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do i have to run this locally and will it interrupt other actions while this is happening?
just obsessed with browser controlling agents. I saw a few friends fret over the job search process, maintaining excel, going through job portals every day and then filling out the same repetitive applications. so we built jobber.

we are also building an underlying framework that lets devs build custom browser controlling agents.

>Also, does it have any downside since we are giving away browser control to it?

LLMs can take autonomous actions on your behalf and be sometimes wrong for sure. but this does not have the downside of you entering your passwords and the LLM having access to it as it controls your existing browser session where most of the websites are already logged in.
These bans will come worldwide. Soon we will also understand the realtionship between mental disorders in teens and "always on". Not to mention the distraction these devices generate in schools.
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I switched to AWS Bedrock APIs for Claude 3.5 Sonnet to avoid daily token limit
I can sort of squint and see the logic in your argument but I'm not convinced that allowing smart devices in schools and especially during class hours has enough good to consider seriously.

I don't let my kids use a smart phone for entertainment. They use it sometimes for chatGPT and Google translate especially when they study but not beyond that and I intend to keep it that way till they're old enough (17 or so).
Steam also takes 30% despite all platforms it operates on being entirely open. So it doesn’t seem to be that unreasonable
> but they proactively shutdown smaller apps that break no rules constantly.

They just pulled up another lie on my app that I record some forbidden device id and I just hesitate to shut everything down this time. Building a mobile app isn't worth the effort. The play store and the appstore are better suited to casino games and scams than real apps.
Google gives you an App Store and maintain the OS that other hardware vendors (and sometimes themselves) implement hardware around. They take a 30% cut for distribution in their special app store and not much else.

Microsoft and Sony take similar cuts for access to their game consoles. In return they provide:
- High quality, robust developer APIs.
- High quality debuggers, graphics debuggers and CPU+GPU profiling tools with in-depth access to hardware counters
- Networking libraries for matchmaking, and a network backend for tunneling network traffic via their online services
- True development kit hardware with expanded resources for debugging tools
- High quality documentation and direct support
- GPU drivers that actually work
- Payment processing
- All for a hardware platform that is typically sold at or below BOM cost for the initial launch of the device

Google provides distribution via the Play Store, and only for about ~4GB of app before they force you to use your own CDN because they have a limit on the size of the app bundle they'll distribute. There's likely things I'm not aware of that Google provides for app developers rather than game developers, but if we're comparing to game consoles then I'm going to compare tool for tool.

Apple's tooling is better, largely because they have way more control over the target hardware and software environment, but they take an additional cost via their highly restrictive app guidelines.
I can’t imagine that at their scale they haven’t done the math before pursuing a project. They are big enough that the benefits might also include internal know-how, negotiating advantage and long-term security
Worked at a VFX company in the 90s and had Origins and Onyx to share and an O2 on my desk. Didn’t fully realize at the time we we living twenty years in the future. My ~2015 Lintel was messier but similar.
> If the stock market gets played with unusual contracts like this one, regular investors will be cheated out of the value that is created by replacing more and more jobs by AI.

The only people in the world who deserve money even less than sociopathic billionaires are investors. I'd say cheating them out of their money should be free game. Isn't that basically what they're doing to every worker-class human being in the world as it is?
The Wikipedia article covers the development pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

In short:

> Breeders were at first found attractive because they made more complete use of uranium fuel than light-water reactors, but interest declined after the 1960s as more uranium reserves were found[2] and new methods of uranium enrichment reduced fuel costs.
Great tool but has its quirks. Be careful doing cross platform syncing. What's a legal filename on macos/linux may not be legal on Windows (e.g. "?" in a filename) If something slips through it's probably easier just to scrub the broken sync config and start again.
In this video https://youtu.be/lVKT09eLTn8?si=ODZRS3cMvvDqlTOz it looks like he traces only the rough outline and fills in the details free hand. If so it is amazing. It's amazing too if he traces the whole thing from a photo. Chuck Close transfers the photo into canvas in small squares and paints the squares, so his style is more mechanical.
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Using a phone during class was indeed never an option, but, can I ask you since you went to school with smartphones (I am much older): Is your experience that most students pull their phone out as soon as they exit the classrooms? Do they spend most of their breaks on their screens? If so do you have the feeling you have poorer conversational skills because of this and would you not rather have just enjoyed school engaging with the people around you?

