I used to do that 20 years ago. And yes, I liked Delphi a lot too.

As I said, as your positions get harder and harder to find any support for, your posting has turned increasingly angry. Fun game—go through your last 50 posts and see how many different people you called stupid?

Sure, that's a common usage of the word pledge, but again, it's hardly exclusive. Pledge just don't have the connotation of "charity" in general usage in the United States.

Pretty interesting the Australian English has a very different connotation! Pledge is a common word in the states.

Some American examples of pledge in the public discource:

etc

Gweihir is kind of infamous for refusing to admit that LLMs have any possible usage or that anyone is using them in a productive capacity today. His posts have been becoming increasingly strident of late.

I don't like the term "AGI" because it's still nebulous and means different things to different people. The shifting window of vocabulary meanings in the AI field is rough. In the 1980s people regularly talked about chess as an AI problem. Now you can find plenty of people who say that's not AI. Ditto for Go (once Go became a defeated AI problem, it suddenly is no longer worthy of being considered AI). All the things I learned when I took an AI class ~25 years ago are now often derided as not AI (neural networks, A* and other search trees algorithms, etc).

There's a group of people who want to continue to goal shift until the only goal is "human intelligence" and if it's not human intelligence, it's not AI.

I think the definition of "AGI" = "Ability to learn" anything is close. But, can your average human learn anything? I'm not so sure.

Does it matter if the same AI program can answer math questions (or protein folding, whatever) AND plan a warehouse robot travel route AND summarize legal documents?

For now at least, throwing more people-time, processing time, and processing capacity at these models does seem to make a big difference. I've been playing around with some downloadable models, and this technology is improving so quickly. I can't imagine what it will be like in 2 years or 5 years or 10 years or 20 years.

I would bet on Zuckerberg over Gweihir.

I've seen that. It's pretty fun. I would, unironically, watch that spinoff.

While you can use the word "pledge" to refer to a promised future donation to a charity (see, e.g., "pledge drive"), it's not an exclusive meaning. For native English speakers, I would not say that "pledge" particularly brings up the connotation of charity. Pledge just means to promise or vow something. "I pledge allegiance..." or "I pledge my support for this candidate." Etc.

The rich always had gated communities and clubs.

nuf sed

He's manufacturing illegals:

On May 30, the Supreme Court granted temporary approval for the Trump administration to revoke a program known as "humanitarian parole," which had allowed more than 500,000 migrants feeling political turmoil in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to quickly get work permits if they had a fiscal sponsor...[emph. added]

= a lot of noise and pain with nothing of importance gained (unless you are a white supremist).

Other examples of boondoggles: F-35*, "War on drugs", CyberTruck, Afghanistan war, CA Speed Train, Vietnam war...

* Yes, it's starting to work good-enough, but took too damned long to get there.

one year ago, Ada was ranked #24 â" but on this month's index it ranks #9.

Doesn't Tiobe have a small investigative team to find out why the grand shift? A shift that big with a legacy language is either a surprising trend or a boo boo, most likely the latter.

Or was it Yado?

The jamming of radio remote control has already lead to the use of fiber (they literally carry miles of fiber optic line that unspools as they fly...

Counter-measure: flying scissors. Which then results in flying rocks to knock them down, but flying rocks are stopped via flying paper that blinds them.

Projection, Aduff

[Delphi]...In an alternative universe, these languages have been dead for decades and no sane business would invest in writing software in those languages.

Delphi/Lazarus is one of the most stable GUI development platforms. MS changes its UI engine & tooling more often than I change my underwear, and MS killed the other commercial GUI competitors using bundling and size.

Delphi/Lazarus may not be esthetically shiny and new, but it works and has been working. Most complaints are for fairly obscure needs. Some things are successful simply because people don't keep fucking with it based on Fad of the Month. It's a GitOffMyLawn tool.