I feel like there's a market gap for a "no-ai" search engine; just behave like google did in the "don't be evil" days, and i feel like it would get very popular very quickly.

I really need some qualifications on "a better internet". An internet that's full of soulless slop and questionable information, maybe.

The app is called MAX, and it says that in the first sentence of the article.

Sure, assuming the infrastructure to support this doesn't end up costing more. Transaction fees on crypto currency tend to be nuts (which is why it's only speculated on, and not actually used as a currency)

The truth never stopped Slashdot commenters before, and it sure isn't going to now.

We tried that. It didn't go well.

The big rule of LLMs is
Accurate, reliable, helpful, pick 0

An LLM is a neural network, and a neural network is a pattern matcher. Try not to be so condescending.

You're right, that number is absurd. I guess my brain autocorrected it to "the price was 1500% of what it should be"

Drug prices are absurdly high, and in many cases don't have to be. Same with many medical supplies and procedures -- the indirection caused by insurance (most people don't directly pay full price) has really screwed up the economics

https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ is an example of an effort to compete, and I hope it's successful.

I think you made this reply to the wrong comment, i was talking about the "agentic" version of windows, is this about this "guy controls a tablet with his mind" story from this morning https://science.slashdot.org/s...

at any rate, yeah, dystopias for everyone. yay. Still not booting windows though.

Cool! I'll keep not using it.

There are a couple of cloud-based cad programs, like OnShape or xDesign, but if you want everything to run natively pickings are pretty slim on linux. There are more programs on OSX if you're willing to go down that route. I left windows 23 years ago, and every time i come in contact with it I'm happy with that decison.

Programming is literally the easiest profession to self-teach, there are tons of great resources available for free -- I see no ivory towers or gate-keeping of knowledge. Anyone who wants to know how to program, but doesn't, is either too lazy or too untalented to learn. Please elaborate on your position here.

I saw a missive on LinkedIn (i know...) that states that git isn't needed and AI hallucinations are OK because you can just replace the faulty AI generated code with *more* AI generated code. Nevermind that that's probably also faulty.