1,018 karma · joined April 17, 2012
Reading the entire sentence makes it clearer.
I open up firefox, go to youtube, and immediately notice that 30% of all frames are gone. Hardware acceleration isnt working.
I put the computer to sleep and go make dinner. When I return my wireless keyboard cant wake it up, I have to hard-reboot the computer to wake it up.
I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems, and it start spitting out terminal commands that end up making no difference.
In my experience, 2025 is not yet the year of linux. I'll try again in 2027.
I'd rephrase this to something like: Most programming should be done before 5% of the code is written. Because "no plan survives contact with the enemy". I often develop a plan, work for just a tiny bit, and realize some new constraints. It's after that point that you should construct your grand battle plan.
Being a cashless society does require some extra emergency planning, but I feel confident that Sweden has prepared as well as you could ever expect for such a crisis.
1. Being autistic makes you not consider what is "normal" as important.
2. Autistic people are more likely to spend a very large amount of time online.
Obviously this was a few decades ago.
The completely impossible dream would be that we as a society stopped using dating apps and just met away from the keyboard instead.
Or is the point "there is so much mystery in these systems that perhaps there is room for an explanation for consciousness"? Maybe then I would be more sympathetic.
Or perhaps I should just read the book before condemning it :)