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Well Al Gore famously invented the internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/01/11/al-gore-inv...

But more usually, companies want politicians on the board because they have political connections which they can tap to the company’s advantage.

And never will (for any reasonable human lifespan-reflecting definition of "never")

There's also a survival bias in that we don't consider the appliances from yesteryear that packed up back when disco was king.

Have you ever met a baby? They're nothing like an LLM. For starters, they learn without using language. By one year old they've taught themselves to move around the physical world. They've started to learn cause and effect. They've learned where "they" end and "the rest of the world" begins. All an LLM has "learnt" is that some words are more likely to follow others.

I dread to think what the insides of that adapter look like.

Also relevant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/N...

Typing also has the advantage that several people doing it in the same room at the same time don’t interfere with each other. A train carriage full of people texting is considerably less annoying than the same carriage full of people chattering away with their voice assistants

Yes.

I am not a lawyer, but if I recall correctly there are three types of law : statute (what parliament legislates), common law (that which has built up over the centuries as "just the way we expect the law to work" and precedent ("this was unclear at one point but courts down the years have been convinced that what it means is x"). Appeals are usually on the basis that the court has misunderstood or misapplied the law and the outcome of these appeals form the precedents for future cases.

Unfortunately we're not all multi-billionaires.

It's hilariously buggy too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRS-ilp_Sf4

If I know anything about software dev, it'll be someone at Bleeper who fat-fingered something in their haste to get the weekend started.

That’s the exact same problem with three nouns changed.

I enjoyed using ServiceStack. Write your data model in the C# API, run a tiny CLI command and it spits out Typescript definitions to match your data model.

https://docs.servicestack.net/typescript-add-servicestack-re...

I finished reading Bullshit Jobs (1) and then went to work in one on Monday

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

Happy memories of downloading programs broadcast by BBC Radio in Basicode 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE

Save you a click : yes, they did.

> StumbleUpon was free, your product is $2.99/mo.

What could be more modern than that?

Curious take. I mean, I've been building websites since the late 1990s and I agree that there are very few people working today who understand the whole stack but that's because it is more complicated now. But it's a big leap to suggest that that's down to sexism (and I'm not denying that sexism in tech is a real problem). I'm not at all convinced that "front end developer" and "web designer" are the same job. They both still exist as separate roles. Some people can do both, same as some people do frontend and backend web dev. But they're not the same role.

And yet it happens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47720887

Try this one : https://free-for.dev/

Its associated Github repo shows updates as recently as yesterday

No. I'm pointing out that (a) it's not marked as being from 2002 and someone would therefore assume it was some newly discovered backdoor and (b) there's no context or commentary as to why it is relevant in 2023.

Also, on closer inspection the story is from 1997 https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1

Dupe (2002!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859581

With no context, I don't know why this is front page news today. Am I missing something?

Way to generalize.

Really confused as to why 30,000 businesses would want to pay forty bucks each for the output of a large language model. It’s maybe one step up from an infinite number of monkeys but an insane distance away from market research.

99% sure it is.

Looks like the images are being served by Netlify (according to the HTTP headers).

Strange choice of name given that there's already a well-known Pi in the computing space.

I know. That’s not what I said.

There’s also a difference between how you’d like the world to be and the way the world actually is.

In your mind, maybe. In the real world, the actual words of the statute are important.