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by mortb 2y ago
Well, I'm struggling with this myself. Should we be cynical because the world around us has been cynical historically? I prefer not to be cynical - to be blunt I don't mean to belittle anyone, but being cynical is just boring. I a
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by mortb 2y ago
Teachers sare another example. I think many of us actually want to work for a bigger cause. Its just that the system is so to say rigged so that your attention flows in the direction of making money instead of trying to save the world. What
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by mortb 2y ago
This is interesting. How does AI stuff fit in this list? All AI stuff uses data that has been gathered without conscious consent and the resulting models may be used in malicious ways. How should we stand on that?
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by mortb 2y ago
What kind of international law can we expect in the future? A law that is constantly broken by various maleficent actors? Of course we've heard them complain that the current order is run by the west and harmful to others. What are the
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by mortb 3y ago
Depending on angle we could see different dumb things in the pandemic. I'm not sure which specific dumb thing you're referring to. Intelligence is, as I see it, distributed both in space and time. What is stupid in a local time&#x
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by mortb 3y ago
We've been made accustomed to fast feedback. Technology moves rapidly and therefore gives us quick feedback (dopamine). Peace processes move slowly and therefore gives less dopamine for those involved. Now, what would the junkie in you
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by mortb 3y ago
These days noone seems to have peace to the world as a dream and driving force. I grew up in the spirit that we should try to achieve peace everywhere. Nowadays when people think about war they think about cool technology, who wins all the
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by mortb 3y ago
New innovations - gives you PTSD every day. Computeres and technology used to be fun. It hasn't been for years. We're building ourselves a horrible future. If it wasn't my main income I would have stopped using them and moved
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by mortb 3y ago
Some ten years ago I relalized that the tech industry has little regard for what the socetietal consequences of tech developments will be. Since then work has not been fun in the same way. For example, social media fun to use, but when you
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by mortb 4y ago
...and of course, at the end of the article, the author offers to sell some kind of project assessment. My assessment is that it is not money that will buy greatness. You need to have engagement. This is why this kind of project seems to be
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by mortb 4y ago
Rant: Sooner or later some person will use all the data to something no good. I predicted some 8 years ago that criminals would start using encryption in the same way military does. It scared me. Encro happened; Criminal networks using encr
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by mortb 5y ago
Yes, in my opinion this study is too small and uses a too narrow sample of the population to matter. Not much to write about really
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by mortb 7y ago
I remember reading about Occam around 1987-89 in an Atari ST World magazine. Atari hade just announced the Transputer and the article introduced Occam as a way to program its parallel processor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mortb 7y ago
I started using the Internet some 25 years ago. Maybe things then were more idealist? I was younger then of course and perhaps more idealist by nature? Nowadays I'm afraid that the overall idealism may fade and that other more primitiv
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by mortb 7y ago
Imagine putting RMS (Richard Stallman) in China. What do you think the authorities would think of him? Will software in China ever be free as in the definition made by Free Software Foundation?
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by mortb 7y ago
I think this story is not as much a story about a software bug as it is a story about off hand accident management. If AECL had earlier been more humble and determined to find the errors maybe they would have? It seems jaw dropingly ignoran
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by mortb 7y ago
Yes, it seems that this hospital staff were the testers that AECL should have had themselves. A great tester is curious, imaginative, dedicated, patient and worth a good salary.
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by mortb 7y ago
They might already have done that: From Sailfish homepage " Our focus is in licensing the OS to be used in governmental and corporate environments, and Sailfish OS is already used to build local mobile ecosystems in Latin America, Rus
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by mortb 7y ago
Isn't any big enough state or corporation with too little transparency a threat to individual freedom? Is China combing opaque big tech with repressive state? Is that scary? Is Amazon changing people's lives? etc
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Never Use Airport USB Charging Stations(forbes.com)
2 points by mortb 7y ago|0 comments
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by mortb 7y ago
Don't get me wrong, but if whole classes of errors, can be avoided by not choosing C++, why should I choose to use it?
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by mortb 7y ago
I remember. I was in my early teens when he was murdered. I did not like his speaking style. It felt too elitist; distanciated / detached.
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by mortb 7y ago
One of the theories about who shot him (there are many https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme ) points to South Africa. There is also a theory that South Africans killed Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedis
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by mortb 8y ago
Word. I very much miss a serious ethical discussion in the tech crowd that I see myself as part of, being a developer. I think we should admit that we are part of a technocracy. If you know the tech you may pull any stunt off, even when you
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by mortb 8y ago
Another piece of context, the article says that the issue was resolved together with Huawei. Why then make a publicly available article about it naming the company? Why not just patch and pretend that there were no issue, or patch and with
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by mortb 8y ago
Maybe, as some posters in this thread are suggesting, this should not be read as a PR article. This should be read as a "Huawei (and others) we are watching you. Stop doing those things we are able to spot your doings, and we are willi