Do you really think it would have a sticker price of $17,000 in the US if it were legal to sell?

Social media has been a toilet for a decade, but people keep drinking the shitwater. Making it more turd flavored will do nothing.

Stop it, you’re only encouraging them with your eyeballs that translate into ad dollars

Yes

OpenAI hasn’t even replaced their own developers, and they push out the biggest LLM turd around.

Mixed Mammal Arts?

My #1 pet peeve is when someone comes to me with a problem, and the solution is in the fucking console output or error message.

On a bad day, if I had unilateral power, I would fire those people on the spot.

Mayne pedantic, but:

Everyone seems to think CEOs are the problem. They are not. They report to and get broad instruction from the board. The board can fire the CEO. If you got rid of a CEO, the board will just hire a replacement.

Don’t they use super statically verifiable code for these kinds of applications? Like, Ada?

Whoa I never considered AI inbreeding as a death for AI 🤔

Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you’re not using, but there’s not much incentive to do it and it’d potentially require a lot of engineering work.

Why don’t I just Google. It’s the same data after all.

Try porting a very small bit of behavior into a new tiny library or module that is Typescript based and independently published. Enable the strictness checks in tsconfig - really, really resist the urge to use any, and enforce that any is disallowed in tsconfig. Familiarize yourself with its utility types that really trip new authors up. “Record” comes to mind here, and others that involve generics if you haven’t before worked with generics. Some of the type error messaging can be pretty obtuse - don’t be afraid to paste them into an LLM (or use Copilot enhanced Intellisense) to explain what it actually means. IMO the type violation messaging is a weak dev experience point for new authors, so don’t sweat it if you occasionally “struggle to make the squiggles go away”.

This is why I will never touch Javascript again. Long ago when I worked on web stuff, half my workflow was spent in the debugger tracing garbage to find where a typo was. The industry moved to Typescript, and now assuming the strictness checks are enabled, if some Typescript transpiles successfully, I can be 95% sure whatever fuckup I observe at runtime is a logic problem.

Weakly typed languages were an awful idea. But in general, if the compiler isn’t able to detect most runtime issues (like with C++ here), it’s not going to be the most productive language to use for building solutions compared to smarter alternatives.

You don’t need a teleporter. You just need a plane ticket. Living in many countries (illegally) is as easy as flying in and not flying back. For many, you don’t even need a visa if you pretend you’re only there for a short stay.

Idk, the military industrial boys losing all their foreign customers must not be too happy

Ayn Rand collected social security checks after retirement until her death.

That should tell you all you need to know about Ayn Rand.

They don’t make the money, they take the money.

The idea is to have water or molten salt cool the walls of the torus from outside, and those drive ordinary turbines like any other generator. The main issue is that particles fly out of the confined plasma donut and degrade the walls, whose dust flys into the plasma and reduces the fusion efficiency. They’re focusing on the hard part - dealing with the health of plasma sustainment and the durability of the confinement walls over time. Hot thing that stays hot can boil water or salt to drive regular turbines, that’s not the main engineering challenge. I get your frustration where it feels from news coverage that they’re not focusing on the right stuff, but what you’ll likely eventually see is that the time between “we figured out how to durably confine a healthy plasma” will quickly turn into “we have a huge energy output” much like inventors puttered around with flight for hundreds of years until a sustained powered flight design, however crappy, finally worked. From that point, it was only 15 years until the first transatlantic flight.

Never knew that, wow.