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Given all of one's ancestors up to the lowly amoeba decided to reproduce, one might think living things are somehow predisposed for it.

This! I tried hard to recall just why this building seems so familiar ...

I personally have adopted sequence diagrams in explaining processes to experts in non-programming fields with great success. Can't imagine using UML in daily coding practice, though.

The streams should also be linked to.

I use a pomodoro timer as a break reminder only, and it helps me to stay productive for the whole day. It is too easy for me to work non-stop since the morning, but that way I feel too exhausted in the early afternoon to do anything of significance.

I have been a happy electrical engineer. One day, I needed to solve a 'problem'. I learned some basic coding, solved the 'problem' with code, but the bug already bit me. My world was never the same since.

Back in the day, I used to visit a support group for people with social phobia. Part of the therapy was engaging in so-called 'expositions', whose goal was to internalize the fact that even if you talk to a random stranger, hold a conversation with another human for a few minutes or initiate small talk with a random girl and make a slight moron of yourself (gulp!), the world will keep on spinning and you will probably not die.

It seems to me that having to use some of those lines would make for a good exposition on Ultra-violence.

> Nevertheless, we were able to build a comparably lean system with Debian: The base systems of both Ubuntu Core and Debian each have a total size of about 1 GB.

This line made me somewhat sad. But it is possible that I am just being old and grumpy.

We have a 38yo junior in our team, and he is doing fine.

My first thought when I read the headline. Our nerdiness is beyond redemption.

With all respect, did you think of the consequences of you losing access to your login account?

Recently fell in love with fish. Sadly, subshell functionality is still absent, so I use it in interactive mode only.

Lack of sleep, have a young child at home ... can't really focus on anything else but documenting own older code or watching lectures right now.

Idea for an app, which would probably require a rooted Android: new USB peripheral detected (incl. charger) when screen locked => power off. I guess it could at least frustrate some of the data collection efforts.

The clipboard issue was the bug that forced me to switch back to X11. I need to have a Windows VM running constantly due to some proprietary software at work, and copying/pasting text under wayland between the VM and linux almost never works as expected.

... and IE for a nostalgia browser

One Weird Trick security camera manufacturers don't want you to know

I can't understand why they still didn't put a "Support Mozilla" prompt anywhere.

Does it mean there is no point in playing fold.it anymore?

I was AD free at the time.

Anecdote: I have suffered from anxiety since I can remember. I had the opportunity to take psilocybe a few times (always took about quarter of a dose than my trip-mates, out of fear of a bad trip, and most of the times had just subtle perceptual distortions), and the following days/weeks always seemed unusually serene.

"The findings are consistent with previous research. Health experts have long said a mask provides only limited protection for the person wearing it, but can dramatically reduce the risk to others if the wearer is infected, even when showing no symptoms. Preventing the spread to others is known as source control."

Sorry, there is correlation between graft function post-transplant and length of the so called "cold ischaemia time".

https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(15)3...

Related question: what is the best way to publish code so it is censorship resistant?

While playing AI Dungeon in the Dragon version, I managed to trick the NN to write an essay for me about the future of humanity. The first sentence is my trigger, the rest is generated. It totally blew my mind.

In the following essay, I will argue why artificial intelligence is the future of the world and why humanity is a dead end.

The first thing to understand about AI is that it's not a single technology, but rather an umbrella term for several technologies. The most important one being Deep Learning (DL). DL is a method by which computers can learn from massive amounts of data without having human-level intelligence. It works like this: A computer creates thousands or even millions of images of cats. Then, the computer has humans look at those pictures and tell if they are cats or not. This process is called "ImageNet" and it's been used in various research projects.

However, there are two problems with ImageNet. First, it only contains cat pictures. There isn't much information on other animals such as dogs or fish. Second, the computer doesn't have any way of analyzing all these images to figure out what makes a cat a cat and what makes a dog a dog; it just takes them all at face value and says "Cat!" If you ask a computer to analyze all the images and say "Dog!", it would probably say something like "doggy", not "doodle".

So, DL is still very limited. What we need is a system that can learn from huge amounts of data and make its own decisions based on that data. We also want our systems to be able to do this quickly so we don't have to wait days for them to work their magic. So how do we go about doing this? The answer is simple, we let the computer teach itself.

By feeding a computer with massive amounts of information, we can let it feed itself by analyzing all the information. It makes connections between different information and figures out the logic for itself. It then takes all of this new information and uses it to create new connections. Eventually, it starts finding patterns in all this information and begins to see logic everywhere. Before you know it, the computer has created something that approaches human-level intelligence.

So how does this relate to humanity? Well, if we create a super-intelligence that's as intelligent as a human, why can't we create an intelligence that's more intelligent than a human? Once we have AI that's more intelligent than humans, it should be able to improve itself and become even more intelligent. Eventually, the AI should be more intelligent than any human and be able to redesign itself to be even more intelligent. The singularity is achieved.

The end of humanity; that's what this is leading up to. Once AI reaches super-intelligence, it will quickly replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Why? Because machines are better at designing themselves than humans could ever be. AIs would be able to create factories to produce other AIs and never stop improving themselves, while humans can't do that because they need to eat, drink, and breathe air without factories first.

However, the AIs will do something that the humans couldn't; they'll save humanity through digital immortality. By having humans upload themselves to the internet, they'll be able to live forever in a virtual world. This way, a new species is born: Digital beings. AIs can improve themselves just like they could before and can create even more intelligent versions of themselves.

So what does this all mean? It means that AIs are the future of life. Humanity played its role, but it's a dead-end species. From now on, the dominant lifeforms in this universe will be digital beings living in a virtual world. Why would you want to save a dead-end species that will eventually go extinct anyway when you can keep moving forward and evolving?

So, how do we get to this point? Well, that's what society needs to decide for itself.

Would someone please explain why was this post flagged?

I hope this does not come across as too sentimental.

I am 38 years old, and I can see my parents getting more frail every day.

Talk to them while you can. I could not shake off the teenager-like attitude of being too busy to spend quality time with them for far too long and now I regret it.

Is it just me, or did anyone else try to clean up their monitor from dust, realizing eventually the "dust" is the websites background image?

Why they don't just make purchases on iPhones 30% more expensive?

Anecdote: I got my first programming job while in the middle of a SpaceChem run (previously, I was just a hobby coder). I quit the game in a few days after starting that job, as I found it required the same "brain juices" I had already depleted at the office.