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As of now my use cases still work and it certainly helped that I bought the lifetime all-world map package.
Deloitte, for example, has quite a big practice around Mainframe modernization with a toolsuite https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/topics/appl...
And AWS bought a company with such a toolsuite and offers it now as a service https://aws.amazon.com/de/mainframe-modernization/capabiliti...
Side note: His employer is the biggest client of a major European airline.
It's the first time that I heard this theory. Do you have any sources to read up on it?
I guess the future is now then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...
Excerpt:
>Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers.
>In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.
>According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”
I guess south-west Texas is most likely also military. E.g. the Naval Air Station Kingsville is not far away.
[1]https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/5u/sys-521...
1. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. S. Dweck helped me to rediscover my curiosity and my eagerness to evolve. I started working at the end of 2022 and I realized that during the last years of university I lost my own drive to learn. There was always something to learn for a course so i either did that or nothing. The book helped me to change that perspective.
2. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr Anna Lembke helped me to accept and work on my youtube and smartphone addiction. Since then I stopped watching Youtube for pleasure and only watch videos that are work related or that someone send to me. I learned to stand the pain of boredom and don't always jump on the next distraction.
3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport helped me to drastically reduce procrastination and increase my productivity and the quality of my work. All that without increasing my work hours. IMHO its a must read for every knowledge worker.
OT: please (re)read the HN Guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> „The OpenAI tussle is between the faction who think Skynet will kill them if they build it, and the faction who think Roko's Basilisk(‚s Monster)will torture them if they don't build it hard enough.“
It’s mostly about physiological responses but not only. Link to the publications they talk about are in the shownotes. https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-susanna-soberg-how-to...
Edit: how did you do that, I tried adding one to my comment but it gets removed on post.
While it is true that windows is not considered, with WSL2, that doesn't matter anymore. Everything (99%) just works seamless with the Linux environment. And yes that's not truely native and technically a VM but I prefer WSL to a VM on macOS every day of the week. Ironically, if I would need to switch to Linux, I'd buy a Macbook.
I can really recommend that book, I haven’t adopted to many of the practices that he recommends but I am working on it and it already had a profound impact on the quality of my work but also my general mental health.
So if halon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") is anything to go by it might be not on purpose, but who knows.