I see youngsters now that have hundreds of messages a day, on many platforms, and consequently hours of screen time a day. Does it not feel like this time would be better spends in face to face engagements?

I read about girls that are just tired, they have a good time, everybody gossips on Social Media, they have to maintain "status" there, streaks, presence, likes, it never ends, last thing before sleep, first thing after waking up. It sounds so exhausting.
Not really. They still take “only” up to 1-2% in the US
That’s what they said. It’s only built to survive one, maybe two infants, but to avoid a secondary market the rockers purposefully fail. Both because it’s cheaper to buy material that won’t last, and because it makes prospective buyers more reliant on the manufacturer rather than a cheaper aftermarket supply.
"...at a minimum, they will substitute a 30% fee with a 4% credit card processing expense..."

Which large corporation is paying anything close to 4% for credit card processing? Based on what's available to me in my small business, I'd be astonished if anyone doing any significant volume was paying as much as half of this percentage.
A number of years ago when my daughter was in the second grade the school expected them to turn in homework via this crappy power point knock-off app that would constantly crash.

I had her eventually just take screen shots and send them to the printer. From there? She would fill in her answers, take a picture of the work, and then drop the image into the power point knockoff.

We got a note from the Principal about how "printing" was not supported.

Whatever.
Steam reportedly puts in a bunch of effort to earn it though.

Whereas Apple's relationship seems more predatory/antagonistic (at best).
> Whenever I need to edit a configuration file for an app or just edit something really quickly while I’m already navigating in a terminal, nothing beats the convenience of whipping out Neovim. Opening Zed for every single file like that would get exhausting, but for longer term sessions or projects it’s perfect.

Which part exactly would exhaust you? These editors are fast to close/open even is there not already running (also you could just leave it open h, and you get the benefit of not blocking the current terminal session, so that's the convenience that beats neovim. Another one is that you can have editor's window size independent of the terminal size
Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo subsidize the development and cost of their dedicated gaming system from the 30% cut of the store sales.

It's very different on the mobile side: Apple sells iOS devices at full cost. With Android, it gets even more mucky as Samsung, the hardware vendor, gets 0% of the sales on their handset (unless the user, for some reason, uses the Samsung store), and Google gets the full 30% for only their software work. So the fact that Google gets 30% is wild.
I think the exercise is more about exposing you to other solution options (to 'break your anchoring bias'). You still have to exercise judgement as to which solution is right for the situation.
Understood, and could you cite something in that regard? Or mention something a bit more specific
Yes, nobody reads press anymore.

Or you think the papers people read aren't writing propaganda?
w.r.t article. Very wordy, could easily have been summarised.

I guess if your costs are high enough, you can eat any amount of profit.

They clearly need to get their expenses under control (if they care about generating an actual profit). There's only so much you can grow once you get to a certain threshold, and they must be getting near it.

Spending 2b on opex seems kinda crazy (3.2b revenue vs 1.2b income). Most games are opex-light, capex-expensive. Their capex is definitely not cheap either, though that seems to be a tradeoff they choose to have.

Of course, this all presumes the people running the company care about generating a profit (by no means a guarantee!). I'm sure all of the employees are making out like bandits, based on other commenters, and if management is happy to spend the money, well, that's all there is to it. It would be hard for anyone to argue with their success in growing their userbase, if nothing else.
To a reasonably informed outsider the entire US political system looks like a cynical dirty circus.

I have no horse in the political race; I only wish for the US to be strong, since I see it as a shining beacon for many good in the world.

That said, you mentioned the ridiculousness of one side, with completely ignoring what has happened on the other. So let me list some of the hard to believe details regarding that other side:

- the current presidential candidate has not won a single delegate in the primaries in 2020

- in 2020 they have had an attrocious performance while campaigning

- they've been a steady stream of cringe and embarrassment for the US in their public appearances for the last 4 years

- in 2024 the primaries have been shut down, only for this candidate to be hot-swapped in!

... so now as an opposition to the ridiculous orange candidate that you described on the other side, you now have a candidate that no one has voted for!

How is that a democracy?

