- It's more like the genocide in Gaza is the uncommon case where western propaganda was openly rejected by the population, at least by younger people, despite a concerted top-down effort to try to convince people that genocide is actually concordant with western values. Though it did take some time.
It's the propaganda that nobody questions that is most insidious.
- > Type inference is usually reserved for more general algorithms that can inspect not only how a variable is initialized, but how the variable used, such as what functions it's passed into, etc...
In a modern context, both would be called "type inference" because unidirectional type inference is quite a bit more common now than the bidirectional kind, given that many major languages adopted it.
If you want to specify constraint-based type inference then you can say global HM (e.g. Haskell), local HM (e.g. Rust), or just bidirectional type inference.
- This isn't about whether Apple allows outside payment links or not. It's about whether Apple takes a percentage cut from outside payments.
Is Apple actually checking outside payments for scams outside of review times? Do they check non-payment links for scams outside of review times? How often?
The point is that they should only be able to charge a fee for work they are truly doing, and it shouldn't be retaliatory.
- Presumably the richest people also don't want to risk their lives flying on some sketchy aircraft, just to shave a few hours off their journey.
- It's a good thing that children under the age of 12 don't know how to use checkboxes!
- Sure, if you're content to stack shelves.
AI isn't automation. It's thinking. It automates the brain out of human jobs.
You can still get a job that requires a body. My job doesn't require a body, so I'm screwed. If you're say, a surgeon or a plumber, you're in a better place.
- I'm not sure if you'd consider London to be a safe city but these things won't survive in London either.
People are already pissed off about delivery ebike riders, who disobey laws and ride dangerously. But there's very little you can do about humans. A helpless robot that is causing a hazard to pedestrians? A ULEZ-style strike force will be mobilized to drive them out.
And what about blind and partially sighted people? The place for wheeled vehicles in on roads. If you want to exist in pedestrian areas then make a robot that can walk.
- There are several languages that I could use and be economically successful with, but I refuse to use because I consider them to be poorly designed.
Using a bad language for 8 hours a day makes me irritable and it's impossible to prevent that irritability from overflowing into my interactions with other people. I'd rather that my conversations with the computer be joyful ones.
- I'm confused why drop() is a function that you have to import inside the closure instead of a method.
- The big performance sink in CSS is rule matching, or layout if you consider that to be part of CSS.
Efficient evaluation of expressions is a solved problem.
Having conditionals would actually improve performance because you can use fewer rules.
- Conditional expressions are declarative. For example, every template language worth its salt has conditionals.
A programming (i.e Turing complete) language requires recursion or a construct of equal power.
- > An aspiring teen could set up an RPi that modifies headers for all traffic on the network that the parental units never even know about
An aspiring teen could just have sex with another aspiring teen...
You won't stop teenagers from finding a way to be teenagers. Part of being a teenager is learning how to subvert the rules set by adults to fulfil one's hormonal imperative.
- The question is, how is it sustainable? Nobody likes being rug pulled. Why not charge money for it?
I'd rather pay a few dollars for a service that will be around 5 years from now, than pay nothing and have to deal with churn.
- It depends... if OpenAI bought the DRAM in order to use it, then fair play to them.
If they bought the DRAM in order to stop their competitors from using it because they are falling behind, that's anticompetitive in spirit, though I'm not sure if it actually breaks any laws.
- That's when you raise prices without a change in the market conditions.
OpenAI is creating more demand, therefore the price must go up, if it didn't then there'd be shortages.
- I believe we are in agreement. If you are a communication platform that implements e2ee then you provide the guarantee to users, backed by security researchers, that the government can't read their communications by getting a subpoena from the communication platform.
The problem with AI platforms is that they are also a party to the communication, therefore they can indeed be forced to reveal chats, and therefore it's not e2ee because defining e2ee that way would render the term without distinction.
- It's kind of the opposite. Crucial is a throwaway brand so that the premium brand (Micron) can sell cheaper shit without tarnishing their enterprise branding.
- No, it's not collusion to ask for more money from OpenAI if you hear that they are trying to buy 40% of the world's supply. Increased demand leads to higher prices, that's normal.
OpenAI, by doing simultaneous deals, hid the true demand from the suppliers, thus lowering their price and raising everyone else's.
- It's just a brand. They can start it up again later if enterprise demand falls.
Nowadays, using your real name is dangerous, lest you get swatted or an angry mob decides to get you fired because you made an off-color joke. Doxxing someone is viewed as a potentially violent act. It's hard to imagine anyone using their real name on Discord for instance, whereas in the days of IRC it was common.