They’re only on stage for an hour at most. They can drink all they want before or after, so dehydration isn’t a real concern. With all that talking, dry mouth can be. The drink is just something to wet the pallet palate, to aid in speaking comfortably and clearly. For that, it doesn’t mater much what it is, so long as it’s wet. So it’s just whatever they feel like drinking.
Evil doesn’t exist
It’s a Thought Stopper people use to excuse shunning and even killing those they don’t like, instead of understanding and correcting.
You’re right in a way. People are born narcissists. Our brains aren’t fully formed. It takes years of training an neural development for them to change.
But that’s a ton of work. It’s easier to label someone Evil and be done with them.
I think it’s inevitable.
I also think it won’t be possible on our current kind of computing hardware.
The software of the human mind, seems a byproduct of the structure of the human brain. I think a major revolution in processor design and manufacturing tech will be needed. It’ll need some fundamentally new form. Closer to an ASIC or FPGA processor to run with any kind of reasonable efficiency. But it’ll have to be truly 3 dimensional, not just layers of 2d chips. It’ll also need to be extremely low power.
LLMs are as close as we have right now, and they have miles to go. But they need hundreds of times more power than the brain does. No it won’t be soon and it won’t be with this kind of silicon processors.
In some ways yes, others no.
In what way are you thinking?
I’m an X-Ray tech at a University hospital with Level 1 trauma. It’s a lot of physical work. A few miles a day of walking, pushing x-ray plates under patients, moving patients to and from the table. It’s also cognitive work, problem solving. Deciding what order to do exams in. Coming up with a way to get the image when the patient can’t move properly. Is this exam even right? Does it make sense? Do we need extra images due to a fracture, or fewer images because the patient says only this part hurts, not the whole arm that was ordered?
I can say to everyone, any job you can do for 8 hours, you can do 50% longer. It’s surprising.
When I tell people I work 3 days, 12 hour shifts. They say something like “That’s way too long I could never do that.”
They don’t think about the fact that I get a 4 day long weekend… EVERY WEEK!
I could never go back to a 5 day schedule.
Some are made by the artists themselves.
The reason is that they can be played on the radio, and sold in Walmart. Those are less of an issue now, but they aren’t nothing. Which is why it’s still done.
I would say it must be done more creatively. With a similar sounding funny word.
Nine Inch Nails’ Closer could be:
"I want to [Cluck/Duck/Chuck] you like an animal"
Neither does this. You just don’t know about it yet.
What exactly is this, that I don’t know about?
And how does Moore’s Law apply?
I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing.
The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.
The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.
If I’d be able to ever collect, I’d bet you $10K in an investment account, that in 10 human generations quantum computers still won’t be portable personal devices.
The general computer didn’t exist in 1927. Once it did, yes it was predicted and expected they would get smaller, more powerful, efficient, and common. There was no limitation of physics getting in the way of it.
Plan might be the wrong word.
Intended Norm might be a better term.
As there have been many scientific breakthroughs to get to where we are now with smartphones.
That was a long series of inevitable predictable progress in engineering.
This isn’t a matter of ordinary engineering challenges to be overcome. What I’m talking about is something that upends our understanding of reality. Not just an evolution of what we already know, but a revolution that changes almost everything about our understanding of how the universe works. Discovering new unimagined forms of matter. Things like that.
I’m pretty careful with absolute words like that.
There will need to be some major breakthrough in fundamental physics or material science to get the cooling apparatus much smaller than it is. That’s highly unlikely.
And quantum computing at higher temps won’t work because the nature if it requires the atoms being measured to have zero resting energy.
They need to be cooled to absolute zero. The hardware to do that weighs a couple thousand pounds, and needs a truckload of liquid helium. There’s no real way quantum computers will ever be portable, or even home units.
Generally speaking (not just computing)
Front facing or Frontend is what the end user sees and interacts with. The public side of a system.
Backend is the hidden part of the system that allows the front actually do the things people want it to.
Is that a Hot Take?
I thought everyone knew that. It’s pretty obvious.
Is it even an opinion? Seems as much a fact as gravity.
Who else’s taxes do you pay?
Are you paying the taxes for everyone?
Or do you only pay the taxes you owe?
It was trying to show how Star Wars could grow into more complex storylines than good Jedi vs evil Sith. How the concept of balance the previous films tried to talk about could be reinterpreted as a search for balance within one’s self. Reconciling ones own light and dark aspects makes a whole person. An idea epp 6 started with the turning of Vader at the end.
Also there was the idea of getting away from the power of dynastic bloodlines. The idea that The Force could choose anyone.
Finally there was shoehorned in there a message about the inequality in the galaxy, even with the new republic having taken control. There was still the ruling ownership class, and the exploited working class. That part I’ll admit, was very forced and inelegantly tacked on. Should have been saved for the next trilogy.
Epp 8 had something to share, say and show the world.
But some of the fans weren’t happy about it.
Again, the middle one was the best.
GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.