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I support this idea if only for how grandiose it is. It gave me many ideas... lets see how many downvotes they may earn.

We could version js, css and html and and <script version="2026"> with a distributed archive of polyfills to preserve all of the well intended left handed screwdrivers, board stretchers, blinker fluids, chocolate teapots, inflatable dartboards and other fool's errands, the entire stampede of white elephants.

An even wilder idea is to move all of the [sound] pro-framework talking points into the browser. People who don't like it can stay in 2026.

But the ultimate vision is to just support all programming languages. <script type="text/COBOL"> <script type="text/FORTRAN"> <script type="application/brainfuck"> etc etc

Back in the days, every time I pealed open a bundle of those paper wrapped wires I had to stop and be amazed how amazingly reliable it was. EVERY TIME

https://www.facebook.com/groups/telecomarchaeology/posts/354...

This just doesn't look like something that will work wonderfully for 80+ years.

If you need a qualified person for a job you need to make some effort checking if they are qualified and then they should be allowed to fail. You can make mistakes measuring qualifications, they can pretend to be more qualified than they are but the actual job can also turn out different from what either expected. If performance doesn't matter after the job interview there wont be any performance. It would be strange if a honest person got the job.

Same goes for voters. That people cherish their ignorance isn't an excuse. You need minimum information. Approving something you didn't read shouldn't count. It's basic signal to noise ratio.

I would force each election program down to a single page. Each voter gets two random programs and we remove the name of the party from it. They stay in the voting booth long enough to read both programs then they chose one. It gets +1 the other gets -1. Each party gets an equal amount of voters.

Then a new government department that reviews if an elected candidate or party is actually doing what they wrote in the election program.

When the election results are in voters provide an approval rating that they can change at any time. This can be a simple app. If they stay below some rating they get a warning and a chance to correct their mistakes, if the rating stays low for some time they are thrown out. The lower the rating the sooner they leave.

Other sensible metrics also lower the rating. Things like leaving the seat empty or being late for your job. Imagine how silly it is that this is even a topic. Not showing up for work?

If we don't count medical situations Nigel Farage is the absolute world record holder. He once missed 77 consecutive UK parliamentary votes over 11 weeks. He also had the lowest attendance records in the European Parliament. For the Fisheries Committee he attended 1 out of 42 meetings.

He provided us a great service by showing one can just do that. The EU created some weak 350 euro bonus system for each day the politician actually shows up. When they showed up only to have their name recorded then left the bonus was reduced by the % of absence.

If you are hired to do any job and chose to not do it you cant stay. If a garbage man doesn't collect the garbage at all they are fired the same day. If they collect [say] ~90% they are fired after a month. You could still pay them if you want but if someone is sick long enough you need to hire someone else or the garbage wont be collected.

The self-driving bus factor.

Camera security use to be a guy looking at 20 TV's. Then came motion detection. Today we can do much more of course. You would have a set of certainly not good situations, a set of certainly good and a set of things a human should look at.

It's of course fine to automatically shut down a few trains per year if it doesn't create a dangerous situation in it self.

Just pay for it? Look, the camera here works just fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuyLs_0C0I

If you can prevent just one of those (and if we ignore injury, trauma and death) it should cover expenses for quite some time.

This question has already been asked?

Pages bloated like myspace make me reluctant to click the search result and I wont browse around if a website doesn't load instantly. Search some exotic kind of bad. That they haven't implemented an LLM is quite untechnological.

It should have an LLM assist with constructing the questions and it should have answers from all providers willing to donate tokens. Upvotes should generate wonderful data on how to construct an answer.

There are all kinds of isolated systems that trigger warnings but the thing that seems to be missing everywhere is a centralized simulation with all the data in it. Or perhaps a series of simulations each slightly further in the future. If any variable changes run it again until it reaches its time stamp.

For example, it shouldn't be possible in 2026 for a vehicle to get stuck on the crossing (with cameras) without the train driver getting a notification. You can even power down an entire track if it's obstructed. You might not want self driving, self breaking seems quite desirable.

Oh, but it's very simple. You have elections, you collectively don't vote for the uniparty, you raise the minimum wage and then they will pay.

One can pretend it is very very complicated and invent many excuses. One can pretend not to notice only the uniparty is promoted on the Tee Vee and in the old media. One can pretend it doesn't cost many millions to pull the wool over your eyes.

Surely if increasing the minimum wage was impossible they wouldn't need to do all that? They would keep the money in their pocket. Apparently those with absolute control over everything experience it quite differently? They seem to still believe you can change things.

Electrolytes

I always go with: It is your job to answer. The extended version: If you don't like it you can search for a different job where you won't get questions from me.... but there probably will be others with similar questions or even harder ones. etc basically go on endlessly about the hypothetical them working someplace else. Next time it happens I return to the subject.

Then a coworker showed an even more sophisticated version of the same joke. He created a nearly identical relationship but he would look for job offers matching their resume and pitch them. Look, this is closer to where you live and the pay is better!

If anything it got worse. We've been looking at those icons for so long now that if you change it I'm not going to be happy.

Should even be possible to have an AI operate the computer, screen record the application and build a document that looks identical. Build them on demand with a cache.

Excel xlsx, xlsm, xlsb, xls, xltx, xltm, xlt, xlam, xla, xlw, xml, csv, txt, prn, dif, slk, ods, xps, dbf

https://www.onlyoffice.com XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV, TXT

https://www.libreoffice.org ods, ots, fods, xlsx, xlsm, xls, xlt, xml, csv, dif, dbf, slk

But I'm much to impressed by Modern CSV

https://www.moderncsv.com CSV, JSON, XML

I like CSV for not trying to be an incompetent version of SQL

This is exactly what I've been thinking for decades.

