So what are you proposing?

It’s a joke, right?

RIGHT?

I don’t know what he feels or thinks. I’m just commenting on the click bait title. What I would be interested in is why he’s still allowed to teach at all. Then again, maybe titles like that help direct attention to it and will get us some answers from Harvard?

For me the main thing not letting me quit WhatsApp (and FB before that) are groups and distribution lists. My cycling club uses WhatsApp to share info about all events. They are not going to move 300 people to Signal because I don’t want to use WhatsApp. Same with climbing gym group. 30 people, everyone using WhatspApp. I proposed moving to Signal at one point but no one even knew what I was talking about. It was the same with FB, people would post announcements on FB and if you wanted to know what’s going on you needed an account.

So he basically said “I know I fucked up and no one wants me here but it’s my job so let’s focus on the material”. Didn’t look “extremely awkward” to me. I mean, fuck this guy but what do people expect him to do? Kill himself?

They will appeal, then they will appeal again and again. In 10 years we will see some binding ruling.

This money should be paid to the public for being targeted with illegal privacy practices.

So the public should sue them. This is not the court deciding where the money should go. Media companies sued for their share, the public can sue to get their.

I think for me personally (I get it that different people look at those things differently) movie is just a faster medium to it’s normal to use symbols, shortcuts and other story telling tools like that. Directors would love to crate a 10h long movies and include all the details they can think of but that’s impossible so they use different devices to transmit ideas. Books on the other hand do let you take time with the world building. For example in Solaris Lem spends entire chapters describing different plasma formation you can see on the planet. That’s why I find it strange that when describing a library, computers, rockets, phones, food and everything else on the station he didn’t stop to think “what this may look like in 1000 years”. I would love to ask him why he did it. Lack of time? He didn’t think it’s important for the story? He really thought people will still eat canned meat 1000 years from now?

BTW, a friend of mine claimed that Lem lived next to him when he was in high school and after some party told him to clean up cigarette butts kids threw on his lawn from a balcony. Sadly I only met this guy at the University so I wasn’t at this party.

“The Invincible” was definitely tech focused, hard sci-fi, so I guess in different books he would simply focuses on different things. Which is completely fine. From the two books I’ve read I would say he definitely struggled with computers but maybe he has some books about them too :)

Weird thing is that while I love SF movies that focus on philosophy of psychology (Gattaca, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Never let me go, Moon, Realive, The Platform…) I like my books to be more detailed and tech focused (Banks).

Interesting point. I guess it could be an issue of familiarity. For me the concept of a “digital library” for example is obvious but maybe in 1969 people would struggle with it, especially in communist Poland. And maybe Lem simply didn’t want to spend much time explaining that because the book was about something else entirely.

I guess I always liked the part of science-fiction that is about predicting what future will look like and I struggle with books that skip it. It feels like something is missing. (that’s also why I love Iain M. Banks’ books so much, he’s simply so great at it).

So I’ve check and ‘likely’ can be defined as “Within the realm of credibility; plausible.”/" Possessing or displaying the qualities or characteristics that make something probable." which I would say makes 10% likely but also as “having a high probability of occurring or being true : very probable” which would make 10% unlikely. Depends on which dictionary you check :)

Not in US. In US gun owners are never responsible for what happens with their guns. It can be the kid’s fault, the dog’s fault or even fault of the gun itself but it’s never the gun owner’s fault.

Interesting. I would say that if it’s unlikely then the risk is small. I would also say 10% is pretty likely. For drugs 1-10% chance of a side effect means it’s a common side effect.

You’re technically correct. The best kind of correct.

Imagine you’re going to have a surgery and the doctor tells you there’s 10% chance it will go wrong and you will lose your dick. What would you say about your chances?

Both things can be true and I’ve seen way way more comments along the lines of “there are bugs in Rust so it’s pointless” then “don’t use C”.

I have an app on F-Droid. Nothing special, basically something I wrote for myself. I was thinking about putting it on Play Store so I can share it with friends that don’t use F-Droid but with those new requirement I’m 100% not doing that. Fuck Google.

In other comment I linked two vulnerabilities in sudo discovered in 2025, one of which was “hiding” for 12 years. So yeah, “finished” for a long time…

PSA: If you think that people use Rust because it lets you write without bugs do yourself a favor and don’t comment on anything Rust related. You will avoid sounding stupid.

Yes, because normal sudo never had bugs…

One of the vulnerabilities has remained unnoticed for over 12 years.

By software maturity you mean that the bugs are hitting puberty?