Your entire two-party political system is rigged and you should own up to it, or not engage with it at all.
It isn't that well defined.

To start with, which opinions? I may disagree with your (hypothetical) opinion that Go is the best language developed so far. I would not call you "bro" because of that, even if you were a non-obese male.

Bro in this context refers to "tech bro' oligarchs" (https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/broligarchy dates the popularity starting last month).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer notes that '"Brogrammer" or "tech bro"' are "often used pejoratively to describe toxic masculinity and sexism in the technology industry".

This definition highlights how it's not merely 'opinions with which I disagree', but a specific set of opinions.

FWIW, The Atlantic is the publication which brought us the term "Bernie Bro", "to describe young, white, progressive men who, in his view, support unrealistic progressive policies and promote the Bernie Sanders campaign obnoxiously", including "sometimes attack in very sexist ways" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Bro

The connection there is the toxic masculinity and sexism.
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thanks! for now, it will control the chrome window and block regular use. however, you can use the same profile in a new window while jobber runs in another.
Our library has lots of these. Might look there.
You realize the government funds most people's pensions/retirement via investment right? Either directly via pension funds or indirectly by encouraging people to save in 401ks etc?
My blogging engine [1] is almost 25 years old now. Have I rewritten it? If by "rewritten" you mean "from scratch", then no. I haven't. It has, however, seen several serious workings and refactorings over the years (the last great one was the removal of all global variables [2] a few years ago). Starting over would have been just too much work.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[2] As therapy for stuff going on at work.
It’s true that Elon Musk was generally held in high regard for being one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, but that was before he went weirdly political. Because if there’s one thing that can probably be said about ‘us’, it’s that ‘we’ don’t like to be boxed in politically.
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Yessah! Secret ploy to make sure everyone in tech buys kamanu is working. All kidding aside, I appreciate it.
SyncThing is in the perfect position to do a million different things, but they very strongly believe in not adding anything outside the core features set even if the code needed is already 99% there.
I found some of those jokes good, definitely better than I would've ever written them. If you watch shows about comedy like say Hacks you'll see human comedians riff on stuff and a lot of the off the top jokes get discarded or improved. So Claude did fine in my book
You can't say nobody voted for the vice president, they are part of the presidential ticket.

If the president can't serve, they literally become president.

Hypothetical scenarios:

1. Biden/Harris wins presidency. Biden steps down. Harris is now president.

2. Biden/Harris wins Democratic nomination. Biden steps down. Harris is now nominee.

How is 2. any less democratic than 1.?
It is not the patent filing fee that matters. It is the litigation costs when some entity willfully impinges upon your patent. Big companies can afford litigation and often cross-license patents.
I don’t touch type and I’m fully with you on speed doesn’t increase performance, but I have recently started writing c# after two decades of python and man the number of lines that you have to write before you get to the meat of the logic! So I think that 10 lines of code are only to expressive languages not globally
> PS: Downvoting does not constitute a counterargument

You didn't really give an argument to counter.

In fairness, i didn't really either.

"The particular definition isn't as important as long as it doesn't leave room for ambiguity" is a pretty controversial statement. To me, this seems obviously false. However, i think its kind of like arguing about what makes a good person. Yes you can appeal to certain general principles, but at some level the general principles come down to "because i think so".

As a fundemental principle, i think which behaviours the law forbids and which it does not is important. The purpose of law is to regulate certain behaviors; it is not an exercise in mathematics or formal logic. This seems self-obvious to me, but as a normative claim there is not much i can say to convince you if you disagree.

