If I wake at 2:34am, I’m late for work.

But I get OP’s point, as I’ve woken before thinking it’s almost time to get up, and see 11:00pm. Yay, back to sleep.

Yes, that’s very correct too.

Wasn’t the point I was trying to get across though.

But I get it, morality and ethics are very broad and gray, and people differ in what they think is okay. Some people would feel uncomfortable and do what they can to avoid it, while others think, eh, no harm, no foul, I’m just looking, right?

I do have to wonder what feelings if any the latter get if they get caught doing it. Again, probably a mix.

If you have consent, sure.

I get the point being made, and it makes sense, however the ending begins to sound a lot like the “640k is enough” (that wasn’t actually said) but was used by a lot of people for their incredulity of how much more progress could there be, or be necessary. It also reminds me of an old Popular Science article of the 50s that tried to imagine how life would be in 2000. They got a lot of the technical things close, which is sort of what this post is trying to suggest, that we can imagine what’s technically possible for science. But they got a lot of the social aspects of how things could be used wrong or totally didn’t see it, as the necessity of use changes.

If they’re just keeping the suggestion of categories of software very broad, then I suppose new needs could be pushed under existing headings, but I think they’re reaching to say more that everything we might need in the future already has a category with something there, and anything else isn’t a need.

Good question, the actual idea for both is a great one and not something I was aware of.

Looking up an actual comparison, I can’t find one yet since this is so new, but perhaps that’s part of the plus, since new might mean better transfer process and speed, security, etc. Old isn’t always a bad thing, but some commentary I ran across looking for alternatives to Syncthing was because it had limitations they ran into due to it being designed for specific needs and not general purpose?

Five seconds? What’s hogging that system? Mine is about two, at most, from the WM shutdown selection.

You could make the same case for a browser, an email client, a graphics or video editor, etc. The UI is an interface to basic core processes that are usually the same that all have, with some extras on the top for uniqueness and features that might be more appealing than other UIs.

Honestly, it could be because of the age of the hardware I’m working with. Just haven’t bothered pursuing why it occurs since I have a workaround. The surprising thing to me is how simple the install was for both Linux versions. I did not expect it to boot the first time with no issues at all to troubleshoot to get things to work.

My first question was going to be specs, but that’s new enough that there’s plenty of flavors that should work fine. I have a 2009 MacBook that I was able to up memory to 8GB, and that opened up being able to put Linux Mint vs. the Kubuntu it was running but struggling with (mainly due to Firefox needing 1GB sometimes which would kill its 2GB RAM).

Only real issue is every great once in a while Cinnamon acts flaky (garbage characters) but I put a shortcut to restart it that seems to fix it without messing anything up. Being a secondary computer for me, that’s good enough.

Once we get rid of that pesky AMOC, it should cool back down quickly. Or at least make things different.

A habit of mine, to type something into search suggestions that my brain thinks might not be right. First thing that comes up with “amoc” is “amoc collapse news”. Whee.

Could be a type of loss.

Now there are two of them!

It’d be an interesting environment. What if the atmosphere was thin so the winds were fast, but not strong? Lots of variables to consider, and I’m sure if life could start, it’d find a niche to live in.

Using LLMs that way with the knowledge that it is a sort of mirror of yourself works much better than pretending it’s an actual consciousness that understands you. Think of it as a modern journal or diary that you can put thoughts into and then get back more organized, maybe with some ideas to branch from.

The loss is the imagined future that you would have continued to grow in your mind into something that becomes regret for a non-existent thing. Find out if there’s anything there. If there is, great. If not, then you know where you stand and can use your energy for things that have potential.

A bonus for just saying something without expectations is that you’ll be more yourself, so anything that does happen is based on a realistic setting and not some planned outcome that distracts you.

The only thing worse than the mind games some people play with others is the mind games you play with yourself. But you can stop doing the latter.

It’s good that it will have two parts of the mission, the impacter and the observer, but the article doesn’t mention if the measuring probe will get there first and determine any specifics of where to impact based on those readings, or if it’s just seeing the impact and afterwards and scientists will work backwards. Part of an actual deflection mission would be to know the rock you’re moving well inside and out way before doing anything. If this is a rubble pile type asteroid it will give a lot different results (and be harder to “stop”) than something more solid and/or metallic.

Also, “blowing it up” is much harder than it sounds, and if too late it could be in some ways worse than leaving it a single body to impact Earth, as enough large objects all reentering at once could be a major heating event in that area, potentially affecting more over a wider part. The movie version where the two halves split and narrowing miss the planet is total fiction.

“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Opens when you press it. Not finds a solution. Never has found a solution.

Explains why it responds/opens so quickly. Tight coding.

Already had one, why else do you think no one has contacted us yet? Wouldn’t you steer clear of this planet?