So many tech workers are fixated on living somewhere with a great 'tech market'. You don't need a market! You need a job!
When I was in college studying CS during the internet bubble years I was told I should look forward to limitless short term jobs. I wouldn't be spending decades building seniority at the same place like my parents did. I wouldn't need to. I would make plenty of money to save for my own retirement and wouldn't need to acrue vacation time. I could take as long of breaks as I want in-between jobs.
BULL SHIT!
I bought that crap and thought it was going to be great!
After the burst you couldn't survive that way unless you moved to one of those 'great tech markets'. I almost did. Many of my friends did. I only stayed because of family. I'm so glad I did! My friends that left are constantly stressed out, looking for their next job. I suffered through a few shitty employers that I couldn't afford to leave until I found the next. Now I have a great job with great employers that aren't going anywhere! My friends who moved do make more than I do. They spend it all too. The cost of living is rediculous in those areas! I have far more spending power than they do AND I have stability!
So some Wayland developer hacked some sort of RDP support into Weston a couple years ago and posted that all the remote X users should shut up now because he has solved their problem.
Go ahead. Try to actually use it. Google it. You get one lousy Howto which isn't even about remote Wayland desktops, it's about Wayland on Tizen. It's how to do RDP on a smartphone OS that nobody actually uses!
But... anyway. Yup! I've even tried to use Wayland RDP. No luck.
"I admin my servers over SSH." me too " Another person I know insists on webmin" interesting anecdote although I don't know how it's applicable. I haven't seen that in years! I assumed it was dead by now.
I would never use X (or Wayland) to admin a server. I don't think any knowlegable person would. If servers are all Linux is to you then why do you even care about Wayland vs X? Are you installing GUIs on your servers?
I use an X terminal to give my workstation a second head in a different room. I see no indication that I can do that on Wayland or will ever be able to.
"tl;dr When I think of using a GUI application over the network, I think of the Windows world and shudder."
Funny. When I started using Linux the only way to remote Windows GUI was to spend a whole bunch of money on a third party product called PC Anywhere. The fact that Linux/X supplied that function for free was part of why I switched! Windows remote desktop came out a year or so later.
Umm.. first off, calm down. I never said I was angry about anything.
Next.. we are commenting about an article, remember! I don't have to give you numbers myself. Even just reading the summary gets you quantities. " Siegel found that members of the three aforementioned groups sleep between 5.7 hours and 7.1 hours per night."
You came out against the article and to back your claim you bring articles describing some of the important things that happen as you sleep and don't happen if you don't sleep enough.
Ok... so we need to get "enough" sleep. Your articles support that point well but the article wasn't arguing against it anyway.
But how much is enough? Maybe it's as the article says, between 5.7 and 7.1 hours. Maybe not. Give me an article that clearly states for example that you need 8-9 hours for all those good things to happen to your brain and then you have a point.
So? That only shows that getting "enough" sleep is important. The article is not questioning that. The question is how much is enough. To have a relevant point you would have to quantify it.
This reminds me of people that defend slow speed limits because the force of impact increases exponentially. That is true. But.. that is true when comparing any two speeds, even if both are too slow or both are too fast. At what point does the risk become greater than the benefit?
My condolences to any DragonFly users that cared about good features like network transparency that this current generation of coders think are archaic. It would seem the infection is spreading.
I've never even used Cobol or Fortran but that kind of makes me want to find or a chocolate cake recipee that actually uses those things and yet comes out good. Just to be difficult that way.
Um... I think infinite resourses isn't that bad a description of the premise here. Replicators producing whatever you need out of energy, probably produced by some endless renewable resource...
I'm not saying that we will ever have all that, only that that is what is being discussed here.
What if, instead of focussing on moving the mind to a new vehicle upon death the focus was in gradually moving into a new one before death.
Scientists are already making progress in connecting to a few neurons here and there for the purposes of controling artificial limbs or bridging severed spinal chords. What if may connections were made, not to motor controlers but rather to a very large neural net. Would the plasticity of the brain allow it to incorporate this neural net as a part of itself?
