I was thinking the same, carefully crafted echo chambers and intentional confirmation bias. The irony of the name 'social media' just keeps growing, as it continues to drive wedges between people instead of bringing them together -- or at a minimum, at least support a live and let live, 'agree to disagree' mentality. It's really a dystopian nightmare in the making.
produces higher quality sperm
That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...
It's interesting they say 'browser', sounds more like an 'application generator' because what they're describing isn't really a conventional web browser, it sounds like an application based probably on various web standards at best with a web interface. It's not performing a search to direct you to relevant websites (can you use it to browse in the traditional sense even?). Sounds like it's using the websites almost like an API, pulling data/info from them basically and then generating application from it? Perhaps calling it a 'browser' is a marketing decision, but it's not a browser imo.
Negativity is cool I guess. I found the show has lots of interesting elements, for example:
The tension between cyborg, synth and hybrids; almost like a class/race hierarchy
Pondering what being one of the above means... are you still human? Is humanity about the intellect/mind/soul only, or also the physical body?
5 corporations basically running the world. William Gibson alluded to this in Neuromancer and other works. And I think it mirrors some current trends.
Billionaires/Trillionaires who live in la-la land (or Neverland), like Boy Kavalier (great name btw), who give a shit about 'normal' people, live by their own rules, that sounds familiar.
Some great new species, c'mon, tentacle eyeball is just awesome and terrifying, ticks from hell.
Sure, has it flaws, so do most shows -- but I'm enjoying it, and looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Take your pick.
Would someone, please, think of the children?!
designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials
I love, that it is a prime number!
Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”
Or possibly, both things can be bad and of serious concern...
Honestly, my backlog of games (I'm a pc gamer exclusively, not console) is so full that I never pay full price anymore anyway. I just wait for Steam season sales, or better yet, I can often get them much later on gog.com for DRM free versions that are mine to download and actually fucking own.
Plus most of the time there are so many bugs, patches, blah blah blah that need to come out first, why pay $60, $70+ when I can get the fixed/complete game later for 50% or more off?
Summary implies it's a choice, as you mention, search engines like google now promote their AI summary over linking to actual sites/articles -- so I guess I'm "using" AI for search but it's the default behavior of the the browser, not an active/conscious action on my part.
Probably just another way for AI pushers (looking for funding etc) to say "look at the adoption rate!", it's not really an adoption rate if there's no choice though.
I've been using the &udm=14 add to the querystring to turn it off when I remember too.
Suggestion: Try Minecraft: Educatiion Edition (you may have to work with your IT/network people for firewall, install, etc.)
https://education.minecraft.ne...
If you want to go more 2D graphics, CMU CS Academy (Carnegie Mellon U) has some free browser based tools/programs for Python programming with graphics, a lot like Processing if you're familiar with it. I customize most of the lessons though, as it can be a bit basic/repetitive, but it has a sandbox that you can play with
https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/cou...
I've used MC:EE with a lot of success with 8th graders for one semester elective, lots of engagement. It utilizes MakeCode which supports, block, JavaScript and Python. The students, even the 'non-coder' ones, love it -- a simple loop to spawn creatures, or using the Agent to build a structure with nested loops is a more engaging that a lot of traditional lessons. By the end of my class, the kids learn all the core stuff (variable, lists, loops, control-flow, some OOP basics, writing their own functions with parameters, etc.) that you're probably aiming for. Not sure of your age levels, but there's enough complexity available that if you have older kids you can definitely adapt it to more challenging projects.
Yes, it's gamification, but that's not always a negative. I use that class as a feeder into our more advanced stuff for high school, and the vast majority of kids who do the MineCraft stuff enroll in our high school classes.
Honestly, it's also a lot of fun to teach with, I mean, it's MineCraft...
I've been teaching for 8+ years, it's not easy so I know jumping into it is a challenge, but stick with it -- focus on the fun, do a lot of project-based learning, and give the kids so more control over the projects they work on, they will be more involved if that have more agency.
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Wtf... that's wrong on so many levels, not sure how it was labelled insightful. .
NET is a framework, NOT a language. You can program against the framework using C# (most common), F# or VB.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/e...
And it was specifically designed NOT to be platform dependent, MS woke up and moved away from being Windows dependent,
".NET is supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows operating systems. It's available in several Linux distributions, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu."
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/e...
Lol, I'd mod you up if I had the points. Jive coding indeed...
I looked briefly at the site, it's pretty basic fullstack site with a CMS.
I fullstack web development to high school students (Django framework (Python), mySQL backend), and have had some of my students build similar data-driven sites, in a month or so after they've learned the core skills needed, and they're not working on it 40 hrs a week either since they have 5+ other classes. Granted I have some pretty motivated & sharp kids, but even an average programmer just out of college could build this thing in pretty short order, or should be able to.
30,000 lines of code for THAT? and a year to build? I call bullshit. Or is that's really 30k lines of code, it's a REALLY verbose inefficient 30k. What's he counting a bunch of json files / dictionaries he's using for data? I'm kidding, I'm assuming there's some kind of actual db behind it, but I just don't see where you'd need anywhere near 30k?
Clearly he's trying to sell something, oh right this guys who 'knows who to code' is part of the Y-combinator hype machine, yawn...
You as an individual may be ok, but I'm thinking more collectively as a society that we're going be screwed. Your point that "I'm being forced to herd a growing flock of ChatGPT-dependent morons." is what I meant, the next generation of IT staff/programmers/engineers might be these 'ChatGPT-dependent morons' responsible for software and systems down the road. It's terrifying.
"It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel
