HTML/CSS/DOM sucks rotting eggs for doing real GUI's. It was stretched way beyond it's original purpose of displaying static documents, and mutated into rocket spaghetti surgery and still has common GUI idioms missing or done wrong.
I'm for an HTTPS-friendly GUI markup standard, by the way. Build it from the ground up for GUI's.
...When we called them programs? Or executables? I mean, they do end in
That is, indeed, one of the problems, but it's not the one the article is discussing.
lengthy prompts to draft
Just use AI to help generate prompts!
This is an interesting observation, but not entirely false. There are edits on Wikipedia that basically amount to "wiki link every word in the article". IMHO this could well be in violation of potential laws against algorithms. I'm not sure if Wikipedia should get a pass because it is "free" or whatever.
The trick has been around since industrial spies noticed the first liar got away with it.
I wonder if stock-holders can successfully sue for lying about the cause of a sales slump?
Make the AI bubble pop already. I'll stop wanking off for a year if you pop it, I swear on my rosie palm.
I think they're arguing that they are the third thing, a message parlor.
Unions are a real-life strategy because they work. Divide-and-conquer is also a real-life strategy, because it works too.
Thus, I think the truth of your statement all depends on whether you look at this conflict between government and the the people, from the point of view of the attacker, vs the point of view of the defender.
Children do not have the maturity that is required for unfiltered access to the adult world
But they used to. In the 1980s, nobody dared to say in public, that 17-year-old me should not be allowed to visit public (or even university) (or even medical) libraries. (Or if someone did, they were still very obscure and unpopular, little more than a glimmer in the left's eye.)
If I may, could I narrow down which of these two things you think is best? First, there's exactly what you said above..
Kids have no right to use end-to-end encryption without parental consent
Kids have a right to use end-to-end encryption unless denied by a parent
Did I make it better, or did I make it worse?
There is a nicotine source that isn't at all age locked. I guess the teens will move on to these "cigarettes" you hear about from time to time.
They even come in cool Menthol.
The laws are a joke by people who apparently flunked "Hello World".
They demand a mechanism, but don't even offer guidance on what mechanism it should be. You can technically comply while having no 2 Linux installs following the same API, making it effectively useless.
A better approach would be a purely optional userspace package (perhaps call it "Californication") that returns 1 dword with the age information encoded in it. Each person installing it gets to decide what that encoding will be.
Yes, it returned 0x0BADF00D, that's the code for 18+.
Someone else might decide 0x0B00B1E5 means 18+.
Some early adopters of "Here's a complaint one, pretty please use it" included small operations like PGP. Others were small companies then, later to become large.
Not too long after, there was the whole flap around DeCSS for DVDs. The medium itself is nearly dead now, but it was individual efforts that rendered region coding largely a joke. The Chinese vendors whose DVD players didn't give a damn about region codes came second.
Bell Labs invented the transistor because the low hanging fruit of vacuum tubes had dried up. Some low hanging fruit is always dried up. That never stopped progress.
While true, the pace of the Next Big Thing is not necessarily constant.
"Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing." -- Robert Orben
