nah she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings.
this was not lost or wasted time. people spend decades on far more "useless" things - not that there is anything wrong with that
> she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings
She didn't win, they settled out of court. The article definitely does its best to avoid mentioning even a single detail about the case beyond the outcome, and even that it misconstrues.
Dr. Duffy left a bad review for some psychics on the site "RipOff Report" and lied about her friend’s wife committing suicide due to bad advice given by the psychics. A few unsavory posts based on her behaviour ended up being published there as well. The big crime that Google committed was providing the most common autocompletes on search terms like it does for every other search query. In this case, it showed the search term “janice duffy psychic stalker” after typing in "janice duffy".
I don't see how any of this insane story counts as a "great service to her fellow human beings".
I made law and because of it others, for example people whose ex partners take revenge online (at least in common law countries) have recourse against global and potentially permanent reputation and personal damage that impacts upon their families and livelihoods as well them.
I did get ripped off but if you do some research so did hundreds of others. People lose millions every year to internet scams. This IS an scam website. I formed a support group and the defamatory content was published to stop the support group.
Oh, I'm not saying that she didn't do a great thing.
Have you ever spent years of your life tied up in litigation?
It's not fun. It's very frustrating, to feel as though a resolution will never happen. It feels indeterminate; indefinite.
It's a shame that she should have to spend twelve years of her life pursuing justice. What about the thousands or millions that simply won't try, because they can't rationalize the effort?
I just picked up a Surface Laptop 5. Much like the Surface Laptop 3 and 2 that I had before it, it is a best-in-class piece of hardware.
I actually prefer its form factor to my M1 MBP; it's thinner, lighter, and I prefer a 3:2 display to 16:10. It runs 3x4k + 1x1080p over a single Thunderbolt cable into a dock (granted, I am using a USB 3.0 to dual DisplayPort adapter, but the SL5 is driving 2 of the 4k displays.)
I still use my M1 MBP for most things, and I have one for my job, as well; but the SL5 may be the nicest physical laptop hardware available today.
(Windows is another story. If I could run Linux on it with no compromises and no hassle, I'd likely ditch the Mac. So it goes.)
Surface Laptop 4 here. Great keyboard. Great screen. Great trackpad. Surface Dock is great. And WSL gets the job done too. It's lighter than the Mac. Dunno that battery is better, but it's certainly good enough. And it was relatively cheap!
But I still try to copy & paste like it's a Mac. And it's not a question of remapping. I want Alt+C and Alt+V to copy and paste system wide.
When you cut off a human's appendage, the screaming comes from a voice. The voice comes from a sort of... consciousness. Which while we haven't exactly nailed down what makes one up, we are reasonably certain that it involves a nervous system.
Making this absurd for a sec to make my point, I think they’re just saying if the physical sound of an arm being cut off just happened to mimic a human voice crying out, that wouldn’t make it a sign of consciousness like an actual “Ow!” from the speech center.
There’s a difference between a creature’s higher level response to a stimulus and just stuff that happens as a direct physical consequence of the stimulus.
It’s the same deal as boiling live lobsters. They aren’t actually screaming, even if you would be. That’s steam escaping. What the plant sound actually is, no clue. But I think the lobster scenario is what was being suggested upthread.
Literally the only difference between the two scenarios are the amount of complexity of the systems involved. You can describe either one in purely mechanistic terms.
It's still just physics and chemistry all the way down though. It's not clear that plants couldn't evolve something similar through a mechanism other than a nervous system.
Because Elm is functionally dead. Core libraries? Not updated for 2 years. Core compiler? Not updated for 7 months. It's only Evan, who is seemingly burnt out, and hasn't handed over progress to anyone else. A quick glance into the Elm community will surface this. Feel free to nerd out on an esoteric approach but all the other products coming out are generally shipping fast and bouncing approaches off each other using Next.
It's unfortunate that the current state of affairs in software engineering is that if someone doesn't merge a bugfix PR immediately, rumors of its death begin to circle.
A quick glance at the Elm Discourse or Elm Slack will surface that our community and culture is alive, well, and growing.
Evan continues to quietly work on vnext, and is presenting at Goto Aarhus in May.
I'm not interested in changing your mind in particular, and I do not wish to argue; I am merely posting this for the benefit of anyone that should see your comment.
Sometimes, shipping fast and bouncing approaches all over the place is not, as it happens, the most sane and sustainable way to create lasting software. You and others can continue along doing that; we will continue to ship our hundreds-of-thousands-of-lines-of-code Elm frontend.
