<muurkha>(Alan Winfield and Matt Hale at the Bristol Robotics Lab at the University of the West of England working on Autonomous Robot Evolution) <muurkha>unfortunately it seems like a case of dishonest headlines <muurkha>headline: "Evolving, self-replicating robots are here". page title: "Evolving, Self-Replicating Robots Ready To Colonize Space". Actual article: "As for that timeline of self-replicating robots in space, it’s likely to be long after he retires...creating von Neumann replicators...would be a very bad idea." <muurkha>so, the robots in question aren't self-replicating (on purpose), and they won't be ready to colonize space for, Winfield thinks, decades <muurkha>I'm amused at Feynman's suggested route to nanotechnology appearing in that image <muurkha>well, because it isn't currently thought to be a practical route to nanotech, or possibly even feasible <oriansj>well Dr Stone isn't known for taking the most practical route to anything. <oriansj>especially in regards to techs that leave the experience of the author (such as electronics and manufactoring) <muurkha>but hey, I would have said writing a C compiler in a day was unrealistic too, even not in assembly <oriansj>well if you spent a couple thousand years awake and thinking, what crazy things could you work out completely? <muurkha>I thought he had to spend those years counting seconds so he would be sure to wake up in the spring and not the winter <muurkha>if you didn't have to spend it counting <oriansj>well depending where in the world you exist, some places waking up in the middle of winter wouldn't be an instant death sentence <oriansj>and honestly you have a couple hours to create shelter/warmth before exposure gets you. <oriansj>and as you needed to be exposed to nitric acid under those conditions for years to actually wake up; it means that there has to be a large nitrate source nearby which means livable conditions <oriansj>but yeah, waking up next to a hungry bear or lion would basicly be a ooops sorry no chances for you.... <oriansj>also your baseline stats would really count for or against you. <oriansj>being big means needs lots of calories but also means better able to fight against lower level threats while you are still building up basic tooling. (such as stone/wood weapons/tools) <muurkha>the natural nitric acid drip was one of the most implausible plot devices <pabs3>the admin (rekado) doesn't seem to be online. I guess oriansj might know a way to contact them though <vagrantc>i saw a potentially relevent mention on the guix-sysadmin list ... <vagrantc>civodul might know something to ... but probably not around till tomorrow ***mateusz7 is now known as mateusz
<stikonas[m]>Yes, but certbot still needs to be run from time to time... <stikonas[m]>I think letsencrypt emails at least 3 times before expiry date <oriansj>stikonas: well the idea is to have certbot be just a cronjob; a set and forget sort of thing with an alert fallback <oriansj>yeah that is about the length of the standard Lets Encrypt cert, which makes sense if they are just manually running it ***civodul` is now known as civodul
