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Without the "detail" of "Minecraft" you don't even know what "the data" is.

> I don't know the scale Denmark

What does that refer to? Both say "1:1 scale". Are you just trying to pad the list so you can "details" instead of "detail"?

"Terrain, glaciers, lakes, forests and dams come from swisstopo’s open geodata"

Without the context of what this even is, that the description does not provide, that might as well be someone who is bad at English trying to say something like"swisstopo’s offers open geodata about terrains, glaciers, lakes, forests and dams of Switzerland". Except if they struggled with the language they wouldn't needlessly bloat that list, either.

They didn't read it, the people rushing to its defense apparently aren't parsing it either, but I'm sure they make sure payment processing works, so at least there's that.

It's everywhere though. Not to detract from the massive problem of mass surveillance, but just recently when that data center in Russia got, and those derpy images of "stats about Russian" bots were circulated, I saw a lot of "the right-wing support is not organic" stuff.

Something is driving people into bubbles so they only talk about the other, never with. And both agree that "centrists", "normies", etc. are the most despicable of all. Seems like a recipe for something.

> I'm questioning whether that degree of separating is consistent with the medical literature, not whether we should "do something bad because we've always done something bad"

But that's the whole argument. It's silly because many are used to it, it's too extreme a change for people who are used to it.

If the majority of people somewhere did indeed use "Password123" everywhere and had been for decades, they'd find excuses too, one of them that it's not so bad as "Password". They might have a whole process around dealing with while not seeing the fallout.

> the investment and energy requirement of creating completely TV-free spaces for children.

Huh? You simply don't turn on the TV when the kid is there. If you want to save even more money and energy, don't get a TV.

I said most. Fine, add women who don't notice or mind that to it, same difference. What is not just a disrespect of boundaries, but an inability to even perceive them, to acknowledge them at all, is sticking out so glaringly in all these discussions. That people don't want to consume gen-AI stuff doesn't matter, it cannot be accepted anyway, so let's talk about how stupid they are and how that makes their choice invalid. Consent? What is consent?

> It's not self-evident that pointing out hypocrisy isn't a valid refutation

If I say drinking tons of sugary soda every day is bad for you, when I drink nothing but myself, how would my hypocrisy have a bearing on the effects of drinking soda? Yes, it's self-evident. It shouldn't even need saying because nobody should be so dishonest to even attempt it as an argument. It's the kind of dumb shit people say about other people, never to them.

> Do keep in mind that the vast majority of people posting in this thread of grown up with TVs in the background. The 0-3 year rule is a little silly.

Most people use password123 as password, and like using the same password on every site, so saying that's bad is a bit silly?

What kind of logic is that?

> benefits of that are not clear other than expressing the parents' own maniacal anxiety which (in of itself)

The coupling of the benefits being supposedly "not clear" while "maniacal anxiety" being absolutely certain is just classic.

If you say you want to go and get some milk, but then on the way to the shop waste 3 seconds to avoid an old lady instead of plowing right through her, even though it's the middle of the night and there are no witnesses, the result of your milk getting is suboptimal, and you cannot claim to primarily have been getting milk, but something else.

Also, the woman who has an AI child with Gemini said not to support artists who hate on AI, and I agree. We must crush the haters before it's too late, for they are irrational and will be left behind as we go vertical any second now.

seriously though: nothing will stop the sky from being blue, anytime soon. How I know this? Because we don't constantly talk about how the sky will always be blue. If you got the goods, you don't need the sales pitch.

You'd be very wrong, and you can simply go to Google maps and drop the little dude somewhere to confirm that.

"people can debate" but never actually weigh the evidence and come to a conclusion? Yeah that would be great, wouldn't it?

I wouldn't waste so many resources and time by every remotely interesting thing (down to whatever someone may remember their older brother playing when they were young) being "made" from scratch by 50 different people, who usually don't communicate with and often don't even reference each other. "Oh hi guys, so I happened to have made this thing..." is kinda getting old.

And they will keep making money hand over fist, while anyone who worked however one long on something can have it snatched up within 5 minutes of them releasing it to the world. And then 10 more people clone that. We could enter some kind of dark age where people are more likely to try to keep even their ideas secret. If nobody gets any recognition, and putting in the work for others to clone it is just being a sucker, then people will stop doing that. And companies will simply yweigh what they invest into vs. what they can defend/attack with lawyers, or patent, or whatever. And then Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and others can ooze over the space where there was society and community, even more so than they already did in the last quarter century.

> Google is still anal about dark mode if you're not signed in. YouTube still hinders iOS's picture-in-picture feature. Facebook still doesn't have iPad-native versions of their apps. There's so much shit in apps with billions of users that hasn't been fixed for years.

They're not selling apps, alternative apps do nothing to them. Sure they hate it, just like Twitter hates xcancel, but they could give them amnesty and servers instead and still would never be meaningfully harmed by a mere viewing tool of their data.

"Political permission", oh my. It's like this "Altparteien" crap. Spooky language.

> Authoritarianism.

Capitalizing it randomly doesn't make that less projection. You think just because n% support a party that wants to abolish democracy for whatever reason, that party MuST be allowed. And if enough people support Trump being above the law, he should be. And if enough people get sick, they're suddenly healthy. That's not how anything works, not even remotely.

Heh. Abolishing parties who vow to destroy it is anything but that.

