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i think only if you contrast it with your own assessment. just using LLM to get an opinion is bad. eg: after reading the article i felt this X. LLM says it's Y. then draw conclusions from that.

myself i found the article contained a bit to much personal criticism. the kind that eg. on hackernews would not be welcome. so i guess i mostly agree with the LLM assessment.

that's awesome. how would you compare rebol3 with red? are there any syntactical differences? or just whats in the libraries? or the architecture, capabilities? as far as i can tell the main difference seems to be that rebol3 is written in C while red is written in rebol2/red itself.

that's what education needs to do. school should not just be about STEM. it should teach values and virtues. that's even more important than STEM because the latter will follow once the kids learned good values

doesn't even need specific CSS rules, just the default. every item needs to be wrapped or even just prefixed with a <p> or <li> element

you missed the most important one: there is no alternative.

and another relevant one: don't have the resources to switch. (cost of research and moving)

and: depend on other people whose mind you are unable to change.

i haven't found any other vpn providers that work like mullvad for example. (i think one has been mentioned here but i'll have to research that one first before i can consider it.)

i can't switch away from whatsapp or wechat because too many people are on there that i can't reach in any other way. my customers are using AWS or google and i am not in the position to change their mind, and i don't have the luxury to fire customers over this.

i recommend you look at the demo scene for a counter argument.

doesn't the recent bun controversy tell a different story?

learning lots of different games would achieve the same objective.

i think video games are to abstract to connect them to learning to think like a computer.

the most useful thing i learned about computers is to create logic gates by hand. nothing gave me a deeper insight into how a computer works than that. programming is the next step up. you can skip all the layers in between because you can extrapolate them. no need to learn assembler, but it may be worth reading about it, just to get an idea.

understanding the layers from logic gates, to assembly, to programming, to games and now AI is kind of like reading about the OSI model to understand networking. it's one layer of abstraction on top of another.

learning programming is worthwhile because it is the highest layer of abstraction that is shared by everything above it. despite there being hundreds of programming languages, the concepts are all the same. once you understand programming through learning one language you can apply that understanding to almost all other languages. on the other hand there are tens of thousands of games in hundreds of types. not to mention all the other applications. the tree of variation explodes at that level.

DMARC demands extra DNS entries that SMTP doesn't need, so there is no reason why DMARC could not also demand an explicit MX record even if plain SMPT doesn't

right, and for all to be able to say no requires education.

i didn't say that there is no other possible future. it's just that this is what i believe is the most likely. science fiction presents plenty of other ideas. if you believe any of those are more likely, please share.

here is my argument:

technology will not stop advancing. for good and for bad. we will not one day realize that we should stop progressing tech and switch to an amish approach to technology. highly unlikely.

other scifi futures involve end of the world scenarios. in my opinion those are not interesting, because if they happen even with survivors humanity is mostly over anyways, so i am not entertaining those. humanity will survive in large numbers.

another option is absolute corporate control. we are kind of heading towards that, but if things go really bad then people will revolt. and either the people win or we have another end of the world scenario. you only need to look at china. if they are to strict, people start protesting. so absolute corporate control is not going to happen.

the last one i can think of is a multi class society. that too is unlikely as we have been going away from that over the last century and i do not believe we'll ever go back.

as you can see from these options, education has the only good outcome. therefore it is the most likely one.

education IS the way of saying "no". it's teaching our children to not do that. saying no to certain tech development is unlikely because there is no tech that only has bad use. not even technology that enables weapons. education is the only way to stop people from abusing technology for bad things.

the fact that it as about a space toilet made it immediately clear to me that this was not your average cleaning job because space toilets are only used in space. so no clickbait at all, in my opinion, but rather a pun on the rags to riches meme.

doesn't work, they don't let you unselect anything. you have to accept everything or pay.

very frustrating because especially a tech magazine like heise should really know better

i believe that in the future technology will be so advanced that protection of privacy is impossible. the only way to counter that is education to respect peoples privacy and very harsh punishments for violations.

i also believe that we will live in a post scarcity world, which means profit is no longer interesting, so any business case for invading your privacy will go away and therefore it will only happen for personal interest.

the key in any case will be education, because without it abuse will be rampant and progress will halt because everyone is going to be suspicious of everyone else.

through a german proxy it works just fine.

