Except if you want to do level design for existing AAA FPS games other than Counter-Strike, the days where user maps and modding were allowed have come and gone long ago.
There's nothing out there like there was for Counter-Strike 1.6.
> And yet very few people raise their kids in community. In the US, 71% of children grow up in single family homes.
This is the fundamental misconception of the article. Living with your own family does not equate to being raised outside a community. Church, school, little league, etc. are all community networks that huge swaths of society participate in regularly.
Inflation seems to have been tuned to ensure this didn't happen, giving the cosmos time to grow while ensuring it didn't grow so quickly that galaxies couldn't form.
Cosmological natural selection provides an explanation for this, too.
> than you'd like to admit, and some conversations that are worth having in earnest instead of simply resorting to trivial things like
Sure the author wants to talk about technical specifics of Llms. Yet Llms enable a lot of people to avoid understanding even the technical points of it. That would disincentivize people from understanding enough to have discourse which the author considers valuable.
> In the same way that a reality where we have things like bulldozers, printing presses, looms, and a cotton gin doesn't actually suck, at the end of the day.
I really don’t care about the grand scheme of things type responses to criticism of Llms. But for the sake of argument why should I care about discussing Llms and their technical aspects if in the grand scheme of things we’re all to eventually die?
It is the end of the sentence because most people can’t imagine what comes next besides not having a job. It’s not that they won’t be fine if a super AI takes over tomorrow, it’s that is literally the limit of their concerns.
It might be different if Llms actually made the users richer but it doesn’t it makes the corporations richer.
I agree, I think it relates to the number of channels we're exposed to at any one time. Think about the rate at which that has changed over the past 20, 200 and 20,000 years. Now think how our biology has changed to handle that. And then think how our social structures and work time expectations have changed over the same time periods.
Office has long been the special case inside Windows Update (or Microsoft Update in the years where the brand changed whether you had Office installed or not), since the earliest days of Windows Update. Windows Update started as Office Update in the Office 97 era before becoming an out-of-the-box Windows thing in Windows 98, as I recall it. (The internet doesn't seem to have images of the Office 97 "Office Update" tool, so either my memory is foggy or it truly was short-lived enough that the general internet and Wikipedia have forgotten it.) In Windows 8 and 10 Microsoft tried to move Office updates into the Store and were mostly successful just about the time that the Office team decided they were bored with the Store and moved back "home" to Windows Update (or Microsoft Update, I suppose, if you insist).
If Office is no longer the special case in Windows Update and more applications can use it, that would be interesting. A lot of third party drivers have already been using it more, and that also seemed a special case before. Opening it up as a platform for any third party seems like a long time coming.
(Visual Studio is an interesting case, too, because some of it has always had security updates in Windows Update, but yet more of it is not updated that way than is. Originally the border lines were "owned by Windows components" versus "Visual Studio owned components" but those lines have become so blurry, especially in the .NET 5+ era where Windows no longer owns anything about .NET, but Windows Update still serves critical security patches.)
It doesn't change the fact that it's a function that mutates its parameter, even if it eventually calls a method to do so. And, furthermore, it is idiomatic to call next(iter) rather than iter.__next__(), even when no default value is expected.
Don’t forget that opaque blockchains can have invisible inflation. Transparent blockchains will always be worth more, as the user can verify that inflation has not occurred.
This applies to grin as much as xmr.
Last I checked, WebkitGTK does not have parity with WebKit on iOS, and plenty of devs do test on that platform anyway - so I'm not sure what you're talking about? You're right to correct someone saying _most_ apps don't work, but it's also not cool to just sweep the WebkitGTK issue under the rug and pretend it's not an issue at all. It's bitten plenty of people who build on Tauri.
Additionally, the issues people find with WebkitGTK/Tauri aren't always web related, usually moreso Linux related (weird blank screens, issues with rendering certain stacked items, etc).
I don't understand this comment. He literally did tell a person this.
> I discovered that his portfolio was worth more than $4M and I asked him why he was working at IBM if he was "rich". His answer was that he enjoyed working at IBM, you could just "spend" stock as you would lose out on future growth, and what would he do with his time if he wasn't working?
Buybacks do not do that any more than dividends do. Buybacks merely allow publicly listed stock owners to precisely time their capital gains tax events.
Surely there is some amount of income that a business’s owner is allowed to pocket, which may or may not come at the cost of long term investments.
I didn't manage to get through all of the text, but it's the most interesting thing on science I've read in quite a while. Orders of magnitude more informative than any pop science news, and readable unlike journal papers.
I think the only thing missing is to mention epicycles of solar system models.
How much of it was the UI, and how much of was the non-ux code? Could've you achieved many of the same gains by creating a local backend in rust for things like indexing and leaving the UI as a more lightweight electron app while saving a lot more time in a rewrite? How much dev time was the UX rewrite compared to the backend rewrite?
On the other hand, they shipped, proved the product, and got their first paying customers with a web stack. And the top HN comment thread is people talking about the downsides of Tauri cross-platform.
We know the Stack Auth team well, and we really respect what they're up to! We have a really high opinion of them. I'd be curious how they'd assess the comparison.
First, of course you can often use either of our two products in many cases. We do compete!
Second, I think we focus on subtly different customers. There are cases where they're a better fit and cases where I'd assess us to be a better fit. For example, Stack Auth is pretty closely aligned to the Next.js ecosystem. They're really quite strong at serving Next.js. They also have a billing and payments product that's likely interesting to companies with a heavy self-service motion. On the other hand, Tesseral serves only B2B software, and we're not as focused on Next.js (SDK currently in the works). If, for instance, you have a Go backend and sell large enterprise-y deals, we're probably a better fit.
But this will probably evolve over time. I'd expect this comparison to be outdated within a few months.
Overall, I expect our companies will drift in slightly different directions over time. We're both very early stage companies that have focused on pretty foundational features so far.
Yeah the timing seems strange. Considering how much money will move hands based on those results this might be some kind of play to manipulate the market at least a bit.
There's nothing out there like there was for Counter-Strike 1.6.