... the thought that now everyone is a publisher. They've been pushing this as a last ditch effort to save their stuff.
As a result of this law there's going to be some "content sharing" initative in like 6 hours ago, basically voiding this law just about instantly for all participants. Everyone is going to sign up except for them and the world will move on. Without them. And they will finally die.
I remember the flat-out lies newspaper testreports told about the range of Tesla cars and that were uncovered by the logs the car had recorded about how it actually had been driven. To me there is no doubt that behind the scenes specialised agencies and perhaps even darker machinations are at work to throw monkey wrenches into Teslas attempt to build an market feasilbe electric car.
Systematic sabotage at Tesla? Really way more likely than most people would think, IMHO.
To be honest, I'll take power efficiency. HDD/SSD encryption protects you from the scenario of someone reading a disk he snatched off you. This is the most likely scenario and if some ageny want's to read my stuff remotely in real time I figure they'll do it one way or the other once they've snuck a troyan in.
Botton line: The SSD still is safer than when not encrypted and if caching is faster and saves power it's a balanced design choice and a calculated IMHO. I figure Apple knows what it's doing. Most of the time that is.
... and other pratices of spritiuality and stoicism makes you more chill and less prone to societies rate-race bullshit.
Next up: Eating healthy has you spend less money at fast-food joints! Learning a real skill or art has you spend less time watching TV and spending money on pointless tat! Regular good sex with a cute sweetheart has you spend less money on expensive brand fashion!
News brought to you by CORI - Captain Obvious Research Institute.
I'm sort of in the ADHD camp. I've read a bit about the subject and somewhat adhere to the theory that a) ADHD isn't as much a disorder rather than a genetic predestination. Roughly 10% of society being Hunter/Gatherer (creative, priest, leader, rebell, etc,), the rest being farmers/settlers. It's a bit of a chicken/egg problem: Do I have low self-esteem because im ADHD or do I have ADHD as a symptom of low self-esteem? Or is both linked to brain performance or is both linked to lack of social proof for aberrant behavior (minimalist stoic)? Childhood media consumption definitely plays into this, as it trains us to look for emotional states that are fully decoupled from the "mundane" reality around us.
I however have also noticed how much nutrition and psychological factors play into emotional wellbeing and how much that plays into brain performance.
Another thing that happened recently is that I finally had my nose-divider corrected (at the age of 47). I, for the first time in my life, can breathe properly. Or at least way better than before. The difference in my cognitive abilities is palpable. I can concentrate longer and deeper with less strain. I'm pretty sure that my confidence has risen due to that and that feeds back into my ability to concentrate. Sleep-apnosis is know to severely influence cognitive abilities (access to oxygen).
Last but not least, I've noticed how extremely nutrition influences cognitive performance. Processed foods make me less concentrated and more sleepy vis-a-vis organic fresh foods. Again, the difference is palpable.
Bottom line: There are some theories about rising CO2 levels and whatnot, but I bet dollars to donuts that if IQ really is declining again across the board that childhood media consumption and nutrition are the most significant factors playing into this. And I have some personal anecdotal evidence to back this up.
Most don't need to. DevOps is this newfangled thing that happens when you've got your pipeline optimized so far that a handful of experts can code, deploy, upgrade and maintain your appstack all at the same time, while sipping lattes and playing a round of foosball inbetween. When orgs have gone "all cloud", then DevOps is a thing that basically happens automatically. But don't expect a regular old-school company going there. It's avantgarde startups doing this, and they, in the end, might end up replacing the classic companies - see the bets on fintech stuff as an example.
It would be silly to expect than 150 year old insurance company to get what DevOps even means without knowing the context, let alone implement it correctly (along with the move to cloud) and ditch all the heads that get lost in the transition. It's way more likely that CloudInsuranceCompany Inc. will come along and eventually replace them as a company in whole.... Probably even funded by the same investors that made money off the classic company.
