Nobody is going to tell you that Python 2->3 wasn't excruciatingly painful but it's hard to argue with the result. Sometimes you have to rip the bandaid off. Python 3 is by far the better language. You're right the…
In 20 years we'll have finally reached the logical conclusion to all of this that there shouldn't be separate os components you link against and your "OS" will just be manager of lightweight VMs. Now you can just ship…
This. 1 Million billion times this. Your story exactly mirrors mine and good heavens I would never loose weight via the suffering route ever again. Losing weight normally I'm in constant pain and literally can't think…
Motorola is launching a GrapheneOS phone direct to consumers next year. Getting picked up by a major OEM is about as taken seriously as you can get.
Well yeah, because running an exit node in the US is "probably legal but there's precedent for still getting arrested and having your stuff seized." I can't imagine very many normal people are willing to paint a target…
Trivial for a human to use while being able to independently arbitrarily scale the difficulty for a wide class of LLMs does I think say something about a possible inherent limitation in what they can do. The fact that…
AI has really laid bare how little software is valued as a craft—it's been true for time immortal but some SWEs really buy into the idea. And occasionally we're able to trick leadership into believing it too with terms…
Sure I do, the only difference between the two is which society considers normal. Your argument basically boils down to how dare these spoiled kids operate outside of the Overton Window of acceptable externalizable…
Because the FCC is puppeting Ebay through regulation, the author is deliberately painting this as evil large corporation because I assume that gets more clicks, the real title would be "FCC Enacts Rule Restricting Sale…
Where a lot of this gets stuck is that AI software dev isn't a closed loop. They're still completely dependent on complex human written codebases to actually do anything. They're adept users of libraries and platforms…
Your privilege is showing by only saying one of those stand out. At least with keyboards you can say they actually replaced typewriters but the other two are just paying someone else to do the same labor.
Am I wrong or is this whole story super dumb? If the US isn't going to respect the WTO then boot them out, change the rules and move on. Rule lawyering when one of your players is shitting on the board is madness. I get…
You are committing the scale invariant fallacy where two things are the same if they only differ by scale. A chance encounter with a human who reports the sighting to be investigated isn't even surveillance, your…
I'm not exactly tuned into UK politics but haven't you guys had a conservative government for eight of the last ten years? And even then I don't think I've ever seen Labour called far left before so I assume that isn't…
Also if you enforce the use of Yubikey or a similar DRM protected device then we're back to the user not actually being able to own/control their key. And if you don't it's a second password which can be shared out.…
Which means the issuer has to be involved in every attestation and you aren't allowed to own/control your private key. The government shouldn't know if/how many times I use my ID—you would be essentially building a…
Yes? Users often prefer a nice GUI but CMSs are effectively what you describe and run the majority of content oriented sites. Static site generators are just the dev-centric version of that. The more common situation is…
Okay so that's no excuse for whoever is providing your internet, coax can deliver 800+ Mbps no problem. And if you are actually saying you only get DSL through a phone line in London then holy shit I would be busting…
It comes down the web browser being used for two different use cases and two camps arguing past one another. Documents vs Programs The parent is rightfully pointing out that most websites are documents and have no need…
Because the "in schools" changes the calculus massively. You see a similar reaction to banning phones and personal computers while in school. Kids can still access and use AI outside of school meaning the enforcement is…
What's surprising about this is that you can get the bullshit machine to produce correct externally validate citations. It's not particularly hard either—it's one of the first things you build when you give an LLM…
I mean I get the sentiment but Rust won't save you against division by zero, it'll just panic at runtime like every other language.
