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If potential is key, I say keep the context of the MAID process but instead of outright death make it cryonics. Plus other potential relevant volunteer stuff and organ donation stuff lined up. Even if the initial cryonics technique is not even close to viable, other stuff could be transformative. If cryonics has any chance to work, things will get appreciably better in 300-or-so years right?

Hopeful worst is my brain in a jar mostly playing VR and sometimes knitting yarn via robotic arms. Lots of ways it could be better. Also unlike traditional cyborg stuff with all-machine life-support, I would like to still have a complex microbiome if not taking it further with symbiosis.

Aside from cost there’s also the issue of law, requiring people die of natural causes beforehand means most people will turn to soup before their brain can have any hope of being preserved.

I have cynicism for lots of things involved here, but if I had the option from some shady person who seems like they are capable and vaguely aligned with me I’d probably take the chance especially if we could make some sort of a post-revival agreement. What a brain (put into a small machine and ideally alongside symbiotic systems) can do for the people who are still alive. Probably with my brain in a jar living in VR until the details are worked out.

And if it doesn’t work out that way, well… That’s gooood soup!

I see ice-cream this tall and think:
YOU ARE DOOMED BY YOUR HUBRIS.
DO NOT DELAY FOR SMILES OR RECORD KEEPING.
EAT YOUR TASTY TREAT CAREFULLY BEFORE GRAVITY MAKES A FOOL OF YOU.

I think a better example probably would just be the night sky (at least in places with non-optimal conditions). Where I’m at there is very little color even when it’s clear enough to see galactic features (interstellar cloud/nebulae, clusters of dimmer stars etc).

What about…
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I am all of the issues to some degree and AI outputs to me* just seem like dairy-free maple-coconut water cheese. So personally I’ll just stick with nothing (substantial) until the format/workflow that I’m looking for (hopefully) becomes viable for me.

Luckily writing a book or painting hyper-realism are not the only type of creativity.

(also funnily enough, AI currently is just a different set of skills/knowledge especially for the better results or wrangling custom inputs/training/adjustments etc)

*= Particularly what I can run locally, w/a 1050Ti. But also just really most examples of AI (aside from maybe the stuff that is either extremely overproduced/hand-picked or potentially faked)

I’ve only used Kbin, but it seems fairly decent as a commenter aside from some federation/stability/spam issues. I really like the idea of having access to the Mastodon side of things on top of the rest of the fediverse, even though it’s hit-or-miss.

Thread wise, I suppose I haven’t posted enough to be statistically solid though it seems like it’s dead on the Kbin side of things and federation is even worse. I’ve thought about posting to lemmy.world (because 1 of my threads to a kbin community just got 2 LW commenters) but haven’t made new content to do so.

I probably should join another instance but I think there is a balancing act between instance popularity and desiring conversation-of/help-with my niche interests, and it seems like that is one probably isn’t going to be resolved for a while.

I didn’t exactly write them down, but for the first one I’ve had it happen a few times and I’m pretty sure once I was looking something up about gardening (probably some specific thing about peppers or tomato) and something looked like a guide but it was just lots of very basic information about a lot of plants on a no-design page with a wall of text (like chopping up real pages and mashing them all together into one that will get a lot of hits).

The second thing has happened more recently with technical stuff, like if I search anything about vertex colors it isn’t guaranteed to be relevant. I also searched for something else technical and one of the things popping up was some Korean TV show (drama?) with one of the keywords as its name (in a somewhat odd way).

You’ve never searched something and when you clicked on something that looked relevant it turns out to be a garbage bin full of basic loosely-related and barely-formatted information not pertaining much to your search?

Though lately when I search for things it’s usually something somewhat niche and google just fails to give me the specific topic and instead shows more popular/general things with somewhat similar terms unless I start adding quotes. Date isn’t fixing that.

ME: “Wow I can’t exist with how hot and sunny it is today. A-” <disappears>

The man cycle.

Not on the conservative side; but yes

As someone with parents who talk about aliens, culture-war BS, and that the problem with Trump is that he isn’t antivax enough? I assure you you’re wrong. I mean they aren’t buying raw milk but they definitely picked up on the idea from the rightosphere, and have talked about it a few times too.

