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And that was true, within his context as senator. He was instrumental in passing the laws that fostered the Internet.

It’s astonishing, I know, but the heavily-parroted meme was always reductive and is, at this point, misnformation.

Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.

… like those ICE guys terrorizing all the Latino guys.

… and the white guys they don’t like, like nurses with empathy. Don’t you dare think you’re safe because of your color. Unless you’re a monster or willing to become one, they want you oppressed.

Seems like being directionally right early that AI would be a Big Deal and scary should count for something?

Only if it was an uncommon prediction; otherwise, it’s just evidence of common sense.

The custom is dying with the veterans

You might want to update your knowledge.

…but is exhausting at volume from most small aircraft you see. I say sadly, as an aviation geek; we can do better!

Not believing that AGI is possible is irrational and unscientific imo

This is an objectively wrong opinion.

I grew up in southern CA, in a dry pine forest. I can assure you the children I knew traded and set off fireworks. We were all envious of the families who brought them back from Mexico — they had the best stuff.

I guess rules-followers assumed we were all doing as they did.

It’s a cultural difference you’re unaware of, not an error.

I did retire somewhat early but also somewhat involuntarily and only after a somewhat fruitless search.

Nobody said it was.

Because honorary degrees are not credentials.

We must find a way to return to SNOBOL/PITBOL. It’s so elegant and effective in Ada (where it’s in the standard library).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL

In the 1980s and 1990s, its use faded as newer languages such as AWK and Perl made string manipulation by means of regular expressions fashionable. SNOBOL4 patterns include a way to express BNF grammars, which are equivalent to context-free grammars and more powerful than regular expressions. The "regular expressions" in current versions of AWK and Perl are in fact extensions of regular expressions in the traditional sense, but regular expressions, unlike SNOBOL4 patterns, are not recursive, which gives a distinct computational advantage to SNOBOL4 patterns.

Oh, well better let them destroy everything with greed then. Wouldn’t want to break, like, five eggs to save every other egg in the world…

The ethics become laughably simple, with as far as they’ve taken the resource imbalance. They should be very worried.

Thanks for recommending this! It’s looks exactly to my taste, but I hadn’t heard of it.

...but what do you do with it? Play emulators?

Yep!

The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it …

Not quite as many as [every 2D home or portable console]. For instance, I enjoy [dozens and dozens of Nintendo games], but there are thousands of others to choose from.

more open choice because it forces the project

A true morality must be based on consent, not coercion. Humanity may not be there yet, and therein lies the argument for force (and thus copyleft); but the ultimate goal should always be to reduce its necessity.

I just wanted to let you know my career ended in 2008, directly due to the global recession, and it never restarted despite intense effort.

Your feeling that “everything will return to normal” is not actually rational.

the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful

That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can imagine someone else being nostalgic for it.

Your speculation is that their competitors would naturally not see a commensurate increase in instability while “only” handling 20% of the same crisis?

I don’t buy the excuse. I want to hitch my wagon to those “mysteriously lucky” competitors. (And have. And haven’t had similar issues to Github, since.)

No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.

Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.

It wouldn't surprise me if AMD is scaling back their free offerings due to the impact on support.

They’re welcome to hamstring themselves in the market; it’s just not a smart move.

News to me… share a link?

And also the sky is red rather than blue.

in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product

I’m really curious what gave you this impression. Vivaldi doesn’t hide its business model, yet you were so confident!

Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies

SELinux is a bear when you’re reacting to it, but ever since I took a day to proactively read about it, it’s become much easier to reason about. It’s not actually all that complex.

I still need to troubleshoot from time to time, but I never reach for permanent setenforce 0 anymore.

But earlier:

The question is why are you so eager to give critique on unrelated work, appearing in a demo screencap, to someone who didn't produce it?

I guess the question was actually, why were you so eager to critique a critique based on a false assumption?

I wish people would be careful what they support with their rhetoric.

And as we know, GitHub Stars are the same as truth. Very persuasive.