Notices by Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social), page 3

@itsfoss Both can calculate any computable function given enough time and resources. You don't have to pay the man for Linux to get it done though.

@arstechnica "For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes." - John D. Clark

@arstechnica But don't those inorganic dyes last a long time without fading. Copper, chromium, arsenic, cadmium sulfide, cadmium selenide, mercuric sulfide, lead carbonate, lead chromate (used to paint road markers, signs, and school buses!). It's so hard to replace transition metal pigments and semiconductor nanocrystals.

@nixCraft

Work has always had a performative component, but since most people stopped working in the fields and started working on code, it's almost exclusively performative.

@nixCraft I still have fun programming, but on my own projects. When I have to do it for work, to satisfy someone else's expectations, or especially under pressure, it becomes a chore.

@nixCraft 2024: These AI prompts are so useless, I'd rather just enter a shell script at the command line using "cat" or "echo!"

@nixCraft Your favorite operating system sucks.

@arstechnica I have this idea of a satellite pushing itself up to higher orbits successively by pushing backwards on spacejunk, deorbiting them.

@arstechnica I wonder if this will be remembered the next time Boeing bids on a contract? Probably not.

@arstechnica Building rockets is a playground that only government agencies, industry consortiums, defense contractors, and compensating billionaires can afford to play in. The limited competition, limited market, and limited motivation because the Cold War is long over make this a difficult industry to build a persistent infrastructure for and workforce and sustain it.

@arstechnica At some point the mass of buzzwords be compressed within a Schwarzchild radius and the industry will gravitationally collapse.

@arstechnica I don't think the shareholders are interested in profit. They gave away a huge amount of future profit to Musk. What's supporting the share value when any new buyers would know that the present owners vote to give away their profits?

@eff @falsemirror No one wants to take responsibility and the eventual blame for security, and the consensus settles on canned "solutions" like Crowdstrike. It's just like no one was ever fired for choosing Microsoft.

@Gargron If you're not totally enjoying the scenery, then you are missing something important.

@arstechnica Probably all of the people buying on Kitty's prompt thought they were getting in early too, and they would pump-and-dump the late ones. It's market nihilism: a vast army of swindlers buying and selling worthless tokens in a zero-sum game.

@arstechnica So hard to know who root for here. It's like Alien vs. Predator, or curing syphilis with malaria.

@nixCraft This is an attempt to outsource imagination to machines that only consume imagination.

@eff Still, it's ok for social media sites to track and exploit children. I can't help thinking this law is more about who gets to benefit from tracking than preventing tracking.

@arstechnica CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65: This article contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm.

@arstechnica This is to create a market for AIs to battle the astroturfing of other AIs. AI warfare is a brilliant scheme for growing the market for AIs! It will end up like that Star Trek episode "A Taste Of Armageddon" where the AIs battle and the causalties head to the disintegration chambers.