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by palata 7mo ago
I know we all have a lot of respect for astronauts, but the fact is that they blindly trust whoever tells them "it's safe enough" that it is, actually, safe enough. Artemis II doesn't need astronauts to do its flights. A
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by palata 7mo ago
I think the point of the article is that there is no particular need to send humans in Artemis II. Sure, they made tests. But it's not the same as trying in real conditions. The argument is that if they were able to predict everything
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by palata 7mo ago
> Putting people in a position where they need to treat their power with absolute humility or accept humiliation (and a major blow to their careers) in order to do the right thing is going to fail 99% of the time. I don't know... we
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by palata 7mo ago
> in fact they’re far stronger for the willingness of many to inflict violence than the original description suggested. In a situation where they know that they are in a controlled lab experiment.
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by palata 7mo ago
I guess my point is that I don't need to think for long before I find an example justifying why physics is a serious field. What would be the equivalent of Newton's laws in psychology? Does such a thing exist? Or does the whole fi
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by palata 7mo ago
Well I don't need to start with encyclopedia articles to convince myself that physics is a serious field, do I? Or maths, or chemistry.
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by palata 7mo ago
That's an interesting point, and I think I can explain a bit more how I see it: I am not entirely convinced that one needs to study psychology at university in order to be a therapist. Actually what I seem to see around me is that diff
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by palata 7mo ago
I have always been pretty critical about "psychology" as a field, but always kept famous successful experiments (like Milgram and the Stanford prison experiment) as examples that "sometimes it's possible to actually get
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by palata 7mo ago
I assume they meant "If you feel trapped", and followed by imagining what could happen in such a situation.
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by palata 7mo ago
Lucky me: I don't use social media at all. Note that I did not criticise the AI energy. I criticised tech as a whole . Tech is part of the problem (the problem here being "we are killing our only planet").
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by palata 7mo ago
> "AI energy usage" is a convenient scapegoat not backed by data. Except it's not what I said. What I said is that with AI, we do more with more (energy) . "Doing more" has repercussions that go further than jus
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by palata 7mo ago
> AI won't be what acidifies our ocean Tech is what got us where we are. AI allows us to use more energy to produce more of what is currently measurably killing us. > but AGI might save us from it. This is just faith. Some believ
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by palata 7mo ago
> There is a reason that we aren't dying of dysentery at the ripe age of 45 on some peasant field after a hard winter day's worth of hard labor. Tell that to the people who will die before 45 because of global instability and g
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by palata 8mo ago
> It is FAR more important to raise that marketshare I don't see why. Most users of OSes couldn't care less about their OS. The vast majority of humans are happy with Windows, macOS, iOS or Android. To the point where those who
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by palata 8mo ago
Sure. I don't want the year of the Linux desktop. Why would I care, really? I want Linux to be the Linux I like. I sometimes feel that people try to explain to Linux people how they should modify their distro in order to make it look m
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by palata 8mo ago
Sure, I have nothing against that. They should just not tell me that I cannot be different.
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by palata 8mo ago
Well it is fine if Linux is not for you, I want to say. But in the macOS vs Windows vs Linux debate, obviously one has to say what Linux does differently: and that's exactly what you seem to dislike. I.e. the freedom of choice.
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by palata 8mo ago
To be fair, I am not the one bringing that point up. The author says "I am forced to use it", they bring it up. I may be on the "Wayland" side here, but I have the exact same reasoning when I am on the other side: I hate
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by palata 8mo ago
> we might start seeing larger software companies releasing native linux versions of their software I like the idea of course, but I don't believe it for one second. Unless software is open source, it never properly supports Linux.
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by palata 8mo ago
I am "forced" to use Windows or macOS for work. I do not have a choice, I am not allowed to install something else. Thus I "am forced". I am not forced to by Nike shoes, I can buy any other brand. Even if I have been buy
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by palata 8mo ago
But then it's not Wayland's fault: Gnome decided to move to it and stop supporting X. I don't like systemd and the fact that mainstream distros push for it, but as a result I use a distro that gives me the choice (Gentoo). Wh
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by palata 8mo ago
The very reason I like Linux is for this diversity. I genuinely don't really get your point of view, which I actually see a lot, and which to me sounds like you want Windows or macOS, but somehow don't realise it. Let's imagi
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by palata 8mo ago
> Most commonly, as long as processes can read each other's memory/configuration/etc. And there is no point is working on the Desktop security as long as X11 defeats it all. > if it seems to be worth so little I, for on
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by palata 8mo ago
I feel like it's a philosophical question. I like freedom and diversity. I don't want Linux to be like Windows or macOS with one window manager, one init system, etc. I like that people (and I) can experiment. Is it less efficient
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by palata 8mo ago
There is a "Desktop mode" that I, at least, use more than the handheld mode. Not sure if it's running Wayland though.
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by palata 8mo ago
Well the US government doesn't have a say on how my cells divide. So no, it's not remotely the same thing.
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by palata 8mo ago
Anecdotally, my experience with Wayland has been a lot better than with X11. I have been on Wayland for years, I can't remember the last time I had an issue (running Sway).
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by palata 8mo ago
Feels like what Confer does it better than the current situation (where everything leaks to the servers). But I can't help but wonder: how auditable are SGX enclaves? Do we just blindly trust Intel instead of blindly trusting Meta then
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by palata 8mo ago
I hate it of course, but I think for once there is a solution: just go for an alternative AOSP-based OS. Preferably GrapheneOS (soon available on Motorola phones). The truth is that 99.9% of the people don't care. The remaining 0.1% is
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by palata 8mo ago
Soon Motorola too!

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