You nailed it. Genuinely the most frustrating part about learning kubernetes... is just realizing that whatever the fuck they're talking about is a fancy wrapper for a concept that's existed since 90s.
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>They said also that the first man who became king of Egypt was Min; and that in his time all Egypt except the district of Thebes was a swamp, and none of the regions were then above water which now lie below the lake of Moiris, to which lake it is a voyage of seven days up the river from the sea: and I thought that they said well about the land;
Later on
>Such is this labyrinth: but a cause for marvel even greater than this is afforded by the lake, which is called the lake of Moiris, along the side of which this labyrinth is built. The measure of its circuit is three thousand six hundred furlongs (being sixty schoines), and this is the same number of furlongs as the extent of Egypt itself along the sea. The lake lies extended lengthwise from North to South, and in depth where it is deepest it is fifty fathoms. That this lake is artificial and formed by digging is self-evident, for about in the middle of the lake stand two pyramids, each rising above the water to a height of fifty fathoms, the part which is built below the water being of just the same height; and upon each is placed a colossal statue of stone sitting upon a chair. Thus the pyramids are a hundred fathoms high; and these hundred fathoms are equal to a furlong of six hundred feet, the fathom being measured as six feet or four cubits, the feet being four palms each, and the cubits six. The water in the lake does not come from the place where it is, for the country there is very deficient in water, but it has been brought thither from the Nile by a canal; and for six months the water flows into the lake, and for six months out into the Nile again; and whenever it flows out, then for the six months it brings into the royal treasury a talent of silver a day from the fish which are caught, and twenty pounds when the water comes in. The natives of the place moreover said that this lake had an outlet under ground to the Syrtis which is in Libya, turning towards the interior of the continent upon the Western side and running along by the mountain which is above Memphis.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then they log off, and go back to their polished MacOS or Windows machines to play games or watch movies.
Shame. Definitely prefer KDE over Gnome. Gnome has a lot of weird "gnome"-isms and design choices that makes it come out looking like discount Fischer-Price MacOS
You are living in a post destruction area, with new forests planted to supplement the destruction that was there before. Most of these forests aren't more than 70 years old, that's about when we finally made an effort to fix how badly we totally fucked up and why people needed clean air to not die from lung cancer (among other things). The loss of biodiversity, air quality, etc. already occurred. You are a survivor. What's more, your survival was in part supported by the air quality of other virgin forests further away from you that weren't yet cut down. But now that they are being cut down, there's less left to support you.
In short, you're asking yourself why you shouldn't shoot yourself in the foot again, because you managed to survive the first shot and it looks to you like it healed just fine (it didn't).
And I hate excel for it
-Jira
-Workday
-SAP
-Excel
Corporate hell :'(
Then you do a quick cost benefit analysis: how much money am I really saving when I use a "free" search engine that is intentionally shitty? If it takes me 2 hours to find a solution to something that took kagi 10 minutes,I've effectively saved almost 2 hours of my time and money. I can actually be more productive. Less headaches and frustration too.
A lot of "thinking-about-meaning" for me has transformed into fatalism. I firmly believe that our cognitive faculties demand a higher purpose, though I can't define what that purpose is. I disassemble my thought process, and prod deeper into my logical functions as to why I'm drawn to certain conclusions. At some point, I realize that I need to combat shortcomings and psychological "self-tricks" my mind instinctively employs. I'm prone to wanting shortcuts. In fact, I think this is the default state of non-abberant human thought. Visually, your eyes can hallucinate in the form of optical illusions where it employs predictive generated information based on patterns. Intuitively, you come to a conclusion because you've experienced proximity to similarity. But similarities are not, by definition, identical. In this delta lies all of humanity's greatest accomplishments, exploits, and suffering.
And in this I come to address the fundamental problem of "thinking-about-meaning". We draw experience from similarities, but we don't have a definitive state of 'singularity'. This is the barrier of human thought. You face the insurmountable variance of uncertainty. Cursed to cobble together primitive inference. Barely navigating this incomprehensible reality. You will never have a satisfying answer. You will always be isolated. You will always be alone. You will never be able to 'truly' share this experience with anyone else. And in here we long for comfort the most. We share wisdom and aphorisms. Our little 'shortcuts' in life.
"The young do not know what they have".
"Sex is not all that it's cracked up to be".
"The body is the prison of the soul".
Futility? Perhaps. But we sure are driven to iterate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
China is the Antichrist in as much as it needs a Christ for it to exist. Without Western capitalism it is nothing, because it doesn't consume nearly as much as it produces. The profits from its production are the result of its wealth. In fact, it is profitable in spite of its government policies.
>Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account.
And this brings up the next point: There has never been a time in media entertainment where both the industry and it's professional critics have been so openly hostile, so fervent, so downright dogmatic in insulting and hunting down their detractors to punish them for holding the wrong opinion. They encourage their audience and supporters to go out of their way to harass and silence anyone who disagrees with their content. The fact that people don't want to be associated with that toxicity doesn't make them cowards or racists. Terms like "dog whistle" have come to be dismissive phrases of any criticism. You are attacking the speaker rather than earnestly trying to address the argument. You are dismissing an opinion because it comes from a throwaway account. Nobody is terrified of your shitty entertainment. They're terrified about losing their jobs because people can't take an insult over the internet and have to make it personal when their favorite manufactured outrage garbage show gets criticized.
But that's an incredibly unpopular solution. Every politician goes around orally fellating the small business ethos because it feeds into the meritocratic delirium. So essentially, Americans will backhandedly wail about illegal immigration while eating cheap fast food and hiring them to paint their walls.
There have been attempts to implement an ID system, especially when it comes to voting locally. But it was deemed racist. Because it meant only citizens who had the ID could vote. And some citizens didn't have IDs. And a portion of those people were poor minorities. And they didn't want to get them because it infringed on some rights. Or something. So America has this contrived system of registering to vote where people get tricked into also registering their political affiliation which is often used by politicians to sling mud at other politicians and political statisticians to pull slightly more accurate numbers out of their asses.
In some locales you straight up have to register with your affiliation to be able to vote. There's a significant segment of illegal immigrants who may or may not vote to support local political constituents that have their interests at heart, and a political party that appeals to those illegal voters. This political party uses this voter demographic for their benefit, because these local political constituents that are voted in have a voice in who the party as a whole can nominate for higher political parties. Since part of the political establishment is based on elections are based on representatives who then choose other representatives. And so the cycle continues.
Also, nobody wants to fucking pay taxes
You really don't. You live in a country that is either 11 million or 6 million people with fully enforceable border controls and immigration controls. You can control who comes into you country. You can control the goods that come into your country. Your population rivals one of the larger metropolitan areas of the USA.
Problems don't scale linearly. At 6 million people you can afford to fund pensions through nothing but an oil extracting operation out of your country. 7.7% Unemployment at 11 million people is, believe it or not, much less debilitating than 4% unemployment at 332 million people. There are more unemployed persons than the entire population of Sweden. And these populations cluster, and they depress local economies, and they drain their local workforce and social services. Then crime happens, and populations move, and housing prices fluctuate, and then this spreads. But here's the trick: You only need so much space to live. So much money to eat. So much space to grow food. You only have so many hours in the day you can work. Any doctor can see 20 patients a day, spending 30 minutes on each consultation. You don't need that many doctors to meet that demand at 6 million people. You need a lot more doctors to meet that demand at 332 million. Costs and living standards are relatively fixed beyond a tolerable level of comfort. Scandinavian countries achieved this comfort. But this comfort doesn't scale. Because problems don't scale linearly.
Back to borders and immigration: You control your borders. You can say that drugs don't enter your country. And they won't (at scale, at least). In the USA that's not enforceable because the country is so large. Illinois can say that they ban guns. But that doesn't stop them from going to Indiana and getting them. Or Kentucky. Or Missouri. Your local change can only accomplish so much when you are against the tide of your neighbors. You can say that you want to control your borders. But your neighbors disagree. So they go around you controls and infiltrate your economy anyway. And you don't know how bad it really is. Because statistics are an approximation of a segment of a population that doesn't want to be tracked. But these people still get sick. And some costs are fixed. So your publicly funded hospitals still need money to cover their costs by people who will flee and not pay. So you privatize and offset the burden on the patient. Because people can pay for themselves to get a blood test. You relieve your burden on the system, for the moment. But now companies charge more because they also know that certain costs are fixed and people are willing to tolerate more costs for a relatively inexpensive service. And of course, they optimize. Because there's nothing stopping them. Since you can't tell them not to do something when you can't solve the problem yourself. And here we are.
Today that concept is watered down. A "well rounded" education is just taking a few classes that people hate and will blow off because to graduate they need to check some boxes so they can focus on doing one thing moderately well and finding their place as a cog in a machine that will abuse their ignorance. It's all mass produced conveyor belt education that manufactures young adults with little conventional wisdom. The more you lean into behaving like a part, the more you will be treated that way.
And then I learned that sometimes software is freely available online if you know where to look.
