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Yes... My note system will last.
> Could you see yourself using your note-taking app you use today in 30 years?
No, I do not trust apps to last. Therefore I use a simple file system hierarchy to categorize everything. Then I use the best avaliable browser and editor.
My setup is Markor on mobile for browse and edit. Syncthing-fork to get it all into my big system where I run customized Neovim and can make scripts to interact with the data as well as syncing any generated output to the phone.
Having been a Obsedian fan, with similar plug-in fascination, I also experienced the negatives the article mention, and I finally settled with a simple file hierarchy and resorting to as few and basic tools as possible. Obsidian is great, but I didn't need all the features. I need a way to categorize, to quickly find, to edit, and to easily sync and my current setup satisfies that and I'm productive with it. (of course it does not reflect Obsidian's second brain feature, but personally I found that concept to require more work than reward and it wasn't intuitive for me to get accustomed to, but I guess the second brain thing is more like a lifestyle).
What I tried to get at, but wasn't clear about, is that tattoos serve a functional purpose (in your case it seems to partly be an identifier).
Then, specifically, tattoos with the function of fashion, is what likely leads to regret by the general laws of fashion. To quote "Project Runaway": "one day you're in, the next day you're out."
Then, later, CSS Zen Garden was very impressive to me, given my limited understanding of CSS.
It's a function wrapping the functionality of its host environment. Then provides the caller with its own byte code language to execute instructions. The virtual machine translates those instructions to the corresponding real functionality of the host environment (Javascript) upon execution.
This particular case is sophisticated but the idea is simple.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not knowledgeable in this. This is my current understanding of it.
However, political discussions seem to not even devolve from a higher standard, but remain at the most infantile level of emotional outbursts. Oppiniated without interest in analysis. Well... likely exaggerating, but anyway. (perhaps my bias)
The term "rollout" implies a ready-made and well thought-through implementation, but isn't AI itself too new of a technology for that? A rollout indicates to me possible wrong assumptions about the thing. "Successive evaluation and adoption" would be a better strategy. Perhaps the framing of the relationship with AI as "rollout" reflects how decision-makers think of "AI"—through a vague imagination of efficiency that seems self-evident, but actually is not.
But, this inquiry of mine had me sympathize more with the recent political trends, that I otherwise think go too far in certain ways. It sucks to not be made visible---or perhaps purposefully made invisible---in the society you live in.
In this case, hypothetically, if one of the men is openly of another orientation, would he be included in the deck? Would society accept that? No, his orientation should not be mentioned in the card, as his orientation has nothing to do with his occupation which is the focal point of the card, but would society even allow him to be featured to begin with, given he is of another orientation? (These are just suggested questions, I don't ask for answer to them).
I actually do not see the obvious reason. Maybe I missed something. My take is Japan has what some would call a gender stereotypical view. What is surprising to me is how a whole gender is excluded from something that creates much fun interaction and play. It feels surprising especially also when the project is supposed to represent a community. I almost feel bad pointing it out, because the project is so wholesome, but it's simply what I see.
I have a European lense, and I am sure I am not aware of many things of their culture. But, I am struggling to see how it's not a blunt confirmation of typical western feminist critique. Of course, Japanese society may have another cultural framework to rationalize it, where any such critique wouldn't even be recognized to be rational. That, in itself, reflects a possible large discrepancy in cultural views.
(edit: I don't think the creator did any wrong, I think they acted within their frame. Maybe the product wouldn't be as successfully otherwise. My inquiry is at the level of culture and it's undercurrent of values dictating what's successfully and to what degree an artifact is based in cultural values and re-affirm those, well transcending mere artistic choice and artistic appreciation which should be free.)
(edit 2, psychoanalysis: the artist framing males within cards... Males being looked up to... The artist psychologically in perhaps a Lacanian sense, is "looking up" to expressions of the mighty, assertive phallocentric values constituting society. The artist mediating societal core views by making this artifact, enacts those values by admiration, and mediates those values to the right population, boys, who by their mere gender, are both the protectors and the representations of society's core view. I suspect Japan is a phallocentric society more so than not.)
In a democracy, propaganda works, because of weak democratic implementation. If democracy is an ideal able to be realized, it would protect against that.
The burden is on the shoulders of the citizens, culture and state. Without education in the sense of critical thinking, intelligence isn't developed enough to establish democratic structures.
(edit: I have actually been thinking in similar terms as the article, but I do think the article is optimistic and utopian, as if a good intuition would be enough to prevent the very same forces from exploring the reform
Filtering visitors by fingerprint of the browser (cloud flare and palemoon) won't stop bots, but creates a market for more sophisticated bots)
(the article is what it cricisizes. It tells how the author uses it (or not), it is talking about it like everyone else, it is vilifying it like everyone else, etc...)
(it's thus a clever critique by itself being the subject of criticism. The reader senses there is a higher level criticism, but can't really be sure. The reader must even suspect AI wrote it. The reader can sense something... But it's all potentially hollow, like nothing there, just appearance)
Perhaps this is 1998 again, when you could earn big money on creating a visitor-counter service, or a guest book service.
Perhaps, now is the time for a lot of smaller projects with AI, that will, in a few years, all be blasted off the market by big corporations and change in trends.
It’s antithetical to everything programming means to me. I don’t even like the word "coding"... Programming is an art of intellectual precision, and I prefer the language used to talk about it to reflect that.
How do you know you’re a top “vibe coder”? You really dislike what I wrote here. You can feel it in your gut. The "vibe" just isn’t right. </rant>
That's exactly what I would question. Does the author look just as hard in the other direction and, with intellectual honesty, defend those cases? (should he? why? why not?...) My general sense is the "other side" may have experienced similar treatment that is now being complained about. No, I don't mean it is therefore necessarily justified. I really mean that—I do not think it is therefore necessarily justified.
If I side with any of them, either side may decide I'm no longer in the in-group. Rather than either side being right, both have the same potential for corruption, and that's the real enemy.
This is not a specific answer to the effort you offered in explaining the situation. I would have to look deeper into it.
Doesn't matter what side,... An echo chamber is bad regardless. If I want one, I would go elsewhere. Perhaps there's an idea in this community that "we are better than the rest, and can carry out political discussions, because, after all, we are right in our opinions, and we only do it when 'necessary'".
Aren't there a solution, like create HN/pol... Or create a separate TLD for it.
If you are going to have political content, can't there be a way to filter it out?
I limit myself to analyze the political stuff for the sport of pointing out bad rethorics and such, not because I care about either side or any side, but for the sake of analysis.
> Perhaps that’s because most of British academia still can’t get its head around the idea that the US is now an enemy, not an ally, and that the “special relationship” is yesterday’s story.
That's a bold statement. John is using language in a manipulative way. By moving the word "enemy" into a context where it is not justified (is it really war, rather than typical negotiations?), he aims to create a dramatic perspective on a thing that is not obviously dramatic. Drama is the basis of the argument. The cases he brings up do not seem to justify the conclusive dramatic language.
Newcomers may be tempted to maintain the uttermost ignorance of what they are creating, as I imagine "vibe coding" implies, where the height of problem-solving is creating quicker pipes between errors and re-submission to AI to fix those errors.
I'm really glad I learned programming a long time ago, before AI. I use AI more like a tool for getting information (much like browsing manuals, forums, Stack Overflow), but it is, of course, magnitudes better. I still do the conceptual outlining and problem solving, and that is what programming is to me. If there's something I don't understand from the AI, I always query to know how it works. It's even easier now to understand how things work thanks to AI.