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>If rewrites are so easy, why not rewrite CC in a native language? Would’ve been a hell of a lot cheaper.

Yeah, good question. OpenAI decided to rewrite Codex in Rust about a year ago[0].

In fact, since rewrites are that easy, what do we need Bun for? Why doesn't everybody just port all of their Javascript code into Rust?

[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/discussions/1174

That's a bit insane criticism to lay on him. 37signals is a 27 year old company and Basecamp has been a profitable product for more than a decade.

Success is not measured by the number of people you employ.

Hegseth acts so incredibly stupid that I find it hard to believe he actually exists.

Has somebody seen him live? Did he seem like a human?

Oh wait, actually, now that I think about it, every Claude model would be actually making better choices.

It's standard playbook that they do not create these situations. That would be completely obvious and thus ineffective.

Instead, they pick existing or upcoming trends and make them worse.

Throw into that same fire also every Russian psyop attempt at destabilizing the West. Such as every alt-right/nu-right political party that sprang up over the last 30 years in Europe, brexit, QAnon, climate change denialism, Trump and all of MAGA, anti-vax, etc etc etc.

I suspect that DHH is not so willing to meet at the center. He might be a great software/business leader, but politically he's just another whiner who at best will achieve nothing and at worst will be another Elon Musk.

https://frame.work/fi/en/laptop12 is kinda close

Yeah, it's starting to be a bit idiotic. Some of that stuff is here too.

Where exactly do you think this evidence is? Don't tell me you're basing this on demos like the one in the article?

>All AI fanatics can talk about is cost, productivity, money, efficiency, ... no wonder they can't understand art or even basic human emotions

That's an incredibly myopic way of thinking about other people. Sort of ironic when you imply that you're better at "basic human emotions".

I am. It's meh. People like different things.

Why would you think that soulless slop is the only thing this technology can make?

I'm amazed how easily people dismiss this. They used less that an hour of wall clock time and max $50 to do this.

How much would it take for me to create videos like this? I'm guessing 1-4 years calendar time practicing half an hour every day just to break my lack of talent. Immeasurable cost given how there's no way in hell I'm going to invest that kind of time for a skill I don't actually want to acquire.

Somebody who's actually competent and talented is going to make some pretty amazing stuff cheaply with something like this, and the technology is nowhere near its peak yet.

Wrong framing. I would need a reason to go above 60Hz, since it doesn't look any better to me and just wastes energy.

I'm for very restrictive digital device and service use for children and I also think that 16 is roughly the age when most or all of those restrictions can be lifted.

This is a great example of a thing that's 99% harmful being 1% very useful.

So which should we choose as society, removing the 99% harm or keep the 1% usefulness?

Also we should note that the children in this example were 16 and 17 years old, so above the age of many of the suggested restrictions.

Oh, cool! Thanks for the knowledge.

Huh. I turned on PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 when it became available and didn't notice any change in input lag. Probably one of the many reasons why I'm not a competitive player.

I also don't like to play above 60Hz.

A lot of things that can be done shouldn't be.

Yes, sometimes, and they do not notice because I proofread and edit to remove the worst AI markers and insert my own voice in there.

>they

Don't misgender Tim Bray.

Interesting to see in 10-20 years if this will have a significant impact for the mental well-being and intelligence of young adults. I'm assuming it will be pretty obvious.

Two things are not quite correct in your text:

1. The Council triggered the second reading by adopting its own position and sending it back. You made it sound like the Commission just steamrolled it unilaterally.

2. The scheduling conspiracy is false. Parliament itself voted (331-304) on July 7 to fast-track this. Also, the votes in March and July were pretty stable: 311 against in March, 314 against in July.

Or perhaps it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations and the people with anti-AI sentiment are called "laggards". If so, their amount will likely be near zero soon.

This has happened thousands of times in human history.

>How can we reconcile AI coding a functional X server with the assertions that AI is overrated and we’re in a bubble?

Simple: AI is not overrated at all. Might still be a bubble though, that's an entirely different consideration.

Something is still holding us back though. One would think that we'd have a dozen total rewrites of Linux at this point.

The ability to run Linux properly would be worth about a $1000, if it was reality. But it isn't, so...

I used to believe, but now it seems to me that AMD and Intel will match Snapdragon's efficiency on x86 before that stuff is stable.

This applies to us Europeans too, only that the most likely disaster is permanent unemployment, not a health issue. You americans have had practical full employment for decades.

It's all compromises.

They did. This was an unfortunate reality for Finnish telecom companies before the Ukraine war. Russia was an obvious market and a company looking for profit would be practically forced to try to work there.

As for Jolla, this is about the timeline:

2014 Russia attacks Crimea, temporarily occupies it

2016 Jolla grants Sailfish license to a private Open Mobile Platform LLC in Russia

2018 Rostelecom (state-owned Russian company) buys Open Mobile Platform

2020 Sailfish license to Rostelecom ends

2021 Jolla ceases all business in Russia -- at this point Rostelecom owns 32% of Jolla either directly or via subsidiaries

2022 Russia attacks rest of Ukraine in February

2022 Jolla starts dislodging from Russian ownership. Negotations with russian owners unsuccessful.

2023 Jollyboys Oy is formed, business restructuring of Jolla starts to move assets there

2024 Jolla files for bankruptcy to get finally rid of rest of the problematic ownership

So the current company around the new Jolla phone is technically a new company and has none of the previous baggage, but retains most of the non-russian owners and staff of Jolla.

The time between 2014-2022 was of course kind of problematic, but that was the reality in Europe. We still widely and naively gave Russia the benefit of the doubt back then. It seems to me that after Russia started the war in 2022, Jolla started immediately moving away from there.

Sources:

https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000010451277.html

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

https://suomimobiili.fi/jollyboys-oy-ostaa-sailfish-os-kaytt...

I'm much more interested in the Commodore phone because of its form factor. They chose to use the same operating system as Jolla.

Are you confusing X with Bluesky? I hardly see any porn on Twitter, but all the time on Bluesky.