evujumenuk

Wasn’t that Johnny Cash though? Trent offered an empire of shit IIRC, but maybe that’s suitable too 🤷

No one is arguing that an “idiot savant in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber” cannot be economically useful, but does it make plain old intelligence obsolete? I’m not buying it (yet).

That’s what’s gotta sting the most about this. Imagine you worked a problem for a long time… and then The Giant Pattern Matcher With Zero Fluid Intelligence actually finds something.

If it did find something, that implies the solution already existed in bits and pieces in the published literature. You would “just” have had to have read about it, and remember it, for successful application.

But suppose you had succeeded in that. You would have published a paper that enumerates a bunch of results some other people had reached, then plugs them together for a supposedly new theorem. Sort of like importing a dozen Python libraries, adding around fifty lines of glue code around them and then going, yeah, here’s a “new” thing, Fields Medal plz!

How much remaining interestingness did your chosen problem really have if the new math you had to create for it fits on the placemat buttressing the campus cafeteria sandwich you had for lunch?

If your idea of an idea is “concept that I personally am not aware of but which has been conceived, elaborated on and documented by another human being”…

Then yes, totally!

I wonder if he sat on the joke until someone in East Asia replicated reusable rockets.

Y’know, to not sound like an Elon booster (pun not intended).

Pregnancy is a gatcha

Bold of you to assume that my offspring would be useful in some way.

Wasn’t Hawaii a popular honeymoon destination once?

I’m saying that this must have happened already.

You’re saying one VM was cloned from the other. I could imagine a DHCP client saving leases to disk (they can have pretty long validity periods), and if the box was assigned the .106 address at any point and then cloned, the cloned machine would probably try to take that address, in other words ARP the address to determine if it’s taken, and if so, fall back to some other thing. I would have expected an APIPA address but 172.x.y.z is not out of the question depending on config.

Also, if your bridge has an interface connected to e.g. another ISP-provided router then it would expose any DHCP server running behind that interface to your VMs, creating a race.

If your idea of a federated Twitter is a bunch of mini-Twitters that sometimes exchange indirect replies or something, then the Fediverse fulfills that purpose completely. Mission accomplished, we can all go home now.

If your idea is that the replies to every post look the same to any user, anywhere, at any time, even the thing Mastodon merged half a year ago that supposedly fetches all replies if you remember to navigate to the topmost post, and wait up to 15 minutes for your view of the thread to coalesce, falls short.

And this is why hosting Mastodon is cheap, it fundamentally cannot provide the functionality BlueSky offers. Of course, you might think that such functionality is not desirable anyway, and that’s entirely fair. But if you’re looking for the immediacy that centralized Twitter gave users, I don’t see a way for Fedi to ever provide that, whereas there is a path to BlueSky decentralization. It’s a fact that your UX is diminished if all of your followers and followeds are not on the same instance.

But in the end, I think there is space for both.