I'm personally split on this viewpoint. Through a series of events this year (starting with the death of Charlie Munger), I've started reading the Harvard Classics. Doing the 15 minutes a day challenge, which started on New Year's Day. I bought the full original 1910 set on Ebay. They're pretty cheap because they're essentially just room decorum and probably nobody reads them. People on Ebay will gladly sell cool looking leather cover books because it makes their offices look nice. This is an actual descriptions many sellers use.
For me though, above all else it's been an incredibly humbling experience. Because its been a very long time since I've read works from genuine professionals who spent a lifetime mastering their craft. I'm struggling with prose and vocabulary. I'm not an avid reader. I will at most read maybe 5-10 books a month. Some of which are technical or industry related. But I still like hardcopies so I tend to visit bookstores. And the crushing reality is that what's generally available on bookshelves (at least in the USA) is fucking garbage. Half-assed ghostwritten autobiographies of no-name celebrities or politicians, lifestyle in-your-face FEMALE EMPOWERMENT books that give questionable advice, pseudo-historical nonfiction books, bland and uninspired Star Wars science fiction rip offs (and their accompanying video game expanded universe novels). The list goes on.
Barnes and Noble realized that their audience doesn't really buy physical books anymore (or just plainly don't fucking read) so have moved in to fill the gap that Toys R' Us left behind. Half the floor space is a glorified toy store. Most of the people that come here either bring their kids or are kids themselves hanging out in the Manga section.
The cliche is obviously here and repeating itself: but with each consecutive generation we become less literate. AI has made it so the illiterate get nifty summaries of other less literate summaries of great works and ideas, which then get challenged by the pseudo-intellectual hack frauds extracting wealth from their fanbase and college students pumping out bullshit papers to meet graduation requirements. Just how fucking low exactly can we limbo before it's too late? In this context AI is basically Accelerationism
Post 66 might as well just be a different universe as far as music was concerned. You had the 50s clean cut shit lingering around doused with 'controlled risqué' Surfer Rock and neutered Elvis doing films. Sinatra and the Rat Pack are in full swing gaining Second Wind, and ...suddenly it all gets blown the fuck out with psychedelic, progressive, and raga rock. Then two years later blues and heavy metal really start bubbling in. 60's counter culture was NOT a joke. The groundwork was laid in '64 like you pointed out, but by 66 it really went off the rails. Genuine night and day difference.
It better. Copyright has essentially fucking ceased to exist in the eyes of AI people. Just because you have a shiny new toy doesn't mean the law suddenly stops applying to you. The internet does its best to route around laws and government but the more technologically up to date bureaucracy becomes, the faster it will catch up.
I'm not.
>As in financial support, advising governance structures, conservation training. Supporting institutions who already deeply care.
IS literally teaching them how to care. But whatever
>Is that really the case?
Yeah. Consider any country in the ME that sees artifacts prior to the Prophet Muhammad's existence heresy. Destruction of artifacts in Iraq. Destruction of artifacts in Syria. Afghanistan famously rid itself of Buddhist statues and artifacts in the not-too-distant past.
Even in the Western world, countries regularly deface and destroy statues and historical sites because prior political beliefs and mores run contrary to today's moral standards. Here's a fairly recent example:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67298103
>"After years of controversy, the society will remove all human names for bird species, including those linked to people with racist histories.
>Their goal is to create a more inclusive environment for bird-watching fans.
>Seventy to 80 birds will be renamed.
>"Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don't work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs,"
Is literally erasing the history of people who studied and catalogued these bird species because their moral standards don't fit with our current worldviews today.
Right, and if that doesn't work, or until that works, is it morally objectionable to hold on to those objects? Is it truly the right thing to return items to governments that can't guarantee their safety or don't hold those items to the same values? What's the better choice here? Preserving anthropological history of mankind or respecting the wishes of hereditary descendants? What if they don't give a shit about their past? Does the rest of the world need to be deprived of the history of humanity because the current, local, inhabitants don't care for their own? Your solution is to teach them to care, which is hilariously just as colonialist and culturally "appropriatiative" as the person you're replying to.
The problem is that "expression of ideas" in the realm of AI is akin to plagiarism by human standards, because its a literal copying of the source material blended together. I couldn't recite you the entire plot of the Odyssey off the top of my head literally, but AI can, because it has the source material. We just tell it to do funny ha-ha things so its okay.
That being said, Getty is hardly the paragon of goodwill considering they regularly steal from public domain databases, issue DMCA takedown requests of the stolen content from said databases, and then turn around to sell it to unwitting people for a subscription. They own none of the copyrights for what they are doing but have been allowed to get away with it.