I mean this reminds me of Firebase v1 and FoundationDB I think both of which have a favorable reputation for quality in both design and implementation. I do think there's something to be said for being forced to code…
This is a great example of outages looking different from the perspective of the operator vs the user. Because there's many shards the blast radius of failure is contained to a small subset of users but for those users…
I feel like none of the replies are really cutting to the core of what the problem with your logic actually is—because your way of thinking is incredibly common in tech since it's what we do all day. The fallacy is…
Nobody is going to tell you that Python 2->3 wasn't excruciatingly painful but it's hard to argue with the result. Sometimes you have to rip the bandaid off. Python 3 is by far the better language. You're right the…
In 20 years we'll have finally reached the logical conclusion to all of this that there shouldn't be separate os components you link against and your "OS" will just be manager of lightweight VMs. Now you can just ship…
This. 1 Million billion times this. Your story exactly mirrors mine and good heavens I would never loose weight via the suffering route ever again. Losing weight normally I'm in constant pain and literally can't think…
Motorola is launching a GrapheneOS phone direct to consumers next year. Getting picked up by a major OEM is about as taken seriously as you can get.
Well yeah, because running an exit node in the US is "probably legal but there's precedent for still getting arrested and having your stuff seized." I can't imagine very many normal people are willing to paint a target…
Trivial for a human to use while being able to independently arbitrarily scale the difficulty for a wide class of LLMs does I think say something about a possible inherent limitation in what they can do. The fact that…
AI has really laid bare how little software is valued as a craft—it's been true for time immortal but some SWEs really buy into the idea. And occasionally we're able to trick leadership into believing it too with terms…
Sure I do, the only difference between the two is which society considers normal. Your argument basically boils down to how dare these spoiled kids operate outside of the Overton Window of acceptable externalizable…
Because the FCC is puppeting Ebay through regulation, the author is deliberately painting this as evil large corporation because I assume that gets more clicks, the real title would be "FCC Enacts Rule Restricting Sale…
Where a lot of this gets stuck is that AI software dev isn't a closed loop. They're still completely dependent on complex human written codebases to actually do anything. They're adept users of libraries and platforms…
Your privilege is showing by only saying one of those stand out. At least with keyboards you can say they actually replaced typewriters but the other two are just paying someone else to do the same labor.
Am I wrong or is this whole story super dumb? If the US isn't going to respect the WTO then boot them out, change the rules and move on. Rule lawyering when one of your players is shitting on the board is madness. I get…
You are committing the scale invariant fallacy where two things are the same if they only differ by scale. A chance encounter with a human who reports the sighting to be investigated isn't even surveillance, your…
I'm not exactly tuned into UK politics but haven't you guys had a conservative government for eight of the last ten years? And even then I don't think I've ever seen Labour called far left before so I assume that isn't…
Also if you enforce the use of Yubikey or a similar DRM protected device then we're back to the user not actually being able to own/control their key. And if you don't it's a second password which can be shared out.…
Which means the issuer has to be involved in every attestation and you aren't allowed to own/control your private key. The government shouldn't know if/how many times I use my ID—you would be essentially building a…
Yes? Users often prefer a nice GUI but CMSs are effectively what you describe and run the majority of content oriented sites. Static site generators are just the dev-centric version of that. The more common situation is…
Okay so that's no excuse for whoever is providing your internet, coax can deliver 800+ Mbps no problem. And if you are actually saying you only get DSL through a phone line in London then holy shit I would be busting…
It comes down the web browser being used for two different use cases and two camps arguing past one another. Documents vs Programs The parent is rightfully pointing out that most websites are documents and have no need…
Because the "in schools" changes the calculus massively. You see a similar reaction to banning phones and personal computers while in school. Kids can still access and use AI outside of school meaning the enforcement is…
What's surprising about this is that you can get the bullshit machine to produce correct externally validate citations. It's not particularly hard either—it's one of the first things you build when you give an LLM…
I mean I get the sentiment but Rust won't save you against division by zero, it'll just panic at runtime like every other language.
I mean this reminds me of Firebase v1 and FoundationDB I think both of which have a favorable reputation for quality in both design and implementation. I do think there's something to be said for being forced to code…
This is a great example of outages looking different from the perspective of the operator vs the user. Because there's many shards the blast radius of failure is contained to a small subset of users but for those users…
I feel like none of the replies are really cutting to the core of what the problem with your logic actually is—because your way of thinking is incredibly common in tech since it's what we do all day. The fallacy is…