I should be clear there is a background of “REGULATION BAD” here (government bad, corporation/money good). Also republican lawmakers changing laws on raw milk (and then getting sick after drinking it in celebration, cause not confirmed either way but the excuses are onion-esque particularly the lawmaker sick on his office couch)

The woo woo isn’t owned by either side either, though I would say it may be more of a case of weak political alignment that may shift to better suit their agenda (this is the case for my parents who voted for Obama and now express their regret for that in relation to who they are now) and/or a change of views they now see as acceptable to publicly have.

It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.

Funnily enough it didn’t have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don’t think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren’t finding it from search results, as I don’t think it even had the info that’d be grabbed, and probably didn’t even have SEO or anything like that)

With some of the things you listed, probably hazing.

I’m guessing “welcome” might be better translated as an initiation, but hazing is more clear that it is humiliating/degrading and/or dangerous (and maybe even not much of a choice). (Edit)

It doesn’t seem to work for me either, then again I have tinkered a bit with Nim and never known when to use that (though not the first I’ve heard of :=) and thus I never have.

Does it look like a normal assignment? (like var test:string = "wow" or even just test = "wow")
If so, have you tried just replacing := with =?

But why does this example contain such an operator

Good question! I’ll tell you…

…I don’t know.

EDIT: I do see someone say

:= to avoid declaring types

though this is cached on Quora (I couldn’t find the full context) so I’d say this is not a required (or even probably a good) practice to do. I don’t consider myself a programmer and even still, defining types seems like an easy thing most of the time.

Also it may not even be strictly necessary? I think the compiler will at least sometimes infer types during normal assignment, not that you should rely on that. If I had to guess, possibly this operator was removed in 2.0 (or possibly regression).

Why not looking blue in a canoe while a shrew toots a kazoo to cue a gloomy gnu wearing cool shoes to quote Sun Tzu at a few tattooed dudes (Stu, Lou, and Agnew) in a good mood who may have the flu?

If some cool person offered to “fling my head into the future” for free and had some shiny cryo tanks and no blood on the floor? Yeah, I’d take that chance and wouldn’t ask if they’re allowed to be doin’ that.

The tech now and even the tech when revived may be unlikely, but the bigger worry for me is probably if existing then would actually turn out great or not (especially without some contract to put me somewhere suitable before revival and prevent some bad outcomes, if it even happened). Ideally it would be a new way of life, or perhaps having several types of experience easily tried/swapped.

I tested one (Lectric XP 2.0 I think) and ended up buying a different brand on sale: cheaper, 45Lbs, smaller, only 250w, 10.4Ah, and has gears (unlike the Lectric Lite). Overall I did not mind the lower power or size, and I much prefer moving/storing it (I am on the ground floor, but stored my bike in my small room). I am not weak (but not in peak shape either, health issues) so 45Lbs I’d say is at the point where it doesn’t feel bulky.

Unfortunately I have not ridden it in more than half a year (and no idea for timeline) because the local trail closed in both directions for renovation. Just before that happened I was noticing riding got easier, thinking about maybe getting an even smaller/lighter non-electric bike (maybe a clone of something, maybe used?) would be nice to have.

To quote the decimal system:

I expect nothing, and I’m still let down.

I’m thirsty for tritium water. I’m sure it’s not a health thing, but it probably tastes better (more quenching).

And I want them to pay me a dollar in store credit to drink it. I want them to study me for the effects after years (and many many gallons) of having done this, and then I want to get a medal from some nuclear safety commissioner in Japan or something and look stupid when they show a still of my face on the Japanese news programs.

Is that too much to ask? But fine, I’ll just drink my well water that probably just has gasoline in it or something like a normal PFA-blooded American. No I know what you’re thinking, it’s not the same.

I’m the opposite side of the same coin: if I like it, I don’t consider it country music.

Lots of stuff without twang I’d just call folk music (add other terms if needed, American, western etc).

Also I’m glad the same thing didn’t happen to rock. Like there is a certain mostly-post-grunge vocal style popular in the 2000s that’d be really annoying if it was part of most rock music.