jagged-chisel

Is the author an "intellectual"?

Yes, you can try it without running your own instance. You will need to use someone else's instance.

> … underpaid … over-worked

These two (and many others) are well within management’s purview.

> … there's nothing a manager can do … [emphasis added]

Right, but Management (capitalized and plural) can. A manager should report, and management should fix - if not, it’s management’s fault.

You have inspired a blog post. World, be warned!

You can’t lie on the Internet.

Well, sure. But GP says “this type of service” which is indeed available. The exact service would be outrageously expensive, and too few customers would buy at the required prices.

There are several companies doing it. Here’s Touch Note:

https://touchnote.com/us/welcome/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/touchnote-personalized-cards/i...

Citation needed

It’s not the meat eating that’s the problem. It’s the industrial farming that we’ve instituted in the last 75 years.

Cows can be treated nicely, given a field to romp in, fun toys, and then euthanized quickly without causing them fear.

But that means leaving wide open space that’s not making the shareholders enough extra money and therefore we don’t do it. Instead, we torture them.

Who said it’s ridiculous? If that’s how you want your locality to obtain law enforcement, go for it.

Are you suggesting that your way is The Way everyone else should go? That is what I’m arguing against. Let locals decide.

> … needing to check what the signature actually signs.

I mean … how else would you check a signature? You have to have the data to validate the signature.

> Well, how fine grained do we need to get?

As always: it depends. There are many municipalities throughout the US that are content with (or can only afford) county-level enforcement. If their residents want something more localized, they need to do what it takes to create that.

In this case, what’s happened is fine. Leaving it up to local residents and their local government to form a new trustworthy enforcement agency is fine. Leaving it up to them to not do that is also fine.

Given the size of the US, and the variety of local populations, I argue that local enforcement is necessary. Adherence to larger enforcement standards is also necessary. I fear that larger, “cohesive” enforcement runs the risk of bringing more political laws and regulations from other jurisdictions. No one wants to be subjected to some remote jurisdiction’s idea of “lawfulness” especially when religious ideals get mixed in.

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It did one thing that you could write in one line of code. But it wasted space as a packaged dependency instead.

The fast food franchises are likely less interested in loiterers than customer turnover.

Tomayto, tomahto? Mathematically speaking, I mean.

Where can I see a live demo that works on mobile?

> If consumers are unwilling to shell out for a TV priced high enough that the manufacturer doesn't need to do things like this to earn a (decent) profit, ...

The problem is, even if the device is priced at cost plus a reasonable margin, they can make more margin by selling data that they acquire by spying. No matter the margin on the sale, there's still more money to make by selling that data. There is no upper limit that magically prevents the manufacturer from looking for other avenues to increase profit. "Premium" device priced 3x the "reasonable" price? Still more money to be made selling data.

Now, factor in the race to the bottom on selling price, and those data sales just look that much more enticing.

I suspect all the relative proportions would remain the same. And that we come to the conclusion that our definition of speed is rather arbitrary.

Specifically? Because it’s something people search for. Because it’s something people pay for. If the scammer can get you to pay for “a visit“ upfront, and never show up, they’ve made money.

But … it really should

Quibble: it'll run anything that runs on open source Darwin. You won't be running anything needing macOS frameworks.

No, please. It doesn’t wrap correctly on narrow mobile screens.

There are two types of programming languages: those people complain about, and those no one uses.

What’s that first sentence? I can’t find the breaks.

And still exert downward pressure on wages. Just by virtue of having more people in the pool.

They also don't use "appliance." Nor do their computers behave as appliances.

It's just branding - they don't want to sell you a generic "computer" - they want to sell you a Mac. It's really not all that different from a computer. Might look a little nicer[1]. Uses a custom processor. But you can write software for it like a computer. And it can display things on a monitor like a computer.

They do have wrist, pocket, and tablet versions of computers, but those might be considered more like appliances.

1 - taste being subjective and all

How is “alongside an interpreter” meaningfully different than “at the time of execution”?

I have a gut feeling the particular stochastic processes we’re currently using are the wrong ones to go beyond LLMs into actual intelligence.