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Sorry, I meant “destroy the planet” as in lifeless/only single celled organisms.
And you can kind of see humanity as “just another big asteroid impact”. Nature will recover competeley over the next million years or so. That’s what I meant with mass extinctions being kind of inconsequential for the planet as a whole on geological time scales.
Obviously mass extinctions are also bad besides their effect on human society, I just meant that that is mostly a spiritual one thats hard to measure, about lost potential and eradicating a species. As a thought experiment, is eradicating a disease, a form of life, inherently negative? Mosquitoes? Do you agree that it’s a big achievement that we eradicated small pox? What if we eradicate all existing diseases?
Well, survive yes. But self-sufficiency is a big problem. The world is nowadays so interconnected that even a problem in only one region can severely affect all of humanity (e.g. semiconductors from Taiwan). So yes, a collapse of our modern society is certainly possible.
Destroying the planet is not really a thing. Mass extinctions in the past were a big deal but at the same time: Earth recovered. We only have a big problem because the plants/animals we need might go extinct.
Obviously valuing nature and wildlife diversity in and of itself is good but it doesn’t have any intrinsic value in regards to supporting society.
Obviously it’s a skill issue but don’t you ever make mistakes? If Rust prevents some bugs and makes you more productive, what is not to like? It’s a new language and takes time to learn but the benefits seem to outweigh the downsides now and certainly in the long run (compared to C at least).
Maybe Torvalds didn’t give in to public opinion but made an informed choice?
The crates are a bit of a problem and I think Rust is a bit overhyped for high-level problems (it still requires manual memory management after all) but those are not principal roadblockers, especially in the kernel.
There are quite a lot of AI-sceptics in this thread. If you compare the situation to 10 years ago, isn’t it insane how far we’ve come since then?
Image generation, video generation, self-driving cars (Level 4 so the driver doesn’t need to pay attention at all times), capable text comprehension and generation. Whether it is used for translation, help with writing reports or coding. And to top it all off, we have open source models that are at least in a similar ballpark as the closed ones and those models can be run on consumer hardware.
Obviously AI is not a solved problem yet and there are lots of shortcomings (especially with LLMs and logic where they completely fail for even simple problems) but the progress is astonishing.
Also in Stockholm ist nicht alles perfekt aber du übertreibst schon etwas. Man beantragt keine Wohnung, man meldet sich bei Wartelisten für die komplette Stadt an. Und einen so extremen Mangel gibt es hier auch nicht, bspw. Studentenwohnungen mit geteilter Küche gibts gerade ausreichend in Stockholm (mit 1 Queuetag bekommt man ein Zimmer in manchen Wohnheimen, mit 90 in den meisten). Verglichen mit München ein Traum.
Ganz abgesehen davon finde ich Wartelisten als Konzept sehr gut (auch wenn es mich persönlich in Stockholm etwas benachteiligt). Die Frage ist wer bei einer Wohnungsknappheit eine Wohnung bekommen sollte. In Stockholm sind es die die schon lange in der Stadt wohnen (d.h. viele Wartetage haben) und nicht, wie in den meisten anderen Städten, die die am meisten Geld haben.
Surreale Fabel triffts ganz gut, kein einziger Satz war was ich erwartet habe. Respekt!
Das ist, wenn ich mich nicht täusche, dir Definition von Apartheid.
Ja, eine Art der Diskriminierung hat dort aufgehört. Die Enteignungen gingen bspw. aber weiter.
Stimmt schon. Aber “Two wrongs don’t make a right”. Ein Terrorangriff rechtfertigt nicht komplett Gaza dem Erdboden gleich zu machen.