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Here's one for "The last of us". The fungi will get us all.

In Interstellar as well, I think. The blight felt like a similar fungi.

Gambling is flourishing not because we're in a low-trust world, as the article says, but because the living conditions of an increasingly large part of the population as such that they cannot hope of ever achieving a comfortable life. We're returning to the social dynamics that dominated much of history (if you consider how much gambling was a scourge, from ancient Rome to thousands of years of history in China).

So do you have a lot of trust in people that "cannot hope of ever achieving a comfortable life"? It seems like a risky proposition.

Still, yes. I can trust that if I were in an accident, people passing by would be decent enough to try to help me. To see a place where you'd have the rational expectation of being robbed by passers-by, see Russia.

The Zenit-E film wind and shutter click gave me the chills.

Well said.

The original intent of the authors is by now irrelevant. The current "point" of git is that it's the most used version control solution, with good tooling support from third parties. Nothing more. And most people prefer to use it in a centralised fashion.

That doesn't remove the fact that when people are working on the code, their local copy doesn't disappear after they pushed their commits and a local copy is still available.

Only exception is when people are using the code editor embedded in the "forge" but this is usually an exceptional use rather than the norm.


> That doesn't remove the fact that when people are working on the code, their local copy doesn't disappear after they pushed their commits and a local copy is still available.

It doesn't remove it but doesn't make it very relevant either, because of all the tests that are necessarily done remotely and can't be done locally, and without that feedback in many cases development is not possible.


> I mean, git's whole raison d'etre, back when it was introduced, was that you do not need online access to the repo server most of the time.

So what ? That's not how most people prefer to use it.


So those people are using the tool incorrectly, and would have a much better experience if they used it as designed. If everyone was running around using screwdriver handles to pound in nails, that wouldn't make it reasonable to say that any new screwdriver company has to have 5 lb handles.

> So those people are using the tool incorrectly

They're not. They're using it very correctly, by choosing to ignore a capability that's irrelevant to them.

> If everyone was running around using screwdriver handles to pound in nails

Stop thinking by analogy. It harms your ability to think correctly.


I think he was referring to "Begone, slop men", which is the right answer to this.

That makes a lot of sense, and it was long due.

I'm more curious about when we'll see people start to use AI-driven drones to take out their competitors. Talebans, Houthi, Mexican narcos have been using attack drones for a while. When will city gangs in "civilized" countries start ?


Drone attack would also be ideal for low effort high payout ransom demands. Makes me belive there will be drone measures and insurances for datacenters in the future.


The competing Google features are not a distinct product with its own name, but rather many separate features one can enable, like container image scanning. Collectively, it doesn't do all that Wiz offers, but it's still there.


Exactly. It's just West coast passive aggressive managerial behavior.


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