Can anyone reference a story that addresses only the question of growing bodies without brains and using them for organs, without bringing in a deus ex?
In Altered Carbon they grow human bodies without a consciousness and then rather than harvesting the organs for another person, they move the other person's consciousness into the body.
I've been using GitHub Copilot for a few months now and I can say that it definitely saves a little bit of time. I've seen reports that it makes developers 33% faster and it really does not come anywhere close to that. Where it shines is being able to fill in some boilerplate code faster than I can type it. When what I'm writing is something where the next few lines are something that an undergraduate student could easily predict, it can fill it in and I can tab complete it faster than I can type it. (Even when it's wrong, it's often faster to accept the close-but wrong answer and fix it than to type it all out manually.)
Expecting it to write whole routines or do any sort of serious architecting is going to be a let down.
But here's the thing: Copilot for Business is $19/month. Compared to a typical developer salary, how much time does it need to save per month to justify that cost? If it saves minutes per month, you're probably still coming out ahead. If anyone really believed it made developers 33% faster, they'd be charging a lot more.
But it definitely requires some skill to use it well. It comes up with some truly monumentally bad suggestions sometimes, and often suggests things that superficially appear correct but aren't. You need to be able to know the difference. If you don't, I could easily see it making things worse.
SpaceX is flying regular crewed flights to the ISS and even higher
It's easy to forget just how much higher the moon is compared to the ISS.
There's a graphic on Wikipedia that shows the radius of the earth (blue ball), the ISS orbit (purple circle), and how far out the moon is.
Saying that you can reach the purple line doesn't really mean much in terms of reaching the moon. It's literally 0.1% of the way there. (About 400km to the ISS, vs. 400,000km to the moon, give or take.)
For a long time, Debian has been striving for Reproducible Builds, where building a source package produces the same output every time. Even with a local NPM registry, it would be nearly impossible to keep track of what was in the registry at the time of doing the build unless that content is actually in the source package itself.
I voted by mail in New Jersey. There was a ballot that said who I wanted to vote for with no personal identification that went into an envelope with my name, address, and signature. Someone had to compare my illegible scrawl of a signature against an illegible scrawl on file and use that to determine if the ballot was actually mailed by me. With PKI in place, we can replace the hand signature on the envelope with a digital signature, which is much more easily verified consistently. Hand signature verification is a joke. There's no way to catch forgeries without throwing out lots of legitimate ballots. PKI can fix that, at least.
Most languages have a no-op statement. C allows just a plain ";" as a do nothing statement. Even going back to Fortran, there was CONTINUE. It's a very old concept.
I had been pledging $1/month to several different creators. With the new fee structure, it's better to only fund one creator each month and rotate that creator every month. That's ridiculous.
I canceled all my pledges this morning in protest.
Even when practical, we're still talking very big, very expensive plants
That's actually not true. When you look at the Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor, it's being designed to be small enough to fit on an airplane. It's a lot bigger than a "Mr. Fusion", but compared to a typical fission reactor, it's tiny.
"Hacker's Keyboard" has a number row, tab, and arrows.
You had to make change in my head,. I could do it without error. Most others could not.
I was never able to master making change in your head.
I think you've confused RMS with ESR. Those statements sound like chapter three of The Magic Cauldron. This sort of argument is typical of "Open Source" types, who tend to promote open source on the basis of economic arguments, as opposed to "Free Software" types, who promote free software on moral/ethical grounds.
Just for the edification of the other readers here, which parts specifically do you feel you don't have to follow?
For the record, I know exactly which ones I would choose, but I'm interested to know what exactly you think makes Stallmann a 'crazy outlier'. Because, in my estimation, it would take a lot for someone to qualify for that kind of labeling.
On a number of occasions RMS has been asked how professional software developers can make enough money to earn a normal middle class income using only Free software licensing, and his response has been that earning money should not be a priority, to the extent that if a developer cannot earn enough money to support a family, that's ok. Software developers shouldn't have children. (example link)
If he had said that most software developers shouldn't expect to have as much money as Gates/Ballmer/Zuckerberg/Jobs/Ellison type people, I'd have been ok with that, but to take it to the extreme that you should deny developers the ability to have children, one of the most basic and fundamental life experiences, that was what tipped the balance into 'crazy outlier' in my opinion.
V2V isn't just for collision avoidance. You need this kind of communication to safely narrow the following distance to form "road trains" at highway speed. This both allows more cars to fit on the same road and reduces fuel consumption due to reduced air resistance in the following cars.
For example, see the SARTRE project.
185TB is the uncompressed size, as noted in the last word of the summary.
"In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble." -- Alan Perlis
#/media/File:Moon_distance_range_to_scale.svg){kind=link}