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> not even Google can afford to devote enough compute to each query to reliably generate quality results https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-holds-google-liable-for-f...

> People created things out of passion, or boredom. We can returned to that scheme. Turns out, people want food and shelter more than entertainment. And psycho billionaires want mo…

Incentives. Which is why platforms (such as search) should never be allowed to be in the same company with things built on top of them (such as ads), if the combined company is sig…

Microsoft was early and late to lots of things. They dominated early smartphones, too.

Let's be real here. JavaScript didn't take off because it was functional in the functional programming sense. It took off because it was built in and procedural. You didn't need to…

Gmail was the original AJAX woah! JavaScript application.

I'll be blunt about this: It's probably also the reason statistically no one will be employed to work on a Haskell code base. Same for Lisp, F#, OCaml, etc. They're the hot rods of…

Libraries and frameworks and package management absolutely matter. They're not some abstract thing, they could be the difference between something being done in 6 months or in 2 ye…

Because Jamie Zawinski was right and also wrong. Everything evolves into a browser, which, yes, can also read email.

The new Google Translate. They've made it slightly better at translating paragraphs of text but in many cases it's lost the basic function for translation: dictionary. Try it out, …

Demand for the internet was there but it still took 10+ years and a big economic crash to get there.

1. Cell phone usage was never free. 2. Cell phone usage was always localized. You had local telcoms and that was about it. Deutsche Telekom Germany didn't have to compete all the t…

In the US. With how much they've invested in AI they need the entire planet to pay, and pay lots. What's the capex expenditure of Magnificent 7 just this year? Close to $1tn?

DMZ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(computing)

Shut up, future paperclip :-D

Horizontal open source modules... And making the horizontal modules doesn't employ many people, both because of FOSS and also because you only need so many reusable modules. When w…

> Since software is still a winner-takes-all market, the mass-production property of software doesn't really matter. Fairly sure software dev was always an iceberg. Most software a…

I'm not afraid of you, catman!

I have no idea what it's supposed to add to the conversation...

> Parent your kids. Ok... > There are countless services to block content you don't want. How easily will a motivated 10 year old work around them? > There are dedicated ISPs and c…

LOL. Yes, let's do absolutely nothing, that always works well. This fine also sets a precedent that some will follow. When New Mexico does it, ok, avoidable. If NY, California, etc…

And the "person" answering: 1. Will always answer (even if sometimes wrong) 2. In a reasonable time frame 3. Can be asked in almost any language and answers in the same language 4.…

For me it's well done but 90% of meat puritans will skewer me for that. Even after explaining my reasoning. They'll say either rare or at most medium-rare.

We already have the solution. Use AI to validate AI agent commands.

Has is been a net positive?