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Hah, as if the current fucked up trajectory will ever bring us to a future of high tech space exploration.

The way things are going Mankind is vastly more likely to end up in some Dystopia were society has regressed to outright Feudalism and the most technological advanced stuff are at best mass distraction devices or some kind of ML-based social mass manipulator, possibly just the implanted equivalent of slave shock-collars and the systems to control large number of those.

If even just a tiny fraction of the money spent in stock-buybacks was spent in space exploration we would already have space stations in Mars and be extracting minerals from the Asteroid Belt.

We're not currently evolving, we're devolving.

The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.

I think it depends a lot on a person's personality.

Myself I find it much harder to have the discipline to do that when working from home, plus it's far easier to get distracted at home, so I chose to work from a coworking space which is about 15m walk from home.

Also, from the Covid days I found out I that for my own sanity I need to go out if only not to be inside all the time, which I get to do regularly with my current setup.

So as I see it you're both right and as somebody else says, it's only a problem when this forced on people.

London Tube, maybe the Green Line that goes the Heathrow?!

Using the Tube at rush hour was so bad I switched to cycling for my commute (which turned out to take the same time whilst being far more pleasant), this before before cycling in London was fashionable so when I started doing it there weren't all that many of us and drivers weren't yet used to cyclists so you had to be extra careful with things like being on their blindspot near places were they might turn.

Also some of the Tube lines in London are old and hence the tunnels are less high, so the tube trains that run there (like this one) have lower ceilings and feel extra opprossive.

Mind you, using the Tube is still a superior experience to driving since you can actually bring a book and distract yourself by reading in the Tube.

Definitelly not the thing I miss about London.

I'm on Pop!OS which comes with X11 by default, so I'm very wary of trying to change it to use Wayland as I don't wan't to risk breaking my gaming PC (followed by who knows how many days of mucking about with it to fix it) which is supposed to just be for coming home after work and relaxing.

Is there another way of running Android apps on Linux?

Doesn't Waydroid require Wayland instead of XWindows?

Because my Linux PC is also my gaming PC, which for historical reasons (used to be a Windows PC) has a NVidia card, and from what I've read Wayland is a lot more problematic with NVidia drivers than XWindows.

Last time I went to install Waydroid I just stopped half way and reverted it because their website says it requires Wayland.

In my experience people who systematically work long hours have crap productivity because they're much more tired and tired people produce a lot more negative work (in the form of bugs, bad design decisions, inflexible code that will need to be rewritting if changed, weirdly structured code that's hard to work with, "stupid lazy" bad practices that shave seconds from coding time upfront whilst adding hours latter on, and so on) which adds to the total work that needs to be done (as those things either have to be fixed or make later work be harder to do in that codebase).

So the people working like that were only devaluing your labor in the eyes of incompetent managers (competent managers measure results to determine "productivity", not "bums on seats").

Then again, if those manager actually applauded them for doing it, those manager were most assuredly incompetent.

PS: Not saying that any of this make it right, just saying that it's a symptom of stupidity and incompetence all the way to the top.

Curiously, actual scams also go through "a speculative boom that looked like a scam in the moment", and then they turn out to actually be an overhyped scam that doesn't in fact change the World.

Crypto currencies are a good example.

Your "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" statement makes a lot of sense in the early stages, when we don't really know yet if what's being overhyped might or not be just the beginning of something big, hence one shouldn't just discount a tech because there's a massive hype train on it. The thing is, this was maybe 1 or 2 years ago for things like LLMs, but by now it's becoming obvious that it's a dead end since the speed of improvement and cost relative to improvement ratio have become very bad.

Whilst broader Machine Learning tech is useful, as it was useful already since when it started (back in the 90s Neural Networks were already used to recognized postal codes on mail envelopes for automated sorting), this bubble was never about the broader domain of Machine Learning, it was about a handful of very specific NN architectures with massive numbers of neurons and huge training datasets (generally scrapped from the Internet), and it's those architectures and associated approaches to try and create a machine intelligence that are turning out to not at all deliver what was promised and as they've already reached a point very low incremental returns, seem to be a dead-end in the quest to reach that objective. What they do deliver - an unimaginative text fluff generator - turns out to be mainly useless.

So yeah, if you're betting on the kind of huge neural networks with huge datasets used in the subsection of ML which has been overhyped in this bubble and the kind of things they require such as lots of GPU power, you're going to get burned because that specific Tech pathway isn't going to deliver what was promised, ever.

Does this mean that MLs will stop being useful for things like mail sorting or other forms of image recognition? Of course not, those are completelly different applications of that broad technique which have very little to do with what people now think of as being AI and the bubble around it.

Machine Learning has a bright future, it's just that what was pushed in this bubble wasn't Machine Learning in general but rather very specific architectures within it - just like when the "Revolution in Transportation" which turned out to be the Segway and kind crap thus quickly fizzled didn't destroy the entire concept of transportation, so the blowing up of the LLMs bubble isn't going to destroy the concept of Machine Learning, but in both cases if you went all in into that specific expression a technology (or the artifacts around it, such as massive amounts GPU power for LLMs), that the broader domain will keep going one isn't going to be much comfort to you.

... and any who say otherwise are anti-semites.

People who go around expecting Race Loyalty and hence believe in the idea of Race Treason are being Racist because they have expectations on people which are entirely based on their Race rather than their character as individuals, including that such people should treat others differently depending on their Race.

It's just that some people who think like that see such a posture as "positive" because it's not in favor of their own Race but a different one - treating people differently depending on their race to help other Races is the Liberal variant of Racism, whilst the Fascists want the race that benefits to be their own.

Most people who believe in the first form of discrimination don't see it as Racism, even though as with everything, if some are getting better treatment then others are getting comparatively less better treatment, which would be fine if people in need were getting better treatment and those not in need were not, but when the selection process is based on race rather than actual individual need then many who need don't get better treatment and many who don't need do get better treatment.

Notice how the whole Israel Genocide really brought to light how that "positive" racism wasn't at all positive: there was a lot of positive views and positive treatment for some people merely for being Jewish, quite independently of need or actually deserving it as individuals (which is what makes it Racism). Naturaly the Zionists and Israel weaponized all the positive predisposition towards that ethnic group by passing themselves as the representatives of that group, giving them the room to commit the most Racist Genocide of the XXI Century, comparable only in its cruelty to the actions of the NAZIs, which is still ongoing.

All that "positive" predisposition along ethnic lines towards anybody of a specific ethnicity turned out to have the extremely nasty effect of giving the most murderous assholes amongst that ethnicity the room to commit the most atrocious of acts, exactly because when people are judged by Race not by character, the assholes can hide behind the Race.

I still remember how much hay was made from him being "The first Afro-American President": the Democrats sold the hell out of him being Black as a good thing (not least to get more votes for him from Black Communities) whilst the Republicans sold the hell out of him being Black as a bad thing.

His race kept getting dug up (and, as you see here, still is) and IMHO it together with his truly exceptional gift of the gab obscured the actual character of the man as shown by his actions which were often pretty negative and had widespread negative consequences some of which still resonate today.

In many ways he's a symbol of American politics highly divisive and mainly performative approach to discrimination, IMHO.

Sure mate, that's why he was called Uncle Tom which is a form of slander against Afro-Americans which accuses them of being a Race Traitor, which is literally the idea that one didn't do enough for one's race.