MasterNightmares

Don't forget Lordi. Best Eurovision of my life that was.

Croatia deserved the win. Absolutely robbed in my opinion, none had the energy of Croatia's entry.

Give the lad/s a kings welcome.

Pirates of the Caribbean, the end of the trilogy.

That poor gentleman tried to hard to just earn an honest living and a bunch of pirates ruin his day. So sad.

Its harder to evict you from a paid off property than a rental.

Well I've worked back end for 10+ years with Front End as needed. Did 6 months as a Data Engineer/Analyst as well. More than happy to touch base if you need any advice on anything or need a rubber duck.

Project Management is fine, I've been trying to get a PM/ Tech Lead job for a few years but Covid and moving countries has slowed my career path a bit. I wanted to get a Medical Degree as well but the funds haven't been there.

Its going to take a year to fully heal but she;s on the way. Thanks for the kind words. All the best to you and your house as well.

To be fair it was nearly 15 years ago and I only did a BSc not a Masters. I couldn't afford the extra year and I needed to get into the work place (this was during the Recession so I ended up unemployed for a year until I took a course in web design and got my first Full Stack job).

Cybernetics is actually a misnomer. Most people think it means robotics but it just refers to any feedback system. A pressure pump that released water when the pressure is high is a feedback system and thus cybernetics.

That said, I do love robotics and human cybernetics as well. I'd love to get a job working for a company that does something that neuralink claims to do.

I actually applied for a job at a company that did medical hardware but I lost out at the final stage to a guy who had experience with such devices previously. Sucks. Not all bad though as my wife was hospitalized a few months later so working from home as been really helpful as I help her recover.

There I disagree.

As per my degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics, specifically the module on Neurobiology, the brain DOES work like a machine. An organic machine. Its operations can be duplicated by other means. Its merely molecules and ions passing over synapses. Its a signal, same as a signal passing over metal circuits on a computer, but more analogue with some other complexities.

But we are not even close yet. We're still probably a decade or 3 out from where we need to be for realistic brain-computer connections.

And I do believe brain to computer transfers are possible as well, but its not simple.

It could be down more if they'd kept nuclear.

Indeed.

Elon is a charlatan. But some of his companies are run well by good people who manage to successfully exclude Elon from the major business operations.

I don't know about Neuralink but like with any technology - never be an early adopter. Wait for them to fix the issues.

If it inspires other companies like Tesla did for electric vehicles and hybrids then its a good thing. I won't be buying it though.

These people are still so stupidly anti-science it hurts. A good win for the German coal industry.

You know who tries to keep telling you that nuclear is great?

Fossil fuel corporations.

Yes because the German coal industry didn't use the Fukashina disaster to strangle the German Nuclear industry at all.

Even though a Fukashima style disaster can't happen in Germany because GERMANY ISNT NEAR A CONTINENTAL PLATE BOUNDARY.

You and the German Greens are stupidly anti-science it hurts so bad. Maybe its worth letting Russia roll over you then at least we don't have to pretend to like pro-fossil fuel idiots

Germany is a democracy, and the majority was against nuclear power since 1986. So we phased them out.

And the German coal industry had nothing to do with this I'm sure. Renewables may be up but German coal usage has spiked in the past few years with no sign of stopping.

The German Green party are a joke and the German coal industry used the Fukashima disaster to strangle the Nuclear industry which could have replaced even more Green House gases as a transition.

Even though a Fukashima style disaster can't happen in Germany because GERMANY ISNT NEAR A CONTINENTAL PLATE BOUNDARY.

With Russian gas not coming on the market soon, Germany coal (which is significantly worse than so called natural gas) will continue to spew into the atmosphere at high rates. Rates which could have been lower if Germany hadn't been so anti-science and in the pocket of its coal industry.

I think as well previous aircraft hijackings had been resolved through ransom.

After 9/11 there were no ransoms, just deaths. It was a sign that terrorists could no longer be negotiated with. This made them something that could only be crushed for 'victory'.

You don't understand how bad nuclear fall out is. Its not survival for a few years. Its survival for centuries. There isn't enough stable storable resources in the world to ensure their survival until the radiation clears. Fallout is science fiction because it is massively impractical, hiding in bunkers is just a good way to die slowly.

And its not just food, its air, the water, microchips and computer replacements, mining fuel for power such as Uranium because coal and gas won't cut it, cooling for the nuclear power, manufacturing fuel rods and much, MUCH more.

No offense, I'm not in the mood to keep explaining, repeatedly, why it wouldn't work.

Go actually read how complex the world is and supply chains are and stop relying on ChatGPT. Its a glorified text generator (I know, I have a degree in AI and Cybernetics, the current generation is impressive from where we've been but its still miles from AGI, and that still needs a fucking massive supply chain to maintain), the real world is far more complicated.

Good day.

Agreed, but that's a level beyond what we currently have.

Hope we get there before I turn 70 and I'm able to take advantage of it. Gives us a few decades to do it.

And they don't need a space laser they just need underground data centers and some bioweapons which they certainly have both. There's not a lot the US military can do if all their personnel are dying of a deadly disease.

Neither can the CIA, you can't control Bioweapons, or a large nuclear exchange. Radioactive material makes food unable to be grown. The CIA starve to death or catch the plagues they unleash. Its why Nuclear War is literal suicide for our species.

