yeah, i use that often, eg when a video is slow on a website - at least yt-dlp will shard out multiple piece-downloaders, and I can get the video in a few seconds or minutes, and just watch it. Also great for anonymizing sharing videos - download the actual video, share that. Not an url (:
In much the same vein, I rarely actually watch stuff _on_ netflix, through a browser - I watch sped up, and the quality just degrades. Since I pay for it, I feel nothing for downloading a ripped copy to watch it locally :D
concurrency _is_ parallelism, but for I/O. People often think of parallelism for the case of making something go faster - eg placing two computations in parallel (the definition posed in the video), OR placing two I/O operations in parallel - so this is the keyboard-vs-mouse in the OS, even when you're on one core only; this is multiple web requests in JavaScript, which does not support multi-threading, but 100% does support concurrency for I/O operations - that... badum-tiss! RUN IN PARALLEL.
I get the point of the talk, and it's well interesting, but I think it depends on how one views things.
Makes it way easier for nefarious persons to dupe others with lookalike sites mimicking, eg, google login. People should always check exactly where there's sending login credentials to, or risk account takeover.
I would have read more, but just a few seconds on that site made my eyes bleed. Good grief - both light-colored and low contrast. It's as if the author doesn't want to be read.
And the answer to the actual question posed by the article is simple: money. Big companies made huge bank by offloading risk onto people. Let's not pretend it was anything else.
it's now or never - become McDonaldsLand or stay America.
PS: please get rid of your president - the whole world, which didn't think much of you before, thinks even less of you now, because you elected a trouble-maker racist moron who is so thirsty for attention he'll literally fuck the entire world to get it.
pity it's like "who's line is it anyway?" - the points are meaningless and really don't matter
First, we money is a delusion we all agree to share - it has no intrinsic value whatsoever
Second, stock is an even more-removed delusion based on what people _think_ a company might be worth to buy - a value that changes at the drop of a hat (look at the recent massive dips, eg nvidia)
Third, and this is probably the real bummer - all this delusion is just going to make Smelly Tusk even more insufferable. Yay.
Yes, people are more lonely, but I'd counter with my experience over the last 5 years or so: people at work are simply NOT your friend. End of story. They never were, they never will be. You MIGHT find A friend at work. You might even be lucky enough to move into a company where you already have a friend or two. But the realisation has hit hard over the last few years that 99% of interactions within a work sphere are not genuine human connection. Most are simply data flow to support the business. Some parts are masking fluff that people put up to appear friendly. But with less time spent dazzled by people's social skills, their true intentions come through plainly in their work outputs and reciprocity - most especially the latter is telling: I've stopped being such an eager volunteer to help people (at least, most people) simply because I know I can't expect the same back - and my salary is paid based on _my_ outputs, not those of co-workers, so if they're not going to co-operate, there's little incentive for me to do so.
Company leaders also seem to be even more out of touch with their people as they are no longer forced to fraternise, but can instead remain atop their hills, barking orders and peering out their their foggy scopes at the terrain below. What a wonderful time to be alive - when the socially malleable have their substrate taken away to expose exactly how shallow they are.
1. The perception that linux doesn't matter because it's not a big enough market (that's changing, largely due to valve)
2. The simple truth that it's way easier to wrest control of the machine on windows - for tasks like enforcing DRM and licensing - if y'all look underneath your seats, y'all get a free kernel-level anticheat!
3. WSL doesn't do display well - cli is fine, GUI apps still require some interaction/tricks like remote X or similar (afaik - this could be old knowledge, since I haven't been in windoze land for a long time - at least a year)
4. To be a viable choice for GUI toolkit (really, the thing that's hugely different), one either has to use something that abstracts the underlying api (and often ends up losing something, somewhere, out of a necessity for a standard api) or manually write code for two toolkits (eg native win32 and cocoa is probably already too much for a lot of places, and if they were going to go cross-platform, the easy money is in OSX, not linux - everything there is paid - I wasted around $300 just trying to make a mbp not suck before finally giving up). So either you adopt and learn a toolkit you can use everywhere (eg Qt) and accept the limitations, or you write your own, but that ties you to an OS unless you really had an aim to bother with other platforms, and... see (1)
Mainly: true sandbox separation. I don't want the model having full access to my machine. With a dump format that Claude understands, I'm able to pass only the files I want Claude to see, and he can't break any of them. I don't care about setting up access lists and so on. I don't trust that the cli product will be properly sanboxed and it's quite clear their software offerings are largely aigen code, and I catch bugs from Claude every day. I also get useful stuff, so it's worth it, but definitely not worth it, imo, to grant it any access to my machine.
I've yet to see any masterpieces. I've had a lot of good enough code come out, and some that was blatantly wrong. You still need to be an expert in the domain if you want to use ai codegen effectively. I've been using Claude for a few months now.
cool idea - i can't tell from the page if there's any choice of model (though the name and voices suggest gpt only); neat idea though. Perhaps this is the solution: devs should have a device like this, and pedal to power it. Solves the power problem, also solves the typical "devs need exercise" problem.
and I just upvoted a comment, refreshed, and it's still upvoted - perhaps check your network stack in your browser? Sounds like something isn't getting through and the UI is unaware.
and then, after 6 months with a huge codebase that doesn't work, don't forget to hire a real human to rewrite it - you, personally, don't have to write the code, but someone will have to turn that ball of mud into a product that can be extended.
Recognising this has also made me recognise the real problem of using an LLM without expert knowledge in the domain - if you don't know when it's wrong, you won't know when to push back. So whilst I can be very critical of code outputs, for example, my knowledge of quantum mechanics is so rudimentary that it's practically impossible to push back on conversations about QM. So who knows if my hobby knowledge actually holds any value? The best I can do here, when repeating the information, is to say "at least, that's what the machine says".
I agree largely, but hold up a bit on the statement that getting an LLM to write the code means I never solved the problem. That may be true for a lot of vibe-coders - loops of "write this code" "no, not that", "fix plz", etc. But what I've found is that Claude (at least) does best on small problems that are very well defined - in other words, I have to solve the problem _before_ I can get Claude to produce the code for me, if for no other reason than that the model will model along, and needs an expert on the problem to be able to push back when it's wrong.
So I agree that leaving an LLM churning for a week or two and then claiming that you have a product to sell is tenuous, but I disagree that one can't both use an LLM _and_ understand the solution - it just takes active participation towards that result.
Whilst there's no remuneration involved, I view projects I put up on github (that I also tell other people about) in the same light - so, for example, the largely-ai-written https://github.com/fluffynuts/nestray, whilst designed to scratch an itch of mine, may be useful for others because I've aimed at some level of genericism. Is it a perfect product? NO! But it does what I want, and probably what someone else might want with respect to showing email notifications without requiring any account access (simply reads from local Thunderbird files)
you could enable prompts on download - and set the filename yourself (or just rename after download). Ultimately, naming it yourself is the only way you're going to get names you're happy with.
And, for an encore - stop all the other stupid shit. The rest of the world (and the US) is paying the price for little trump-tantrums, like the one against Iran. He's not a good international leader. He's not even a reasonable at-home president.
functionally the same - and more accurate to use the original title, as Cuba is the one doing the blaming. I don't know why you're standing up for this - it's more bad behavior from a country that sells itself as the savior, and it's not new - they've been doing this (whatever they need to, to change regimes) in other countries for decades. It's shameless bullying, and completely contravenes "the rules" about how to interact with other countries.