Or more like "cloud infrastructure running within physical and legal jurisdiction of the EU is running locally to the EU" if you prefer .. if it's software they've written, running on hardware within the EU's physical and legal reach, voila, "sovereignty".

"The only way to ensure sovereignty and control is with software running locally with NO cloud dependency."

They're not talking about personal sovereignty. Cloud infrastructure an organization owns is "running locally" to that organization.

If an invading army has been running genocidal ethnic cleansing on your own soil, then I'd argue that the gloves are off.

Imagine if , say, mexico invaded the united states (Hear me out, its a hypothetical). Would you be offended if the US responded with strikes on mexico? No you would not.

How is this different? Evil can not be tolerated. Ukraine has every right in the world to do whatever it takes, to defend her citizens, including retaliatory strikes.

that particular amendment was voted down, bozo - the system works, no hand wringing required

doesn't mean hate speech doesn't exist

I'm pretty sure corporations are worse for the environment than people.

You're confident in suggesting that corporations don't cater to the demand of the market, the customers of whom seems to be waiting for the heads of those corporations to take the bus before they can be bothered to stop pissing in their own pools?

Tragedy of the commons to a tee.

I don't disagree with your first point.

I don't admire billionaires at all. I don't think they should exist. Wealth disparity is unchecked.

But that doesn't prevent me from operating within my own set of principles rather than in a sort of "you first" manner, which strikes me as quite child-like.

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, our environment would still be fucked, because they're vastly outnumbered by non-wealthy people.

So you're stuck on a sinking boat with a rich person, and you refuse to plug a hole until he or she plugs a hole.

The funny thing, by the time you smugly drown, they've already left the boat on a helicopter. The wealthy *be definition* will not feel the effects of worsening climate. You (and your kids) will.

I think it'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you just don't care. Nothing wrong with that, per se. It's a hell of a lot more logically defendable than your stated position.

Maybe? But it seems like its just more in line with the "californian landmarks" naming scheme , which they adopted after running out of big cats to name OSX releases after.

Am I a bad person for somewhat enjoying the way crypto bros and AI bros seem to prey on each other. A fool and their money, and all of that.

It just seems like the worst people are all out to steal from each other. Fine, just leave my boomer parents out of it.

The chinese have picked up on something that Tesla missed: That consumers dont want to be standing out in a weird spaceship, but do want the cool shit. The other day I saw one of those BYD pick up trucks. It looks like something one of the farmers we have as clients would drive. Its basically a hybrid F150. If the cybertruck was THAT, Tesla would have had a winner. Instead they tried to build an ugly moon rover that nobody wanted and slapped the word "Cyber" on it. I'm sure it impressed the wall street wonks, but it alienated the people who want electric AND want a big honking pickup truck, AND can flip back to gas if the power runs low.

The template to succeeding with EVs is there. We just need to get over our cultural cringe about buying from asia. And if we cant do that, maybe at least figure out why the chinese are succeeding where western EV brands fail.

Let's not forget ObjC and the sheer amount of stress and madness it caused.

Objective C was what C++ would have looked like if it had a sane design instead of being 10 incompatible languages stapled together. The syntax was wonky, but it was an absolute delight of a language.

Hold on, I might be wrong about that. I remember hearing a news story about that several decades ago, but can't confirm it now.

Good stuff with the self correction. I wish people did this more often when they catch themselves out with a confabulation (which everyone does from time to time. Memory is an imperfect mechanism).

You can actually plot improvement as measured by benchmark vs power consumption to train, and you see the power consumption curve upwards while the benchmarks seem to be asympote trending towards a specific limit. I've got a theory on it too. An LLMs basic fitness criteria is "Output text as close as possible to the training data". Well one thing that is NOT in the training data is text generated by anything smarter than a human. Because we've never seen an entity thats smarter than us. So the whole thing seems to be converging on a limit thats essentially 'one extremely well read human", and it has no data to tell it what something smarter than a human would look like.

All training further does is push that curve closer to the limit line, but it can never go above it. Theres a reason a lot of AI researchers are pretty adamant that the transformer LLM is probably not the final form of AI that can do the whole AGI superintelligence thing.

Some of these things I suspect are old Steve Jobs dogmas. Jobs also hated two button mice. Thankfully you could always turn on the context right click, but even to this day the right-click seems to be something you have to turn on in settings (Not that I've set up a fresh mac in aeons. Jobs hated the ergonomics of touchscreens on laptops.

While I get the reverence for Jobs inside apple. Maybe its time they moved on from him. Well except for the customer service thing. Customer service from apple was *excellent* under Jobs. When the iphone sdk first came out, I wrote an angry email to sjobs @ apple dot com about the waiting time for approvals and how a client was threatening to sue me for delaying the project launch. That night at like 2am I got a phone call from his personal assistant telling me that jobs had flipped his lid and was on a rampage wanting to know why my app had been sitting in a queue for 2 months. Gotta respect that commitment to customer service. Crazy bastard actually read his emails. Even I dont do that lol

The rare AI enthusiast

Hey, I know this is the site for devs who are so old that they're out of the game or enthusiasts who wish they could call themselves developers, but AI assisted coding is just plain normal today. It's not even controversial.

In all the projects you love, hate, or don't care about. If you're developing today and not using AI at all, you're the rare developer.