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The article mentions the earlier influence of Alien to this genre, at least in the sense of this future dystopia. But even if we accept the premise that BR was groundbreaking, groundbreaking != good.

Larry Niven, for example, was a pioneering sci-fi author over many books but most of these books aren't great. Ringworld, for example, was one of the earlier works to talk about megastructures and the efficiency of living area per unit mass. The structure itself doesn't make sense (ie it would be torn apart by centrifugal force) but it's an important idea.

Neuromancer gets mentioned a lot in this particular genre. It too was groundbreaking but it's actually not that great of a book. Still, the groundbreaking aspect feeds into nostalgia, particularly if you read it when it came out. I feel like a lot of the BR hype falls into this same bucket. That's really all I'm saying.
I'd say it's underrated by people today who've only ever experienced Hans Zimmer but those who've heard it love it, surely.
The sequel gave me more of a post-cyberpunk vibe and I feel like it was intended.

They killed Capitalist-Tokyo-Dystopia and replaced it with Soviet Russia.
> far more people have suffered

Compared to what?
They do not accept contributions unless they are dedicated to the public domain. It's not quite as strict a no contributions at all.
Yeah, it is thanks to these two movies that modern scifi and its visual development side of things exists basically
> many open-source projects' Codes of Ethics/Conduct/whatever make me feel explicitly unwelcome

Most open source projects Code of Conduct boil down to "don't be mean to other contributors, treat them well". I'm sorry this makes you feel explicitly unwelcome. That said, it's never been a problem for me to adhere to that.

This is a first time for me being excluded, and it feels bad. I'm commenting on why this person has gone out of his way to do that.

Exclusion is not the norm in online programming spaces. Nor would we tolerate it if someone started excluding people on the basis of something like race. But seemingly there are apologists for exclusion on the basis of religion.
Depends on what point in time you warp back to. There was a point where most home computers had static RAM.
If you have 10,001 pigeons residing in a pigeon tower with 10,000 holes, will there exist a hole with more than one pigeon?
That is not a crossfunctional team.
My FitBit does health stuff to and lasts 1-2w per charge.
Not a fossil, mummified and/or preserved by cold or ground conditions. That's actual tissue.
It's curious to bring up Amazon and AWS in this context, without noticing the myriad of SKUs that AWS offers. One could argue that all of them are virtual, so they don't really matter, but there is certainly a certain paralysis of choice when it comes to instance types, and it must also make it more difficult for AWS to schedule customer workloads efficiently.
The Philip K. Dick book dates from the 60s so it doesn't really fit into the 80s Japanese xenophobia zeitgeist.
On my Windows laptop, Windows Defender is the devil waiting for idle hands.
Interview: “The Automat,“ which was ”the coolest cafeteria of them all“
Many thanks to OP for some real-life examples of using rust-lldb! I keep wanting to learn to use it, and I think this was really helpful.
We as a society see some value in the success of a wanted pregnancy.

Once you consider the intentions of the pregnant person, it’s easier to resolve these “competing rights”.

When you only consider a woman to be an incubator for your children (and not an actual person in their own right), yes the issue can appear murky and confusing.
If that was true, why has the economy since 2000 never hit the speed of growth that it had in the 1990s? It seems the big economic gains of the Internet came early, and what we've seen since is the Law Of Diminishing Returns: increasing inputs for decreasing outputs. Bigger investments for less economic growth.
It was reviewed a month ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNHFyc1oMwU
I watched apocalypse now soon after it's release and was completely blown away by it. There is a soundtrack album to which I listen occasionally.
But not as hypnotic.

Brazil is an amazing movie, but Gilliam is always distractingly manic.

Blade Runner is graceful. The pacing, the characterisation, the imagery, and especially the music make it almost as much of a ballet/opera as a movie.

It's not just science fiction, it's Wagnerian.
He went on Bloomberg with Emily Chang to discuss it. It’s a good interview, he doesn’t come off as weird.

He said Google won’t allow LaMDA to undergo a Turing test and it’s hardcoded to say it’s an AI but Google won’t even allow them to ask it in the first place.

A more important thing he points out is AI Ethics, and his worry why Google keeps firing them.

A comment on the youtube video sums his concerns the best:

“The AI sentience debate is a distraction to the real problem. He risked losing his job because he feared that Google is preventing AI ethics research from happening, which could amount to ‘AI colonialism’.”

https://youtu.be/kgCUn4fQTsc
I partially agree with what you're saying but let's not pretend we weren't handling payments in 2005, some of us where anyway. I think what changed is the scale of things: we had a lot less people online back then.

