You don't need OWA in space. It doesn't matter if I'm the only one who believes this, for I believe it enough for the entire world.

So now, instead of taking a moment while the shaders compile to relax and eat some chips, maybe enjoy the local ambience of Mom's basement, you have to pause the game, eat some chips, then unpause? And you don't even get to read any helpful tips while you're eating? Sounds like a pain in the ass.

(Well, bacteria, not viruses.)

This "clean room", to draw an analogy to medicine, is like if your "sterile surgical dressings" were made of syphilis viruses knitted together into a fabric.

The summary quotes the article in saying "the open-source WordPress project". If WordPress is already open-source, how likely is it that anyone will switch to this new codebase? Seems like any of their existing reasons for not switching haven't changed a great deal.

I realize this is an uphill battle in a society in which people won't even acknowledge that they shouldn't hit themselves in the face with hammers to make their cheekbones pop, but maybe we should all just live for a while and then die? Maybe it's not so bad? Sure, it's a little bit scary, but so is using the toilet, going to kindergarten, having sex, moving out of your parents' house, getting a mortgage, having a kid, watching your kid do all that. If rich people lived forever, we'd all still be living under Genghis Khan.

I don't know how many other ways people can say that if you don't practice a skill, it will be lost.

Look, this is just the way the software industry works now! No more hiding from the future of development. No more heads in the sand to deny the apotheosis of programming! No more pretending that the new way isn't better! You Luddites are just going to have to come to grips with the fact the Crest Whitening Strips are recommended to the leading competitor's whitening system three to one!

No problem, kids just have to smoke cigarettes for a couple years and then they can switch over to the vapes with visual age verification. Couple packs a day from age 15, and you should be able to pass for 35 by your seventeenth birthday.

How much does the robot cost? If can can speed things up to "up to" twice as fast per person over traditional methods, is it cheaper than twice as many people equipped with twice as much traditional equipment? What proportion of the time does it get "up to" double the speed? Does it use more or less energy than traditional equipment? Does it break down more or less often than traditional equipment? How much does getting it serviced cost, compared to traditional equipment?

Mozilla, much like Wikimedia, seems to spend any money donated to them exclusively on shit that nobody wants.

1. Obviously. So very obvious, in fact, that I am surprised to hear that LLMs weren't already banned several years ago.

2. How are they going to enforce it? There's a large contingent of alleged humans who get a tingle in their nethers presenting LLM output as their own original thought.

Feels like this is the setup for a joke that won't pay off for twenty-five years, and the punchline will wipe one-and-a-half European cities off the map.

It's worse than a Ponzi scheme. The major would-be providers of AI are essentially all passing the same billion-dollar bill back and forth to buy each others' "services". And the consumers of AI are setting their reputations R&D teams on fire based on the promise that they can install robots on the ashes, even though if their plan pans out there won't be anybody able to buy services from anyone anymore.

Tim Sweeny is reportedly a big advocate for the value of generative AI in developing games. I think it'd be fair to say he's one of those AI inevitablists.

But money is fungible. If you earn or save a bunch of money through behavior A, then you might not be required to make a sacrifice in order to save or earn that money though behavior B.

So if Sweeny says that the layoffs aren't AI-related, he's either lying or he's admitting that AI isn't helping the company's bottom line after all.