Even Homo sapiens, the overwhelmingly dominant species on this planet, having all the things ready, didn’t do a lot of progress for tens of thousands of years.
A technological civilization looks like a chain reaction that can’t quite start without a initial spark. I think anthropologists are still trying to find out what that spark was.
It’s three shows intertwined into one, and it feels as if three teams wrote them independently. They are completely different, the only thing in common is reusing Asomov’s Foundation names. It totally sucks.
I like the Fallout series, but man, the Institute was such a badly written villain. They make synths, they treat them like robots, okay, that’s understandable. They had the tech to rebuild the country, but nooo, they chose to kidnap people and replace them with synth doppelgängers because fuck know why. They were inexplicably obsessed with duplicating people.
Oh, and you don’t have to kill Danse, you can convince him to defect.
Even if the relation is super asymmetrical, corporations are exploitative because they give people what they want. People not always want the common good, we are egoist, and sometimes we don’t even do the things that will benefit ourselves because we’re too lazy to think.
Most people don’t buy the most ethical, or the best quality, they buy the cheapest. Most people don’t consume educational or edifying content, they prefer low-effort entertainment. Given the choice, most people will benefit a relative or friend rather than society.
We have the things the majority wants. The only way out I see is educating the next generations, or going authoritarian and forcing people to behave.
Cancer. Everyone has a bunch of fucked up cells at all times, but your body keeps you healthy by repairing or killing them, time after time after time… until one of those cells says “fuck the system” and goes rogue. No one is safe.
It doesn’t literally mean that everyone that uses OSS will inspect the source code for vulnerabilities, most don’t even have the skill to do so.
It’s more secure because access to source facilitates exploiting it, and patching it, faster, and because nerds that do have the skills and find something unusual will delve into the code to debug it. The XZ Utils back door was found by one of such nerds doing beta testing, it didn’t even get to be distributed to general users.
It’s a telling sign that malicious actors nowadays are surreptitiously trying to compromise OSS through supply chain attacks instead of directly finding zero days. For example: StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
Unless he saw the kid fractions of second before saving him, I think he could get there very fast, stop, and carry him at human speed so he doesn’t get hurt. A couple of seconds is all he would need, the kid just needs to move like a dozen feet at most.
This cover takes artistic liberties too far into the real of fantasy.
Supes is very fast, he could have saved the kid, and every passenger on the train, by picking up the kid instead of destroying the train. Also, a crashing train will rupture the eardrums of anyone that close to it.
This is probably why I don’t enjoy New Trek, and why I’m not very fun at parties.
My low cost solution has been adding external mechanical disks. Those go up to several TB for cheap, so I put two and sync them with rsync weekly in case one suddenly fails.
As others have wisely said, keep the fast SSD for your OS, media rarely changes and is usually accessed sequentially, it can live in slower disks.
I suspect this attitude of “read the fucken manuel” comes from when tooling was simpler and you could actually read all the manuals (or buy a book) to learn every small bit of it. Today, I’d be surprised if someone actually read all the Windows, .Net, and Powershell docs before attempting to write a small script.
Heck, even simpler things like Python have massive docs beneath every layer of them. You don’t learn everything from the ground up anymore, only the relevant parts to your use case.
It’s not that hard: sum everything you’ll give (20+1=21), then it’s obvious you’ll receive 10 back.