- Don't worry the kid mode is coming on all devices, one thing you wouldn't want kids doing is sideloading applications after all.
I think this is the wrong approach, an example is youtube kids. There seems to be a abundance of inappropriate content for kids on there. These companies don't actually care about you or your kids they care about profit.
Only (hopefully most) parents care about their kids. They have the power to push a solution as a collective so the solution should empower them to choose and not not take power away from them and others (for example adults without kids). The age verification mandated on a government level constitutes to limiting access to content, and in my eyes that is censorship.
- Bold of you to assume that legislators know how any kind of implementation works. They just propose general rules like "kids underage can not access this content" and the technical implementation doesn't matter to them. I think this is the reasons we should vote more technical competent people into politics.
- > AI speeds me up a tremendous amount in my day job as a product engineer.
Sure, there are specialized and non-specialized models.
I was asking if you've measured your "tremendous speed-up" using AI or you just feel like it is a "tremendous speed-up". As the research indicates you may feel like you are sped up 20% while you are actually 20% slower. I'm not saying that you don't actually have a speed-up from AI.
- Have you measured?
- In general using natural language to feed into AI to generate code to compile to runnable software seems like the long way around to designing a more usable programming language.
It seems that most people preferring natural language over programming languages don't want to learn the required programming language and ending up reinventing their own worse one.
There is a reason why we invented programming languages as an interface to instruct the machine and there is a reason why we don't use natural language.
- > Dark age was dark. Human rights, female! rights, hunger, thirst, no progress at all, hard lifes.
There was progress in the Middle Ages, hence the difference between the early and late Middle Ages. Most information was mouth to mouth instead of written down.
"The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's supposed darkness (ignorance and error) with earlier and later periods of light (knowledge and understanding)."
"Others, however, have used the term to denote the relative scarcity of written records regarding at least the early part of the Middle Ages"
- ok, just don't upgrade it, the focus is security by default anyway there are a lot of openbsd boxes online with a huge uptime running older versions.
- > Why are OpenBSD people always so rude and defensive? Sheesh
Because there is a limited amount of maintainers and a clearly stated goal/direction. There are also a lot of people requesting features that don't actually contribute to the goal or don't even use OpenBSD. It is a way to manage resources.
There is also the sentiment "if you need it you implement and maintain it" hence if someone is requesting without any investment it doesn't seem like they are serious.
- So to me it seems notifications of bugs is good, you want to create visibility of problems.
The problem is the pressure to fix the bugs in x amount of time otherwise they will be made public. Additionally flooding the team with so many bugs that they can never keep up.
Perhaps the solution is not in do or don't submit but in the way how the patches are submitted. I think a solution would be to have a separate channel for these big companies to submit "flood" bug reports generated by AI, and if those reports won't be disclosed in x amount of time that would also take the pressure of the maintainers, the maintainers can set priories to most pressing issues and keep the backlog of smaller issues that may require attention in the future (or be picked up by small/new contributors).
- > It seems to always come back to the fact that people who get power always attempt to use that power to get more resources and power, violating all their supposed values and stealing resources from the public.
Seems no different in capitalism.
Ever considered that the failures of other methods does not inherently mean the success of the current method.
- UK is not Europe since Brexit happened.
You earn locally and spend locally. It's about local buying power and wealth, not about $197.644,50 > £60,000.
- You seem to state that USA regulates production of a product where EU regulates what product and how a product is sold.
As a consumer myself would prefer regulation on what is sold, laws only work within your borders so the USA can't regulate EU production but can regulate import from Europe and vice versa.
> (largely Italian) gangsters
Seems to imply criminal/illegal activity, that is everywhere and not really important to the statement. If it's just that you are not expecting to be sold a fake while it is legal, maybe the law needs updating.
- "reken je niet rijk"
> Salaries are way lower in NL, and housing is incredibly expensive.
This is true, however there is so much that is already paid for with the Dutch salaries that you have to arrange individually in the USA. Mind you a lot is collectively organized which would be impossible to arrange individually to the same level.
I think there are a lot of people in the USA with "entry level jobs" choosing to afford a nice home but perhaps have some other things not as well arranged skewing the observers image, for example working a lot of hours or not having a better health insurance coverage.