Outside of an organisation going all-cloud from the get-go, DevOps is little more than a fad and a buzzword that gets thrown around. Sort of like this "Agile" sillyness where 3000+ headcount orgs suddenly want to go "AGILE!" and implement Scrum across the board right down to the cleaning crew.
So these are self-drining. And while I agree they won't take my job any time soon - after all, I'm a computer experts of sorts - I know for a fact that the ones shown already have taken ~300 jobs.
As soon as it is economically 10x more feasible to do automated driving - be it little bots or human-transporting "car-like" things it will happen. Even if that requires standardizing street signs and perhaps some guidance system for automated cars. Transport is 70 million jobs globally. At least. The incentive to cut those costs is presuring and it will happen once self-driving cars are feasible. And they are about to become.
I recommend this video for a different take on this issue.
However, if you want to establish a PL it has to be cross-plattform. That's a given. And better at cross-plattform than any other PL. I mean GUI builder, binary compiler, FOSS all the way, hardware trickery, etc. Fall short on that and you'll have a hard time getting tracktion..Net anyone? We have enough flaky half-assed shit in the PL space already - i.e. every freakin' PL out there. Apple has fallen a little short of this.
The only other possible option for them is offering a zero-fuss experience for those who want to develop for the Apple ecosystem. The GP hints that this is not entirely the case - which would be a drag and a shortcoming on Apples behalf.
About 7 months ago I pondered getting a stack of Apple hardware (Phone, Tablet, new MB Pro) and professionally develop Apple code for a living. This GP post has me glad I didn't. Web it is for me still as I decided. Open plattform technology. Nice. Can be a serious pain doing tricky stuff, but then again that stuff is rare. Just right for neat x-plattform UIs and shoveling data about.... The only problem are the douchebags and halfwits in the webdev space - that's a real downer and a pill. The magnitude of shitty code and utterly clueless decisions is absolutely staggering and time and time again manages to have me stand with awe and amazement as to how these people even manage to get things working.
As I just experienced once again today after a hard workday at my current agency..... aaaah, agencies,... don't even get me started...
My last Mac is a 13" MBAir from 2010. I'm about to sell it.
My main OS is x86 Linux (Xubuntu on my large ThinkPad and Manjaro i3 on my small one).
And while I really like Apple and appreciate some of the very neat stuff they do and I also like the fact that there is some very neat software available on mac, I am not a fanboy. Right now I find them way too expensive and apparently their new keyboards - allthough I really liked typing on them at the Apple store - need a redo to not fail because of dust. Not getting one of those. To risky at that pricerange.
When their current pricerange drops 400 euros across the board, then I might consider them again on my next hardware buying round. Which, as of now, is at least 4 years out.
So a super-lightweight quasi real-time IoT Linux OS beats macOS on it's native hardware 60% of the time? Give me an effing break, will ya? I'm no Apple fanboy and there's plenty of stuff going on with Apple right now to piss on, but performance and integration of their high-end all-out desktop OS into their purpose built hardware is still next to none, by a far margin.
Trying hard to find something that 'beats' them at that game makes you look like an idiot. So let's not be silly. Please.
You have to know what you're doing and why. There is no free lunch. Management expects it to come out of development because they can do "computer magic", but it wont happen. Agile Software Development methods try to mitigate the sideeffects, but if nobody plays along agility becomes a trainwreck. You have to know what you are doing and agility has to be a part of company culture. If it isn't, if will fail, plain and simple.
Positive example: Sipgate is a company that does it right.
I know someone first hand who had been translating plans and manuals for cruise missles for a NATO partner country. That was 3 years before there was an official vote to decide wether these would be stationed or not. In the 80ies the peace movement launched large-scale protests agains the CMs, argueing that they could carry nukes. Which is nigh pointless in such a high precision weapon. Word had it that the peace protests where funded and organised by CIA blackops to make the CMs more scary and have the local gouvernment push through agressively to make them even more scary than they are. And to mislead the public and the enemy about their actual purpose.
So year, this could be a honeypot / smokescreen. Not unlikely.