I've heard it said that if a person could be kept alive long enough they would be sure to succumb to Alzheimers or at least some form of Dementia. As the natural brain dies a little bit at a time would that simply cause it to move completely into the artificial one?
This could be more of a life-long process rather than a last minute ditch effort to survive. It would certainly change a person but this way the change is gradual. There is no definitive moment where you are no longer you but rather someone/thing else. That seems kind of natural anyway because we are always changing throughout life already. If my mind is dumped all at once is it me or just a copy? What if my biological mind isn't quite dead yet? Then is the new one a copy? This method gets around all of that.
Also, I see this as being more than just a means to life extension. As a lifelong implant it could serve other purposes, maybe direct mind to mind communication via other's implants, built in calculator, calendar, surf the net in your head, etc... How about telepresence robots that interface to the 'external brain'. Could I leave one at work and never commute again?
Don't get me wrong. I don't think this way is any more likely to be available in our lifetimes than the "Die'n Dump" method. The net required would be unimaginably massive. It would probably require a complex starting structure and algorithms that haven't been discovered yet in order to make it compatible with our wetware. But.. maybe some day for some future generation...
Wifi has sucked anywhere except maybe in the sticks ever since it became popular anyway. Sure, I used to love it as much as anybody. These days it drops or crawls 9 times out of 10 at my home and isn't much better in the homes of many of my family and friends, scattered across various cities. There is just too much interference already!
Suck it up kids... string some wire. Ethernet still rocks!
I only use wifi for handheld portable devices. But... the only such device that I use with any frequency is my phone. It has 4G that works at least as well as my cable modem anyway!
Otherwise I would have to periodically rake up all the clippings and then either.. put them in the trash to help fill up a landfill.. or put them in the truck that I do not have to drive to a lawn waste disposal site on a weekend morning that I prefer to sleep in and pay for the privelege to do so. Either way... then I would have to start buying chemical fertilizer to replace those nutrients too.
It's far better to just burn a little gas and get it done right.
True but the US government does not have any laws against using spurelatives in marketing. If you aren't getting bombarded with marketers telling you that they are 'the best' then I would like to know what rock you live under so that I can join you.
You would not want to edit out that whole 8%, only the problem causing stuff. Since we don't ALL have the same heritable diseases I would think you would take the 'better' genes from the people who don't have the disease and splice that in, not just leave gaping 'holes' in the genome.
As for the rest, leave it alone.
Some of it has shut off genes that our species doesn't even use. For example, I remember reading that we have a gene that is common to most mammals that produces a protein that the immune system uses to recognize what is not foreign. The human version has a blob of viral dna stuck in the middle that disables it so we do not produce that protein. The gene is also believed to have a second effect in limiting brain formation. That may be one of the many changes that made us human in the first place. Would you want to edit that out?!?!
I think I also remember reading about how a copy of a gene that allows our (and other animals') bodies to produce a certain vitamin was disrupted this way. (or was that a 'jumping gene'). We didn't lose that ability b/c we had other copies but... no longer functioning this gene became more susceptible to mutation. There was no reason for evolution to conserve a non-functioning gene. It ended up becoming a gene that produces a different vitamin giving us an advantage over species without it. The 'new' gene still has enough similarities to the old one and enough of the viral dna that scientists were able to recognize it, this plus comparison with other animals are how we know the story.
This stuff just blows creationism out of the water.
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No. History has taught us that if you want it to last you have to etch it in stone.
So many tech workers are fixated on living somewhere with a great 'tech market'. You don't need a market! You need a job!
When I was in college studying CS during the internet bubble years I was told I should look forward to limitless short term jobs. I wouldn't be spending decades building seniority at the same place like my parents did. I wouldn't need to. I would make plenty of money to save for my own retirement and wouldn't need to acrue vacation time. I could take as long of breaks as I want in-between jobs.
BULL SHIT!
I bought that crap and thought it was going to be great!