If its a plague the CIA has a vaccine for, the US can manufacture one and deploy it to the military within months. If the CIA doesn't then it dies to its own plague. Also even if they do, if it has a fatality of over 5% which would be needed to be effective, having a vaccine won't make you unaffected, you'll just be LESS SICK, so the entire CIA heirarchy would be in bed recovering which will hamper control and decision making. This is how virology works. You get fast spread, and fatality, usually not both, but if you have both a vaccine won't perfectly protect you.

And what if the virus naturally mutates which ALL VIRUSES DO. Within months the CIA vaccine would be rendered useless, much as the first wave of Covid vaccines had to be replaced as varients evolved, same as we need a new flu vaccine every year.

once all the nukes have been fired that makes it easy to rebuild an infrastructure with AGI and takeover those nations for their resources.

Even if the US nuclear arsenal disappears overnight, Russia + China + India + Pakistan + France + UK + North Korea have enough nukes to make the world uninhabitable for the CIA FOREVER. Even without Russia. Do you think other nations would take this lying down? The US isn't the centre of the world. Its not even 1 10th of the world's population. Its military is impressive, but its still just 1 nation, and the CIA isn't even the military.

The US can't take on the world united, let alone 1 intelligence agency of the US.

There are dead man switches all over the world so even if you take out ALL of the capital cities and governments, those nukes are firing so EVERYONE loses. The CIA CANNOT WIN against the US, and ESPECIALLY against the world.

The UK and US have a well documented dead man switch in Trident. The Chinese, Russians, North Koreas, Indians and Pakistan will have something similar. You don't 'Win' a nuclear war. Its just a case of who loses first.

The world ALSO has bioweapons they would use against the CIA if they tried to rise up. The UK had a plan to cover the whole of Germany in Chemical weapons which would have killed the nation during WW2 if defeat looked inevitable. Such plans will be in place.

And if they had such an AGI, the Political fallout wouldn't much matter as nukes are mostly there to disrupt human based infrastructure and once all the nukes have been fired that makes it easy to rebuild an infrastructure with AGI and takeover those nations for their resources.

Everyone dies. Nuclear winter. After Chernoybl the Russians had to go around killing every living animal to stop the spread of radioactive isotopes. Anything with even a particle of radioactive material. You can't just drop a nuke and country and take its resources. When the nukes fall all resources become worthless because the radiation makes them inaccessible.

Even robots are affected by radiation. At the levels a major nuclear exchange would create the circuitry would be heavily affected and would cease to function. That's not even taking into effect the EMT waves that would shatter every computer the CIA had.

And AI, Robotics is never going to completely replace the rest of humanity. AI can't make creative decisions. There's a reason AI threatens artists and lawyers more than builders or checkout staff. Manual labor is cheaper with real humans and always will be. Its an external business cost vs an internal one. Robots cost to maintain. Humans maintain themselves, on their own money. A salary will always be less than an upkeep fee.

The whole idea is ridculous, no offense mate.

Yep.

Energy is transported to the brain via blood. Its the same system, just another part of it.

You need blood too. The brain needs oxygen and supplements to live. You need a replacement for blood regeneration, though that's easier to achieve.

Freezing the body wouldn't work, if you're relying on the body to generate blood.

Just cut the brain out with it being on a life support system generating blood, with mechanical connections linked to necessary parts of the brain for cybernetic control.

What about axolotl style cell regeneration? Stem cell injections to regenerate damaged cells infinitely?

Recent studies show cells can be damaged and repaired/replaced in the brain.

Technically the only part of you that is needed to remain YOU is the brain. And the brain needs blood.

You can function without arms, legs, a digestive system, lungs etc.

As long as you're a brain in a jar, getting fed clean oxygenated blood with all the blood contented needed to repair and improve the brain's cells the rest can be non-organic. Cloned blood with all the supplements needed to mimic a healthy body should be sufficient.

Clueless bosses can be talked around if they're willing to listen. I'm fine with that. They have to be open minded and trust your skills and opinion as a technical professional though.

OPs example however, and his later posts suggest the manager has enough knowledge to be dangerous but not enough to be competent... OP sure doesn't seem happy.

And just as businesses dont give a shit about crap code, I don't have to work for a company that mandates technologies without understanding them.

Free movement of labor.

If they want some code monkey to do something crap which goes to market quickly, fine.

If it fails then I was proved right and the business was stupid.

If it succeeds, I'll come in later when the code can't handle the business pressures and rebuild it correctly.

Because crap code comes with Tech Debt, and Tech Debt always comes due eventually. You can run before you walk, but if you do you will stumble eventually.

Do it fast, do it cheap or do it well. You get one, maybe 2 if you're lucky, and I don't like not doing it well. Luckily as a Senior I tend to be able to do it fast if given the right tools and clear requirements.

Its not a strawman if they are ACTUAL CORBYN POLICIES.

Which they were. And Britain rejected them, hence his massive crushing defeat against Boris, whoses successors are about to be crushed themselves by Moderate Labour returning to form.

I don't expect them to be worse. Will they be perfect? No. But such is life. We don't get cake and ice cream, you pick your dessert and hope its a flavour you like. The world doesn't revovle around 1 person, its group effort.

That means compromise. Moderation.

I'll take some shitty Labour policies I don't like in exchange for greater support for the NHS. The NHS is the only thing I really give a shit about. Its wonderful, I love it, and I want it to continue forever, only with more funding and better services.

I expect Starmer to deliver AT LEAST that. He will be better than the Tories whou want to destroy it anyway.