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The hosts seemed a lot nicer in the series.

> “But I think that this is a pretty artificial setup in terms of how people in the real world would be able to change people’s minds.”

I see not everyone is familiar with how social network debates happen. It also seems they are quite convincing, as politicians are employing AI bots extensively.

> One is right, one is wrong - the one who is wrong is the loser.

It helps to think both are wrong and are just trying to figure out what right looks like, or what other information exists that was not considered when forming one’s opinions.

OK, but it'd be interesting to examine this together with joint hypermobility and endometriosis. If ADHD/ASD is linked to changes caused by exposure to DEHP, then the other two will also be linked via different paths.

I love the soundtrack (the future used to be groovier), and the understated Earth civilian wardrobe, but I tried to rewatch it and it's so sexist and misogynistic it's almost disturbing. And I find it cool there was never an in-universe explanation for the purple wigs.

My 1970's self liked it. My 2026 one not so much.

I also think Benedict Cumberbatch's mom was an early crush because of this series, but 1970's me didn't quite know what to do with those feelings.

With this name, it could also be a gaming console with a built-in keyboard.

Then, and only then, you might consider the third box.

You can still vote this government out and organize your community to help with that. Remember the three boxes - soap, ballot, and ammo. You still haven't exhausted box #1 and should use box #2 really well this year.

Tyrants feed on the belief they can't be removed.

> Make sure to vote in this November!

Make sure to vote blue in this November!

I am very sorry this is happening to your country. I hope you manage to fix it.

> ECHR, UN and ECJ will find any and everything as crime against humanity

That doesn't make them automatically wrong. This is clearly a crime against humanity.

> It is like asking ADL if something is antisemitism

There is a huge difference between hating Jews and condemning the actions of the Israeli government in occupied Palestine and the support it has from other countries.

I need to bring this out:

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...

I had a similar discussion in the low 1990s at a large electronic manufacturer that had a pair of Unisys mainframes, one in São Paulo and another in Manaus, in the Amazon region communicating over a satellite link (two large 3m dishes on both places). There was one question of what happens if both fail at the same time, and I pointed that anything that takes out São Paulo and Manaus at the same time is a civilisation ending event, and we shouldn’t worry too much about that.

Anyway, we had a load shedding agreement with a large bank across the street from São Paulo and we could switch over to their Unisys mainframe in a matter of minutes, and vice versa.

If AWS eu-west-1 and my house get bombed at the same time, I guess data loss will be the least of my problems. And the really important stuff has copies on DropBox, iCloud, and a physical copy in Brazil.

If all that gets nuked at the same time, humans who survive won’t need the data.

Considering all the data they have globally, they might still be compliant.

The more dramatic contingency you have to plan for, the more expensive the plan gets.

Earlier this week I mentioned that if we lose enough data centres to bring our operation down, the first items in the to-do list becomes securing weapons, vehicles and fuel.

Well… they have a good excuse.

> schism between the experts and what people generally prefer

This is true

> and recommends that said experts should try to take that into account

They should, but it’s up to the experts to make the decision. You need an informed group to make decisions.

> People almost always prefer traditional architecture

People usually prefer the familiar.

> Is it really subjective when a vast majority of people agree? I suppose technically it is

It is, unless the people can show data justifying their choice. Subjective preference is not data and does not offer a justification.

I would ask about their needs, but, definitely, I would measure those if possible. People are frequently surprised about what they actually wanted (there are lots of genie stories and jokes on that theme)

MS-DOS was “mostly” compatible across different machines but there were non-PC MS-DOS machines with different disk controllers and media recording formats, giving them better capacity or performance. Only machines that followed the IBM PC recording formats would be media-interchangeable.

Since the PC used off-the-shelf components, it was tempting to be compatible, but some cursed machines tried to be different.

I’m not sure how compatible are floppies from the Victor 9000 or Epson QX-10, but I know the Sanyo 550 (?) and the Mindset, which were not quite PC-compatibles could interchange media with a PC.

> most games will run on future hardware.

Until Sony decides you no longer own them.

> their answer is automatically correct,

No, but I'll trust their opinion on building design and urban planning over yours the same way I wouldn't trust you to do brain surgery or landing an airliner. I am a skilled pilot in simulators, but I still wouldn't trust myself to land a real plane.

> It actually looks worse than the architecture in movie Equilibrium.

Taste is extremely subjective. I am an engineer and I've spent a whole career training my tastes (for system design, hardware architecture) to be less subjective and help guide my work towards what's good. Some of that seems to have leaked to building and city planning, because my taste seems to align well with the experts in those fields.

I won't judge it for avoiding human coworkers.

The article feels like it was written by someone with conservative views, someone who resents change, and believes in a nostalgic view of the past. It becomes anti-intellectual when it points out the divergence between the opinion of experts and the laypeople on what constitutes a building fit for purpose, and takes those two opinions as equivalent.

It's kind of similar to the general "two-sides" thing where, if you talk to, say, a climatologist who talks about a community consensus on global warming, there will be someone who has never studied the climate, exposes a completely different opinion, sometimes in opposition to observed facts.

In this case, in architecture, the thing to measure is not the opinion of people, but how they use the architectural object - how their relationship with the environment changes in that space and why. I brought to this discussion three examples of architectural landmarks that turned a somewhat degraded space into vibrant community spaces.

Architects don't design buildings - they design the interaction of the building users with their environment.

It's hard to build something new based on empirical evidence because the thing you are building might be such a radical departure from previous experience the data you have simply does not apply.

As Henry Ford would say, "They didn't want a car. They wanted a faster horse".

Often we go out exploring the solution space for new things that were never done before and nobody ever asked for them because nobody had imagined them until they saw the first one. Remember how blown away everyone was with the Jeff Han's multitouch demo? It became immediately obvious it was the future of direct manipulation interfaces.

If you go back further, do you remember how sci-fi pictured the computers we would be using "in the future"? In 2001 there were no alphanumeric keyboards. Neither on the Enterprise. We are finally catching up with the vision of Tron, of the computer as an environment for intelligent agents (it took decades for most people to even formulate this understanding of the movie). We get a lot of things wrong, but our job is to try the things nobody is asking for, because they don't know they can be.

Digital Research had GSX, which provided a rich set of graphics primitives. Sony would need to offer a device driver or, alternatively, make the console/terminal emulate a graphics terminal such as the DEC VT-240 (and GSX would use a Tek4014 or ReGIS backend).

A lot of CP/M machines had graphics-capable built-in displays. Unfortunately, publishing software in machine-native media was a real chore back then, a bit like in the 1990's, where we had a "Unix version of NetScape" which was actually 27 slightly different versions for 27 different operating systems and binary architectures.

This is, indeed, an issue. IIRC, the only interchangeable disk format with CP/M was with 8 inch media.

Unless the disks had copy protection, you could copy them over a serial link. I did that a lot between my Apple II and other CP/M machines.

The lights don’t even need to be too visible. Many of the cameras used for face recognition don’t have IR filters.