dragochat

actions that impact tens of millions of ppl can have consequences that are hard to predict - the ppl in power play power games, by definition, and most of them can't afford many of these consequence bc they'd be fatal to their games

fortunately even the most "malicious" actors are at least reasonable, even when not fully rational

also it's a GOOD thing there are billions of us on the planet still, this makes the powerful warmongerers still afraid to not push things too much into the chaotic realm

...still not "getting" smart wearable, and probably not gonna get one until someone figures out good _wireless_ monitoring of _blood-pressure_ and _glucose_

like wtf could be useful in doing with those puny impotent sensors packed in right now?!

was about to reply, but... this has more layers than a (rotten) onion - I'll just restrain myself form doing so :P

she'd be the perfect CEO of a BigAI corpo - as opposed to betting on humans randomly discovering new chemistry in predictable ammount of time, betting on neural networks offering a brute-force way to (super)human congnition is actualy "saner" - I mean, we know from _evolution_ that in a universe with out _physics_ brute forcing the problem of building intelligence with neural-network like architecture "very likely works"...

now this thought just made me have more sympathy for Sam Altman (there can actually be much worse ppl out there...)

govs are hostile to SMBs as a result of lobbying

makes perfect sense bc in a world ruled by big corpos, govs are captured and work in their interests, so they become hostile to SMBs.

> Exempting small business could easily be viewed as hostile / corrupt regulation disfavouring large entities.

then let's PLEASE have MORE of these "corrupt" and "hostile" regulations, it's clear that in a more and more chaotic global economy only a swarm of small players can change direction fast enough, with some support from big corpos providing economies of scale only in selected sectors (energy, resources extraction, hardware, AI deployment/inference optimizations, healthcare and just a few others)

TL;DR in EU, "strong" countries protected their national companies; weaker or smaller ones didn't

=> short term gain, free profits for eg FR or DE companies being allowed to devour other smaller countrie's markets

=> big country corpos get used to "almost free lunch"

=> big EU corpos fail to innovated and become uncompetitive globally

=> US ans CN corpos try instead to come with their increased efficiency and innovation at the EU market

=> EU freaks out and throws random restrictions and fines and regulations

=> only the most aggressive and ruthless CN (Temu etc) and US companies get through

=> they mostly rape the s out of EU markets

=> EU tries to protect its markets but its institutions have been regulatorly captured

=> [dark spiral goes on and on...]

all people are somewhat corrupt or incompentent.

that's why it only makes sense so think in broader terms, and a broader level regulatory capture absolutely exists.

the problem is that to solve regulatory capture in the EU parts of governments would have so go to war against corporations on the part of SMBs. but... governments in Europe de facto don't even recognize the right to exist of SMBs, basically _nothin_ of the large swath of government contracts fall to misc small businesses that would be perfectly capable to deliver on them at even 4x the quality standard corrupto-corpos do... probably there's some positive counteexamples in the weapons industry recently since we've realized we really do need quality weaponry at great value "by yesterday morning", but besides that... govs _HATE_ both SMBs and startups-from-unkowns (god forbit bootstrapped...).

wtf are u talking about? some examples would be in order...

everybody is apparently some kind of professional sports player...

both fail at supporting arbitrary tilings/splits (think vscode splits, or tmux panes)

still as bloated as ever?

can't we just have tabs + tiling (either tiles in tabs, or tabs in tiles, both can work), and call it a day?

that's all I need from browsing today

...before any of this matters though:

- is non-destructive editing implemented yet in GIMP?

- is stability finally improved, can I running without a never ending crashfest on both ubuntu and macos?

bc tbh the UI was never the issue for GIMP, it just wasn't good enough software.

exactly the opposite:

"For a complicated long running feature branch" always simpler to repeatedly merge main into dev, easier conflicts solving etc

For simpler cases squash+rebase as default merge strategy trumps leaves a nice clean history.