taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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Someone really needs to explain the fundamental limitations of shared medium internet connections (pretty much anything wireless) when compared to exclusive medium internet connections (one wire/fiber per end point) to politicians and other decision makers. Banning the advertising of shared medium speeds as if they were exclusively reserved for you would be a good start.

The also have an incentive to preserve their own power when not declaring every branch of the government other than the executive obsolete.

There are fewer and fewer valid arguments in favor of humanity's continued existence.

Delusional beings claiming their imaginary friends are going to be on their side...does that mean AI has found religion?

The problem is that systems like this have strong network effects working in favor of the established options, nobody develops for platforms without users, nobody wants to use a platform without apps, development has more resources (existing libraries, tutorials, reference documentation,...) on existing platforms,...

I am missing some distinction between the types of market they are talking about. I mean I could absolutely see that for the vast majority of markets where the art was already sort of slop-like before (e.g. stock pictures to put in news articles) and the customer doesn't really care what it shows exactly or even in some cases for markets where it is just about some random art piece to put on your wall where AI might benefit from being the new thing so it benefits from trends but what about markets where art needs to have some specific content, an area where AI is quite weak?

One format selling better than another dead format is hardly a useful data point.

That is not the problem though, Google used to just give you the results containing what you searched for, the problem started when they tried to be "smarter" than that.

Any politician who is pro encryption backdoor is pretty much dead to me because encryption back doors are just a completely brain dead policy that has no merit even if you completely ignore any moral or ethical concerns.

Wouldn't temperature be much more of a problem while charging and not while the charger is unplugged from the device it is supposed to charge?

Maybe but is that lifetime limited by on/off cycles or by wall time?

I would argue that you are much more likely to break the cable physically by constant unplugging and replugging.

Then you are probably not worried about the question whether your society is in trouble or not, you know it.

Protest is always valid

I wouldn't go that far. Protests can absolutely be used to subvert true opposition by funneling it via astroturfing and similar fake campaigns into ineffective channels.

I am referring to technological "innovations" that never made it because while they sounded good as an idea they turned out to be bad/useless in practice and also those that someone thought of in a "wouldn't it be great if we could do this" way but never really got a working implementation.

Flying cars might be a good, high profile example for the latter category. The former obviously has fewer famous examples because bad ideas that sound good at first are so abundant.

I don't think homeless people without a job can afford a plumber more.

This has also happened 100 times correctly to reject actually bad new technologies for every time it has been applied to the wrong technology that turned out to be actually useful.

if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent

Can you really be said to ignore something if you are totally ignorant of its existence?

It is almost as if connecting private and public channels together using a "do random shit" engine is not a good idea for security.

America (or any other country) was never great in the past, they just claim that because it is easier to sell "going back" to a time in the past people remember fondly than to change things to something completely new (like entirely new forms of exploitation by the rich). And for some reason people are too stupid to understand that doing the same things as in the past despite drastically different circumstances wouldn't even yield the same outcomes.