shakow

> He is not, remotely, “like them all”

We will know this only if The Next One reverses all his policies.

IMHO, the logical conclusion of your comment is that humans basically suck at prioritizing common good and very long-term vision, independently of their background.

From what I observed of my time in academia, I don't see any reason for academics to do any better than other groups. Like everywhere, the starry-eyed, altruistic ones always lose the fight against the political sharks.

No. The last time this happened, it led to the Ethereum/Ethereum classic split, and that was 10 years ago.

However, the stablecoins are not “real” cryptocurrencies like e.g. BTC or ETH, but are built as smartcontracts on top of ETH, basically using it as a big replicated database. So they might(?) just manually “give back” the money to Binance, as in freezing money in the stolen account forever and “printing” an equal amount to Binance's credit.

Or, to put it in another way, no need to reverse an erroneous SQL transaction if you can just create a new one that fixes the data you altered.

I don't think that would make such a change when developing; you typically only build 3rd-party libs only once.

One can be a total asshole and be right.

> what AI should or should not be used is up for debate and decisions.

Of course; but it's very hypocritical to raise these feelings only when mathematicians are affected, whereas all the above professions are just told to adapt to the new way of things.

For sure though, translators don't have the same clout and social status as mathematicians do.

Well, they do they?

Whole sections of the economy are being upheaved by AI, and there is no reason to make a special case for the mathematicians anymore than for the illustrators, developers, translators, HR, etc.

That's interesting, because that has not been my experience at all – for my usage, Orion empirically clearly buries Vivaldi & Firefox.

Granted, I used Vivaldi rather than Chromium, but I don't expect it to have such a noticeable difference w.r.t. Chrome.

> I've never understood what niche Orion is supposed to fill

For me, as battery-efficient as Safari, but with better chrome and access to ffox extensions ecosystem.

> Git hashes are not supposed to be a security mechanism

Probably a naive question, but why not kill two birds with one stone if it can be done for a reasonable cost?

> and lack of joy and welcome-ness for his woman and baby to be back

Damn, do these people really jump out of joy whenever their SO, parent, child, friend, or whoever comes back after a 10' chore?

Life is not a movie, “coming back” is a dozen-times-of-day occurrence, no one will cheer you back from the toilets.

Don't know if they updated it since your comment, but for me it's on the graph – and on the Pareto frontier indeed.

I hope you don't use seatbelts in your car, as they won't help you against a fire.

FR: « J'ai transporté le canapé (M) et la table (F), mais il (M) s'est cassé. » -> the canapé/sofa is broken.

EN: “I carried over the sofa and the table, but it(?)/the sofa broke”

I have been an emacs user for over a decade now, and if you think that language “support” was as good before LSP, I have a bridge to sell you.