Comment Re:Oh good. (Score 1) 38
That started in the late ’80s and ’90s, when Microsoft discovered you could ship software the way a raccoon ships garbage: everywhere, immediately, full of bugs, and with zero intention of coming back for it. Shame was deprecated. Embarrassment got a service pack and was never seen again.
Then the frameworks showed up. Visual Basic. PowerBuilder. Tools designed so that if your IQ matched room temperature, you could still drag a button onto a form and ruin someone’s afternoon. Coding was no longer a profession. It was a hobby you could pick up between meetings and a mild head injury.
The real extinction event was Java, especially its GUI framework. Swing didn’t just lower the bar. It buried the bar, held a funeral, and invited the criminally unwell and the sadistic business analyst to give the eulogy. Suddenly anyone with a corporate login and a grudge could produce “software” (term used the way “artisan” is used on a gas-station sandwich) that your overlord would then force the entire building to click until their souls filed a ticket.
Comment Teach all kids to code (Score 1) 38
Remember that?
Comment Re:Don't forget everyone.... (Score 1) 44
Don't forget that we've not got to waste energy, we've got to make sure we use low energy light bulbs, change to energy efficient appliances, make sure that we don't leave stuff turned on unnecessarily because it all contributes to climate change. But that only applies to us lowly serfs. Meanwhile if you're a mega corp that's made a net zero pledge you can just waste as much as you want.
Well, we could always stop using Google.
* starts to type 'how to stop usi' into Google *
Fucking hell..
Comment Re:Scant details in the article (Score 1) 61
Some OEMs can get surprising thermals out of thin laptops using aggressive fan curves and liquid metal (at the expense of the liquid metal sometimes leaking onto the board and amalgamating with the solder joints).
This is like watching McDonalds advertise their fresh hot coffee by showing a copy of the lawsuit they settled after burning the shit out of a customer.
(They got any cool T-800 features to go along with that liquid metal, or is the term "melt down" about to get really explosive being near all that lithium ion.)
Also, all modern chips throttle, it's a feature called "boost", but you can't know whether the promised 1 petaflop is boost or sustained because that wasn't disclosed, you have to wait for someone to test it.
Knowing 21st Century marketing, they did achieve 1 petaflop. Measured for approximately 0.18 seconds. Right before the entire laptop exploded, with performance experts standing on the other side of 6" of bulletproof plexiglass. Not that they expected that result or anything. We're told the Guinness adjudicator was just there for show.
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 1) 64
Not sure what your point is against a reality like that.
My point is that you're deluded.
Society deluding itself by painting personal experiences as the statistical norm, is how we managed to create a situation where even the liberal goalposts can't keep up.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
Comment Re:This Was Broadcom's Entire Plan (Score 1) 83
When economists analyze the effect of corporate raiders like Broadcom, it turns out that this is actually good for capitalism.
[Citation needed]
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 1) 64
Not sure what your point is against a reality like that.
My point is that you're deluded.
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 0) 64
Or consider why you don’t hang out with 19-year olds to have intellectual conversations ripe with common life experiences and perspectives
I literally do.
If your UID does, and you in fact enrich yourself from it without the use of DMT, then understand even the 19-year old in the room grasps the fact their intellectual maturity represents maybe 10% of their generation. Proven factually and statistically.
Not sure what your point is against a reality like that.
Comment Can we fucking fix.. (Score 0) 64
Asking the seventy-something divorced male victims of modern feminism why they’re quite jaded, is an exercise in futility.
Asking why millions of twenty-something virgin men now feel the same, is an exercise in accountability.
When even young men aren’t bothering to stick their dick into the very thing that makes them young, you know society has a MUCH bigger problem than chasing the fountain of fucking youth.
Comment No one should be surprised (Score 2) 51
This is Texas. The last thing they want is to have the public nosing around and holding government accountable.
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 1) 64
Or consider why you don’t hang out with 19-year olds to have intellectual conversations ripe with common life experiences and perspectives
I literally do.
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 0) 64
Silliness aside, it seems we're getting very close to regeneration and lifespan extension. Anything that will extend old people's lives is generally going to be great for humanity. If I knew in my 20s what I know now sorta thing...
50 million human lives are prematurely ended every year on this planet. That’s a World War II death toll, every two years. Across decades. Thats more than any animal, disease, plague, virus, or asteroid has ever inflicted on this planet or likely ever will. That, is abortion.
Japan has sold more adult diapers than infant diapers for over a decade now. The birth rate across many countries, has been below sustainment levels for years now.
For the first time in decades, both cognitive ability and longevity took degrading hits due to bad lifestyle habits being championed instead of discouraged. The body “positivity” movement, did not exactly create a positive end result for health or longevity.
If you think people living into their 120s and 130s is going to be “great” for humanity, then dare ask why so many retirement communities happily discriminate by age alone. Or consider why you don’t hang out with 19-year olds to have intellectual conversations ripe with common life experiences and perspectives. Not aging physically is one thing. Being stuck in an ever-changing world unable to keep up, is what often kills the mental desire to live longer than 100.
I’d love to have my Father around another 50 years. He’s made it clear why he doesn’t feel the same. I’m starting to understand why. We have a lot more than just the physical to address with extending life when even GenX struggles with accepting the realities of today.
Comment Re:Aaand as usual.. (Score 4, Interesting) 64
Ironically, restoring the old methylation pattern may increase, not decrease, the risk of cancer. Here's why. When you get older, the risk of a cell's DNA accumulating damage increases. Sometimes, this damage can provide the mutations to make the cell cancerous. In order to prevent that, the cell silences gene expression by methylating sections of the DNA. Reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fa...
Now when you go and do a fool thing like "restore the reduced DNA methylation patterns typically found in young cells" (without repairing the damaged DNA)
Comment Aaand as usual.. (Score 4, Informative) 64
Upon reading the paper I quickly realized, predictably, that it's all baloney. By new heart they mean methylation patterns imprinted in the DNA. Is methylation anything to give a shit about when it comes to the heart? Most likely no. At best you could fool someone like Peter Thiel I suppose. What makes your heart give out is muscle wasting and narrowed or cholesterol'd up blood vessels