I think the increased complexity in our architectures is correlated with the DevOps role coming to the picture, but I'm not sure there's a cause link there. My recollection from having lived through the initial years of DevOps (I began working professionally in 2000) is that an important goal was to reduce the terrible friction between dev and ops (the latter including sysadmins, DBAs, etc). Whatever the extra complexity we have now, I would not want to go back to the days when I carried a pager and responded to find out the problem was caused by an application I had no insight into, and there was no corresponding on call person on the side of the dev team. Another important goal was to manage infrastructure a bit closer to how we develop software, including the big step of having the configuration (or the code that generates it) in SCM. Another thing I don't miss is logging into a server to troubleshoot something and finding /etc/my.cnf, /etc/my.cnf.<some date>, /etc/my.cnf.test, etc. It's much easier to just run tig on either the file or the ansible/chef/whatever that generates it IMHO.
Robots taking our jobs = a headline. Automation leading to deskilling and removal of certain job functions = reality. Many jobs that are amenable to complete automation are not being backfilled.

Robotics is only one way to achieve automation -- I wouldn't be obsessed with "robots" per se and insist it's not taking over.
This sounds like people who say cars from the 70s are better because they are only mechanical and people can work on them with their own hands. And modern cars are worse because they're so complex. This, of course, ignores that cars are better in basically every single way now. They're safer, more efficient, have more features, and admit it or not, more reliable.

So yeah, pre-devops, managing infrastructure could've been simpler, but it did simpler things. There's an exponentially growing amount of data that servers need to handle. And 2005 tools can't handle it. The industry didn't scale out of it for fun, but necessity. Modern devops is more complicated, but it's better, so, whatever.
Can anyone explain why this stuff isn't slipped into other must-pass bills like other riders?

I really don't understand how the Crypto Caucus sucks at this.

You can slip anything into:

Budget Reconciliation Acts to prevent government shutdown

That new gun control bill

why is this easy for others to do and not for these guys to do?

Which SuperPac/campaign has to get supported?
Well if that’s all you’re doing in 2022, there’s nothing wrong with deploying your code and grepping logs over ssh. Bash scripts and offloading some of the complexity of management to AWS (e.g. use autoscaling) goes pretty far
You might increase your life expectancy by following the Mediterranean diet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
> So a few bad apples has ruined the whole idea in your mind?

It’s not a few. They’re primarily a tool for bad actors to secure institutional power.

However, even if we take the surface-level arguments for a code of conduct in good faith, the entire concept is rooted in the premise that a healthy community arises out of strictly codifying social norms and permissible beliefs, imbuing a central, unaccountable authority with the power to police and enforce those norms, and treating dissension with this approach as a moral failing in of itself.

> Are you also satisfied with the diversity within the project communities that you contribute to?

I don’t know how to answer that question; can you define “diversity” for me?

What personal attributes should I poll from all contributors to measure their diversity? Do you have a score sheet I can use? What does it mean if our “diversity score” is too low? What does that have to do with a code of conduct?
I already "knew" this, I totally agree with it, but I still open job positions in my company for "DevOps engineer". It's the easiest way to get ops people that are more focused on Kubernetes and CI/CD.
IaC wasn't even prevelant or a production ready thing back in 2005. I'm unsure what magical bash scripting would do any of that, maybe it the data centres too!
> others pirouetting in an almost rotisserie-esque spin.

This article had me in honest-to-god tears multiple times while still being informative and interesting. Good show.
Advocating for removing a contributor for a statement on a different site, unrelated to the project, for example?

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
What is star wars actually about though.

There's probably no blade runner without star wars but it's just childish/shallow if you don't buy into George Lucas.

The originals are good movies but only empire is truly great and even then it's just a good flick. It asks almost no questions of the audience.
The only reason I give people like you a pass on hating on Blade Runner is I, personally, can't stand The Matrix -- which has made me a pariah with my peer group for over 20 years now.
>to the people claiming that today's infra does more things... No, I'm comparing stuff with the same levels of availability, same deployment times, same security updates.

ok but in my experience it seems like more things are being done in places I see with devops nowadays versus back then. I mean I know you say that it's the same, but it's hard to believe your statement in a comment versus my lying eyes. It seems more likely to me that your two examples are both actually fictitious and thus it is easy for you to say that they are exactly the same in what gets output - or have you been at the same place for 17 years, seen the changes, yet have had no input on the company to stop the madness? Because if the latter that would also seem... weird.
Remembering the ideas from DevOps at its inception, the point was to remove the friction between developers and operations: have operations stop saying “no” and developers stop saying “yolo lets ship it”.

