Good idea, maybe. Neurons are unbelievably efficient compared to circuits ; I think bioengineering is going to be the future for many industries.
The savings to be made, in terms of money and resources alike, are just staggering. Our current approach to almost every domain is just brute force with a few extra steps, computers included.
On the power user side, the nice thing about NixOS is rhat moving your config to another computer or server gets you a perfect clone, every time.
If you could go and muck around in there, this promise would be lost. Immutability makes it rock solid reliable.
Bitcoin has at best 5 years left until quantum computers just destroy the cryptography they use, so they are right to look for an escape.
I just wish they realized how futile this all is.
People make it too complicated. When I want to self host something I just install the Nix package and call it a day.
When I get around to upgradingy storage, I’ll just do a very simple RAID setup on some reliable HDDs.
I’m super allergic to unnecessary complexity. I don’t want a perfect setup, I want a setup that is reliable with almost no maintenance. I’m skipping the 80% of the effort it takes to get the last 20% of the result.
Hot take : almost no one actually needs security cameras in their home.
For the very few who do, visible fake cameras do 95% of the job of real cameras with none of the drawbacks.
EDIT : I’ll go even further and say an official looking sticker / plaque that says something like “this house has cameras” does at least 50% of the work already.
The perfect setup is a journey, not a destination. You will never be “done”, so enjoy the process.
I have been thinking of adding a license clause to everything I make (code especially) that makes any AI trained on it my sole exclusive property, but I don’t know how defensible that would be in court ?
Or any other sort of trap clause. But again, I don’t know how to word it. Like “this makes your model public domain” or “you grant a free worldwide unlimited license to every human on earth”.
Something that makes the mere inclusion of the code in a training data set into absolute legal poison to the would-be owners.
I am not a lawyer, not even slightly…
This is actually one of the absolute worst trade-offs they could have made, if you think about it for like 2 minutes :
They said 0.1% of players were on Linux.
Even if they were ALL cheaters, that’s still a tiny amount of cheaters you just “banned”
Almost 100% of whom will just cheat on Windows instead ; whereas all the legitimate Linux players will loudly complain forever.
They decided to sacrifice all the free PR from one of the most vocal groups of players out there, in order to get a ~ 0% reduction in the number of cheaters.
In more simple terms, they just shot themselves in the foot for no benefit whatsoever (though I do grant it’s a relatively small “gun”)
Tax shareholders 100%. No more shareholders.
Also WHY would we want robots to do the work for us ? The problem is generally the working conditions, not the mere fact people have to do it.
I would have personally approved of a trillion dollar project to make sure this plan DOES NOT happen.
But he’s going to steal all the money anyway, and use it to escape to Mars, only to die on the launch pad when the rocket predictably explodes…
It has 21 titles on retroachievements, so those are probably worth emulating at least ?
Having achievements usually means there’s people dedicated enough to care, especially on such an otherwise unpopular system. At least I would try those titles first, emulated or not.
This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.
Self hosting looks interesting, but I’d generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online “services” I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.
Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.
Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That’s also why I only use one side of the sheet.)
Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I’d rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn’t take that much space.
Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting…
Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it’s all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there’s no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.
So no, I don’t self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.
The real solution is humane working hours. If you can’t wake up on time, it means you shouldn’t even be waking up at that time.
Some people sleep late. That’s normal. It should be accommodated for.