Which was started/inspired by these two music videos:
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Check out Angie Tribeca. It's a parody cop show with non-stop nonsense similar to how Kung Fury is.
Right before Kung Fury, there was Iron Sky. Moon Nazis, Sarah Palin as the U.S. president, and just generally over the top. Iron Sky 2 was kinda meh.
That explains why Synapse and some other things moved under element-hq on GitHub.
Doesn't Element get funding from some EU governments? IIRC it was used by some police force in Germany and some departments in France.
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Nothing irritates me more than walls of code without any comments and the "cOdE sHoUld bE sElf-DoCuMenTiNg" attitude. No, it's impossible to describe complex industry-specific processes by naming your variables and functions nicely.
Revelation Space series does not have FTL, but in its place, an engine that can produce 1G indefinitely (not manufactured anymore, powered by handwavium, it seems... but the secret is revealed in one of the short stories). There is further shenanigans with physics, but never FTL.
It definitely adds more nuance to the world, because now you can't have interstellar empires if you cannot communicate over large distances.
It really depends on the business.
I worked for two smaller businesses (team of ≤ 10 software developers). One was mismanaged, ran by very unpleasant people, and abusive towards employees, resulting in a huge turnover and a "dead sea effect". The other company got government grants because the owner's relative was a politician, and had ridiculous surveillance software on developers' machines.
Ironically, the most "human" and enjoyable work I did was working on internal legacy software and code rewrites for a huge corporation before and during their move towards agile and modern "conveyorized" approach to software.
When I ran prosody a few years ago, I did so without docker.
I did try snikket in docker though, and it looks like it is still actively maintained.
Reminds me of a "minimalist text editor" that my coworker showed me circa 2015. It was an Electron app that consumed more RAM to display a empty file than Firefox with 5 active tabs.
From some philosophical standpoints (determinism, for example), a person is their mind, a brain; so reproducing or simulating the brain to a very high degree would result in reproducing that person. Whether that is true or not is philosophical, and is similar to the Star Trek teleporter discussion.
In Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe, the classification is pretty sensible: there are three levels of simulation.
Alpha level is a nanotech scan-copy of a real brain which kills the subject, but the resulting persona is considered intelligent, a human, with rights and all. IIRC there were only 60 people who did that.
Beta level is a model built upon all available information about the person, all audio, video, text, etc. This is pretty much what we might now call a trained AI, but it is not considered intelligent.
And gamma level is a fully artificial persona, usually used for chatbots and what we would use LLMs for now.
YSK that OverDrive (developer of Libby) is a private for-profit company that makes obscene amounts of money. Pretty much a prime example of private-public "partnership" taking taxpayer money.
- Before COVID, they made enough to pay each of their ~300 employees half a million dollars. This figure increased during COVID. Guess who got bonuses? Not regular employees.
- OverDrive charges 30% overhead on top of publisher prices (which are usually already up to 4x higher for libraries)
- They criticize some publishers, but publisher raising prices conveniently plays into their hand. Publishers' abusive "borrowing" models, such as limited "digital copies" or "pay-per-borrow" still work for OverDrive (see above)
- They were one of the first to market and are vertically integrated: they own the marketplace to purchase titles from publishers, hosting of titles, and the application. This is easy for clients (libraries), but difficult to switch away from.
- They partner with LexisNexis, who has been collaborating with ICE for deportations.
- Many of their employees are former teachers, and with miserly teacher salaries in Ohio, it's another convenience to hire knowledgeable people for cheap.
I am not too familiar with animism either, but as far as I understand from the book, it's the belief-idea-philosophy that humans are a part of nature, including both living and non-living things. (Contrary to modern idea of separating the "human" and "natural" worlds). In addition to awareness and careful choices, it believes in reciprocity, giving back what was taken from the ecosystem. Similar to what was/is practiced by many native communities.
(Please correct me if I am wrong)
Synapse has seemingly improved since 2020. A word of warning though: if you join large rooms from your server, Synapse will eventually grow the DB to a huge size due to a "lookup" table state_groups_state, and will require manual cleanup. See https://www.sequentialread.com/matrix-synapse-out-of-disk-space-state_groups_state/