Honestly computer and gaming are pretty cheap as far as hobbies go. The best possible consumer-grade PC you can get is a few thousand dollars at most

Now 3D printing sounds more expensive, but I don’t have nearly as much knowledge there :3

Time capsule for future society that can crack our encryption

A web browser is already basically a “virtual machine”. You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it’s closed to JVM but you get what I’m trying to say).

No wonder veritasium has felt “off” for me for a good while as well. A few years ago I deliberately stopped watching that channel, seems there was a deeper reason behind my superficial reasons and gut feelings

In case you are being serious, auditory hallucinations when falling asleep/waking up are fairly common, and not usually a sign of anything more. It’s more that the in-between states are kinda weird lol

“we can’t ensure the data is safe because there’s too much of it”

…sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn’t even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you’re a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That’s it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain

To be fair, you definitively can decentralized parts of it using protocols such as torrents, which work great for that purpose. It ensures multiple locations having redundant data, a means of retrieving that data again, and constant checks for corruption

And actually come to think of this, this already does indeed happen, though only for a subset of the data. It’s much more tricky legally when it comes to copyrighted works.

If anyone has some spare terabytes of storage space, I do recommend you to see where you can contribute that space with torrents of this sort. It’s better to use that free space for good than just letting it sit idly by

You’re ^~not~ wrong. Its Bojack Horseman.

as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea)

They are, though? And it has massively changed the dynamics in agriculture. They just don’t make headlines because they’re technical behind-the-scenes stuff

It’s something that annoys me a bit when everyone started talking about AI, but only really a small part of it, and then thinking that’s the be-all-end-all of the field. It never was, and still isn’t. People just don’t know about the rest, and don’t read up on it either

Side note: farming is an area where the “Internet of Things” is used extensively as well, but when people think of IoT, they similarly only think about smart homes. Same problem as well

It’s weird when “political” has become such a dirty word that even one of the most political things, such as setting a national budget, is implied shouldn’t be political

So obviously I can’t speak for all European countries, but I find it hard to see in what way the Dems would not be at least center-right here

This is a programmer community. I would expect people to use technical terms over common parlance

Not just the anglosphere, there was also a news story debunking the link here in Norway