dainank

I also dream of this someday... Maybe I should just use AI to generate a Windows fork based on the existing source. Should be more than enough information.

For me, competitiveness is largely about how directly players can influence and outwit each other. In tennis, psychological pressure is just one element alongside direct tactical interaction. In a parallel sport like golf, that interaction is much more limited, which makes it feel less competitive to me. I can see the counterargument, though: because golf has fewer direct competitive elements, the psychological battle may become more significant in its own right, but I personally don't value that so highly; its something that must automatically be done anyways in sports where you are directly influencing each other alongside all the extra baggage of strategy they bring!

They are not very much alike at all. This is a very poor analogy.

In boxing, chess and many other competitive sports, the actions of one player directly influence and have an effect on the other player. Golf is merely a parallel challenge, where both are playing against each other but not influencing each other directly (sure maybe there are some psychological effects that can occur between the players, but no strategical impact by the actions of one player on the other).

This is blatant misinformation. Three things led to defeat:

- European diseases

- superior weaponry

- alliances with local Aztec enemies

The first wave of smallpox killed 5-8 million and is by far one of the greatest factors.

> It’s the Windows Media Player of the AI industry.

I personally found WMP great. I never felt any urge to install alternatives (and the few times I did end up using another media player, I always thought it was a worse experience than WMP).

Nice find. Is there also somewhere online a test done with this (I believe you but am just curious to see how much)?

I agree. I think in general, any game that is 'turn-based' (in this case chess), with a limited set of options, quickly boils down to pure theory and in my opinion 'dumb intelligence' of just remembering many things and patterns (the AI of now). As soon as a game is in 'real-time' with many-many options, it reaches a level of complexity where you cannot ONLY remember theory and outsmart your opponent. It is far more about applying logic on the fly with the limited time and overwhelming set of options you are supplied. This skillset applies to almost everything in life and serves me personally very well thus far in life. Yes, I understand that chess has different modes that severely limit time per turns which transform it more into the 'real-time' games and value, but it is still turn-based and still has a limited set of options when compared to true 'real-time' games.

I would imagine that world running on fully autonomous cars would certainly be less error-prone than a world running on human-driven cars where each human has different intelligence, reflexes, emotions, moods e.t.c. A purely algorithmic system of autonomous cars is certainly safer, just needs to be fully adopted. The only drawback I suppose is the fear of these systems being hacked, something that is not so easy with biological humans.

On a serious note, it would be nice if in the far far future, once the browser is very stable, they release a windows binary since I do sometimes still use Windows 11 for moments when it is needed and it would be a shame to then temporarily still have to switch to Edge e.t.c. instead of being able to use Ladybird there too.

Maybe I missed it but has he posted his theme anywhere (I assume for VSCode since he mentioned he is using that)?

I think the worst is the lack of support for 'click-through' behavior on MacOS. This is that you have to select a window first with left-click before being able to select UI elements within that window with left-click. The amount of time lost with extra clicks is incredible.

It is even more frustrating that this behavior is somewhat inconsistent, with some applications allowing this and others not (although it is more often the latter).

I made a workaround solution here with minimal setup/overhead: https://github.com/dainank/apple-click-through but I do wish someday this could be configurable in the OS as a setting.

Sorry, this is my mistake, I misread the following statement:

> If you could simulate a human perfectly, the simulated human would not be a human, it would be a simulated human. It's not a given that it would be subject to the same rules of ethics as real humans.

I am glad we agree. Regarding this second statement, I also agree with you having reread it now. Even if the entity (simulated human) receiving signals is experiencing from their PoV the exact same data, from our perspective knowing this is a 'simulated human' and not a 'human' we indeed cannot assume it is subject to the same rules like you said.

Apologies for misreading your initial message.

I disagree.

If the simulation of electronic impulses is exactly the same as what occurs 'in the substance', then merely the medium over which signals occur is different. In my eyes, whatever is experiencing these signals will experience them the same way.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140#48177554

Do you have a link for a list of these changes. I am curious.

Indeed! You can even configure it to open the last set of open browser tabs as per default, saving you a `ctrl+shift+T`.

Out of curiosity, what makes their hardware 'brilliant'? I often hear this but never actually looked into why. What is your take on that?

It is gaining more contributors and starting to be relatively compliant with most browser standards. Alpha release is expected EoY. I am optimistic for its future.

The Ladybird browser could potentially be a nice alternative in the future: https://ladybird.org/

Dune Messiah in a nutshell.

I know it is only a partial solution, but I saw with some companies that LinkedIn provides a way to verify a user works at such a company. This is done via sending an email to a company domain email address (supposedly yours that you provide), and then approving it from your work laptop. I guess the administrators of the company account on LinkedIn can determine which domains are allowed for this.

The only way this could be abused is if the administrator accounts on LinkedIn itself get hacked and temporarily other email domains are added to the whitelist (or if an approved user themselves got hacked on LinkedIn [or their work email for that matter]). These are all the usual vulnerabilities in any system.

I understand that it would be too extreme to only allow users to claim they worked at a company if this verification is done, but maybe putting a warning if you get a message from a recruiter/someone that has not verified they work at their 'present' company could go a long way (instead of right now tucking away the verified logo quietly on their profile page).

I agree that such a claim is a stretch, however, I personally love the minimalist look (it has its own charm). Saying it 'looks like the stylesheets failed to load' is your own exaggeration.

I had a similar experience with a Microsoft Outlook account. Supposedly this is done for legal reasons. Once an account violates certain laws, companies 'allegedly' have no choice but to permanently close that account even if you can somehow prove it was 100% the hacker who violated those rules and not you.

Mistral AI and the Luxembourgish government also have a strategic partnership: https://gouvernement.lu/en/gouvernement/stephanie-obertin/ac...

I believe nature is all there is. If we could replicate a human brain several times, and make each 'human brain' receive the exact same input data (sounds, sights, smells e.t.c.) from the moment they 'exist' until the end of their lifetime, I truly think that each of these brains will make precisely the same decisions (and each of these 'brains' would think they were conscious and in control of their lives).

In my eyes, consciousness is simply a natural phenomenon that can be explained but we just lack the understanding at this moment. Time and time again we have made this mistake of assuming there is something supernatural about the things we cannot comprehend and only a few centuries later it is completely understood scientifically. I think consciousness will be a similar case but will take more time.

> eBay bought it in 2005 for 2.6 billion dollars. Nobody really understood why eBay wanted it. Then Microsoft bought it from eBay in 2011 for 8.5 billion dollars.

Isn't that the reason eBay bought it? It seems a speculative acquisition on the basis that Skype might become even more valuable later and they were right!

Maybe `wudo`? Windows Sudo!

Indeed. The bigger problem is also that consistently the most played games are multiplayer competitive titles with anti-cheat software that is only written for Windows (and sometimes MacOS). I suppose this issue will solve itself, once enough people start playing on Linux. Then developers will be forced to support that too in order to not lose too much of their player base, but we are still a far cry from this threshold.

You are overthinking it. It is neither a strategy nor keystroke saving (although technically with shift its 4 keystrokes as opposed to 5 for Linux and quite a few saved for Windows). I just typed that without thinking probably because it looks better and reads a bit easier (subjectively).

I think for people who are browsing this site, it will certainly be easier than expected. For the average person, most likely not.

I think there is a lot of talk (and this is good), but very little action. Market share is still incredibly low for LNX. I believe only a small subset of people actually attempt the jump from WIN to LNX (since most just want to play their games and run their programs without hassle) and then quickly realize that its tougher than they anticipated and swiftly return to WIN.