It's been tried many times. Freenet is one example, back in the day. Onion sites on Tor. It never works, unfortunately.

The issue with their folding phone is that they came to the game late and didn't learn anything from the competition. Other companies are several generations into foldables, and have largely figured out the hinge reliability problems, and software support on the Android side is decent.

Apple has to do everything in-house, so are where Samsung was when they released the original Galaxy Fold, 7 years ago. Weak screen that breaks easily, hinge that lets crap in, and software that is half baked.

Back in the Jobs era they had problems with Macbook hinges and thermal paste.

Apple has always had issues with engineering. There have been moments of genius like back in the Apple I and ][ days, or some of the 68k Macs that had designs that made them easy to work on, but even then there were performance issues, upgrade issues, and quality issues. It got worse in the Jobs era, as he introduced such innovations as non-replacable batteries and form over function. The iPod headphone output took a few generations to get decent, and the original monochrome screens were crap even by the standards of the day.

Given that they have decades of tests and sample scripts, an LLM should be able to recreate it bug-for-bug. If a customer has an issue with an existing script, they can just throw more tokens at it until the compatibility issue is resolved.

Unfortunately there is a high probability that this will work. Things are not looking good for human developers.

Reddit is hoping that AI companies will pay them. Reddit is a major source of information for AI.

It may look bad now, but so did AI generated code at first. Now it's at the point where for a lot of businesses it's more than adequate to replace human developers. I hate to say it because I'm at risk too, but I can't argue with the results.

A guy at work recently presented a web interface that Claude built for him, for a research project. A year ago that would have been a job for someone on my team. It looks good, it works well, and Claude produced an SBOM and a security audit.

I don't know how this is going to play out, but as bad as a lot of the AI slop is, I think it's just teething problems.

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Indeed. Roddenberry seemed to think he should be like an older Kirk, a bit more dynamic and physically large on screen.

I'm glad they went with a more thoughtful and philosophical Picard. I only wish he had been given more opportunities to flex it, because when he did it tended to be brilliant.

Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro as being the next big thing for professionals and on-the-go working? Unlimited massive monitors all around you on the plane, instructions overlaid over the thing you are working on, AI vision built in.

Who needs a 92 inch TV when you can put on a Vision Pro and watch a movie on the crapper?

These won't be any different. At least they don't need a front camera to relay the image to the screens just so you can see what is in front of you, but there simply aren't any good AR apps. Certainly nothing worth the cost of the glasses, the weight, and needing to charge it regularly.

Thanks, Fastmail looks decent. Non-US company as well.

Kurtzman gave us Picard. Although it had some severe problems, it did also give us some great moments with Patrick and Picard.

It's a shame it never reached the highs of Strange New Worlds or Prodigy in terms of the writing, but I'm glad we got it.

He brought credibility to a genera that had previously been lacking in it. Instead of cheesy dialogue and hammy plots, he showed that it could be a solid drama with great performances from the actors. Then he did it again for superhero movies.

His final movie, Avengers Doomsday, is going to be bitter sweet.