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I totally agree that just because everyone gets an app it doesn't mean they like it. Or that because an app is popular it doesn't mean that a majority of people have installed it.

Here's the thing. I'm also willing to believe that people are happy to say they don't like something that they are happy to use. I'm even willing to believe that people have reasons to say they don't like something that they actually do in fact like.

Honestly? How about, They're all about how _you_ use them.

yeah, ask people what they think of LLM's/AI and a majority are split between either disliking it or fearing it or maybe both.

Then look at see what the most popular phone app is. Muse. Followed by competitors from Claude, Anthropic, Google , X.

Nobody likes it and everyone wants to use it.

Personally I'm opposed to capital punishment but the best line I heard about this was - why didn't they just ask Canada how to do this right?

Why is it here?

I'll be dead before it's possible but heck yeah. I'd miss going outside. I suspect there'd be annoying compromises on the atmosphere inside the habitat (presumably it'd be like living inside an airliner in that regard).

On the plus side though - what if they have swimming pools? Swimming around in less then 1G. I would definitely at least visit if they had that.

I understand that the rate of return on storage units is around 10%. Just saying that there's gold in them hills.

My favorite keyboard was one that came with HP PC's ... in the late 90's I think. It had a split space bar. I think the deal was the right half of the space bar was the space bar and the left half was the backspace key.

Using it was like a magic trick. Words would just get a character truncated and merge. I could watch my fingers type and I would know what I had to do and my fingers would just merrily go on and do whatever they wanted.

There was some youtube video about a guy who set up a bike that had the turning backwards - you turned right and the front wheel went left. The funny part was that with a lot of effort the guy managed to teach himself to not be able to ride a normal bike.

I liked‘A City On Mars’. That said I think it didn't have the right sense of scale. The Weinersmith's offered up a bunch of reasons why the eponymous city would never be possible but I think the most important bit - which they would concede I think - is that it's not Never but rather not any time soon.

200 years? 300? Timescales like that are going to create solutions to all the problems they listed. It's why they spend time knocking people suggesting we'll have boots on the moon in 50 years.

The modest stuff being done now - say setting up something equivalent to the various Antarctic bases on the moon seem like a reasonable step today towards something in the future.

How much do you think is spent on Golf every year world wide? 100 Billion? 200?

I'm probably as skeptical as most about a Martian colony - to my mind it's 100's of years but will almost certainly happen in that time frame. That said the amount that's being spent on it happening today seems about right.

I would also say that the money being spent now is working at engineering problems. Most (All?) of the vital underfunded problems on Earth that you allude to are political problems. I'm not saying money can't solve them but they are way more complicated.

Economies don't always work that way - just as win/win situations really exist so do lose/lose situations.

I call Michelangelo!

See Mark Kleiman's - When Brute Force Fails. The book mentions the Hawaiian HOPE project. The dealt with parolees by punishing violations with immediate mild punishment (i.e. you're back in jail over this weekend)instead of allowing violations to accumulate over time and then coming down on the person like a ton of bricks ( on your 10th positive urine test you go back to jail for a month).

I's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

By this logic Trump's administration is centerist.

None of that requires AI. Heck, it doesn't even require computers.

If you had a time machine would you go back in time and kill the Wright brothers?

All of this stuff starts with "A person uses AI to do X" I mean no doubt but you don't actually need AI to do any of it.

I'm still not convinced AI destroying humanity is not in the same bucket as Linux taking over the world. Could Linux take over the world? Sure but I don't think it means what the statement might seem to imply.

There will be resource constraints. Who prioritizes within those constraints?

Nah - the fix was some config in the unit file that would bring up the bonded interface but not try to get an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

I'm not opposed to the use of AI in programming but sometimes it seems like there's a direct relationship between the amount of thought and understanding that went into a project and the reliance the coders had on AI to build the thing.

Ah NEC. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I used to have an NEC monitor.

I think it's somewhere in the process it was asked "what's the most compelling written text?" The answer was things from great speeches "Ask not what you ..." and so on.

And that really is great and compelling. However. Great and compelling is not what I'm looking for when my question is, "Systemd-networkd is pulling an ip address for a bonded interface that only exist as a 802.1Q trunk. How do I make it stop that?"

What you're saying is exactly the question isn't it? I've seen polling on opposition to data centers and "I hate AI" isn't a majority reason. It's more like 15%.

The reasons people give are higher electric bills, water shortages, and environmental damage.

I think that those reasons are spurious but I also think that for some issues facts don't make much difference. People will have opinions about things that are totally at odds with facts.

Do they? I mean so much of learning (certainly of school) is along the lines of "this is the way it is, don't worry about first principles just accept this"

If there's learning how to think stuff going on I'm not sure I want the schools doing that, it seems more like the job of parents.

Imagine if you had! You might be the 100X JavaScript writer.

More seriously everyone knows there are patterns that keep repeating themselves from low level on up. The more exposure you get the better you get at understanding them. I think there's a reasonable question about if the best methodology for understanding is to see the same thing repeatedly (that is just study JavaScript) or to see multiple variations on the same thing (that is learn the entire stack imperfectly).

The counter to this in my mind is that learning for it's own sake is often imperfect. If I know I'm learning about semiconductors simply to get on to learning Assembly and then JavaScript (my actual goal) I'll retain less then if the initial steps are the goal itself.

Pedagogy is a tricky thing.

Some of my best friends are lactose.

That Ars these days. They want attention and this is the way their audience wants them to do it.

Personally I'm a bit bummed out about it because there's less that I want to read and the articles make the comment section... well, like the articles. I shouldn't complain though - someone took note of where the traffic was and it wasn't people like me. Also I still visit the site, it just seems like there's for me.

Meta can't literally force this on people.

The idea that looking around would instantiate ads sounds pretty bad. (though the devil's advocate position would be - compare that world to the one we live in today where the ads are viewable to everyone all the time). For that to happen Meta couldn't force people to buy it, the product would have to be so compelling that people wanted it despite that. Think about how good that product would need be?

I read about an experiment with pigeons. The birds were given a target. For one iteration if a bird pecked a target it would get a piece of corn. For another it got nothing and for a third... sometimes it would get piece of corn and sometimes it would get nothing.

Tech for me is that third variation. Sometimes you get nothing and sometimes it totally delivers (and more!) on what it promises. This is as a user and even as a provider. You take various bits and bobs and suddenly with a slightly clever idea and you've got something that's more then the sum of the parts. Sometimes. Other times it just never comes together.

I'm not sure if that makes me happy or sad. Bit of both I suppose but I keep going back to the well because you never know.

They aren't. It's still being looked into.