kristiandupont

>All this worry mongering about Trump / MAGA is just political ignorance

You are saying this as if it hasn't had very real consequences already?!

I don't think I've heard anyone suggest U.S. boots on the ground.

>Much of the world is now at the mercy of the United States

Yeah, and the world is going to react. This situation might benefit the US economically in the short run but it sure won't in the long run.

That's not the impression that I (as a Dane) get, far from it. But it just doesn't matter that many people in the US are upset, they are as powerless as we are in Europe.

I am honestly trying to figure out what you are arguing here. GGP didn't say something like "This is what everyone in England sounds like: ..."

If you enjoyed this as I did, you might enjoy John Tottenhams Inertia Variations: https://johntottenham.com/category/inertia-variations/

I prefer them read by Matt Johnson: https://open.spotify.com/album/67crhBYB2f2xIiZWSDsFvI?si=GLZ...

>All of this adds a considerable amount of mental overhead while developing

Not in my experience.

>Marketing wins

TIL that I have just been manipulated and that my joy of using it is really just ignorance. Good to know.

In my experience, after now something like 5 years of using Tailwind in projects large and small, it scales reasonably well. You just do what the authors suggest: encapsulate styling in components instead of CSS classes.

Now, that isn't quite the panacea it can sound like. The standard components like buttons and dropdowns are solved quickly and then you have the unusual components that always show up here and there, which are more likely to stand out. But, that was my experience with BEM/Bootstrap/whatever before that as well.

I guess, but that has certainly been a huge relief in my personal experience.

How so? That doesn't seem true to me at all.

>This is a child-like representation of the conflict

No, it really is that simple. Similar to WWII. There are good and bad guys here.

Oh come on, are you seriously being blasé about this? What could ever impress you?

The how should be, but the why might not be. I think comments should explain choices, especially ones that I am likely to question when returning to the code later.

Contrived perhaps, but it was an example that was supposed to demonstrate the benefits to those long names. In my opinion, it did the opposite.

>nuclear disasters feels scarier

I am in favor of more nuclear power and I know very little about the field, but this argument never resonated with me.

If the Chernobyl series paints a reasonably realistic image of what could have happened had they not contained the melt down, we are talking "better part of a continent being uninhabitable for thousands of years". When that is the potential risk, comparing death counts from non-catastrophic scenarios isn't what we should be looking at.

(Just to say that I went to your profile to check out your writings but found no link!)

Like GP, I feel that I might be imagining imagination here, but I really don't follow what this is supposed to reveal.

>Would you call the replica "I"?

The two would start out identical and immediately start to diverge like twins. They would share memories and personality but not experience? What am I missing here?

>Not only is it a good thing to replace jobs or partial jobs with automation, it is the only way that humanity moves forward for the long run!

The fact that this has been true so far doesn't mean it always will be. It seems perfectly possible to me that there is an actual peak, after which human happiness will decline with increased advancements.

I wish that the Crank library (https://crank.js.org/) would get more attention. It takes everything in the exact opposite direction, which in my opinion is much more promising. But alas, it just doesn't seem to be catching on so I don't see an ecosystem ever really evolving there.

>I'm one of the people who "feel that government isn't working for them."

In what way is that? I feel that a lot of people who say things like that expect the impossible and don't actually realize how extremely privileged their lives are from all of what a modern society offers them.

>Can it refactor a simple function?

Certainly, I do that several times a day.

I had a similar insight (blog post: [link redacted]).

In a very unscientific way, I would say that the LLM is not the whole brain, it's part of it and we are still in the process of simulating other parts. But it does seem to me like we've solved the hard part, and it's astonishing to me that people like authors of this article seem to think that the current state of things is where evolution stops.

Other companies don't say EEE (MS also doesn't anymore, as far as I know), but that doesn't mean they are any better. In fact, I would say that Apple is far more guilty of doing this than MS is these days. But even so, what is the alternative? If MS creates any good product, people will accuse them of being at some phase in EEE, which is unfalsifiable.

MS doesn't care about Linux any more like they did in the 90's and 00's.

I don't disagree, but

>You don’t need an iPhone with AGI. You just need a 5G device with a screen, connected to an AGI.

..it seems that that is exactly what the iPhone 20 or whatever will be?

You could apply this analysis to any of the other big tech innovations like operating systems, search, social media, ...

MS threw a lot of money after Windows Phone. I worked for a company that not only got access to great resources, but also plain money, just to port our app. We took the money and made the port. Needless to say, it still didn't work out for MS.

>no victim means no crime

If you feel entitled to redefine the word "crime", that is.

Sure, and the screen in text mode was 80 x 25 chars = 2000 bytes of memory. A new phone has perhaps three million pixels, each taking 4 bytes. There's a significant difference.

I get that sentiment, it's not like I would put everything on display indiscriminately.

However, a statement like this "they might glean the nature of your thoughts", strikes me as .. lonely, if nothing else. I want privacy from Facebook and the general public, etc. But people that I invite into my house are people I am going to have conversations with and I want them to know the "real me", whatever that means, or at least a closer approximation of it. I certainly wouldn't want them to think that my political beliefs are something completely different from what they actually are.