Alright then: most of criticism of the poll seems to written by charmless man children socialized by Minecraft mob farms. What they write only occurs in forums because they wouldn't say it to a person if they even can make eye contact, while what they complain about real people also talk about in real life with the real people who like and respect them, on top of saying it online.

and on top of that, this is what a rational reaction gets them

https://bsky.app/profile/thenewarab.bsky.social/post/3myb2ze...

How many can you name with something like 'They "trust me" Dumb fucks.'?

The question was not "could the do all shitty things if they were scummy assholes", but "are they all scummy assholes".

> For instance, one customer has 15(!) cronjobs.

But they didn't ask US for help. We didn't need to know a customer of yours is running 15 cronjobs. Even if this factoid itself may be harmless, it's a good thing to practice on how you talk about these things. I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, I don't know that, but I totally get why how you talk about it rubs some people (including me) the wrong way.

> Its not an engineering company, the owner has a sales background.

Again, it's good if you have a close relationship with your customers, but we don't, and they don't have one with us.

LLM are tools, AI doesn't even exist.

> plenty of games made with AI that are fun.

That's like saying there is plenty of water in the ocean, so you can drink it.

> While I hate nightmarish ai slop pictures some restaurants use and some very ugly banners some street vendors use, I recognize some some AI generated assets are pretty neat.

So you don't think it does more harm than good, and think something else instead.

> Well, poll does not distinguish between "I hate AI slop" and "I hate any use of AI"

Isn't the criticism rather that the poll distinguishes between you and the people polled?

> Treat them as a pet owner would treat their beloved pet rat.

They do that already? Then how come an estimated 192 million mice are killed each year?

It's not about age. Compare Sanders and Trump; their politics aside, just take being able to hold a conversation and have honest arguments, listen to advisors when they really are right, that sort of thing. Or Mamdami and Thiel. And hey, I'm sure there's some young-ish, bright, yet very capitalistic people who also have a good head on their shoulders, too. I just really like Mamdami, partly because how even the Dems shirked him before he won, and then Trump was like "I like that guy". He probably also likes Thiel. Which shows anybody can do anything, it's totally... random! :D

It doesn't "imagine" at all.

This is like explaining to someone that there are no little people in the TV set, what a movie is, and then they go "yeah but sometimes they don't just talk, they also sneeze, and you can't fake sneezing, I read that in an article".

"their code" == code they actually write, that originates with them, "their system" == anything, from gentoo to something off-the-shelf

So the real question would be, how many people designing / implementing the boot process of any given system don't understand what what's going on.

The difference in performance is just so big, unless you're targeting something without a GPU, there is no world in which you would want to leave it unutilized IMO, even if you're just rendering an UI. I can do things on my slow phone in WebGL that would stutter on my desktop if I drew the pixels with the CPU.

Very easy to write though. That's the whole new paradigm! And now that you signed up, we have the last piece needed to actually make this work.

I just mentioned it to Claude and it minus-one shotted (that's when you didn't even want to make anything, just talk about it) a Python script it called Folderol that compiles .fol scripts into folder structures, and it absolutely works. But I can't thank it yet or take it up on the offers on how to follow this up, because that one response put it over from 0% to 90% of the 5-hour usage limit. I'm sure someone with some credits to spend could make this baby sing.

Just think of the applications! No seriously, can you please think of any applications and tell me?

What are cool things that can contain other things, other than folders? One thing I could think of is hypertext documents, the number of links in them could be the number of folders, and bam, you can now put complex program on the web that take up no space. And rogue agents also have a whole new way to fuck with us, too: while you try to make sense of these weird files they put into these weird folder structures, it's only about the folder structure. Not meaingless data, but active code. Watching. Evolving.

Another one is RAM compression, of course. You need some sort of JIT-compiler for the folder code -- which take up no space! -- but then you could make folder programs to store arbitrary data, and store the folder programs in RAM, using no RAM. And why shouldn't those strings themselves be .fol code that compiles to a zero footprint folder structure, right? and so on... yeah, I think you probably get it now.

Yesterday I was re-using some shaders I had written a long time ago, and here's what I used to do multiline strings before the glorious backtick arrived on the scene...

    (function () {/*
      my awesome shader code
    */}).toString().match(/[^]*\/\*([^]*)\*\/\}$/)[1]

... I can't call it sexy, but I also can't deny I felt a mixture of fear and arousal when I saw that.

> people have always tended to think things are falling apart, and that perhaps now is no different.

What is interesting or valuable about that? I don't think it's even true, but at best, you offer "perhaps". Great. Perhaps, perhaps not.

It's reasonable to consider that you are simply complacent.

Yes, Cloudflare's data about A is worthless as proof for B. Cloudflare never made the claims that were based on those graphs. It just shows that traffic out of datacenters stops when those get hit, to the surprise of nobody, proving nothing.

"beaten path" is often used as if it as something lesser, but if you think about it, it's just people making something they all often do, going from a specific place to another specific place, easier for themselves and everybody else by using roughly the shortest route, rather than dancing their name or random thoughts on their mind every time. It's a good thing.

Now the "beaten paths" (our public spaces) are getting spammed, polluted and destroyed, turn into jungles to the point that actually just walking off into the jungle can be easier for some. But that is lame, even for the very few people who can do it (many people can't right now, future generations won't be able to at all if we let this slide), why not drive the parasitic assholes ruining our public spaces off into the jungle instead?