I'm a minimalist and live not much different than my brother who's had homeless episodes in the last two decades. My recent hardware is a refurbished ThinkPad for 200 euros and my sneakers t-shirts and jeans are off-brand bargain deals. I've been riding the bike and of for all my life, never owned a car even when it wasn't hip not to have one. I work part time and live in a 35 square metre apartment.
I'm anything but rich. At least money wise. My wealth is my education.
My very beautiful cute and sexy girlfriend left me, I lost my job, got kicked out of my very nice condo and had to realise that I couldn't do 16 hours a day working and studying comp sci at Germany's toughest comp sci university. All within the span of a few weeks. So yeah, you could call it an episode and not clinical depression but it was very tough. When you fall into a coma after a regular workday of 16 hours and still wake up from deep sleep with a panic attack at 2 o'clock in the morning and get the warmest feeling when you ponder killing yourself, you know things are pretty fucked up and you'd better find a turnaround. Like, fast.
As I said, luckily I did. Being a stoic and having read 4hww, Alan watts and Seneca before did help me though. Big time.
This is not comparable with hardened clinical depression, I'm very well aware of that. That can kill you quickly and there's little to do other than have yourself monitored 24/7 and get treatment.
Sense and enthusiasm are essential for a happy life. In a world transitioning though cyberpunk into post-scarcity faster than any science fiction writer could've ever imagined, sense, meaning and enthusiasm are constantly upended and revised.
These are not easy times. I was suicidal for a bit 6 years back. Luckily I though about what that would do to my daughter and pulled myself out of my rut of over-emphasised self-importance that often is the cause of 1st world depression and went to work to be useful to my loved ones. I bounced back pretty quick and once again these days life is awesome again. Best sex ever, neat job, webdev in high demand and - most importantly - I'm more resilient and prepared for the next slump and emotional downer.
I recommend stoicism as a life philosophy. Get's you though tough times very neatly and helps you focus on the real things. No religion needed.
This is pretty spot on. In a cyberpunk post scarcity economy practical stoicism is an attractive option. As an IT expert I could easyly earn 80 000 Euros and more even without having a degree but I chose not to.
I spent the better part of my last decade working part time, social dancing as a Tango Bum / Tango Nomad (yeah, there is such a thing:-) ) and generally taking it easy. I'm now ramping up to rake in a little cash to get myself some Microappartment or micro house for my old age while at the same time embracing minimalism even further. But still it's part time work and part time college. Wouldn't want it any other way right now. I'm ok with wearing 8 Euro t-shirts as standard garb and riding the bike and public transport. And doing my yoga with YouTube and not in some expensive class.
Those are genetic dispositions and socializations. If I'm trying to fix a full stack web Problem every day all day for months or years in a row it will have an impact on my emotional and mental composition. ADHDs are hunters and gatherers in a settler and farmer world.
I've enrolled in college recently and have a Projekt group made up of me (48, senior developer) and three 19 year old nerdboys. And I mean total all out over the top excess nerds. These guys couldn't care less about their appearance or habitus. They do still care but only to the utmost minimum. They care orders of magnitude more about getting our little Java thing done with and back to playing with a bazillion PLs, getting into C++ and trying out that new Tensor Flow thing.
Linus Torwalds would be a abysmally shitty dancer (I presume) but he's one of the best Programmers in the world. That's also due to his mental composition.
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Gotta love it. Glad he wasn't sent to the nutrition tanks for immediate decomposure. :-)
... the thought that now everyone is a publisher. They've been pushing this as a last ditch effort to save their stuff.
As a result of this law there's going to be some "content sharing" initative in like 6 hours ago, basically voiding this law just about instantly for all participants. Everyone is going to sign up except for them and the world will move on. Without them. And they will finally die.
Good riddance.
... is that they also hope it helps train their conversational AI.
No? ... Corporate wars are sooo booooring. Can't we have a fatal Godzilla attack or something?
