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I guess countryside France is still only 2 hours from Paris or Marseille, while countryside USA is maybe 8 hours or more from a metropolitan area. Not to mention that the population in this usa countryside is already way lower then any population density in the whole of France. Operating a taxi corp there would simply be not viable on a financial term.

Although that's true, is 200 years ago really the baseline we want to use for judging working conditions?

Two hundred years ago meant widespread child labor, harsh factory conditions, little worker protection, and slavery or serfdom. Add to it the onset of Industrial Revolution.

Modern studies indicate people in the dark ages worked 6 hours a day: Ironically a better baseline!

Please solve ??? for X = K(special)

Do X -> ??? -> Profit

Since you keep being the top comment: I agree with your philosophy, but that is not how Biology often works.

When enough green pastures are around animals usually reproduce till that is no longer the case and they need to move to other pastures. They continue doing this untill all green pastures are occupied. After this they start competing with one another to compete for the green pastures already occupied. Some animals will be so succesfull that they take larger green pastures, letting others starve. If by some miraclelous event (ai?) suddenly a lot of green pastures arise, animals will simply reproduce again till they occupied all green pastures again.

Looking at us? The agraric revolution, neither the Industrial revolution, nor this ai revolution have decreased how much we work on our 'jobs' (finding food indirectly). All it did was increasing the population so that all green pastures became occupied.

I would say making the model larger and larger will soon reach the "the point of diminishing returns". Even if the model might still get 'smarter' this might not be a good thing because the consumer (us) might not understand at all what the ai is doing. Or it's intelligence will just not be of practical value.

After this it will be hardware optimizations and tooling specializations (having different models for different tasks) and running the whole model might not be too expensive anymore. Will they be outcompeted by cheaper Chinese competitors or open models? Possibly.

I hope we reach the point I can run the whole darn thing on a old laptop.

I know a PHD in math that claims math is invented by ourselves and not any universal true. So well, depends who you ask. Also some of these programming utilities may outlive some math proof. Time will tell

Haha it foolded me: a bit ambigious to call it 'visible'. The light is in the 'visual wavelength spectrum'. Also by far not bright enough to be visible.

The meat is bad for you propaganda. Cannot believe people buying that. It is known for millennia that a varied diet including vegs fruits and yes meat and fish is healthier then skipping any of those. But somehow now when overpopulation makes our hunger for meat less convenient it becomes suddenly unhealthy.

Of course I understand that the antibiotic and and heavy metal infested meat and fish we eat is way less healthy then the meat our ancestors would eat.

Because desktop apps are harder to make money with. They are easy to crack / pirate. Also making a monthly subscription is harder for a desktop app (you would need still also a webapp to check for the monthly subscription).

It is on the other hand very hard to pirate software that only runs on some server. Also quite easy to force a monthly subscription if you simply hide app behind a login screen. Additionally your webapp also has the data of the user hostage so the user can not switch to a competitor.

So basicly I think webapps are a dark pattern. The user of course prefers desktopapps but due to above reasons there is hardly incentive to build them.

Will this change? I think so yes. Eventually this whole Saas bubble will burst, because - Chrome filesystem API will make building a desktop app as easy as a webapp - Open source and crowd funded software will pay the bill for those making desktop apps and users will be more then willing to switch.

When will this happen? If we are lucky within 5 years, but more likely 20 or 30 years.

Yes true! I once had the honour to work with a 'tech-lead' dev that rewrote a whole map application to AngularJS, which was the hype back then. I remember him not being able to get a just slightly complicated chain of asynchronous stuff working in vanillaJS. No problem, because he had AngularJS double binding now. No need to learn vanillaJS. Wicked stuff.

I would like to add: Increases range for sending and receiving communication via air.

This in addition the the already mentioned: - greater field of sight (eye of Sauron) - greater range of fire - symbolic (to heaven) - status symbol - defense against enemy

I remember this scene from movie 3 lotr where the 2 wizards communicate to each other to invade, by shooting beams from their towers.

Average websites goal is now to keep you on them as long as possible. According to some metric folks, the longer you stay on a website the more money you spend there. Linking to another website destroys that metric.

Also if you are going to make a purchase somewhere, any website would try to get a cut of the money you spend by actually sending referral links to the product. So small websites that do not allow this service will not get linked so much.

On a metalevel it is thus that links or connections between items are information. Information is money. And as soon as that became evident links and connections also became more scarce.

I usually avoid loops. Guess I got sorta hooked by this new age functional school.

But recently realized even layman brains on drugs can understand some loop and goto statements:

"Eat Sleep rave Repeat"

Sometimes they are just the best to write logic.

"But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle."

But I feel it is the other way around really. Low income people support the lifestyle of all us "highly educated".

I feel the biggest amount of us programmers / managers are really creating little value, but are nonetheless rewarded by a vast institution of governments and corporations.

I am sometimes thinking about use master branch of my repo and add a folder called 'tickets'. Then in this folder create issues as markdown files. Use some Vscode, Emacs or Vim plugin to automatically number these markdown files and present comments as lists.

No more dependency on online saas tooling and you can use the search option of your ide / os / command-line to search through them.