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What about countries friendly with Turkey? I can easily imagine you being arrested in half of the world and extradited to Turkey because you are being criminally prosecuted in Turkey.

I was surprised how little power modern "DC inverter" AC uses. It basically becomes your "window fan" when the room is cooled.

I moved to a new apartment with all this stuff installed.

At first I thought exactly that - just why.

When days started getting warm in the beginning of the summer I started investigating and thought that it might actually be a good idea - you could turn AC an hour before you come home to find cool room.

When summer hit I actually found out that you just leave AC on all the time and it just keeps temperature at 22C or so and there is really no need for it to be connected. You don't want to turn that off as it is more economical to keep the room cool than letting it to get hot and then trying to cool it fast. It barely even showed up on my electricity bill at the end.

So all in all - really not needed.

My first idea was "who the hell needs connected fridges".

Then I remembered that both my AC and floor heating are connected.

A hacker could easily turn on both AC and floor heating and cause me a few euros of damages in my electricity bill.

What could theoretically be an even higher level programming language?

Bytecode is obviously not human readable - lets make Assembly. Assembly requires very specific skills - lets make a language that is more human readable. This new language is way more readable but requires very specific skills like understanding computer memory. Lets make a language that takes care of it. Lets make a language that is not compiled but interpreted. Lets make a language where you can just simply write 1 + 2 and computer would just give you an answer and you don't need to define anything.

Lets make the language that is simply a natural language and computer interprets it an writes the program you need itself.

We are comparing because any programming language is just a try to make programming easier.

Biology and medicine clearly are not so soft because they can be tested by scientific methods.

Have you read the article? You have a science like "human behavior" where your experiments can't be reproduced. Simply because there will be so many variables or variation that your science is as good as a guess from somebody from the street.

Or again sciences where you just make models of some imaginary things like hidden meaning 10th century in literature. Your only test is another 10the century literature meaning searcher. You just clap each other on the shoulder and give each other phds.

You would be surprised to find out that people were telling exactly the same thing about e.g. C when they came from Assembler and saw what a "pile of shit" was produced by the compiler.

Intellectuals in soft sciences are fucking idiots.

In physics/engineering and similar real life instantly shows how wrong you are. You can't really go far in your career believing something that is not true and tested.

In something like "relationship studies" you can live in your ivory tower for decades. Your only feedback loop is your own students and disciples who just want to live in the same ivory tower.

You can have some crazy theory like "human relationship output is dependent on socioeconomic outputs". And discuss that theory for decades, get your phd and stuff like that and your only judges are the same people in the same field.

It is like inheriting Assembly codebase written by a compiler.

You will not edit Assembly in this.

Claude will have to edit it and Claude will not whine.

I think they lost their direction and at the same time customer appeal. When OpnePlus started it was something new, now I have no reason to choose OnePlus for some time already.

I clone some repo from github, open it with default code editor which happens to be Cursor. I am cooked. That is it.

It is the same as autorun.exe on some CD - I put some CD in my CD-ROM and my Windows are compromised.

You can argue that I should not clone unknown repos, I should inspect each and any file in the repo, look for git.exe or any other suspicious binary and etc. I should not put untrusted CDs or USB sticks into my computer.

However the reality of it is that it will not be the user who inspects USB stick in some contained environment, it will be security policy which disables autorun. Same as Cursor should disable this.

What is even more funny that AI agent spent A LOT of tokens while participating in this attack.

I wonder if Hans Reiser would have checked...

But doesn't things like that happen with people? Take academy where some professor implicitly states "facts" or military or software development where some highly praised senior always has his last word...

I think it was just cancer overall. One kills you lings, another kills you gut, heart and etc.

We know that smoke itself is really really bad for you. Open fire is bad for you.

Sitting around campfire with a glass in your hand and a guitar might be really really bad for you.