I remember the flat-out lies newspaper testreports told about the range of Tesla cars and that were uncovered by the logs the car had recorded about how it actually had been driven. To me there is no doubt that behind the scenes specialised agencies and perhaps even darker machinations are at work to throw monkey wrenches into Teslas attempt to build an market feasilbe electric car.
Systematic sabotage at Tesla? Really way more likely than most people would think, IMHO.
You can't have both. Naturally.
To be honest, I'll take power efficiency. HDD/SSD encryption protects you from the scenario of someone reading a disk he snatched off you. This is the most likely scenario and if some ageny want's to read my stuff remotely in real time I figure they'll do it one way or the other once they've snuck a troyan in.
Botton line:
The SSD still is safer than when not encrypted and if caching is faster and saves power it's a balanced design choice and a calculated IMHO. I figure Apple knows what it's doing. Most of the time that is.
... shitty pill cam.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud*
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. Tip your waitor and try the fish.
... and other pratices of spritiuality and stoicism makes you more chill and less prone to societies rate-race bullshit.
Next up:
Eating healthy has you spend less money at fast-food joints!
Learning a real skill or art has you spend less time watching TV and spending money on pointless tat!
Regular good sex with a cute sweetheart has you spend less money on expensive brand fashion!
News brought to you by CORI - Captain Obvious Research Institute.
I'm sort of in the ADHD camp. I've read a bit about the subject and somewhat adhere to the theory that a) ADHD isn't as much a disorder rather than a genetic predestination. Roughly 10% of society being Hunter/Gatherer (creative, priest, leader, rebell, etc,), the rest being farmers/settlers. It's a bit of a chicken/egg problem: Do I have low self-esteem because im ADHD or do I have ADHD as a symptom of low self-esteem? Or is both linked to brain performance or is both linked to lack of social proof for aberrant behavior (minimalist stoic)?
Childhood media consumption definitely plays into this, as it trains us to look for emotional states that are fully decoupled from the "mundane" reality around us.
I however have also noticed how much nutrition and psychological factors play into emotional wellbeing and how much that plays into brain performance.
Another thing that happened recently is that I finally had my nose-divider corrected (at the age of 47). I, for the first time in my life, can breathe properly. Or at least way better than before. The difference in my cognitive abilities is palpable. I can concentrate longer and deeper with less strain. I'm pretty sure that my confidence has risen due to that and that feeds back into my ability to concentrate. Sleep-apnosis is know to severely influence cognitive abilities (access to oxygen).
Last but not least, I've noticed how extremely nutrition influences cognitive performance. Processed foods make me less concentrated and more sleepy vis-a-vis organic fresh foods. Again, the difference is palpable.
Bottom line:
There are some theories about rising CO2 levels and whatnot, but I bet dollars to donuts that if IQ really is declining again across the board that childhood media consumption and nutrition are the most significant factors playing into this.
And I have some personal anecdotal evidence to back this up.
My 2 cents.
Most don't need to. DevOps is this newfangled thing that happens when you've got your pipeline optimized so far that a handful of experts can code, deploy, upgrade and maintain your appstack all at the same time, while sipping lattes and playing a round of foosball inbetween. When orgs have gone "all cloud", then DevOps is a thing that basically happens automatically. But don't expect a regular old-school company going there. It's avantgarde startups doing this, and they, in the end, might end up replacing the classic companies - see the bets on fintech stuff as an example.
It would be silly to expect than 150 year old insurance company to get what DevOps even means without knowing the context, let alone implement it correctly (along with the move to cloud) and ditch all the heads that get lost in the transition. It's way more likely that CloudInsuranceCompany Inc. will come along and eventually replace them as a company in whole. ... Probably even funded by the same investors that made money off the classic company.
Outside of an organisation going all-cloud from the get-go, DevOps is little more than a fad and a buzzword that gets thrown around. Sort of like this "Agile" sillyness where 3000+ headcount orgs suddenly want to go "AGILE!" and implement Scrum across the board right down to the cleaning crew.
