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> Except Christianity would find transhumanism exceedingly bland, for being an unoriginal repeat of the Original Sin; the latest scheme of humanity to be a God.

Well God is an engineer and he gave us technology & curiosity as his greatest gift. Being aware of our own mortality both as individuals & as a species is what drives us to to try and beat it.

To be fair, blame the serpent (or Prometheus).

I think we will live longer, and even achieve suspended animation. But a brain deprived of oxygen is damaged way too fast be useful. But who knows, humanity in 10,000 years will be very different from now, if we survive that long as a species.

Inheritance is one way to achieve polymorphism. it is not mandatory for OOP.

Unfortunately YES, because of "Java Entreprise" pushed by consultancies 15 years ago, a lot of developers insist on encapsulating everything, even when it's redundant.

Fortunately, Java is a better language today.

> $20k can't get you that many PhD. Even PhD students, who's nominal salary is maybe $3-5k a month, effectively costs double that because of school overhead and other stuff.

But you are not getting a PhD worker for 20K with "AI", that's just marketing.

Congrats.

I remember 10+ years ago there were a few Kickstarter promising this kind of product but with an hardware device. Obviously they were all fraudulent back then, but it is definitely in the realm of possibility today.

> What? Greenwald was never a Democrat. Anti-Bush isn't the same thing as Democrat.

Greenwald is a liberal, he was kicked out of liberal circles after the Hunter Biden's laptop story, the liberal elite wanted to suppress during the elections.

Bary Weiss is also a liberal, now hated by the liberal press for blasphemy on a certain subject.

Same with Matt Taibbi, he showed up on MSNBC regularly even on Maddow, now the left calls him a right winger...

See the pattern?

Right, it is called Regulatory Capture, because big actors have the means to comply.

The difference is scale AND that META does it for profit, violating plenty of licensing terms in the process as well.

> The fact that "neoliberalism" is considered left should seriously concern anyone who has opened a history book.

The problem is with the word liberalism in US. For Europeans: Liberalism == right wing...

I guess it has taken a more cultural sense in US, where US liberalism is more about morals than economics (drugs, sex, gender, immigration...) and became a synonym for progressive, as opposed to conservatism and its pseudo religious aspects.

Neo-liberalism clearly has a negative connotation in Europe, at least politically, it is synonym of ultra capitalism.

I agree, but HTML widgets are not sophisticated enough not to require some amount of scripting for interactivity in many cases.

> You metaphorically need to invent the universe to make it work in the US.

You didnt answer the obvious question of the why things are the way they are now? US used to have their entire electronic supply chain, save from raw materials, in USA in the 70s... So why cant US build its own Shenzhen or Hong Kong? taxes? corporate taxes are relatively low in some US states, infrastructure? US has all the infrastructure needed. Engineers? US claims to have the best universities in the world...

Likely was mass reported? fake copyright strikes? account hacked? it is a possible explanation.

Sinevibes makes audio plugins and other stuff for makes synthesizers, so I am not sure what it is about...

Meanwhile, Youtube does not lack of crypto scam channels with millions of subscribers...

Reminds of the fake "sealed" authentic NES cartridges going for thousands of dollars or more on Ebay. It is a very lucrative business for scammers.

Yes, I remember using that in PHP, very handy before sqlite JSON support, since it also worked with aggregate functions.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/sqlite3.createfunction.php

> `ctx.Value` is an `any -> any`

It did not have to be this way, this is a shortcoming of Go itself. Generic interfaces makes things a bit better, but Go designers chose that dumb typing at first place. The std lib is full of interface {} use iteself.

context itself is an after thought, because people were building thread unsafe leaky code on top of http request with no good way to easily scope variables that would scale concurrently.

I remember the web session lib for instance back then, a hack.

ctx.Value is made for each go routine scoped data, that's the whole point.

If it is an antipattern well, it is an antipattern designed by go designers themselves.

> Question: do these bots not respect robots.txt?

No they don't, because there is no potential legal liability for not respecting that file in most countries.

> For the medical debt angle, the macabre and outrageous 'Repo Man'(2010) is a pitch-dark and fascinating examination of the end-game of medical insurance.

I really hate the twist ending in that movie. Please, screenwriters stop doing that, it ceased to be original like 30 years ago. Aside from the ending, good movie.

There is need for a middle ground between privacy and the safety of the community. In my country, a lot of horrible crimes could have been avoided if the repeated criminal's past crimes were something people could at the least be aware of, one way or another. I'm talking about murders and sex crimes.

Businesses have pipelines entirely relying on Autodesk tools & formats.

> but these things don't last forever. Remember when we all thought that Microsoft Office file formats guaranteed an eternal monopoly?

It will last long enough for Autodesk. The real issue being why Autodesk was allowed to basically buy most of its main competitors in the 3D/CAD authoring tool space without any push back from government agencies.

The reason WP was so successful isn't because it's the best CMS, or even the one with the easiest API to learn for non programmers.

The reason WP was so successful is that, for a significant amount of time. it had VERY BASIC php requirements to run, but first and foremost, its API was very STABLE, allowing the creation of a gigantic plugin ecosystem that were still compatible after a decade, when JOOMLA, Drupal and co kept breaking API all the time, or decided to bump their minimum requirements way too often.

so there can't really be a wordpress killer, if you have specific need, use a more specialized CMS.

API stability is one of the most under-rated feature when it comes to open source projects.

> It’s the job they signed up for. I don’t understand the complaint. If they don’t want to do the part of the job that is obviously core to it, they should move on. The mass diagnosis just seems like a tactic to generate “evidence”. And the mention of pay compared to other countries makes this look like a bad faith lawsuit to get more compensation.

its also their right to sue their employer for damage if they believe it affected them in a extremely harmful way. signing up for a job doesnt make the employer above the law.

But some here can't fathom that workers also have rights.

AKA "regulatory capture".

> there was a time where the internet wasn't a corpo hellscape.

DMCA passed in 1998. it was short lived.

The synclavier went even further with resynthesis capabilities:

You would feed the synth some audio and the synclavier would attempt at reproducing the audio snippet through FM synthesis.

> The maximum for a pure analog polysynth was 8 notes, and cheaper models had between four and six notes. No fancy jazz chords. Especially not with sustain.

Some had total polyphony though, by using divide down oscillators.

> The DX7 stood out because the keyboard responded to velocity, and it had an incredible 16 notes of polyphony. So you could play your fancy jazz chords on the epiano sound with the sustain pedal down, and the notes would respond to your fingers and wouldn't cut off too obviously.

The dx7 was capable of making sounds that were simply impossible to create with regular analogue subtractive synthesis, because FM (phase modulation in practice) allowed drastic tonal changes in a timbre "through time". So the attack of a patch could have a completely different "waveform" than its release, thanks to operator interaction. That's what the true novelty, a realism no analogue synth could achieve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ApmgnKkqaI

and all these tricks to generate oscillators are still used to this day in digital hardware and software synthesizers:

https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/803386d...

I know that name because in Blender there is a Voronoi texture named that way.

Forcing Google to sell their ad business would be the death of that company. After all, it's mostly an ad company...

Popular way to make analogue delay effect pedals, in fact, that's how I heard about the expression first, while wondering how analogue effect pedals worked without some sort of tape system.

It comes down to cost, especially cost predictability. And now businesses have more "expertise" to manage their servers after all these years. Obvously, not everything is migrated out of the cloud.

Cloud used to be cheap... it clearly isn't anymore.