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> It'll be made illegal in the same way piracy is.

but you dont need a $10k piece of hardware to do piracy.

They'll make high bandwidth/memory devices something that is more difficult to acquire (e.g., you have to license it and be subject to auditing).

That's because they don't need to follow the laws of physics, so anything that can be imagined is possible.

if you can't be bothered to learn skills (or even ask an AI to teach it to you for free), then you deserve to not be part of that democratization.

landing page is not proxy for quality, but proxy for how good at marketing your project is.

It could be the case that marketing is high quality, but the actual project low (tho, of course, this doesn't have to be the case).

And vice versa with low quality (looking) landing page.

> keeping it up-to-date with its dependencies etc.

not if the software is functional today, and doesn't require interacting with third party systems (like this tinylittleoffice suite).

By the time the underlying infrastructure (like browser compatibility, or self-hosting OS becoming obsolete) fails, you're likely no longer using it anyway.

The "documents" seem exportable in text format, and in any case, potentially salvageable with another vibe-coded tool if such need arise.

Therefore, the original author is no required to maintain it.

this is why adblock is completely necessary, not just for your eyes, but for security.

may be it's trying to do some good by deleting these shows.

which is why i think looking at raw electricity usage doesnt make much sense in a globalized world.

Consumption of final products, and exports are what make more sense to look at to see if lives are better today than the 1970's, which the article implies it isn't.

people who decide on policy tend not be the same people on the ground doing real work. Therefore management makes a policy, they think they are doing the correct thing, when in actual fact, they're not, but just don't hear or get the right type of feedback (including feedback they trust to be real and isn't just the workers complaining/whinging unnecessarily).

This type of dysfunction occurs quite frequently i find.

expecting it to work well in wasm seems a bit too high of a bar.

It works relatively well in native mode as a standalone app (tho not being an actual photoshop expert, i dont know if the features compete properly, i simply hear that those trying it are impressed).

The excel clone works well enough for me to do taxes on, even tho the look and feel is a bit janky. I would stick with google sheets, but it's a usable replacement if i didnt already have sheets.

or that waterfall works if you get the app done in less time than the initial waterfall meeting. Because now you have time to iterate after examining the output and testing it out to see if there's shortfalls.

Check out this guy one-shotting a game engine (ala unity-esque) app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uf5OfMGio

if the downloads were not idempotent, then yes, this method will simply splice two different files together. But presumably, most downloads are idempotent.

but food hasn't been expensive (as a percentage of income), and more automation can only make it cheaper.

if someone wants to contribute, they need to prove they produce value to the project. I dont think this is controversial at all.

The fact of being open source means if your contributions are rejected, you simply need to fork. The open market competition will soon determine if your contributions were truly valuable and whether the original project's owner misjudged, or that contribution was essentially worthless.

Build housing is the biggest contributor (the remaining are simply levers to generate more build housing).

The lack of building comes from the bad zoning laws preventing builds. The rules at the local level are mostly favourable to existing owners, who by a large margin, want their existing property and environment to remain as static as possible to what they purchased (ala, the character of their neighbourhood).

And not to mention that even if they, in principle, agree with denser housing, they would face problems with crowded infrastructure that has to be paid for (and mostly hasnt been upgraded or improved, like public transport, road conditions, grid connections etc).

Therefore, the best current option is to push the affordable (read: high density) housing away from where you are, even if you, in principle, don't disagree with the ideals of it.

> But the solution was to revolt against the king.

most revolts were triggered by someone else (a rich lord) wanting to be king. The peasants participating in the revolt are simply either lied to, or were promised they would reap the benefits and rise above their station.

The real solution was the black plague, which created labour shortages, and gave the remaining peasants bargaining power.

> about as broad categories as robot versus not robot.

there's no way cruise missiles and dishwashers as categories are similar in broadness to the categories of "robot" vs "not robot".

The point i was trying to make is an attempt to tease out the bias in the original post i am replying to - that of having the robot moniker assigned to things they fear more, instead of a more objective classification.

and this leads to html injection attacks when there are small errors in your escaping.

Using a template engine means you systematically ensure that values are escaped (at least, that's one of the reasons i would choose an engine over raw dogging the html).

the manufacturer of the gsm and cellular hardware do not what their products to be commodities that users can interchange easily. They want their commercial supplier contracts to be between negotiated cartels, which allows each producer to eat a certain horizontal slice of the pie.

Every player in this space currently has this incentive imho.

but it is still cruise missilin' and not dishwashing.

Therefore, i am just arguing that classifying cruise missiles as robots, but failing to make the same judgement on a dishwasher is biased thinking.

> neither versatile in its objective, nor programmable.

how programmable does it have to be for the robotic classification to stick? A cruise missile also cannot be programmed to be general - you can only program it to follow a trajectory. Just like you can only program a dishwasher to do dishes in a particular way.

Let's take the automobile as an example.

If it would be possible to walk to get groceries (and also exercise at the same time), do people choose to drive instead because it's simply easier and faster? They then claim that the goal of exercise is simply not worth it any more given driving is faster (and easier)?

> Why do you think the public wants to self host models over using a cheaper solution hosted in the cloud?

you aren't truly in control of your compute in the cloud, and if you came to become reliant on ai, the cloud company could simply turn it off for you and you'd be shit outta luck. Unlike a regulated utility like electricity and water, where you cannot be discriminated against based on how you use said utility.

Therefore, having the ability to run local ai is a good thing. Currently, hardware constraints have kept it out of most hobbyist's hand, but i am hoping that will change soon enough (within 2-3 yrs).

The mega corps are looking to regulate ai such that individuals cannot run their private ai themselves, so that they can become more effective a monopoly. That's why it is crucial that ai is not regulated, but companies providing ai.

the exact same arguments were said about uber's business at the start.

Yet, it is now profitable.

The bet is that people realize how valuable these services are, and despite complaining, they still would pay the higher price. This realization would not happen without this initial subsidy from investors.

It isn't too different from drug dealer's first sample free...

These effects are the logical conclusion to the ideas presented in this video: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016487/juice-it-or-lose

In effect, to juice up a game without adding substantial game design mechanics and thought.

A similar sort of overuse happened with blockbuster movies' special effects.

if the parent poster is not familiar with the state of AAA games from the past decade, then this whole parody would look like nonsense.

i imagine this is usually due to bad anti aliasing mixed with screen space occlusion that messes with edges

I did let the credits scene play out completely, because it completely parodies the large staff count, with large numbers of them being in positions like directors and producers. It's such a good parody.

also missing options menu that has graphics settings with low, medium, high and ultra high.

> I've not seen with any other emergent technology is the level of backlash against it.

i think those who had backlashes against machines and automation in the past would be similar tbh.

It's because when people feel, even if remotely, their livelihood going down the drain, they do anything and everything to fight it (even if it would be against the interest of overall progress - nobody wants to be the "sacrifice").