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> There are too many profitable incentives to poor education that are conspiring to perpetuate it. An ill-educated populace is easier to manipulate, gravitate towards consumerism, and won't hold their leaders as accountable. Power generally resides with those who benefit from an ill-educated populace, so anything that would actually help educate children and people at large is discouraged.

I want to believe this but I can't honestly imagine someone actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentionally.

I feel like at best we'll get a soft delete

That Zune music subscription was Spotify before Spotify was Spotify

I have no empirical evidence of this but as time goes on, I feel like I trust ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude less.

But where did “baz” come from?

But wait, there's more! A lot of community and tribal knowledge is being locked away in various Discord servers.

When he asks what sounds like an obscure question and the interviewee's face lights up, that is a beautiful moment.

> In a direct message sent via X in July, Nullbulge said it accessed Disney’s data through a company manager of software development, whose computer it compromised. The material taken appeared to be limited to public and private channels within Disney’s Slack that one employee had access to.

Isn't that on Disney for preventing unauthorized access to the machine? I guess a case could be made like S3 that more default protections should be in place, but that's a tradeoff on how annoying do you want it to be for your users vs how secure does your data need to be in this system?

> The incident wasn’t expected to have a material impact on its operations or financial performance, the filing said.

So not a big problem? Sounds like scapegoating.

This made me so happy. I'm going to go look for my Handspring Visor now...

This is such a good perspective and thank you for posting. I agree with your statements and of all the hype cycles that have happened, I think this does have a real shot of becoming something. Because of that I think they’re going to keep throwing money at this until someone figures it out. Because what else is there left to grift on in tech right now?

What you described was the exact same experience I had. I got so far off track in one of my conversations with corrections that I started all over again. It is neat that this technology can do it, but I probably would have been better off doing it manually to save time.

The other thing I’ve noticed is something you alluded to: the LLM being “confidently incorrect”. It speaks so authoritatively about things and when I call it out it agrees and corrects.

The more I use these things (I try to ask against multiple LLMs) the more I am wary of the output. And it seems that companies over the past user rushed to jam chatbots into any orifice of their application where they could. I’m curious to see if the incorrectness of them will start to have a real impact.

A long time ago, I bought an Acer Chromebook off of Groupon for $100. It was surprisingly performant despite being woefully underpowered. The screen wasn’t big but was bright and had a nice resolution. I too was able to get Crostini up and running but hit the limit with certain windowed apps.

I’ve been on the hunt for a Chromebook these days but they feel like poor value to me these days. They tend to have bad speakers, resolution, and frequently processors that run hot and much worse battery life than the Acer.

They seem like a worse value today because I expected them to be cheap and run all day while letting me browse the internet quickly. They can do that but at a much higher price and at that point you’re looking at a used MacBook Air or a Windows device.

In a few of the local libraries near me homeless people occupy the bank of public computers and are frequently watching hardcore pornography. I'm terrified of my young children seeing that.

Kinda strange to go from "a patchy server" to using Native American imagery in the logo, albeit a much less offensive in than American sports teams.

Read the article. The authors suggestions won't work because why wouldn't teams have done that in the first place? Agile as we know it is just productionized micromanagement.

I think the solution to this is for individual development teams to discuss with each other what works best for them instead of being told to "do Agile", attend tens of meetings each sprint, and enter stuff into Jira constantly. But that is in direct conflict with the needs of the business as stated in the article: scheduled software delivery.

I feel like Popeyes had a random moment during the pandemic when the released their dark meat fried chicken sandwich which was initially good, but when the hype died down, they regressed to their normal fried chicken quality: bad.

When I was looking for cars recently, I was frustrated by the inventory search on the websites. Subaru made it difficult to search a wide area for it's vehicles for example. I wrote a full stack application where I reverse-engineered the public APIs and did the inventory search for myself. I also made a web app to go with it to display the vehicles in a card format that gave me the important info I needed in an eye-pleasing format. I stopped development once I found my car.

I didn't spend a ton of time making it. It was honestly a lot of fun and I got to work out my development skills again. I really doing this kind of work too be honest.

I did use ChatGPT a bit to help rationalize some things as I was doing development.

What did you end up moving to?

...is that a real thing?

This is really neat! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if there's an analogue for these routes and the roadway system there? I imagine so. I thought it was interesting how short Via Appia was. Learning Latin growing up, I imagined that to be much longer.

Think about all the LinkedIn clout you missed out on by not incessantly talking about the ${NEW_THING}!

I love how it prioritized the bottom of the screen as the place to interact with the phone. It still doesn't make sense to have all of that stuff anchored to the top of the screen like in all the modern phones. They really thought through things and I am really bummed it all ended up dead.

I remember taking a graduate level cryptography course several years ago and relying on Khan Academy to grok the fundamental concepts.

> In a post last October, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the team was developing an API while worrying that an API would result in more publisher content on Threads instead of user-created posts.

I feel like that's already happened without an API. Most of my feed is very corporate. Maybe it would be worse with an API?

Right? This kind of content came out around 15 years or so ago.

To your second point: I grew up in the American suburbs and had that. Probably not to the degree you did. I've noticed in the suburbs today that there are such few kids and it's just really quiet all the time. It's really sad to walk around the neighborhood or be outside and you don't hear kids playing.

People also seem to have fewer kids if they have them. That implies fewer cousin interactions like I had and also all those things you mentioned never happen. It's unbelievably sad.

Lobbyists will always have influence. A tale as old as humanity. The question is, how transparent do you want it to be?

I used this one frequently. Any other U.S. users have recommendations for something else?

I can remember eras of my life gone by with these wallpapers.

Thanks for the response. The more I look into EVs the more they seem just impractical to me given our current infrastructure. Even with the ability to install a level 2 charger at home, it seems scary to make long trips. I'm seeing a bunch of issues with these cars 12V batteries also.