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Deaf Father of two children, one of them autistic. Wife Deaf, too, and additional a cancer survivor with cerebral palsy. Retired programmer (Dipl. Ing. FH) and legal (BLaw). Living in Thun, a city in Berner Oberland in Switzerland.
Languages: Swiss German Sign Language, German, English, and some French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Latin (good to low reading understanding).
- _nalplyHave some air at the top of the top reservoir, assuming that the top reservoir is at most about 10 m deep in water (to avoid damage from storms). Or have the air in separate chambers fixed to the top reservoir.
- Ah, so you meant UB = unspecified behavior, not UB = undefined behavior.
Maybe. Bugs that come from spooky behavior at a distance are notoriously hard to debug, especially in production, and it's worthwile to pay for it to avoid that.
- It's WASM. WASM runs in a sandbox and you can't have UB on the hardware level. Imagine someone exploiting the behavior of some browser when UB is triggered. Except that the programmer is not having nasal demons [1] but some poor user, like a mom of four children in Abraska running a website on her cell phone.
- I thought so, but "Copyright" is always the same? Haha, that's dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous.
- That's Henry George.
I don't understand all consequences yet, except one, that the wealthy and powerful object to it because it hurts them and so the Land Value Tax is rarely introduced. Even if it gets introduced, it will abolished soon thereafter.
- AI is one sharp tool cutting slices from the old internet. But perpetrators have used different tools from the start: SEO spam, algorithmic feeds, embrace/extend/extinguish, building moats, the attention economy, and many others. AI is just the next newfangled sharp tool.
In other words, I don't think that AI is killing the web.
It's being profit-oriented and running amok in an unleashed way. It's prisoner's dilemma. You know, if you don't do it then someone else will do it and you lose. Enshittification is one consequence. The internet experienced it from the beginning. But only about fifteen years ago companies learnt how to squeeze the last drop out and, like in the tragedy of the commons, everybody is worse off.
And what's the most catastrophic? People are confused. They look at the tools but not at some famous people behind these rampages. Of course as leaders they just optimize the hell out of the internet with the target that their companies thrive. But in doing so they cause heavy damage.
- Maybe. Maybe not. Given the human material (yes I know a dehumanizing formulation, but that's what Corporate does) it seems it's better not to step on anybody's toes except if it's abundantly clear that the person doesn't have a voice in things, but even then it's risky. Corporate is self-selecting: companies that don't generate profit die off sooner or later. Therefore we can conclude (if a bit shakily) from the norm in Corporate not to insult anybody that internal strife has been very damaging and therefore that Corporate self-selects in an evolutionary manner to avoid anything that leads to internal strife.
- Or add spirits.
Another way: Let ferment it to the max. If fermentation doesn't consume all the sugar, then it's somewhat stable.
Ancient wines also had resins added. Today these would probably have tasted almost medicinal, but often they are diluted before serving. Wine dilution is still a custom in some parts of Italy. I was invited to a party in Tuscany and they served a lot of Lambrusco amabile and for the children they diluted it and because Lambrusco amabile is rather sweet it was a little bit an oldfashioned soft drink. I tried it, too, and it's refreshing. I don't know whether it's sacrilegous but as one says, in Rome do as Romans do.
- It's a font that morphes the text fragment "am-" into the curly dash using a ligature.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/10/the-am-dash/
But that won't help for long. If the Amdash becomes popular, then AI will pick it up, because "am-" is just a text fragment and AI can learn to produce it.
Even worse if a future version of Unicode adopts the Amdash, then nothing will stop AI.
Or the opposite happens as one already said here: Nobody will use the Amdash.