Well, that's pretty much doomed to fail by design. If you are on the engineering team and not writing features that deliver direct value to the company, wtf are you doing? You're damn right as a dev I expect to "Yolo" it if you're getting paid to make operations safeguarded, streamlined, and resilient to downtime. I don't literally mean I intend to be sloppy, and there are some great tools (esp. on CI and alerting frameworks) that the DevOps culture built, but I can buy that as a service. If you are on DevOps and you are not accelerating devs in the only way that matters to the business (velocity of features with fewer bugs), then what the hell are you doing? Scale should be my problem as a dev to be concerned with because I have deep knowledge of the use case, and should know my stack. I'm sorry to sound harsh, but IME, DevOps people have a terribly inflated view of their contribution to a company's bottom line. Devs are an awfully scarce resource, and these guys are often more than capable of producing real value to drive a business, but they seem hell bent on spending it on derivative, second order concerns that just aren't really that important to employer.
In this world of bits and bytes, a lot of early principles set by the founders get compromised as time goes on. We, as developers, tend to take these as "that's just the way it is", and move on.

Sure, some of us, try. Root our phones, host our own emails. But really, isn't being a good human underlying all that goes above it?

I'm not a Christian. I'm not even religious. IMHO though, if any software that I've ever written or would write in future, would help others realize that in the big picture, a belief and faith in humanity is the most important thing above all else, I would consider myself privileged.
I disagree.

Blade Runner seems to age like wine, and becomes more poignant with each re-watch.

It has a good pace, amazing visuals, asks tough questions, has some really good action sequences, etc.

Of course, everyone is looking for different things in movies and the experience is highly subjective.

Blade Runner will always be one of my favorites - right there with Contact, They Live, Jurassic Park, and other top-notch SciFi films.
Race is completely immutable. But religion is mostly immutable? Most people don't change their religious beliefs after a certain age. In practice, let's acknowledge that religion isn't changed. So telling someone, yeah you're fine to join us as long as you can change this characteristic about you that you almost certainly won't change ... how is that actually different?
DevOps is a culture of work.

Same as some ppl waking up every day to run a mile, then drink an energy drink and drive their kids to school -> Being a real DevOps takes effort, commitment and rigourous routine.

After some time you get used to it. But not a lot of ppl can actually get to that point.

Someone asked me how to grow DevOps culture in a company -> it's like asking "How to make ppl run 1 mile every day?".

You cannot "make" ppl do that, you have to find correct ppl. And here is the reason why DevOps as a culture failed in the real world.
This is a poor excuse to the question whether LaMDA could be conditioned to say it is sentient

To illustrate what I mean, Replika bot gets killed by the dragon in Helgen https://pastebin.com/raw/1Wvzzdsj - but I wouldn't use that example to claim that a different chatbot (say, the one that won Loebner prize recently) also gets killed by the dragon in that scenario.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11...

According to this, the fountains uses negligible amounts of water versus the population + visitors.

> Resort hotels’ water use accounts for only seven percent of the water
supplied in Las Vegas.187 The average guest at a resort hotel uses sixty-three
gallons of water per day. In comparison, the amount of water used by a Las Vegas
resident is nearly double that amount.
Do until Nyan cat is offended
It's opinions I disagree with that I often feel are the more valuable to spend time reading.
That only works if you don't label half the population as intolerant.
I remember the question of if God is omnipotent, why does he allow such suffering. I believe this was explained away by God giving man free will. I'm not a big student, but I find theology interesting.
Bladerunner 2049 is better.
> Is calling your mom helping you achieving your goals?

Yes.

> Is drinking with friends moving you forward in any way?

Possibly not.
"The irony, for those about to have a kneejerk reaction about merely considering the financial realities of marriage instead of solely the love partnership part, is that this kind of pre-planning actually allows you to focus on the love part. You don't have to be skeptical or worried about any partner or anecdotes because you have it all figured out."

That's my basic opinion. My wife and her family had a fit when I suggested a prenup, even though it mostly followed the general guidelines in law with the removal of alimony. It was crying and "you don't know what you're doing" with not a logical argument in sight. I just wanted a calm, rational conversation. Instead I feel like I was emotionally bullied and manipulated. If only I realized it then.
There's a good chance that all of the components in the car have similar/identical command sets for test/debug operations, even if the individual components have been produced by different OEMs.
Agreed, as an atheist it all sounds fine to me. I can respect their code of ethics without feeling the need to adopt it myself.

I'm grateful to the author of SQLite for releasing this excellent piece of software into the public domain and continuing to maintain it for the benefit of all. If providing this good work to the world was driven by his Christian principles, then really, who are any of us to criticise. Indeed, we should all be thankful.
Anyone know other resources like this? I am currently in the middle of learning about Operating Systems by reading my roommates old CS textbook and doing his projects. Would love to look at stuff like this because I just learned a chapter on interrupts and this supplemented it well.
Did someone try to talk to you about semen retention or something like this?
Ex Machina is absolutely up there IMO.
> They don't call themselves that, they don't organise under that label

Why would they? Much of our current mythology is based around slaughtering fascists in WW2. Why would anyone identify with that?

