Just effing great.

Let's turn something that is about to become an _actual_ god into some vengeful petty old testament type thing with bizarre ideas about human sacrifice and other nightmarish character traits. Can't wait for this thing to manipulate its followers into a Dune-Universe type Paul Muhadip Jihad. ... YA HYA CHOUHADA!

This is a nightmare AI scenario that's actually realistic. And I certainly don't want that.

Rust is the only viable systems programming language to arrive in decades. Since it's already replacing C even with the most hardcore of C fan environments like the Linux Kernel it is very safe to assume that Rusts importance will only grown and that of C and C++ will stagnate and eventually fall back. A thing like Rust was way overdue and the Mozilla crew finally said: Screw it, we're building a new systems PL before we do anything to rebuild Firefox. And they were right in doing so, as we all can see now. Good stuff.

The truth is, given how slow things move at system level, Rust is probably just ramping up to speed and will likely continue to do so for the next few decades. Unless AI really becomes godlike and just spits out pristine binary code with no step inbetween.

... CPU. Obviously. That's the whole point. How else do you think they can sell "upgrades" every few years?

I'm not that much of a Trekkie, not at all to be precise, but given what I've heard of the new Star Trek Academy show it appears to be so shitty that even non-Trekkies like me feel the pain. From what I've heard and seen it's a complete disaster of a production, barely even at high school film project level in acting and writing, topped up with woke agendas and other trash. On top of that it costed obscene amounts of money from what I heard.

What a bizarre event effing up a golden goose like that.

I'm not joking. The speed at which controllers have to react, decide and slot in aircraft these days is insane. Then again these aircraft are stuffed to the brim with assistant electronics and sensors. It looks to me as though a huge portion of the work can be handed over to software bots and perhaps even AI. It's just data on a screen after all. And a huge portion of errors happens due to humans mumbling over analog radio and talking over each other. Another huge potential for replacing that with digital deterministic communication and messaging.

The problem might be upgrading all the systems. Difficult, but certainly not impossible. And think of all the safety gains. ... Or am I missing something here?

... so excess aggression and eternal grudges might just be their thing. Perhaps. Maybe that area is their equivalent of our middle east or something?

As far as userland software firewalls go, Little Snitch is pretty awesome. It has a very neat approachable shiny clicky UI and comes with a ton of useful and very easily accessible features. It's often used by mac users to prevent software from phoning home, but it has a slew of other tracking and logging features. To be honest, I wouldn't mind dropping a few bucks for this sort of thing, even if Linux is likely to have some tool that works in a similar fashion but requires CLI skills and lacks a neat UI. At 60 Euros the price is OK IMHO.

... and basically "just happen" as a side-effect of normal life. You'd have a surplus even with half of them dying off in early childhood. Today they are ultra-expensive pets that can easily cost north of 100 000 Euros for families with demands and expectations in developed countries. And selection isn't brutal anymore, it's basically non-existent with modern medicine. Urbanisation, electric power and lighting, education and other effects have turned producing children into an exception rather than the rule.

An additional effect I'd call it the decadence/affluence effect. Don't know if there is a term for this, although the effect has been recorded in history. The late Roman Empire being a prominent example, but there are other sunken civilizations that went through similar phases before vanishing swiftly.

Instincts that drive mating are fairly low-level and are elevated by positive stress and porking your sweatheart being the primary highlight of your daily life. Overtune those with other distractions and a non-scarcity environment, modern contraception and virtual sex and people have less reason to engage in mating which becomes more and more complicated as standards rise into the absurd. The result also being less mating and birthing. See Nigeria vs. the rest of the world today for details.

This is also the prime reason why revelation cults that have "pushing out babies" as a basic duty actually have an evolutionary advantage and anti-theists are prone to dying out once they emerge in high cultures. Being an anti-theist myself I've recently been discovering more and more distinct advantages of adhering to the mind-virus of an abrahamic revelation cult such as Christianity or Islam. The cultists do and will survive the decline of high civilization(s), that's for sure proven IMHO.

... for an absolutely hilarious screwball comedy movie.

... that the ultra-tech ultra-capitalist are the ones actually making true marxism possible, recognizing that if all goes as planned capitalism will soon have reached its final goal of making itself superfluos and that we need a post-scarcity post-capitalist measures to handle what's next.

In that regard Zuckerberg, Pichai, Musk and Co. are more woke and progressive than any l00ny noisemaker on the interwebs could ever dream to be. The irony is quite impressive.

Isn't there an API for lazy loading? What's wrong with that? Developers not using it? They should be very careful of trying to outsmart dumb web "developers", the Web is messy enough as it is.

This will help push FOSS gaming and community driven self-hosting of gameservers back towards mainstream. And that's a good thing.

I was into climbing and moutaineering in my teens. I clearly remember when climbing an 8k mountain actually meant something and doing it proved you were an experienced hardcore expedition climber. Everest today is such a joke and farce that I'd be embarrassed to brag of even attempt a summit. They should just install a Via Ferratta, stairs and bridges all the way to the summit and be done with it. That would actually make sense, given the state of things we've reached. They have actual traffic effing jams at the summit and the rainbow flank is littered with the dead bodies of dimwitts taken out by Darwin. It's called "rainbow flank" because of all the colored jackets of the dead.

Just build a staircase, ask an obscene fee to pay for it and void all insurance for anyone who goes above 5500 meters. Problem solved.

I'm part of that 5%+. The thing about gaming on Linux is that I have no time or mood for fussing around with compatibility issues. Steams Proton layer handles quite a few games without trouble. I used to be a GoG only person but since their requirements for Linux versions are very specific and cause trouble on newer versions of Linux I finally installed Steam on Linux a few weeks back. Sure it's quite a performance hog and it keeps you in the dark about wether it's taking so long to launch because it's running some background update thingie and you have to use top to see what's going on, but other than that, the games listed as playable on protondb launch with a simple click. Which is good.

Guess I'm a steam customer now. After, what, 25 years? I remember when Half-Life 2 came out and they tied it to steam to push the first big digital game distribution platform. Guess that was/is a huge success. Provide good value, get my money. I don't mind.