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Russia has strong allies in US and Europe. US has stopped supplying ammunition to Ukraine and Europe did not pick up the slack, so I don’t think Russia is delusional, they are just planning ahead.

Russia is invading a European country as we speak and openly claims ambitions to control all of the Eastern Europe at least (see Putin’s ultimatum of 2021).

He kept it legal. https://apnews.com/article/ea3d87fb8ef741c3bc255f1921892c9d

How long will EPA survive? Trump promised to bring asbestos back last time. Will probably do it again if re-elected.

The expectation is that the price of AI bots will go down and get below the human-driven click farms we have now and thus make fighting bots too expensive because identifying humans gets harder every day.

That’s why we can’t have nice things. Are we at the end of Eternal September? Will all the signs of human life be restricted to paid or otherwise closed groups? If all free users are bots, who will even run ads that feed the Web 2.0 internet?

I still have fear that the real internet has already split from what I see and I was left behind.

More like people who can afford houses want bigger houses. If selling more affordable smaller houses made more profit then they would be sold.

Nice. I get why “Russian” is an insult again, but “Irish”?

You could block ads on the internet for a while, the problem was not in the technology, but have the desire and being literate enough to block ads.

The Adblock-Ad delivery arms race had not begun in earnest. So far browser manufacturers have made some movements to curb the adblockimg ability and some websites have rudimentary Adblock detection tech. This is nothing compared to spam, captcha and SEO arms races.

It crazy how they so eagerly hasten their own destruction of a short-term profit. As China becomes stronger their bargaining power weakens. What use will China have for them once it moves up the technological ladder? Only screw-ups of Chinese leadership like single child policy or too aggressive foreign. policy might prevent China from becoming the by far the largest economy now. What will US business elite do then?

The worst thing about Itanium is that it killed DEC Alpha, high-performance MIPS and some other arches I keep forgetting about.

Too much private information collected for that ads will be catastrophic sooner or later. I don’t think that people got the real wake-up call yet. For example imagine someone getting addresses of all the Jews in town and doing something nasty. Before that you needed a lot of people to gather info for such an operation, now the information part will be trivial, but there is still an IRL part. Or getting the names of all people with severe peanut allergy and adverting them something with undisclosed peanut consents. I think there just have not been a sufficiently motivated actor to cause hard beyond making you buy more, selling scams, paying more through individualized pricing or discriminate based on some parameters.

Wait, so you think that pharaohs were overthrown by a popular uprising? Xi, Kim and Putin sit pretty sturdily in their sits.

For how long? The authoritarians have deeper pockets than ever and democrats (lower case d) are struggling.

100 oligarchs can own everything and trade among each other to fulfill their megaprojects. Does a pharaoh care who built his pyramid? Or spaceship? The workers will still be needed to laugh at their suffering. Unless robots get better than humans even at that.

Thanks, that comes in very useful from time to time. I thought that got disabled. Chrome did double checked that I know what I’m doing with a popup, I hope this is not a sign this will get deprecated.

I miss 3D Touch too, it was faster than waiting for a long tap.

No way Japan would have been able to consume the USA even if Midway was lost. A ground invasion of the US? How do you imagine that?

Still a very important battle and a gripping story.

Itanium killed enough competitors by sheer announcement that it might have been a positive for Intel in the end.

The choice of often being homeless or that. And then you’ll berate them for being lazy.

To be fair you can't drop a caret (the edit cursor) into non-editable text in most desktop applications as well. And that's a missed opportunity there too. I think Chrome got less agreesive in changing your selection to match word bounaries, but it was very annyone for a while. I think you could void it by holding Shift, but that had some other side-effects in some pages.

I still lament the effective death of physical phone keyboards, but it’s decided by the users already, apparently. The new generation got used to be typing on the screen and don’t even know what they are missing. Same with gaming: the gamepad with horrible accuracy that mandates autoaim and limited number of buttons became standard. I can’t do fathom it, but people who grew up gamepads see no issue.

You can long-press spacebar on iOS to get a trackpad-like behavior. And you can tap somewhere else to even select like that. Awkward, but it works.

You can use that for selection as well, tap somewhere else on the keyboard. Used to be even better with 3D Touch, you did not have to wait for the long press to register.

You have a subscription for the indoor lighting through the electricity bill already. It’s more pay-as-you go though.

Maybe you can run out of other people labor after all.

There is bootstrapping process of learning which authors in that field have good reputation before you know anything about the field. That is being disrupted by LLMs as well, though.

An interesting point. I wonder what is the best self-hosted alternative is. There is a need for vintage web for vintage machines, and that includes email services.

What’s the fuss about spam? You can distinguish it from useful mail? What’s the fuss about traffic jams? You’ll get there eventually.

The LLM allow DDoS attack by increasing the threshold needed to check the books for gibberish.

It’s not like this stream of low quality did not exist before, but the topic is hot and many grifters try LLMs to get a quick buck at the same time.

If you ask LLM something you know you can distinguish noise from good output. If you ask LLM something you don’t know then how do you know if the output is correct? There are cases where checking is easier than producing the result, e.g. when you ask for a reference.