mathiaspoint

I don't think that's it at all. It feels a lot more like a large scale coordination problem to me.

Maybe if it were the creation of child porn that were illegal but that's not how the law is written.

Sharing/storing child porn is already illegal and punished far more harshly. So it's not like we've gone from zero to one. We've been censoring things people don't like for a little while now.

They have ads on MDN. It's over.

My current employer is actually getting ready to do required vibe coding training. Probably not a good time to be a tech company shareholder tbh.

Also it's pretty hard to tell LLMs not to do things without actually adjusting the weights.

It's the same as any currency. If the place you want to spend it only accepts currency y then you must trade for currency y to spend money there.

Since Bitcoin is software anyone can fork it and create a currency y with the same ledger up to the fork but few people do because convincing other people to trade for it without a very strong argument is hard.

I think most people stop at 1984 or animal farm and have no idea what Orwell really thought about society and politics.

Right, my pronoun is dangling here. "It" was meant to refer to the status quo of making them inaccessible without a lot of difficulty and breaking the law.

It's very poor communication. They absolutely do not have to be non-deterministic.

No way it happens. The business/marketing people can't stand their JS getting messed with.

There was a whole thread the other day about a framework for smuggling these huge analytics bundles through content blockers. Funny it was just around the same time another large thread was on the front page full of marketing people spazing out over the low click through rate when people are given AI summaries and aren't forced to "experience" these corporate sites running on their computers.

I think with psychedelics it's fine. The problems you're talking about are with addictive stimulants.

That mess inspired the American legal system though, which is probably one of if not the best in the world.

IMO common law is still better than case law at least.

You probably want to draw curves and polygons then fill them.

It's possible to imagine drawing extra thick lines by modifying the algorithm but the equivalent changes to a curve would leave gaps. I suppose you could figure out how eg boundary paths for beziers are calculated and transform your algorithm so each step draws to the boundary. It seems like more work for something less general than filling though.

You don't need power tools for most of woodworking anyway. That's a ridiculous excuse to avoid it. I've built furniture and framed buildings almost entirely with hand tools.

I keep them in an INI file, edit it with vim, and query it with Python. It goes in a "general" git repo along with dot files and projects too small for their own repos. Each machine gets a branch named after the hostname and I just merge between them (and occasionally into master) as I move between machines.

I think a closer comparison would be one rack or isle, not a whole data center.

No one is going to pay you to work on something nice. They'd just do it themselves.

Part of the problem with the insane cost of living in first world countries is that saying no often means you probably don't get to live inside for the next few months. It tends to turn engineers into yes men.

The ones who plan ahead tend to not end up in these organizations to begin with since they have leeway to say no much earlier.

Yes. Android today can run programs generated by AI assistants locally and the new Linux VM means they can be provided with very complete MCP servers.

My sister and her husband throw a pretty great annual Halloween party at the house they rent which is 1-2 hours from the nearest city and a good 15-20 minutes from the nearest town.

I don't think the real estate situation helps but I think there's a deeper social problem driving both of those effects.

It's more in favor of the employee than a lot of people admit. The problem isn't the negotiating power it's that there's so much noise when you're switching companies it's impractical.

Unions could only make that worse.

Enough of this sort of thing and creative people who plan ahead will label working for you as something that's extremely disruptive and you'll only be able to higher people one step above an LLM.

Why don't you go out with a laptop and offer people cash prizes. See how well the average person does.

When was OTS written again? That was effectively an expert system that could do your taxes and it was around at least ten years ago. It didn't even need transformers.

No one has a good benchmark for what AGI is. Already LLMs are more capable at most tasks than most random people off the street. I think at this point people keep asking about because they're trying to ask some deeper philosophical question like "when will it be human" but don't want to say that because it sounds silly.

FreeCAD is a mess. Especially if you're doing things like CAM.

Or a tent since you might as well not invest a ton into what you're doing as it's illegal.

Yeah it's like that because of rules like this. No one can do anything except live in RVs because if houses are built they have to be done perfectly in a way the whole town has to be happy with.

Enough of this carelessness and the answer becomes "the sidewalk" like you're seeing in southern California.

You either have to turn people away or let them figure out how to live but the one foot in/one foot out situation where everyone is welcome but no one is actually allowed to do anything quickly turns your town into something that looks more like a rural Indian village.

Yeah my theory is that we'll soon see the end of massive tech companies. The size is more a liability than an asset now.