Let's say they have had thousands of years of Nuclear Fusion, for example, it wouldn't surprise me if they could produce any elements they need by fusing hydrogen.

But let's say they didn't, and they do in fact see Earth as a rare jewel full of precious materials... the logistics of taking our natural resources just seems like a joke. Surely the juice isn't worth the hundreds of years of planning and logistics squeeze.

I used to buy this dark forest idea, because it's scary and exciting, but I think the biggest mistake is projecting our behaviours onto extra-terrestrials.

If they wanted to destroy Earth they'd just slightly nudge a big asteroid in our direction and be done with it.

/ sorry for the ADHD rant

Nobody wants our Lego.

In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better.

I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.

It also clearly copies macOS: Epiphany and the Settings app being prime examples.

I installed NixOS on an old T2 MacBook Pro, and it's... awful. Things just don't work, or don't work properly. It actually reminds me of running macOS on PCs back in the day (osx86, etc). GNOME 49 is headed in the right direction I think, but Desktop Linux is still in an absolute state.

I wouldn't be surprised if the negative developer sentiment toward CSS is reflected in training datasets.

- "GitHub: Let me know when this PR is merged" - "Store: Let me know when this item is in stock"

Unfortunately I think it's only useful if it works everywhere, so we can't rely on every website implementing it themselves.

I'm not sure why it's being sold as an alternative to Nix/NixOS

What a fantastic non sequitur

When my boomer dad complains about the Pakistani family he went to sell something to having 2 BMWs it's definitely racist.

But the racism is inflamed by poor economic conditions, and the rationale is "how come these people that aren't even from here have a better life than me?"

Sadly, people seeking power know this and use the racism to get power and don't fix the underlying cause, which was never immigration — it was wealth inequality.

It's colourful language for sure, but gimme a break.

The entire thing is little more than a thought experiment.

> Look at how fast AI has advanced, it you just project that trend out, we'll have human-level agents by the end of the decade.

No. We won't. Scale up transformers as big as you like, this won't happen without massive advances in architecture and hardware.

I believe it is possible, but the idea it'll happen any day now, and by accident is bullshit.

This is one step from Pascal's Wager, but being presented as fact by otherwise smart people.

Oh no! Anyway...