After the burst you couldn't survive that way unless you moved to one of those 'great tech markets'. I almost did. Many of my friends did. I only stayed because of family. I'm so glad I did! My friends that left are constantly stressed out, looking for their next job. I suffered through a few shitty employers that I couldn't afford to leave until I found the next. Now I have a great job with great employers that aren't going anywhere! My friends who moved do make more than I do. They spend it all too. The cost of living is rediculous in those areas! I have far more spending power than they do AND I have stability!
Silicon Valley can shove it!
Agreed. Installing Gentoo instead of Arch might have just been a TFTFY sort of favor, not a malicious hack.
That's ok. Haven't you heard? Systemd is going to be incorporating package management soon so this problem is going to be irrelevant!
when dd is part of systemd it isn't going to allow that.
You did?
So if not when still losing weight how did it happen then?
Why lay them? I'm thinking have backups ready to lay. Develop processes to lay them as quickly as possible. Maybe even drill on it.
Enemy cuts cable.
Navy gets rid of enemy ship.
Navy lays ready to go replacement cable.
I think network manager is pretty reasonable on a laptop. I have absolutely no use for it on a desktop though and prefer simple config files for that.
What RDP?
So some Wayland developer hacked some sort of RDP support into Weston a couple years ago and posted that all the remote X users should shut up now because he has solved their problem.
Go ahead. Try to actually use it. Google it. You get one lousy Howto which isn't even about remote Wayland desktops, it's about Wayland on Tizen. It's how to do RDP on a smartphone OS that nobody actually uses!
But... anyway. Yup! I've even tried to use Wayland RDP. No luck.
"I admin my servers over SSH."
me too
" Another person I know insists on webmin"
interesting anecdote although I don't know how it's applicable. I haven't seen that in years! I assumed it was dead by now.
I would never use X (or Wayland) to admin a server. I don't think any knowlegable person would. If servers are all Linux is to you then why do you even care about Wayland vs X? Are you installing GUIs on your servers?
I use an X terminal to give my workstation a second head in a different room. I see no indication that I can do that on Wayland or will ever be able to.
"tl;dr When I think of using a GUI application over the network, I think of the Windows world and shudder."
Funny. When I started using Linux the only way to remote Windows GUI was to spend a whole bunch of money on a third party product called PC Anywhere. The fact that Linux/X supplied that function for free was part of why I switched! Windows remote desktop came out a year or so later.
Umm.. first off, calm down. I never said I was angry about anything.
Next.. we are commenting about an article, remember! I don't have to give you numbers myself. Even just reading the summary gets you quantities. " Siegel found that members of the three aforementioned groups sleep between 5.7 hours and 7.1 hours per night."
You came out against the article and to back your claim you bring articles describing some of the important things that happen as you sleep and don't happen if you don't sleep enough.
Ok... so we need to get "enough" sleep. Your articles support that point well but the article wasn't arguing against it anyway.
But how much is enough? Maybe it's as the article says, between 5.7 and 7.1 hours. Maybe not. Give me an article that clearly states for example that you need 8-9 hours for all those good things to happen to your brain and then you have a point.
So? That only shows that getting "enough" sleep is important. The article is not questioning that. The question is how much is enough. To have a relevant point you would have to quantify it.
This reminds me of people that defend slow speed limits because the force of impact increases exponentially. That is true. But.. that is true when comparing any two speeds, even if both are too slow or both are too fast. At what point does the risk become greater than the benefit?
I don't know about replacing C but my car certainly seems to think that replacing Fe with rust is a practical thing to do!
My condolences to any DragonFly users that cared about good features like network transparency that this current generation of coders think are archaic. It would seem the infection is spreading.
I've never even used Cobol or Fortran but that kind of makes me want to find or a chocolate cake recipee that actually uses those things and yet comes out good. Just to be difficult that way.
Um... I think infinite resourses isn't that bad a description of the premise here. Replicators producing whatever you need out of energy, probably produced by some endless renewable resource...
I'm not saying that we will ever have all that, only that that is what is being discussed here.
What if, instead of focussing on moving the mind to a new vehicle upon death the focus was in gradually moving into a new one before death.
