mikro2nd

That's just the point: nobody knows! It might be my code. It might be your code. Nobody knows who they stole it from.

Good question! Why are you paying for some tool that has always been beholden to some faraway master's opaque agenda?

Your "code that Claude makes..."?

Oh, how I laughed. That was never your code, my friend.

It's not just for profit, it's to save some future, mythical version of humankind! https://netzpolitik.org/2023/longtermism-an-odd-and-peculiar...

Webrings are also seeing some revival. Seems that actual curation by actual human beings is better than algorithmic or "AI" slop.

I'm disappointed. Where's the ashtray?

I'm forced to disagree. Catastrophic failure would be a feature not a bug. "Natural selection against stupidity."

The trouble with that notion is this: imagining that a plastic-based ecosystem arises (horrifying thought!) it means that there are life-forms capable of deriving energy from plastics, breaking them down. That makes plastics useless to us humans, because any time we try to use plastics for all the things we currently do with them, those life-forms are going to come along and attack, break down the stuff we deem "useful plastics"; the critters will make no distinction between nurdles lost on the beach and the plastics holding your car/house/clothes/aeroplane together. i.e. It's Game Over for plastics use.

Beer certainly is an odd one! Some (craft) craft beers will age gracefully -- improving, even -- for years. Industrial lagers... not so much.

I scored once with an imported (Belgian) craft beer at the local supermarket, heavily marked down price because the sell-by date was approaching. Some days later, marked down by half again because the date had passed. Needless to say, I bought all I could carry.

Or he could just sell them as an NFT...

I've never yet heard of any restaurants that serve Soylent or Huel.

In most restaurants the kitchen remains the bottleneck. Tech has not fixed that.

It's a way to get rid of people without looking like you're laying off.

Sadly it's the most competent that leave first and fastest.

Just another vote against Markdown. Markdown is OK for simple docs, but very poor for wiki where inter-page links are the Magic Sauce. Creole markup is a lot better for wikiing imho.

I wouldn't store the file format in the file extension; rather store metadata properly as metadata. Chances are that the application wants to hold a lot more metadata anyway, so you're going to need a metadata storage scheme anyway. (Yes, I am a lone crusader for eliminating metadata from filenames.)

Word of mouth. Chatting with people in my socials, their recommendations/reads, and... blogrolls appear to be making a minor comeback. We're all drowning in the LLM shit, so the only thing we can rely on is each other.

I think the point is that, rather than "requiring everybody on the planet to reevaluate how they interact with a computer", Maggie's idea is that computers should be reevaluated with regard to how they interact with people. Like another person earlier in these comments, I am much more skeptical than her that LLMs are "the answer" to enabling non-professional-programmers to create -- more importantly to modify and compose -- chunks of deeply custom software, but in principle I'm in sympathy with the sentiment. People do care. It's just that almost all software they interact with is deeply brittle, change hostile, black-box. You can change almost nothing about it beyond some superficial tweaks, and composing different pieces of software into a working "something else" is mostly impossible. I suspect that the very notion of an "app" is something we have to get past in order to make progress on this...

"moms and dads using their computers wrong"

What the hell is the "wrong" way to use a computer? Emails, social media and doing your banking?

And why attack "moms and dads"? Speaking as a grandfather, I find it insulting, having used and programmed computers since the 1970s.