I once made a proof of concept. Wikipedia use to have static menu entries. I had a greasemonkey script that hides some of them them.

For entries that shouldn't be hidden the line that hides them is commented out.

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/170442

Then I had a form that let you pick which ones you want. It spit out a gm script with all entries commented out except from the ones you wanted to keep.

https://go-here.nl/gm/wikipedia-clean-up.php

I also wrote this as a joke.

https://neanderthal.go-here.nl

When a link or button is clicked the server return a js file that contain one function. Then it executes the function.

To borrow your example, when you've picked the functionality you want in your note taking app a version number like 1.0.0.unixtime can be generated and stored so that you can later populate the config form with the chosen configuration and add or remove things.

Or you could do something with a config file to populate the form again.

An LLM can also modify a config file. Before execution it can be validated, as it is so simple it can show which mandatory entries are missing, which ones are spelled incorrectly.

If you provide the LLM with the html form or the config file (+docs) it shouldn't have much difficulty generating exactly what you wanted.

As the application has now been turned into ravioli it also addresses the ancient puzzle of separating feature updates from security updates.

You can still introduce a new gui that confuses the hell out of users. Then if no one checks the box you can take your learnings from it without 1000 people having to tell you in 500 different places.

[] Icons? [] Text? [] Icons AND Text?

In this case you can just let it fail. I suspect people on archaic browsers are much more likely to prefer it that way.

The joke is that those who react have no idea and those who don't have no idea either. I never use react so I'm going to have to go with: Those other companies are also just bad. (joking) If everyone can work with/without it should be fine? As long as you don't try to do both.

For this specifically I would have the "you have upvotes" banner in the dom already with a class display:none.

I consider it a huge advantage to have the code for both the counter and the banner in the same place. thisCounter++; thisBanner.className = "shown";

I gave your resume to the B-9 HR bot and it said you should be escorted off the premises. "DANGER DANGER!"

don't search, ask an llm. Ask it to keep it as simple as possible and have it explain the tags you've forgotten.

.htaccess

    <If "req('Content-Type') =~ /multipart/i">
        Require all denied
    </If>

It would be lovely to trim or get rid of the ruling class but that is far more ambitious than to somewhat guard our political machine from their influence. They will of course still have influence, it just wont be their flavour of direct democracy where they always get what they want.

We should at least try to be a somewhat worthy adversary if only to keep things interesting.

> I say we roll out america.gov decision models trained in public, deployed in public, built around a legal philosophy of immutable rights to shelter and healthcare and the related technology development and have it bubble initiatives for public vote that don't violate the core legal rights

We have the water boards in the Netherlands that are independent governing bodies with their own taxes and elections. They didn't get absorbed by government because people don't trust generic elected officials. I find it absolutely fascinating because it's so incredibly boring. Their job is to manage everything involved in living below sea level.

It shows that government doesn't have to be one giant hierarchical organization arguing over one giant budget. You can use the formula to house this legal philosophy and make it reasonably immutable. Place it outside the control of the generic political battle ground.

Just having a bunch of obvious static values would already stop the most crazy modifications like making corporations into people and money into speech, how male and female should be defined. As if they ran out of real work.

It would be interesting to see an entire philosophy bolted into place.

> This whole Mr Rogers touchy feely kid gloves for the professional managerial class

I'm most offended by blurring the entire spectrum from incompetent and corrupt to brilliant and hard working.

When they privatized the National Address Database I picked a cheap provider thinking it would be fine but now my street is blocked off and they are digging to disconnect my utilities because they say some suspicious activity happened in the street and the address is no longer supported. They cant tell me what is exactly going on right now because I'm not on the premium boutique pro road tax system which is $1 more expensive and has a random chance to win a support ticket. Usually they find nothing suspicious but this waiting in my car for a week is really annoying. I cant even fill my taxes now.

I'm happy it isn't state enterprise tho as that would probably be even worse.

Of course!

I don't know how hard you work but assuming you enjoy accomplishing something, did you ever have a job where a substantial % of the employees are trying to cut all corners?

In my current job, for two months, two employees have been to lazy to drive 2 hours to bring tools. People working there will simply not do the work. They won't report it to higher ups because the first question will be: Why didn't you report this two months ago? I grind them every day but wont report them either as there is nothing to gain for me.

This is exactly how governments works.

I wrote a web app, I put some screenshots into an LLM and instantly know who isn't working, for how long or at what point they cant continue and how long ago they should have known. It paints a preposterous picture but it is currently only useful for job security.

Not enough room here to write out the manifesto but in short: it depends on the stakes and on how secure you can monitor the data. In general we never have enough resources, if we have just a little bit more more people will live [longer] and lives may be improved. A little bit of corruption will only ruin a few lives. A good scheme will kill millions. That they get away with it is not even half the problem, you end up encouraging repetition and eventually end up normalizing it. Securing the data properly is important or people become afraid to act when they should.

If you catch them early enough you might not even persecute, if the members of the organization act suspicious enough the next contract could go to someone else or you might discontinue on the spot. When someone proposes the bribe you get a notification that your employment is under review.

People tasked with enforcement can go straight to prison when they fail to arrange your hearing or your day in court.

Earnings to match the working conditions of course and the conditions should be clear from day one.

I disagree, I want all of my decision-making government employees monitored and logged 24/7 complete with a peeping tom AI to sort the recordings by suspiciousness and performance with accurate potentially large bonuses on large time delays.

seems a good price to pay, it gives that guy something to do before he can switch off the server/product.

I'm a really slow reader. Had some hilarious conversations with fast readers. They really enjoy fluffy low density content. I ask what is on the page they just read and their first reaction is to look at it again. I describe barely related thoughts I had reading the page, the character of the author from their choice of words, they look at me as if I've done just the thing you aren't suppose to.

Some flavor of support/lifespan real or imagined.