Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

It was awesome. I even got this special grafics card calles Matrox Mystique which had this very special function: It would specifically support enhanced gaming(!). A brand new concept, can you imagine?

... what electric motors are capable of. Seriously, a specifically designed for MX purposes e-motor will launch you into orbit if that's your aim. No need for flywheels or other ghetto-type shit / steam age technology.

Seriously, now the cat's out of the bag, there's no stopping.

... is drying up. No more 150k+/year for building bullsh*t online services that might turn a profit in 10+ years. Boomers have stopped investing and are spending and passing on heritages in their last days of life. This isn't the only factor crunching the tech industry, but a notable one, I suspect.

... late than never I say.

But, then the water is pumped out to make the tunnel usable. How do they keep it submerged? What prevents the entire tunnel popping up to the surface?

4700 metric tons of balast, rocks and gravel per segement. Sorry, didn't mention that in the GP post but it's in the articles and videos.

First of all, the singular term is "agility" not "agile". Second of all, agility isn't a means, it's the end. The actual goal. And "agile software development" is a thing and will remain a thing in teams and "projects" where it fits and makes sense. Those are scenarios with experienced teams booked on a well-seasoned and under control stack with which every team-member has solid experience to basically take on any task in the scope of the project.

Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff. This is why agile software development is most often used in web development and generic user-facing software for vertical markets. Because that's precisely where you find customers who are usually overwelmed with formulating the requirements of a piece of software to be programmed.

And no, it's not at an "end" and no, it's not "dead". Perhaps the fad with dimwitts has died and they've moved on to another new buzzword, but that would be a good thing.

Agility or Agile Software Development is still alive an well for anyone actually aware what those terms really mean. See the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development for further details.

Congratiulations, you are now ahead of 99% of the buzzword crowd. You're welcome.

And you also don't understand consciousness. None of us do. Maybe it's deterministic or maybe it's not. We feel like we have free will, but so what? Dawkins feels he's talking to a conscious being because the faux-social interaction triggers neutral circuitry for interacting with others. Agency over-attribution ain't exactly rare: most humans believe in god despite not interacting with him in person.

Dawkins is most likely wrong, but without a fundamental understanding of what consciousness is, I don't know how you outrule the possibility.

Climate change *denial* is the tool of the oligarchs... if you're a rich old man it's better to ignore the problem so your taxes stay low and your portfolio increases in value faster. Actually fighting it means having to invest in infrastructure and new technologies which has the unfortunate effect of creating jobs and distributing wealth more broadly.

This is what made the Web so successful and omnipresent while at the same time introducing this type of epically dimwitted security nightmares:

The Web has nice pictures you can click on, meaning everybody has an opinion about it and wants to develop with and for it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but most web "developers" (emphasis on the quotes) have no idea about how the web actually works and what secure-by-design actually entails.

That's when you get this sort of thing, roughly 70%-80% of the time.

It's super frustrating and can get you severely depressed if you aren't aware of the cultural reasons for this problem. I've been doing non-trivial web development for 26 years now and have learned to live with this problem, but it still is just as annoying as it was in the year 2000, even though I've since notably updated my zen-skills in dealing with these types of people and projects. The upside is that by now I (mostly) get do decide who I work with and those are people who pay me fair and do listen when I say that an idea for a web solution is a bad one and has security issues built in no matter how much the juniors or marketing think it's awesome.

That said, I still consider the Web superiour to most other ways of doing software, for the simple fact that it is 100% open standard, human readable, truely 100% cross-platform and FOSS all the way through. And I wouldn't have it any other way doing professional software development. Fixing and replacing abysmally shitty code every odd project is a downside I'm willing to take with that.

... ook ook.

I suspect the judge isn't going to buy it. I likely wouldn't either.

EOM

A fleet of Zuse Z3 built out of pure gold is probably cheaper than running critical infrastructure on VM Ware.

Nobody I know runs VM Ware. And hasn't for decades. I remember when virtualization was the new hot thing roughly 20 years back and VM ware was aquired by some big corp, instantly turned to shit and the FOSS crowd started pushing out VM solutions to counter the problem. Xen and KVM got traction shortly after that.

A buddy of mine who virtualized ~300 workplaces on an HP Blade setup a few years back ran everything on FOSS and Proxmox. Virtualized storage was done with Ceph and VMs with one of the FOSS offerings (can't remember which). The whole system was high availability to the tee, with a software budget orders of magnitude cheaper than anything proprietary.

VM Ware was dead the moment they cashed out, epic style.

There is a reason experts do not trust anything mission critical to proprietary solutions.

Given that AI will kill us all if it gets too smart, this seems like a good first step towards regulation. Really, a much more comprehensive worldwide response from governments is needed to prevent an intelligence from overrunning humanity.