Scientists are already making progress in connecting to a few neurons here and there for the purposes of controling artificial limbs or bridging severed spinal chords. What if may connections were made, not to motor controlers but rather to a very large neural net. Would the plasticity of the brain allow it to incorporate this neural net as a part of itself?
I've heard it said that if a person could be kept alive long enough they would be sure to succumb to Alzheimers or at least some form of Dementia. As the natural brain dies a little bit at a time would that simply cause it to move completely into the artificial one?
This could be more of a life-long process rather than a last minute ditch effort to survive. It would certainly change a person but this way the change is gradual. There is no definitive moment where you are no longer you but rather someone/thing else. That seems kind of natural anyway because we are always changing throughout life already. If my mind is dumped all at once is it me or just a copy? What if my biological mind isn't quite dead yet? Then is the new one a copy? This method gets around all of that.
Also, I see this as being more than just a means to life extension. As a lifelong implant it could serve other purposes, maybe direct mind to mind communication via other's implants, built in calculator, calendar, surf the net in your head, etc... How about telepresence robots that interface to the 'external brain'. Could I leave one at work and never commute again?
Don't get me wrong. I don't think this way is any more likely to be available in our lifetimes than the "Die'n Dump" method. The net required would be unimaginably massive. It would probably require a complex starting structure and algorithms that haven't been discovered yet in order to make it compatible with our wetware. But.. maybe some day for some future generation...
Wifi has sucked anywhere except maybe in the sticks ever since it became popular anyway. Sure, I used to love it as much as anybody. These days it drops or crawls 9 times out of 10 at my home and isn't much better in the homes of many of my family and friends, scattered across various cities. There is just too much interference already!
Suck it up kids... string some wire. Ethernet still rocks!
I only use wifi for handheld portable devices. But... the only such device that I use with any frequency is my phone. It has 4G that works at least as well as my cable modem anyway!
Maybe that would get more attention on the problem.
I used to see one all the time in the not-to-distant past.
https://www.google.com/search?...
You mean like what is happening to Walmart?
I love the idea.
I need something that mulches though.
Otherwise I would have to periodically rake up all the clippings and then either.. put them in the trash to help fill up a landfill.. or put them in the truck that I do not have to drive to a lawn waste disposal site on a weekend morning that I prefer to sleep in and pay for the privelege to do so. Either way... then I would have to start buying chemical fertilizer to replace those nutrients too.
It's far better to just burn a little gas and get it done right.
True but the US government does not have any laws against using spurelatives in marketing. If you aren't getting bombarded with marketers telling you that they are 'the best' then I would like to know what rock you live under so that I can join you.
You would not want to edit out that whole 8%, only the problem causing stuff. Since we don't ALL have the same heritable diseases I would think you would take the 'better' genes from the people who don't have the disease and splice that in, not just leave gaping 'holes' in the genome.
As for the rest, leave it alone.
Some of it has shut off genes that our species doesn't even use. For example, I remember reading that we have a gene that is common to most mammals that produces a protein that the immune system uses to recognize what is not foreign. The human version has a blob of viral dna stuck in the middle that disables it so we do not produce that protein. The gene is also believed to have a second effect in limiting brain formation. That may be one of the many changes that made us human in the first place. Would you want to edit that out?!?!
I think I also remember reading about how a copy of a gene that allows our (and other animals') bodies to produce a certain vitamin was disrupted this way. (or was that a 'jumping gene'). We didn't lose that ability b/c we had other copies but... no longer functioning this gene became more susceptible to mutation. There was no reason for evolution to conserve a non-functioning gene. It ended up becoming a gene that produces a different vitamin giving us an advantage over species without it. The 'new' gene still has enough similarities to the old one and enough of the viral dna that scientists were able to recognize it, this plus comparison with other animals are how we know the story.
This stuff just blows creationism out of the water.
I don't think Pope Francis counts as a Fundie. Look up his views on the Big Bang and Evolution for example...
Wouldn't hot cocoa be more useful to him at this point?