My two Eurocents.
So these are self-drining. And while I agree they won't take my job any time soon - after all, I'm a computer experts of sorts - I know for a fact that the ones shown already have taken ~300 jobs.
As soon as it is economically 10x more feasible to do automated driving - be it little bots or human-transporting "car-like" things it will happen. Even if that requires standardizing street signs and perhaps some guidance system for automated cars. Transport is 70 million jobs globally. At least. The incentive to cut those costs is presuring and it will happen once self-driving cars are feasible. And they are about to become.
I recommend this video for a different take on this issue.
Nothing to see here. Then again, this is 2018 where you can get .5 TB MicroSD Cards for real so go figure.
"My hearing wasn't a nothing-sandwich. THIS is a nothing-sandwich! ..... Aaaaahahahaha ... Chew on it!"
.. i.e. less scary to most people.
However, if you want to establish a PL it has to be cross-plattform. That's a given. And better at cross-plattform than any other PL. I mean GUI builder, binary compiler, FOSS all the way, hardware trickery, etc. Fall short on that and you'll have a hard time getting tracktion. .Net anyone? We have enough flaky half-assed shit in the PL space already - i.e. every freakin' PL out there. Apple has fallen a little short of this.
The only other possible option for them is offering a zero-fuss experience for those who want to develop for the Apple ecosystem. The GP hints that this is not entirely the case - which would be a drag and a shortcoming on Apples behalf.
About 7 months ago I pondered getting a stack of Apple hardware (Phone, Tablet, new MB Pro) and professionally develop Apple code for a living. This GP post has me glad I didn't. Web it is for me still as I decided. Open plattform technology. Nice. Can be a serious pain doing tricky stuff, but then again that stuff is rare. Just right for neat x-plattform UIs and shoveling data about. ... The only problem are the douchebags and halfwits in the webdev space - that's a real downer and a pill. The magnitude of shitty code and utterly clueless decisions is absolutely staggering and time and time again manages to have me stand with awe and amazement as to how these people even manage to get things working.
As I just experienced once again today after a hard workday at my current agency. .... aaaah, agencies, ... don't even get me started ...
Not a fanboy at all. No, not at all.
My last Mac is a 13" MBAir from 2010. I'm about to sell it.
My main OS is x86 Linux (Xubuntu on my large ThinkPad and Manjaro i3 on my small one).
And while I really like Apple and appreciate some of the very neat stuff they do and I also like the fact that there is some very neat software available on mac, I am not a fanboy. Right now I find them way too expensive and apparently their new keyboards - allthough I really liked typing on them at the Apple store - need a redo to not fail because of dust. Not getting one of those. To risky at that pricerange.
When their current pricerange drops 400 euros across the board, then I might consider them again on my next hardware buying round. Which, as of now, is at least 4 years out.
So a super-lightweight quasi real-time IoT Linux OS beats macOS on it's native hardware 60% of the time? Give me an effing break, will ya?
I'm no Apple fanboy and there's plenty of stuff going on with Apple right now to piss on, but performance and integration of their high-end all-out desktop OS into their purpose built hardware is still next to none, by a far margin.
Trying hard to find something that 'beats' them at that game makes you look like an idiot.
So let's not be silly.
Please.
You have to know what you're doing and why. There is no free lunch. Management expects it to come out of development because they can do "computer magic", but it wont happen. Agile Software Development methods try to mitigate the sideeffects, but if nobody plays along agility becomes a trainwreck.
You have to know what you are doing and agility has to be a part of company culture. If it isn't, if will fail, plain and simple.
Positive example:
Sipgate is a company that does it right.
I know someone first hand who had been translating plans and manuals for cruise missles for a NATO partner country. That was 3 years before there was an official vote to decide wether these would be stationed or not. In the 80ies the peace movement launched large-scale protests agains the CMs, argueing that they could carry nukes. Which is nigh pointless in such a high precision weapon. Word had it that the peace protests where funded and organised by CIA blackops to make the CMs more scary and have the local gouvernment push through agressively to make them even more scary than they are. And to mislead the public and the enemy about their actual purpose.
