod".

I also recall these things called "wave guides" for microwaves, basically metal tubes for directing EM waves. You could also insert an extra conductor passing along the middle of the tube to adjust its properties. I believe it was called "co-axial" or something. Future engineers might find a way to miniaturize these things to match the size of these "lap-tops".

I'm well aware of that phrase. But this is exactly the point I was trying to make: people talk about "kicking the bucket" without meaning it. They talk about things they want to do before they kick the bucket, but then they are never going to kick the bucket -- they just say that because it sounds cooler than just dying. I guess it's one of my autistic traits that I try to understand what words and phrases really mean, instead of throwing random words around.

Or as said by my late physics professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To me, kicking the bucket implies suicide by hanging, and it sounds nasty when used about someone dying in general. But I guess that's how a lot of idioms work, extending the meaning from a specific case. (Remember when bandwidth meant something you measure in Hertz?)

Emacs is my main editor, but for the times I need to start a new editor quickly, I use jmacs -- joe with emacs keybindings. I think it comes with the standard install, I don't recall having to configure it in any way.

I think you misspelled "sickology".