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Makes sense to me... leaving to start their company with Google being an investor.

Clayton Christensen [1] says (paraphrasing) it's a good idea to spin-off (or invest) in a startup that you've a say on, before the ecosystem sprouts a seemingly-non-entity and gently disrupts your market.

Interestingly (diff strategies i guess) Apple tends to acquire (Q.ai) rather than invest/venture (as google in OP).

[1] The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

of course they are. his original quote says 'political' but often translations or quotes may say 'social' (informally).

> 2. "Happiness depends upon ourselves."

he's quiet possibly referring to happiness as a relationship (with family, friends, colleagues, citizens etc) rather than just by oneself / isolation / individual. he famously said "man by nature is a political animal" (or social if you prefer)

> Myth 3: Lines of Code Written by AI...

how come lines of code (or expressions) by an engineer aren't a good way to measure progress (Gates point etc) but GenAI tokens must count and be paid for?

yes. the point in this post was not to replicate their title and/or content, but to point to the the issue.

For some reason, this made me think of privacy & security issues: user fingerprinting, user-type detector (devtools open = dev/engineer) etc.

Detecting the difference between window.innerWidth (viewport) and window.outterWidth (window with bar etc) in JS, can be powerful to the browser user via an Extension. However, not so if the site/page uses (e.g a JS Lib).

Personally, i like the viewport vs window separation that the browser provides. I don't want an Element to not budge or care about my sidebar/window dressings, thank you very much.

NOTE: BBC is public-funded broadcaster in the UK, so it cannot show commercial ads in the UK.

Ads rely on cleaver imagery to hook the viewer. So when a media org (bbc) reports the image without a mask (and even enlarged it, high-res), they're in effect pushing the ad to millions of viewers.

PR companies very cleverly use traditional media (often outdated) to do their work — for free/close to nothing! Great hack.

Smoking ads are banned by the govs in many countries, including the UK (article) therefore, it's highly unlikely that the PR firm didn't expect it would be banned... yet, the bbc took their bait, in my opinion.

BBC could've have blurred the cigarette, or pixelated the image and then provide a 'Click to see the Original' feature for viewers that want more proof.

Very interesting. The media tracks may've been em dashed during prod. Spotify seems to use this format "Artist — Album".

Em dashes are indeed amazing! Go U+2014 !

has anyone used/seen em dashes in file/dir names? just wondered — I have't.

It's certainly easier to read than a hyphen/minus...but i guess it may become problematic cross-platform (on windows/linux it isn't as straight forward as on macos).

I agree with Codeberg, I think they're arguing for some sort of AI Code-Gen Fair Use policy.

My take: If ai generated the code, let ai pay for it, unless it has been proved worth it's upkeep. Basically, show me some sort of: AI code-gen proof of work (or proof of worth, some mechanism), then you're in.

Automation at ai-scale are very expensive, just look at the trillions of USD being spent by ai companies. And let's not forget, that the rest of us don't have those levels of funding. And neither do non-profits like Codeberg i'm guessing.

And some more, i'm not even considering security issues, where for instance ai code-gen turns on hosting/platform providers (similar to chapgpt incident on hugginfaces). even if the sandbox proves resilient, the code is parasitic in nature or behaves like a virus.

Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for

A houseplant with tiny turtles for leaves… very informative if under the influence of some substances.

It’s not a Hello World equivalent.

So much around generative ai seems to be around “look how unrealistic you can be for not-cheap! Ai - cocaine for your machine!!”

No wonder there’s very little uptake by businesses (MIT state of ai 2025, etc)

Makes no sense to sell their entire position on a key infrastructure player, if you’re going all in on ai. That’s very odd.