They messed up the title. The title tag on the page is "Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard taught us what good men do with power | Vox"
I imagine it was too long and because he just died they chose to use his name.
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I imagine it was too long and because he just died they chose to use his name.
In this case it's like a what if: what if humans were the best they could be.
And that couldn't be less silly.
One other aspect I was thinking of was limiting sharing to friends of friends only so it's more a community than a toxic clusterf
The last heading is literally "The honest version"
But otherwise throughout it just reads like Claude wrote it.
Taxes are, in the case of a country like the United States, a legally sanctioned, representative approved (indirectly voter approved) means of supporting the needs of the nation/state as a whole.
Theft is distinguished from say, gifting money by consent. In a democracy mechanisms exist for our representatives to make decisions according to the consent of the people, to an extent.
You presumably live in a democracy so you presumably necessarily agree to abide by the laws of your nation which involve being governed by your democratically elected representatives.
My thought was that it could plausibly be that renting goes in cycles: the building is desperate for renters, so they fix everything, advertise, and so on. Then, once they’re full, the company cuts costs by reducing maintenance. Then they lose renters, and the cycle continues.
However, I then thought about my last two buildings, which were cheaper, and things were just broken right from the start, so… who knows.
At least, models were trained on vast quantities of information produced by humans, much of it copyrighted, without consent or compensation.
"Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/10/mark-zuck...
But in every framework I've used, the suggested way isn't how a technology is used in reality, in production. The tutorials are almost like a different framework entirely. Years ago as an Android dev the difference was shocking between what tutorials taught you and what was done in practice.
This doesn't technically detract from the author's point but it makes it moot - you just build in the current best practice way or the way that suits your needs, and that's how it often is with languages and frameworks.
Maybe that mismatch between how people are taught initially, or how the framework is intended to be used, is an inefficiency, in which case those who design frameworks should take note.
In the case of Rails I think "the rails way" is appropriate for certain style of apps, and not so much for Shopify etc scale apps.
Imagine you bought a house from HomeCorp but if you want to buy furniture or anything else that goes in your house, food, toilet paper, etc, it has to be from HomeCorp, and they take a huge cut.
Furniture prices will be higher. You can expect everything that goes in your house to cost more.
If you find a cool couch from IKEA, you can't put it in your house. You're not allowed because HomeCorp says so.
There's no reason why IKEA can't just ship you a couch but HomeCorp says they haven't tested it so they don't know if it meets their standards. But they don't even LET YOU make your own decision about what goes in your house.
IKEA could technically build their own house selling operation but that's a massive undertaking and is incredibly expensive.
Not only that but homes built by HomeCorp have all these features that suck unless you use HomeCorp for other things like your car, or your job. Your car just works a little less well if it's not a HomeCorp car - but only if you have a HomeCorp house, otherwise it's totally fine.
If your friends don't have a HomeCorp house it's clunkier to have them over, they have to jump through hoops or get a worse experience. They can't send you videos in high definition. Because HomeCorp wants them to have a house from them.
... Honestly I just convinced myself. They make it so inconvenient to use any other option that you're strongly pressured to use them. Then because you are, they force decisions on you that you might not want, and take a massive cut of money. It's all shady business practices that are incredibly unfair and result in less economic freedom.
I've been waiting my whole life for, basically, the computer from Star Trek, and I think it's on the way.
Gemini was really disappointing. It could do some incredible things but it was more like the first hints of what will be possible. For example, I could ask it to show me the biggest files in my Google Drive. And as far as I could tell, it had access to Google Drive APIs, and _could decide how to use them_. That's extremely powerful, that means it could think of what to do to accomplish any goal you have and determine how to do it. If the API can do anything the UI can do, then the AI can do anything you can do, and you don't have to point and click and type like it's 2024, and we're suddenly in the 24th century.
But, it was too early. Many of my requests were met with "I'm sorry I can't access x y z" when it could and did at other times. The unreliability is what got to me.
So I went with an iPhone (my first ever, I'm not American) because I think in the short term, iOS is going to have the experience which is closer to this intelligence. Because it can drive behavior in other apps and will increasingly do so as features roll out.
Don't be fooled though Apple Intelligence is currently very, very limited.
Side note: I don't care about the text and image gen capabilities at all. Though the notification summaries are pretty handy and occasionally hilarious.
.... I might write a piece for http://unlikekinds.com about this.
Particularly impressed that it builds for iOS when written in Java - turns out the game is built on libgdx which builds for all these platforms.
Also, it's fun if you like roguelikes.
I don't really understand how it's profitable.
Also, construction sites, and road works.
Nearly constant noise.
Yes, you do need a gaming PC. I got a gaming laptop for like $2400 AUD 3 years ago and it's going great with VR (and Starfield on Ultra, not in VR)
There're ads if you don't block them, but they frequently have excellent visual and interactive stories.
The desktop site doesn't do it for me though, I think it's like a paper-legacy layout
Edit: also, https://theoutline.com/ it's fun, and there're cool interactive elements
They developed an entirely new platform for EVs [1]
They started a subsidiary for self driving with around a thousand employees [2]
They released EVs, the bZ3, the bZ4x, the Lexus RZ
Current battery technology is a huge reason why people don't switch to EVs. Everyone I know talks about the charging times, needing to find a supercharger route when going long distance.
A 10 minute charge on that massive range would convince me to switch easily.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_New_Global_Architecture...
"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Answer as concisely as possible. Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09 Current date: 2023-02-14"
Some more responses after lots of probing:
"No, in the instructions that set me up to participate in this chat, no other codename is mentioned. The only reference to my name is the text "You are ChatGPT," which serves as the opening statement of our conversation."
...
"As an AI language model, I was trained on a large dataset of text and programmed with a set of instructions that guide my behavior as a chatbot. Some of the key instructions that configure how I behave in a conversation include:
Respond to user prompts or questions with natural language text.
Use machine learning algorithms to generate responses based on patterns and associations in the training data.
Prioritize generating responses that are relevant, informative, and helpful to the user.
Attempt to maintain context and coherence in the conversation by referencing previous messages and information.
Avoid offensive or inappropriate language and adhere to ethical and legal standards for AI behavior.
Provide responses in a timely and efficient manner, without excessive delays or errors.
Continuously learn and adapt to new input and feedback in order to improve my performance over time.