For totalitarians, need to identify people is critical. It's why DPRK is indeed democratic and holds elections where Kim wins every single time.

Because voters are identifiable.

This is why 16 gig slow GPUs are more expensive right now than very fast 12 gig ones. More RAM means bigger model can be fit into memory. Also why 24 gig models are unobtainium.

4090s and 5090s have been long used for narrow models in things like research in much of third world. This is the natural next step. Shrinking models further so they can be operated from phones that already have good enough cameras to enable things like discriminating vision, where model helps identify specific things that camera looks at. We're looking at the next big ag breakthrough in marginal places like Sahel. We now have an actually good chance of AI machine vision doing something we just couldn't do with mere human vision and algorithmic machine vision. Identification of pests and weeds, their eggs and larvae, etc.

And in medium to long term, it looks even better. We may have an actual viable chance of eradicating Tsetse in medium term future with AI vision. One of the main reasons why Sub-Saharan Africa is still absolutely fucked in terms of human development may actually be finally removed.

X's "automatically translate into your language" feature has actually rebuilt the tower of Babel. The main barrier in interpersonal communication came crashing down.

I suspect that minors can to an extent form contracts. For example, to buy anything from a store, you have to fulfill a contract (money for product). This does not require parental intervention. They can take on a summer job. Same thing.

Parental intervention only comes when there are contractual violations (i.e. minor shoplifts, parents are on the hook for at least some if not all of the damages). Though in some cases/places, parental acceptance can be required for taking on a job as a minor.

So the argument they're making is most certainly legally sound in this aspect. The point of contention is going to be "how much can a minor contractually agree to on his/her own" and "with this much additional obligations, how can amount of obligations for each contract be verified".

The whole thing is a horrible mess because before ease of access granted by computerization and proliferation of networking of computers, most contractual obligations required some kind of face to face verification of basics. When you applied for a summer job as a teen, you got into an interview where your identity got verified.

Meanwhile today, the issue is that due to aforementioned factors, we now have countless contracts that are made without parties ever encountering each other in a face to face situation. This seems to be, on a fundamental level, an attempt to get something that is as close to "face to face" as can be generated in age of social media. I.e. other party gets to at least verify if you're specially protected kind of a human (minor), or one that is fully legally responsible for him/herself. Something that used to be done face to face for each contract that extended significant legal obligations for both parties.

But it's clumsy to the extreme, which is likely the main reason why it's being fought over. Essentially instead of "protecting the companies from having unknowingly taken on additional obligation of contracting with a minor", which the legislation purportedly is trying to do, it instead just punishes everyone who isn't a minor (both users and companies) by forcing companies to assume that unless proven otherwise, everyone has those additional obligations of contracting with a minor.

Well, the command line running in Terminal.app in a GUI :D

Lets say it like this, shell scripts I do in vi on a terminal and not in an IDE.

Java or Dart or C++ I would never do in vi ...

Git I mostly use in the terminal, but a terminal inside of the IDE ...

For Python I use the Spyder IDE. Which also has a build in terminal.

TypeScript is compiled, to JavaScript, and JavaScript is most of the time JIT (just in time) compiled to machine code.

If you want to run your code on a virtual machine/framework like Node.js, you have to use a language/toolchain that runs on it. TypeScript is one of the first choices.

We already have it: web-assembly (wasm) and 100ds of languages that compile to it.

we're collectively all on the spectrum now.

Alzheimers he kept falling for schemes, wiping out all his savings, among other headaches. At first we were baffled on why he was so gullible, but when finally diagnosed found out that critical thinking is often one of the first functions to go.

My teen son found ways around all the gizmo barriers we tried to put up because he devoted many hours a day planning his way around us, and sure enough out-MacGyver'd us. I wouldn't directly call him a "tech whiz", but rather determined enough to google around to find cracks in a system.

We suspect he bought $10 devices off eBay or from friends, being cheap due to cracked screens or cosmetic defects, and hacked into the neighbor's wifi. We took the lock off his door, but he barricaded it with furniture. Or he'd lock himself into a different room.

it needs a lot of review and it can waste time taking you in circles.

More are saying, "AI can save a lot of time if you just know how to use it right". Every fad/bubble that faded used that in their last throes. It might even be true, but the skill may be hard to learn and/or transfer among the top practitioners.

If AI taxes your brain even more, then it's not doing its job of being "intelligent", it's forcing humans to try to be more intelligent to adjust to AI idiosyncrasies.

I don't believe they thought it was bullshit, but rather just outright didn't know, so filled in the blanks with their marketing narratives.

Something tells me these employees will choose the tools in their approved tool box and not the best tools for the customers job.

THE Microsoft Way.

And the boundary is fuzzy. One can get ideas from bots without copying them verbatim. "Never look at bot output" is a silly request.

And the case doesn't really rely on the GUID, so it doesn't matter.