martin1975

Good ol' 2008 looks like it's gonna swing back with vengeance real soon now....

I'm going to ask everyone to go to YouTube and search for "The Absurdity of Life Without God" video by William Lane Craig, watch it and I guarantee you will feel slightly less depressed....and possibly be on the verge of starting a new chapter, a breakthrough in your life. This isn't the end and your worth and identity is not defined by what you can do.

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...gov't stuff

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...unless you have TS.

last time I found CNN appealing was in the early 90's...if that tells you anything about it.

wow, an e-reader with opensource firmware? been living under my kindle rock for a while, this sounds exciting.

> I work where privacy isn't just good behavior, it's enforced by law

HIPAA/medical?

freakin Qualcomm isn't faring much better w/the Snapdragon X/X2 Elite... they were supposed to be on board w/Linux, yet I dare someone who's a newb install Ubuntu on a Snapdragon box the same way they would on a ThinkPad.

Funnily enough, none of these companies have issues consuming the 'free' fruits of labor of the open source community.

I got the same capabilities from mxroute.com, another worthwhile alternative - hosted in the USA. Plus they offer a no subscription, 10GB one time fee (I think $150 at the time I got it) account...unlimited domains/subdomains, etc -everything managed thru directadmin. Replaced my Google Workspace email w/this and never looked back. I still use Google for authentication and Google Drive.

nailed it.

i use it, but i could re-create everything the AI produced, it just takes me longer (I'm a dev). And yeah, that latter part of your sentence is what freaks me out - that someone thinks they can start thinking like a dev because they have an AI bot available to them. You know, "Become a super dev in 21 days" kind of book... Then you wonder why s*t breaks left and right.

I guess it was only a matter of time before this niche of business developed.

AI is an imprecise "programming" language, full of ambiguity (English) trying to produce precise relationships between different concepts.

It certainly works great on small scale, building block type of things, but the more a project grows in complexity, components, interfacing with other heterogenous systems in other languages or APIs, understanding wtf is going on top to bottom.... it fails miserably.

Reminds me of how xUML was going to be the panacea to replace coding. AI is failing for the same reasons. At least with xUML you have a precise definition - with AI, you're vibing your way into one.

nephesh (נֶפֶשׁ), is a word in the Hebrew bible that the KJV (English) renders as "soul" hundreds of times, and it also translates the very same word as "life," "person," "creature," "self"

So, the question can be asked another way - do you 'have' life, e.g. are you alive? If yes, then you are (or 'have') a soul.

The mistake many of us will make, not due to our own fault but rather due to inability to discern, is that this is somehow not apparent to most if not all people with a sane mind.

> the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself.

You should try your hand at sci-fi writing. You may be onto something there. You seen Westworld?