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I have the impression that if MAU by itself was sufficient, the company wouldn’t have had to file for bankruptcy.

Obviously the company failed to convert its MAU into paying users, despite the fact the token costs greatly declined over the last years.

A lot of money moved through different hands, yet it doesn’t seems that nothing of value was created.

I wonder how any of this makes sense.

Hard to take this seriously when the website is obviously vibe-coded without a single ounce of effort or taste.

Also, what exactly is the point of this petition? I guess Orkut (creator) wants to use it as validation for potential users, perhaps to show to potential investors about the possible interest for the platform.

But honestly, just start. Give Brazilian MySpace another change

I mean, I’d argue that the overwhelming majority of the populous is not doing physical activity as they should. Even in a future with gym “for the mind”, I also assume attendance to be low.

So at the beginning of the story you started with a rented space you and others practice yoga, and the end result is that you lost your practice room, without gaining anything else other then… slightly more confidence?

Is there supposed to be a teaching in here?

I absolutely disagree with this. All the things the author said will still exist and keep on existing.

Nothing will prevent you from typing “JavaScript with your hands”, from “holding code in our hands and molding it like clay…”, and all the other metaphors. You can still do all of it.

What certainly will change is the way professional code will be produced, and together with that, the avenue of having a very well-paid remuneration, to write software line-by-line.

I’ll not pretend that I don’t get the point, but it feels like the lamentation of a baker, tailor, shoemaker, or smith, missing the days of old.

And yet, most people prefer a world with affordable bread, clothes, footware, and consumer goods.

Will the world benefit the most from “affordable” software? Maybe yes, maybe not, there are many arguments on both sides. I am more concerned the impact on the winners and losers, the rich will get more rich and powerful, while the losers will become even more destitute.

Yet, my final point would be: it is better or worse to live in a world in which software is more affordable and accessible?

Coming from PS1, I am still waiting on PlanetSide 3 :(

In 2015, Microsoft Labs produced another (and their final entry) into their "Future Vision" series. I would say this offers a "genuine" glimpse into what those in 2015 would expect 2025 to be.

I think what we should really ask ourselves is: “Why do LLM experiences vary so much among developers?”

The simplest explanation would be “You’re using it wrong…”, but I have the impression that this is not the primary reason. (Although, as an AI systems developer myself, you would be surprised by the number of users who simply write “fix this” or “generate the report” and then expect an LLM to correctly produce the complex thing they have in mind.)

It is true that there is an “upper management” hype of trying to push AI into everything as a magic solution for all problems. There is certainly an economic incentive from a business valuation or stock price perspective to do so, and I would say that the general, non-developer public is mostly convinced that AI is actually artificial intelligence, rather than a very sophisticated next-word predictor.

While claiming that an LLM cannot follow a simple instruction sounds, at best, very unlikely, it remains true that these models cannot reliably deliver complex work.

This is not the point of the author. The author is criticising the new redesign of the latest iOS/MacOS/WatchOS 26, as being of poor choice with an over focus on form in detriment of function.

Also, to which aspects are you referencing exactly, that “Apple’s competitors are funding lobbyists to get regulator help to tear down”?

Anecdotally, I had a myocardial infarction at 23, and I was honestly surprised to learn that it wasn’t already well known that infectious diseases could trigger such events.

Up until that point, I’d never had any heart-related issues, nor does anyone in my family. Just two days before being admitted to the hospital with a suspected heart attack, I came down with food poisoning. It wasn’t pleasant, of course, but I thought it was nothing unusual—something a couple of days of rest and hydration would normally resolve.

Since my bloodwork at the hospital matched the expected results for a heart attack, and I underwent surgery, the doctors understandably focused on treating the immediate problem rather than identifying the underlying cause (I’m eternally grateful to the team and staff at St. Vincentius-Kliniken. I truly don’t think I’d be here without them).

That said, I’m glad to see this area receiving more attention. Hopefully, it will lead to further studies and the development of better strategies for prevention and treatment.

Certainly well-deserved.

I have a similar list of _art_ instead of most _entertainment_, and Hollow Kight there together with Disco Elysium

I’m not sure whether I find it more worrisome or fascinating that we live in a world where a company that, as far as I know, has never generated a single dollar in revenue has managed to exist for over five years, employ more than 100 people, and still get acquired for this amount.

This isn’t criticism or sarcasm — I’m genuinely impressed, but also very curious about the rationale behind it.

I spent a good amount of time last year working on a system to analyse patent documents.

Patents are difficult as they can include anything from abstract diagrams, chemical formulas, to mathematical equations, so it tends to be really tricky to prepare the data in a way that later can be used by an LLM.

The simplest approach I found was to “take a picture” of each page of the document, and ask for an LLM to generate a JSON explaining the content (plus some other metadata such as page number, number of visual elements, and so on)

If any complicated image is present, simply ask for the model to describe it. Once that is done, you have a JSON file that can be embedded into your vector store of choice.

I can’t say about the price-to-performance ration, but this approach seems to easier and more efficient than what is the author is proposing.