biometrics are ripe for abuse; i wouldn’t opt into that.

why not use the lottery system like in japan or simply put a name on the ticket so it can’t be scalped.

Let’s start with Eurovision.

the token usage isn’t sustainable. formal english is a barrier but requirement for specification. brevity is the language of money and that’s the premise of management using ai.

fyi language alone can’t define/describe requirements which is why UML existed.

Natural language is a fully general system and can define and describe everything.

You could deterministically process any UML diagram into a prose equivalent.

And in fact you couldn't do the other way around (any prose -> UML) because UML is less powerful than natural language and actually can't express everything that natural language can.

> can define and describe everything.

Can it also fully describe a composition by Bach or a Rembrandt's painting? In some weird, overly complex way it probably 'could', but it would be very painful. That's why we pick other forms of expression. We use other forms of expression to compact and optimise information delivery. Another benefit is that we cut out the noise. So yes UML cannot describe everything natural language can, but then again why should it - it was designed as a specific framework for designing relations between objects. Not more and not less. Similar for sequence diagrams or other forms of communicating ideas efficiently.

There are also diagram notation languages and LLMs are happy to both consume and produce e.g. Mermaid.

I think uml exists to help humans understand and communicate specifications, not because language alone is insufficient.

I mean, if you can't agree on what UML is, then what hope do you have to agree on what the spec says?

it’s a commonality. we discover the same over and over on the 8311 discord at pon.wiki. often the result of disclosure is a firmware update that removes the ability to create a configuration backup and restore.

wearables. u need to authenticate a literal pulse. essentially a passkey for being alive. we can’t allow a corporate entity control, it needs to be truly open and not like fido.

Got it all wrong, typical AI slop. It reveals that Fabrice Bellard is still above all, super human. LUL

Why bother? Ask yourself first if you’re doing anything truly meaningful. The answer is likely no; it’s all irrelevant. Time is finite. The thousand ideas you had don’t need to be built. You’re only being productive for show. You’re orchestrating your time building agentic irrelevance, why? It’s not going to make life any easier long term. What you’re actually doing is crafting an addiction, a reliance on technology, because you aren’t doing what humans must: learn. You’ll spiral out once the systems go down, and they will, because you’ve forgotten to build contingencies. And your knowledge gap will cascade beyond help and time. For you are on the path to becoming the walking dead. Go out and find value in what you’re capable of, not just in productivity gains; 1 line of code has more meaning than ever! it’s the critical thought. Time slows when you’re in the zone. Good luck, and remember, the tortoise beat the hare.

Yep. It's like trying to achieve a million LOC per day. Easily done. But pointless.

> Ask your parents about their internet or mobile billings. Or the very least check Azures, AWS, Netflix historical pricing.

None of these went 10x. Actually the internet went 0.0001~0.001x for me in terms of bits/money. I lived through dial-up era.

I have a wonderful collection of retro consoles and games that I let my nephews play when I babysit without much worry or trouble. Sure some of it is considered obscene, offensive, gory for today’s standard, but I can definitively say the internet and connected games are far worse but let the modern parent be fooled.

I prevented a lot of IRL fighting over the holidays. I tell them, if they want to fight each other that they can only do so in game (their preferred fighting game is primal rage) and it gets their aggression and hyperactive tendency out. Beyond fighting games they love to battle out in racing simulators like Daytona USA or controller swap Crash Bandicoot and Sonic. They have Switch 2 at home and can play it here as well but it’s not sick as Neo Geo, Sega Genesis/Saturn, NES, GameCube, PlayStation, Virtual Boy, and many others. 67

The biggest benefit of offline gaming is that friends interact IRL. You either get invited or invite friends and have real interaction, share snacks, etc. which often leads to outdoor activities when gaming is a bore or over. We need to bring that back. If the companies are unwilling it’s time to hack the offline switch or speak with our wallet.

Sorry to say but the output hasn’t been this poor. Even in the day of Geocities, marquees galore, we were producing better markup, javascript, and content.