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29athrowaway
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You are absolutely right!
- A good game. Possibly the 2048 of 2026.
- Just watch one of the sessions of the UN general assembly. There are many speeches about fixing all kinds of situations. If the best ideas were implemented we would be in a utopia with flying cars, free ponies for everyone and open bar. But we don't live in such world because if one motion somehow makes one of the countries with veto power uncomfortable, they will just veto the resolution and that's the end of it. And countries with veto power are backed by military power. That's the world we live in and it has always been like that.
And things work like this at every level in every organization. For example people in your line of reporting at work can veto any decision you make unless you are protected by law, which is an entity that can shut down your company by force.
- In the 19th and 20th centuries, a European power could prevail in India, China, Japan, etc.
And in the 21st century? not so much. It is a different world now.
Europe is powerful but the Royal Navy couldn't go today to Hong Kong and seize control of it for example.
And military power influences diplomacy.
- Europe is not the military power that once was at the beginning of the 20th century... aging populations, economic decline, trade deficits, their former colonies are now independent, they haven't waged war in a while.
- That would require empathy.
- I guess they could use railguns too.
- I played this piano and it reminded me of Twilight Zone (1959).
- Maybe we just need to make cyanobacteria that multiplies faster.
- Then the vibe coder will ask an LLM to answer questions about the contribution.
- Not your keys, not your coins.
- If you like this then you will probably like "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage", a 1989 book by Clifford Stoll.
Also available as audiobook, and a documentary ("The KGB, The computer and Me"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5AE-qYan8
- Brendan Gregg needs to release a GPU oriented system performance book.
- AI needs data and data that comes from consumer devices.
- > "you should do things that make your manager happy"
If doing things ethically (not defrauding investors and customers) keeps your manager happy, then do it. If not, do it fucking anyways.
- They claim they have net zero carbon footprint, or carbon neutrality.
In reality what they do is pay "carbon credits" (money) to some random dude that takes the money and does nothing with it. The entire carbon credit economy is bullshit.
Very similar to how putting recyclables in a different color bin doesn't do shit for the environment in practice.
- Yes, generational AI has a high environmental footprint. Power hungry data centers, devices built on planned obsolescence, etc. At a scale that is irrational.
Rob Pike created a language that makes you spend less on compute if you are coming from Python, Java, etc. That's good for the environment. Means less energy use and less data center use. But he is not an environmental saint.
- The linguistic holy grails over there are resolving the mysteries around Qhapac simi, Puquina and quipus.
- Input errors do not need fixing, so no.
- - mitmproxy (the Docker version is really easy to set up)
- Burp Proxy
- Wireshark, tshark
- Disable Internet connection and just use them as a display.
- I was using an AppImage
OBS is great, it was my go to recording tool. But my videos were choppy until I started using GPU screen recorder.
- If you are
- recording your screen but not streaming
- you are not customizing what goes into your screen
Then use something else. GPU screen recorder has a lower overhead and produces much smoother recordings: https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/
This impacts vulnerable people looking for jobs and makes job search highly inefficient.