> Hansenn will have to wait up to six months to see if his appeal of the fine has gone through.

What's going on in Dutch Land that a photo of "clearly scratching his head" will need to take six months to process? This seems to indicate that:

a) The authorities are not swimming in cash from the fines of innocent drivers.

b) They don't have enough reviewers due to a).

Java was created in 1995 and it's 2024 and still to date hasn't found a useful purpose.

Compare to JavaScript where we're actively integrating it into our daily processes to make them more efficient

Object orientation is dead dead dead. The only people still using it are those yadda yadda religious war stuff here...

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Christ, you tech warriors are tiresome.

Agreed, but those things aren't seen as disruptive new applications that form part of an investment bubble. This at the moment comprises mostly of things like LLMs and GANs along with apps that are reliant on AI such as self-driving cars and new drug manufacture, etc.

There is also the fact that those "bubble" applications are in the hands of a very small number of players compared to tech in previous bubbles like the .com boom, web3 and stuff, which comprise of thousands of players spreading the investment.

The first ten men mentioned in the Bible, Adam through Noah (except Cain and Abel), lived on average more than 850 years (Genesis 5: 1-32). Methuselah lived for 969 years. This was the maximum, but by no means exceptional. However, while God fixed the modern living day of man to 120 years, plastics have clearly out-Godded her.

I thought this was an interesting take on the current frenzy about AI:

"AI applications can be plotted on a 2X2 grid whose axes are "value" (how much customers will pay for them) and "risk tolerance" (how perfect the product needs to be)."

So investors may not see the enormous costs of running these AI systems (data centres, highly-skilled engineers, legions of content checkers etc.) as worth the return on low-profit stuff like image generation (which images in the US have also been ruled as not being copyrightable BTW). And the enormous costs of running high-profit but high-risk stuff like self-driving cars or radiology bots if those systems make mistakes in risk-intolerant domains. And we are still way away from any real efficacy in those applications so far. In fact it's debatable whether stuff like self-driving cars or diagnostic bots are even going to be feasible, for both technical and market economic reasons.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/1...

The thing that melts my brain with apps (assuming they are native apps, not just responsive versions of the desktop website) is that the companies who make them happily pay a *separate* team to produce them to the team they use to create the web app. Like Amazon for example: their native app is almost indistinguishable from their web app on a phone. Same goes for pretty much all sites (Facebook, AirBnb...)

Why? Just so they can do push notifications and have little red dot?