it works for me without login or subscription. no idea. but at least i an confirm that the youtube video is the same one.

you also want to open the slides and run them in parallel because the video doesn't show them very well. the slides are linked in the youtube description, but i don't see them linked on vimeo: https://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide

your scope of interest seems to have a lot of overlap with mine. though i may be am aiming in a slightly different direction. i am also coming from the MUD world (for my websites i use a platform that has a MUD like architecture underneath :-), and i have a strong interest in a better commandline. i am less focused on exploring languages, that's more of a side quest.

what i really want is a commandline that works more like jupyter notebooks. each command is its own entity, that can be edited and run again. there is an output window/frame separate from the input/command, just like the jupyter. that output can run anything, graphics, an interactive app, like an editor, even a filebrowser. commands can produce structured data that can be interpreted and visualized... (if only i could find funding for this idea :-)

and, yes, i agree, smalltalk has a lot of potential for this. the downside of smalltalk i fear is that it is to bulky for the average user, and this system need to be able to integratable with unix commands written in any language so the interface needs to be agnostic (perhaps json? and another more suitable for binary data, also apps need to be able to run and display output directly to the screen, not depend on pharo to display).

there was a time when i tried using pharo as a desktop. i used a terminal written in smalltalk, and i was looking at finding or building tools a desktop needs (workspace management, a clock, all these small utilities)

if you have something to play around with, i'd be curious to give it a try.

i suspect the community disappeared and moved to red already before rebol3 opened its license.

but if rebol is still being developed then someone (evidently that's you) eventually did take on the responsibility of maintaining it.

i have no clue here. i even only know about red because i met nenad in china. otherwise this whole ecosystem would not be on my radar)

so tell me, what motivated you to pick up rebol3, how does it differ from red and from rebol2 (the repo mentions making rebol3 as usable as rebol2 which implies that as released it was less usable. why did that happen? they could not open everything?)

one difference i see right away is that red is written in red/rebol whereas the original rebol is written in C. being selfhosting is a major feature for a language in my opinion.

when i read the article i thought that maybe this is where german ingenuity comes from.

but then germany hasn't been doing so well lately, and people who do most of their work outside should also be doing better...

sorry, i wasn't clear. i am specifically talking about excess that needs to be destroyed in order to keep prices up. meaning, artificially reducing the supply by creating waste.

the german approach to this is weird. i agree with your understanding of funding, and so does germany, but at the same time they outlaw state funded press, precisely because it has been abused for propaganda in the past.

that seems schizophrenic. either state funded media can be abused and there should be none of it, or we find a way to prevent abuse, but then that should also work for the press.

even more so as nowadays press is also digital and there is really no difference between a website from a newspaper and a website from other news media. but one can't be state funded, but the other can.

they should sell the fruits. and if can't sell all the fruit then yes, eventually they will need to reduce production.

true. but there is a difference between discarding food that has gone bad because you could not sell it, and discarding it without even trying to sell it because some exclusive contract prevents you from selling, or because you want to keep the price artificially high.

sure, but the market consequence to overproduction is that the price goes down. if you are not allowed to destroy products just to keep the price up then you will self correct in time.

yes, there should be no excess that needs to be disposed. if you produce excess you should reduce production.

that's the same thing.

if you can't throw it away you need to be allowed to sell it.

the point here is sustainable production. the EU is implementing laws around that. if you produce more than what you can sell, then you need to reduce production and stop wasting resources.

ah, good catch. the question now is whether giumarra accepted the termination or not. i could not find that detail in the article. if they accepted it, then my argument holds (note that i am arguing how things should be, not what the actual current law on the matter is). if giumarra did not accept termination then the exclusive contract should still hold. (whether an exclusive contract is fair or not is another topic)

regardless of how the contract is structured, no contract should allow or force a producer to throw products away. this is similar to a law in the EU that forbids producers or distributors of clothing to destroy products they don't want to sell.

once you plant a tree to grow fruit you should be allowed to keep harvesting that tree until its natural end. if there is an exclusive contract then the contract must not be allowed to be terminated before that end unless the grower is free to sell on the open market after termination.

anything else would allow patent owners to hold growers hostage ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶.̶

same, i didn't catch the satire and eventually got tired of the stupidity. the thing is, a lot of people around me are using AI like the person in the story. and they are entirely serious. they are not scientists but they could be writing this article and actually mean it.