Well... maybe with any luck in 1-3 years when this mindbogglingly ridiculous govt gets booted, that giant computer brain can be put to some sort of useful use, like climate change, or figuring out how to unfuck democracy or something

Why would he feel inadequate when, according to a trustworthy source, he's a better boxer than Mike Tyson, fitter than LeBron James, hotter than Tom Brady, one of the top minds in history with a near-Olympian physique, the world's best runway model, better at resurrection than Jesus, the world's best bottom (ahem) (cough) and the ultimate throat goat?

Sooner or later, we'll end up at the point where trying to maintain the ways of the past is a fruitless fight. Teachers' jobs are no longer going to be "to teach" - that that's inevitably getting taken over by AI (for economic reasons, but also because it's a one-on-one interaction with the student, with them having no fear of asking questions, and that at least at a pre-university level, it probably knows the material a lot better than the average teacher, who these days is often an ignorant gym coach or whatnot). Their jobs will be *to evaluate frequently* (how well does the student know things when they don't have access to AI tools?). The future of teachers - nostalgia aside - is as daily exam administrators, to make sure that students are actually doing their studies. Even if said exams were written by and will be graded by AI.

Dig a bit deeper and you can save money by skipping the nuclear-reactor part; just heat the water for your steam turbines with the geothermal heat that's already present down there.

Thats a more high tech version of the thing they did with my dad when he was having his punchup with prostate cancer, some sort of tiny pelet of radiactive shit they implanted in the middle of the tumor. Thankfully ,before it hit stage 4, that and the hormone therapy managed to get it under control and they managed to nuke it.

And instead of losing my dad, I got to make fun of him for a year for being on feminizing hormones and having a fried asshole (radiotherapy is amazing, but it has...... side effects.)

I guess the one your refering to is a much more directed version of it. Less chance of inducing secondary cancers from cell and genome damage.

I think one of the big things I've learned from this stupid war is watching ukranians on social media , and Ukranians are *very funny people*. I guess when your dirt poor, and live in a part of the world that turns to bitter ice for half the year you gotta have a sense of humor to go with the vodka.

If 95% of everyone got the vaccine protocol, it would have stopped transmission. Not individually but epidemiologically. Go ahead and argue the pedantics of the semantics.

We're sure that the absence of vaccines won't stop any virus. But the skeptics aren't telling you that either.

Compared to what was available before, it is quite impressive.

The negative feedback is prompted by the fact that AI is constantly being shoved into every one of our orifices 24/7 by every vaguely tech-related company as if it was the second coming of Jesus. To justify that amount of social pressure, it would indeed have to be quite a bit better than it actually is, and that's why people aren't impressed.

They're not just wrong, they're stupendously, stupidly, idiotically wrong by street-level human standards. Sure it can find & assimilate amazing things, except when it can't, and then you wonder about what you thought it just did correctly.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another." --Malcolm Reynolds

(Ironically applies well to Joss Whedon himself. Kind of wonder if one of the show writers was thinking about Joss when they wrote that...)

The only single-source point of failure is me.

You mean, why does Linus keep agreeing to be interviewed, and then reply to straightforward questions with the obvious answers?

What would you rather he do? Refuse to be interviewed, or maybe make up unexpected answers just to be edgy?

You can, although i dont recomend it. That said, repurposing old macs into home servers is something I've seen a fair bit of.

I *suppose* the mac minis could be quite useful for an office mac if you have a primarily mac infrastructure, but Apple have discontinued MacOS Server since 2022, so YMMV

Its shocking how ingrained this has become for some people. I still occasionally use twitter, although not much anymore because its become a shockingly hostile place for most people, but I saw the other day some poor woman getting the shit kicked out of her because she made the fatal mistake of posting about finally getting her PhD on a *very* interesting looking paper about the evolution of cooperative behavior in ants. And the comments where just stacked with people telling her its a stupid topic and how she should be having babies and getting married instead of being a scientist.

Now, yes some of that was *definately* sexist nonsense. But theres also an underlying massive hostility towards intelligence and intellectuals, and its so disheartening to see, because it feels like we're slipping back into a new dark ages. I saw one person refered to it as the "Endarkenment".

Just teeth grinding imbiciles raging against knowledge because it might contradict their idiotic views on vaccines or whatever.