In the end I feel like the welfare of the median person in each country is very important and I feel like the NL scores on that way higher when compared to the USA. For example healthcare, education, infrastructure, food safety etc.
Above the average(note average is not median) you are probably better of in the USA but below the average you are probably better of in NL.
- A lot of (not all) European regulation is at it's core about trade. Things this author feels are "obstructions to trade" are to enable trade of the things we value. For example Europe might regulate what fish species you can sell if you call a fish "Anchovy". Additionally some regulation applies minimal standards, for example regulation of the angle of what's visible in the rear view mirror of a car. On top of that some regulation is to guarantee certain standard of living between member countries. The countries themselves are separate governing states therefore they still have some agency on the standards they set on top of the European regulation. This all is required for equal trade between countries while not merging altogether.
On top of that not all regulation is about economics, sometimes we favor safety, standard of living or social safety nets above short term profit. Those factors will in the long run lead to more prosperity for the citizens.
No system is ideal and there are definitely problems within Europe however I feel like this article is written from a very pro USA perspective. At points it almost reads like a thread to the European government or pro-USA propaganda. I think the authors proposes a solution that will lead to a "race to the bottom" within European trade similar to how the current economic system is dysfunctional in the USA.
- yes you can, there are European cultures where eating out more than once a week is common.
- your general google search with operators or advanced search will do, however I won't guarantee google doesn't use a LLM in the background.
- Exactly javascript is a higher level language with a lot of required functionality build in. When compared to C you would need to (for most tasks) write way less actual code in javascript to achieve the same result, for example graphics or maths routines. Therefore it's crazy that it's that big.
- Sure but i doubt there is more image data in the delivered nextcloud data compared to doom2, games famously need textures where a website usually needs mostly vector and css based graphics.
Actually Carmack did squeeze every possible ounce of performance out of DOOM, however that does not always mean he was optimizing for size. If you want to see a project optimized for size you might check out ".kkrieger" from ".theprodukkt" which accomplishes a 3d shooter in 97,280bytes.
You know how many characters 20MB of UTF-8 text is right? If we are talking about javascript it's probably mostly ascii so quite close to 20 million characters. If we take a wild estimate of 80 characters per line that would be 250000 lines of code.
I personally think 20MB is outrageous for any website, webapp or similar. Especially if you want to offer a product to a wide range of devices on a lot of different networks. Reloading a huge chunk of that on every page load feels like bad design.
Developers usually take for granted the modern convenience of a good network connection, imagine using this on a slow connection it would be horrid. Even in the western "first world" countries there are still quite some people connecting with outdated hardware or slow connections, we often forget them.
If you are making any sort of webapp you ideally have to think about every byte you send to your customer.
- The fact that it was written on a mechanical typewriter isn't very relevant as even today some writers prefer writing on those, in that time they where obviously still quite common (and more accessible compared to computers).
Modems where expensive but so was a computer, however perhaps people where able to experience the technologies through their workplace or schools investments.
The ideas of Networking/big networks & cracking/hacking/phreaking where not strange in this time. Actually it was probably in the right place to write fiction about. Since most people where not familiar with the terms but had perhaps heard them on the news, advertisements or similar media. Allowing them to reason/dream about networks and the potential of connectivity while the interfaces and had not quite solidified into examples you could easily point at.
For reference the movie Tron came out in 1982. And CBBS was around since late 1970s. And not to forget people in the 1980s where quite comfortable with the phone network. Pagers and early mobile devices (phones/laptops) became available, there was a certain hype/energy about what the "connected" future might hold. A few years later saw the explosion of the BBS scene and technologies like Fidonet where developed and accessible for the computer enthusiast at home.
The point being that while "things in the book that we think of as familiar didn't even really exist" they didn't exist in the capacity we see today. The seeds of the technologies was there even in everyday media channels and it is not strange that a science fiction writer would extrapolate from that.
Most medium to large complex spreadsheets are better implemented in a high level programming language.
Spreadsheets seem useful for people that are scared of programming syntax but quickly become so much less maintainable and janky that I believe its almost always easier to just start with learning to program already.
Especially excel is 100% jank.