Peter Watts covered the possibility of "zombie" intelligences pretty well in his novel Blindsight. One thing I took from it is that such an intelligence could not possibly behave exactly like a human being, because a lot of what we do as humans involves interaction with other humans where we have a mental model of their consciousness being much like our own. Expressing sympathy toward another person, for example, would be inconceivable without consciousness.
Is there a strict implementation of that in JS? I've looked and there seems to be a bunch of libraries doing JSONPath, but none that are strict implementation of PGs variant. I'd like to be able to use it for previews etc.
Using the type system to implement a Natural Numbers Object[1] is pretty clever. Doing math with it is not exactly efficient, but it does prove it works.
RISC-V International's plan to give away 1,000 boards to developers seems like a good idea. I like some of the products I've seen but the cheap ones are just toys and the decent ones are way overpriced.
Anecdotally, a guy in the Fedora project took a chance on giving a free OLPC laptop to a random education student in the middle of nowhere Utah. We met at a Panda Express in a strip mall. He helped me with some random problems I had on my ubuntu laptop and gave me a list of good resources to learn python.
I never did deliver for the OLPC project, but I tested a lot of things other people were working on. I also finally grokked the free software idea and became and engineer instead of a history teacher.
The $250 or so of prototype hardware has been repaid in testing, bug reporting other things I was able to do then. It sits on a shelf in my office to remind me how I got started, and what it mean to really be a part of a community that takes risks to invest in newcomers.
That's a very neat story. I have always loved the idea of paying things forward - investing in things or people in which you yourself do not see the direct return. Thanks for sharing.
The US government's official numbers for 2019 [1] only show 131k jobs for "information security analysts" and they project 171k by 2029. The total for computer, network and database administrators is only around 500k.
Yes, same here. "Close Tabs to the Right" gets used a lot. If there's anything I want to keep I either pin it or drag it all the way to the left first.
I negotiated a deal at a former employer where I worked 4 x 9.5 hour days with Wednesdays off. I took a 5% pay cut and lost a proportional amount of vacation time. I kept my benefits but had to pay a slightly higher share for my contribution to the health care plan. It worked out very well—I especially liked having Wednesdays to run errands when government offices and banks etc. were open.