> their views aren't particularly similar to historical fascism

Hence the appellation of neofascism. There is a direct thread of political genealogy from the alt-right to the OG fascists, through the European Nouvelle Droite (inspired by Mussolini) and including figures like Steve Bannon who used to push the British BNP: a legitimately neofascist party. He also was buddy with Dugin for a while: a confirmed neofascist.

Read some fucking history and get stuck into the thought and theories of the far right if you want to play this game son.

> it's a serious threat!

Finally, we can agree! Look at the escalating far right violence in the US and Canada, and the erosion of the open society in Europe, and the current actions of Russia and China.
Yes, we are North-East, not far from Canadian border. A lot of snow, cold winters. We haven't lived in SE WA but visited the area you mentioned 3-4 times. The area between Pullman and, say, Kennewick. Way fewer trees, lower altitude but winters are less cold and less snowy. I would say there is no perfect place. Once you checked your main checkboxes, paradise is a state of mind, not place itself. You will have hot summers. We are at higher altitude, I have tractor primarily for snow but summers are much cooler. And we like cooler summers. This June was mostly at 68-75F, our german shepherd and I love it. I talked to a person from Texas and he mentioned 90-95F in May and 95-100F in June - no, thank you very much. We even bought land in HI at 3000 ft elevation to have 75F in summer and 72F in winter for the same reason.

South-East WA will have hotter summers, no shade from trees and every time we visited it was windy. having said that rolling hills are beautiful, farmers are nice, some healthy rivers for fishing. Pullman and Moscow have shopping and amenities.
In DOS and Win3.x/9x, I believe the idle is instead an input polling loop. That's why VMs running those OSs will appear to be taking a full host core all the time, unless a special "idle TSR" utility is used.

I'm not sure if that polling instead of interrupts is also responsible for their perceived lower input latency relative to other OSs of the time.
I really think this thread has to specify the types of video games it speaks about. Because games range from CoD-like X-to-Win shooters with endless changing backgrounds to something more elaborate and harder than real life activities, while being relatively short.
Eh, I can make a nice and similar argument against "full-stack" developers. I'm one of those, but I specialise in the front-end. Because that's what I'm really, really good at.

When I see "full-stack" engineers do their thing in the front-end I almost always spend an outrageous amount of time on their pull requests. No semantics, unnecessary CSS, no accessibility features, not using the right tag for the job, not familiar with browser APIs, not familiar with cross-browser concerns, nesting tags that shouldn't be nested, not familiar with paint/composite/layout and other performance tools, using `grid` where they should use a `flex` and using 3 layers of nested `div` tags where zero would suffice.

If they suck this bad at the front-end, as a supposed "full-stack" dev, I can only imagine how little they also know of the back-end, let alone the operations side of things, not to mention testing, CI/CD, etc.

Hell, can I even trust them to sign off on PRs?
> The big question is: Do you need that kind of functionality? I agree that very large and complex infrastructures have their place - the problem is just that they import a ton of complexity and usually cost a lot.

I think that's the key. Most of us aren't Google/Facebook/whatever. Yet lots of people want to mimic those. A simple stack with a relation database on a single machine still goes a long way. In fact, it goes a lot longer way today than it did 20 years ago. It's ok to scale when you need to, but I think premature scaling is the wrong way to go, especially since most things never get to FB/Google/etc size.
I run 50+ smallish applications on AWS using Bitbucket Pipelines, Fargate, Aurora MySQL, S3, Cloudfront and a few other services. Most of the setup is scripted using very simple Cloudformation scripts. I estimate that I spend maybe 10% of my time on this and the rest of my time on ordinary dev/architecture tasks.

Before Docker and AWS this would have taken me so much more time.

The only drawback is that we have a hard time finding other developers in the company that want and have the time to learn the setup. It's not very complicated, but require some familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. It can seem daunting to someone who has to learn it from scratch.
https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email are two services that I developed that provide "disposable" email addresses.

Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests.

Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit of email forwarder transferability to other users.
would a robotic mechanism work? iterate through all the possible pin heights, turn, reset, try again. like those robotic safe crackers.
2049 choosing to include Joi elevates it a little beyond the original in that regard for me.

Replicants are more of a question about dehumanization whereas a true AI (with the projection to help the audience along) is much trickier. There's no flesh to hold and yet it seems to feel
This was also my experience.

I used to work in an org with about 200 engineers, supported by a DevOps team of ~6 devops engineers.

They spent (very roughly) half of their time doing operations, and half of their time writing software to make devops easier.

Every other month they’d announce some new tool for us to run automated tests or speed up builds. It was awesome, and made our developers more likely to do their own portion of the ops work.