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After spending years with the major OS families, I think that Linux is the only one which had the right ideas and was able to keep an efficient solution working for decades. Brew a…

The job of code like this is going to serve as a makeshift spec for future coding agents, so they extract the intended use and redo it on command. Better models will be able to imp…

A few points worth contending. First, personal flying vehicles are definitely not going to be a common mode of transportation. If and when this happens, it will be for ultra rich, …

It's true that the old web was personal, fun, experimental, and in many ways quite whimsical. There was a sense of discovery, sharing, and being in the verge of a new era. Like man…

For most of the 80s and 90s people didn't care about being online. It was kind of the opposite of gatekeeping, people immediately labeled computer users as geeks, nerds, socially i…

This is about control, not security. As in, Google's control over your device, your experience, your features and choices. This and Google just isn't interested in supporting an op…

This was a fun read, however, I feel that the actual essence is quite thin. It can be summarized in a short sentence: The cost comes from being always prepared with teams and equip…

If the problem is that there are too many AI slop papers, then requiring real human input and feedback can help reduce these numbers. Let's say you have to defend your paper in per…

Unfortunately people still think BDS is relevant in any way.

Isn't this hilarious: > A patent as well as a design and model registration have been made to protect the technical architecture and design of Openprinter. So, open as in OpenAI.

> the digg/reddit comment tree format is a clear improvement You are talking about content discovery. But for a sense of community I have never seen or been able to replicate the f…

Solving the paper submission is easy. Just hold frontal interview where the submitter defends their paper. They can't create papers every day and still be knowledgeable about them …

> The platforms are now flooded with AI slop What did we do before "platforms"? This wasn't that long ago (20 years give or take). If you want to share, join a club, meet people, d…

There are a few issues here that should be addressed. There's the AI hype and deafening echo chambers, but then there's also the actual value you can find in AI when you just try i…

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There's a lot of offensive security talent, but this has nothing to do with Palestinians. Israeli intelligence is very advanced and is why Israel has been able to eliminate the lea…

While I share the sentiment, this feels like an extreme, nuclear reaction which might be irreversible. I understand the fatigue, and resentment, but if you are about to be a family…

Nice writeup. It goes deep into Gnutella, but it's also worth mentioning the slew of sharing programs back then, which was truly like the wild west. Napster, Emule, DC++, Kazaa, to…

I don't see any value discussing which set of rules and outcomes is better because it's all nonsense. To be honest, I did have some very in depth conversations with religious frien…

Arguably, all the industries that you mentioned (clothing, food, automotive) have the same symptoms, doing everything possible to increase growth even (and often) at the expense of…

My point is AI is not going to be built to "benefit humanity" because that's not the incentive in our economy. AI might give us some benefits, but like all tech products currently,…

In my way of life, the idea that people follow and care deeply about what some mullah has to say is very foreign. There's a mass of these people though. Their life must be so incre…

Good luck with that. Capitalism doesn't work that way. AI will make money for some companies, but as always, it will be on our expense, not for our benefit. We will get some conven…

Computers still do the exact same thing they did back then, which is to read opcodes and do binary math. That is all. It is people and corporations that found a way to monetize the…

My view is write the code that matters to you and that you want or need to be proficient with. If you need to defend, explain or discuss code, you are better off writing it yoursel…