To that end, i think criminalizing the wrong conduct is worse than mild ambiguity in laws, when the ambiguity can largely be resolved through common sense. I believe the principle of precedent in common law systems combined with the principle that ambiguities should generally be interpreted to benefit the defendent, effectively mitigates the downsides of allowing mild ambiguity.
Well, yeah. It’s probably the major reason Apple can afford to design and print their own chips. You don’t get rich unless you are greedy.
The article explicitly references donations to the Democrats too btw, the authors overarching point appears to be this idea that the vastly wealthy consider themselves above the state and the rule of law. This is not a new phenomena, history is resplendent with examples of the abundantly rich desiring, obtaining and then exercising absolute power. Spoiler alert: it usually doesn't end well for the populace at large or ultimately themselves. I'd agree with the authors point about the ostensibly short sightedness of Elon et al's seeming desire for a rich absolutism: they are barking up the wrong, unsustainable tree. A well functioning and financially supported democracy is very very good for the economy and good for them! A better provision of public goods, infrastructure and a healthy populace is very very good for business isn't it? Democratic decline also brings with it instability, anti competitive kleptocracy, stagnation, and consumers strapped for cash; not the ideal conditions within which to sell their services. Which makes me wonder: is Elon's current political posturing not really based on any canny reasoning, but just plane old reactive emotional impulse. I really wouldn't be surprised if, as the author suggests, Elon's perceived Biden snub is really a big part of this or at least behind its genesis. Which is a good final point on unchecked power and its pitfalls, who wants to be at the mercy of an individual's emotional petulant whims, compulsions and outbursts? Surely none of us right?
Would you rather do the hardware/OS platform yourself as well?

I know, the big ones are always "evil", but...

How about being real?
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You don't have to take me serious to derive value from the post. It's obvious anecdotal, just shares a story. I skipped some of the details to focus on the topic of Spring. But I think I can add some as you have rightly spotted they are missing:
The major problem was imho indeed engineering management of that specific team, which was also swapped out at the same time I was put on the team (which was before we got the buy in to rewrite it). There were actually at least two dev generations of the team building the software before ours. The first one caused the most damage by the demented infrastructure decisions, while the second iteration was not able to successfully challenge that, even though they had the right ideas already. New engineering management was awesome in that they supported devs with most of our radical ideas, but also pulled in resources from other departments to help deal with the largest pain points such as adding Spring Boot quite early in the mending journey, with the heavy lifting being done by an expert from another team temporarily joining us.

Forgive my judgy wordings in the direction of seniority...our org has (had?) an issue where complexity is rewarded over simplicity. Some senior people here all they could do is build something so clusterfucked noone can understand it. Funnily enough, this project was originally launched to replace a legacy system noone was able to (or unwilling to) maintain.
Walter's comment could be applied exactly as well to an argument that there shouldn't be electricity in schools (after all, kids survived without electricity just fine for decades).
> A vbs script to call a bat script to call an exe.

Who let that ship? Who did the code review?
Old title made a lot more sense.
You can make the same argument about Minecraft since servers download you texture packs, data packs or skins. I don't think that Apple should stop these apps, that's their game model.
Functional programming in JavaScript is a paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing state or mutable data. It emphasizes the use of pure functions, which return the same output for the same input without side effects, and higher-order functions, which take other functions as arguments or return them as results. This approach leads to more predictable and testable code, promotes reusability, and often simplifies complex operations by leveraging functions like map, filter, and reduce to process arrays and other data structures efficiently.
ULA (Boeing and Lockheed's spaceflight division) is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed. Maybe they're referring to that?
Haha, I'm certainly from your generation and feel the same.

But the tech isn't going away, and it can be pretty useful, empowering, cool and democratisering.

We just need to learn how to deal with the tech in a healthy way, and these bans are progress if you ask me.

I think the smartphone is just too much of a slotmachine, but we are just learning about that, and learning about what to do against it. Smartphones took a whole generation by surprise, the kids, but also their parents. I received rotten.com style videos on the family email address, havging a good conversation about it with my flabbergasted father... then smartphones came. That generation grew up quickly, and differently, and the parents were just slapped in the face with it. But it's changing, we're learning.

Edit: You deleted your comment, anyway, was going to answer this:

Hmm, now that I look more closely indeed I'm probably >10 years older. We had our first dumbphones at around 16-17 (Ericsson GF768 at ~17).

I do remember the thrill of sleeping with it next to my bed and receiving a text during the night. Magic.

You sound like my generation though ;) I bet you had a hard time in between your year mates. The current generation also has people like you btw. Not many though.
> Bold doesn't drop a frame on a 144hz 4K monitor

Is there some double blind study showing that people can tell the difference between a frame dropped at 144 Hz and not dropped, in the context of text editing?
Roblox has a joint venture setup with Tencent to enter that market. The Chinese gaming market require a gaming license to enter, and it seems they've figured out a way to do it.