So year, this could be a honeypot / smokescreen. Not unlikely.
I'm a minimalist and live not much different than my brother who's had homeless episodes in the last two decades. My recent hardware is a refurbished ThinkPad for 200 euros and my sneakers t-shirts and jeans are off-brand bargain deals. I've been riding the bike and of for all my life, never owned a car even when it wasn't hip not to have one. I work part time and live in a 35 square metre apartment.
I'm anything but rich. At least money wise. My wealth is my education.
So you got it wrong.
My very beautiful cute and sexy girlfriend left me, I lost my job, got kicked out of my very nice condo and had to realise that I couldn't do 16 hours a day working and studying comp sci at Germany's toughest comp sci university. All within the span of a few weeks. So yeah, you could call it an episode and not clinical depression but it was very tough. When you fall into a coma after a regular workday of 16 hours and still wake up from deep sleep with a panic attack at 2 o'clock in the morning and get the warmest feeling when you ponder killing yourself, you know things are pretty fucked up and you'd better find a turnaround. Like, fast.
As I said, luckily I did. Being a stoic and having read 4hww, Alan watts and Seneca before did help me though. Big time.
This is not comparable with hardened clinical depression, I'm very well aware of that. That can kill you quickly and there's little to do other than have yourself monitored 24/7 and get treatment.
... than in realtiy." - Seneca
"You can make yourself miserable or you can make yourself happy. The amount of effort is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
Stoicism. Beats religion and any other philosophy any time, hands down.
Sense and enthusiasm are essential for a happy life. In a world transitioning though cyberpunk into post-scarcity faster than any science fiction writer could've ever imagined, sense, meaning and enthusiasm are constantly upended and revised.
These are not easy times. I was suicidal for a bit 6 years back. Luckily I though about what that would do to my daughter and pulled myself out of my rut of over-emphasised self-importance that often is the cause of 1st world depression and went to work to be useful to my loved ones. I bounced back pretty quick and once again these days life is awesome again. Best sex ever, neat job, webdev in high demand and - most importantly - I'm more resilient and prepared for the next slump and emotional downer.
I recommend stoicism as a life philosophy. Get's you though tough times very neatly and helps you focus on the real things. No religion needed.
My 2 cents.
This is pretty spot on. In a cyberpunk post scarcity economy practical stoicism is an attractive option. As an IT expert I could easyly earn 80 000 Euros and more even without having a degree but I chose not to.
I spent the better part of my last decade working part time, social dancing as a Tango Bum / Tango Nomad (yeah, there is such a thing :-) ) and generally taking it easy. I'm now ramping up to rake in a little cash to get myself some Microappartment or micro house for my old age while at the same time embracing minimalism even further. But still it's part time work and part time college. Wouldn't want it any other way right now. I'm ok with wearing 8 Euro t-shirts as standard garb and riding the bike and public transport. And doing my yoga with YouTube and not in some expensive class.
Those are genetic dispositions and socializations. If I'm trying to fix a full stack web Problem every day all day for months or years in a row it will have an impact on my emotional and mental composition. ADHDs are hunters and gatherers in a settler and farmer world.
I've enrolled in college recently and have a Projekt group made up of me (48, senior developer) and three 19 year old nerdboys. And I mean total all out over the top excess nerds. These guys couldn't care less about their appearance or habitus. They do still care but only to the utmost minimum. They care orders of magnitude more about getting our little Java thing done with and back to playing with a bazillion PLs, getting into C++ and trying out that new Tensor Flow thing.
Linus Torwalds would be a abysmally shitty dancer (I presume) but he's one of the best Programmers in the world. That's also due to his mental composition.
... of complex life on Mars. Of the sort that screams: "The great filter is still ahead of you guys and it's coming for you too!"
Ooooh, creeeepy. That would have me scared.