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Kind of sad that they didn’t work out. I really wish German industry had a little more willpower to get things done instead of giving up so easily. That’s one strength of the US. They just keep marching forward and have enough investors that are willing to take the risk.

“For me” seems to be the keyword here. From what I know it works for most Brave users.

My Brave installation blocks YouTube ads on iPhone and Mac. Every few weeks there is a day where the ads show but the next day they are gone again.

PR for good things doesn’t make money.

I feel if you still architect the code and guide the LLM, it will do a pretty good job. Maybe one day the LLM will be able to do all the system architecture but that’s probably still quite some time out. I don’t even know if that’s possible considering different business needs and other factors that aren’t technical.

I don’t know. From my experience I get pretty good descriptions of PRs if I ask the right questions and provide some context.

“ put them on UBI”

Never, ever will they do that. It’s the same bullshit like Musk telling people not to save for retirement. He can distribute his stock by now but instead he is grabbing on to more money.

If there will be UBI, it will be the absolute minimum to not starve. Basically the same as welfare now. No way they are going to share the wealth.

The US has the same attributes that most European countries have. Just to a different degree. Socialized healthcare (for some), welfare, free markets (with restrictions), the state heavily involved in steering the economy . It’s all the same just with emphasis on different aspects. The US would be way better off if they accepted that fact and didn’t tell themselves that they are so different from these socialist/communist countries.

A lot of the inefficiencies in areas like health care comes from the fact that the US does things that they don’t really want to accept that they are doing them.

Losing Ive was probably a good thing for Apple. I often feel that after a few years these big guys have done what they could do and somebody else can take it from there. So far even losing Jobs didn’t hurt Apple as it looks.

I used one last time I was in Silicon Valley and I was super impressed with its driving. Very confident and felt super safe.

I can’t wait for broader adoption of self driving cars.

It's a little weird but the teams and the sports leagues are basically just corporations that engage in show business. They have no real connection to where they are located.

The crazy thing is that the best case is that the city will hopefully break even i all the promised benefits materialize. In most cases they don't. I bet if they hired a good VC to invest the same money into maybe 50 startups they would have a much higher change of a good ROI. But then the same people who accept sales tax increases for the sports team would probably be complaining about the tax burden.

The whole tax incentive business is a big race to the bottom. Sports teams also abandon their taxpayer funded stadiums once somebody else offers a better deal.

It was probably the same (imaginary) people who damaged the lining of the Reflecting Pool.

I think we should think about making blatant lies by politicians a crime.

Can you give examples of these government policies?

The tort system is too expensive and favors parties with deep pockets. Regulations and laws are more efficient. Imagine there were no laws about theft so everybody who gets something stolen from them would have to go to court.

“ cooked by high-end chefs”

They aren’t high end chefs. They are normal workers that aren’t squeezed by their company to produce food in the cheapest way

What you are describing sounds great in theory, but the real world doesn’t work like that.

In more and more areas the obstacle to enter a market is not regulations but money.

Not an expert on this but wouldn’t this be possible with something similar to an FPGA?

Then they should not even try to have some clunky organization features in Darktable

In my view Darktable should delegate organization to Digikam and focus on image processing. Digikam is really good and it would be perfect if was integrated with Darktable.

Same for me. Managing images in Darktable alone is terrible but with Digikam it’s quite doable.

Better in some areas but also very frustrating in others.

I am always amazed at how much Aurelian Pierre is able to produce. But I think he is too smart for his own good and also too opinionated to be a good leader of an open source community.

Makes me admire Linus Thorvalds even more. He is super smart, opinionated by also was able to keep a huge community on track for decades.

I have tried to get used to Darktable for more than 2 years but finally gave up and went back to Lightroom. For some reason it never clicked with me and made me almost lose interest in photography . And the AI stuff like masking in the latest Lightroom versions is crazy good.

I am generally really impressed with what the Darktable are delivering but somehow it just doesn’t come together for me personally.

You can’t profit off capital if nobody does the labor. We need both roles and both deserve respect.

What would Musk do if nobody worked for him? He is probably not going to be able to develop rockets alone in his basement.

I have worked remotely for years after being in the office for years and I get a similar feeling when I go back twice a year. Nothing really has changed but to me it's sort of new so the overall feeling is pretty surreal.

Same feeling when I go back to the village I grew up in. I have been away for decades but at the same time nothing and a lot has changed.

It always amazes me that people don’t even check the output of the AI.

I am at the moment going through a codebase where the dev told me that he had AI write the tests and that the project is finished. Turns out that some tests are totally nonsensical and a lot of the real world edge conditions aren’t tested at all.

I am all for AI but you can’t just blindly let it do its thing and think you are fine.

My ex worked at Congress for a few years so I got a little bit of view on the inside. There are a lot of lobbyists who do honest work and try to present correct data. Same for politicians. A lot of them (most?) really want to do a good job and make the country better. But, like in corporations, it's the psychopaths that only care for their own benefit and nothing else, who make it to the top and get to make the big decisions.

My ex was around when they worked on Obamacare. There were a lot of really good ideas floating around that had broad buy-in but then the super partisans and corrupt (say Lieberman and Baucus) destroyed it and created a big, but profitable for some, mess.

And with the increased spending after Citizens United it's only going to get worse.

That's the real evil. Once a super PAC has enough money, they don't even have to spend it. The threat alone is enough to get most Congress people back in line.