I don’t think utopias are a bad idea in general, but if they somehow are only reachable by collapsing most of the current system before any groundwork can even be attempted… a form that can be developed in parallel and take over at some point makes much more sense.

Think about the transition and hopefully it doesn’t require nuclear war.

Check the rotations settings. It’s off by default.

I can still do this with my FP4 running e/OS. Just had to put a checkmark at 180° in the rotation settings.

No, it has to do with growth. An adult eye no longer grows significantly.

So recycling doesn’t work if it’s not a service provided by the municipality.

I think the difference was that before other countries would see themselves as allies and thus as part of the West. NATO is just one of many alliances that went beyond just pretending.

Now Trump threatened all of this. Take over Canada? Get back the Panama Canal? “Rescue” Greenland? Get out of NATO? Suddenly it becomes clear that it was a mistake to trust the US so much and that the same rules should count for them as anyone else.

Had a similar experience when SCUBA diving recently. New pressure gauges these days are digital and I still think the analog ones are not only prettier, but also functionally more convenient. You don’t need to be able to read numbers to know you’re getting into the red. Maybe they have some extra feature but I didn’t need it.

You don’t sell the same amount of product when you have to increase the price. You may need to shrink your business to not get the remaining margin getting eaten up by operational costs.

Dude, wtf is wrong with them?

Because you can’t dismiss 30% of a population. They need to at least partially be taken along, just because they’re too many to just declare war on.

Let’s declare war on a more manageable percentage and definitely without compromising core values. So we gotta pierce the bubble of the misinformed, but defeat the ones who misinform out of malice and self interest.

Yeah, the ignorant way they cope with the truth does come close to malice.

I agree that 0-days aren’t numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.

On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.

I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.

The job market is actually pretty bad right now and with all the recent layoffs in tech very saturated. Unionizing would make more sense.

I know it’s not an excuse, but I doubt they all know and knowingly support all of this. There’s plenty of people utterly un- or misinformed about what’s going on in the world or inside the US. There was this video recently where they interviewed beach-goers about the Iran war. They barely even knew what a war or Iran was.

Can’t believe it kinda recovered early last summer. Wasn’t that when he was flipflopping on tariffs? The tariffs the gov now needs to pay back after businesses raised prices to compensate for them?

I guess AOL published this in the “entertainment” section because horror is also an entertainment category.

But we have to identify this as what it is: an internal policy failure where they abandon proven processes to maintain code quality.

I guess I’m lucky my managers have not put that pressure on me yet. I do however see developers getting sloppy and lazier so the reviews actually do take more effort and AI rarely catches all problems with a change.

You wouldn’t want many carparks in the first place.

At least in my experience these models are pretty good now to write code based on best practices. If you ask for impractical things they will start doing ugly shortcuts or workarounds. A good eye catches these and you either rerun with a refined prompt, fix your own design or just keep telling it how you want to have it fixed.

You still gotta know how good code looks like to write it, but the models can help a lot.

Or rather the right to use shovels under ToS that can be changed on a whim.