Your solution for us to all agree to do the same thing is not realistic for the same reason that recycling doesn't really work, why we have a myriad of programming languages and similar but incompatible hardware, etc.
There is always someone who will take advantage of the prisoners dilemma.
I think there are more text editors around that render clickable links than there are that don't. Even your terminal probably renders clickable links.
Despite the scary words and score this wouldn't even be a vulnerability if people weren't so hard wired to click every link they see. It's not some URL parsing gone wrong triggering an RCE. Most likely they allowed something like file:// links which of course opens that file. Totally valid link, but the feature must be neutered to only http(s):// because people.
Because the society in US is arranged as a competition with no safety net and where your employer has a disproportionate amount of influence on your well being and the happiness of your kids.
I'm not going to give up $1M in total comp and excellent insurance for my family because you and I don't like where AI is going.
Just having the option of giving up $1 million in compensation put one far far far above meaningful worries about your well-being and the happiness of your kids.
I'll have to explain it to the wife: "well, you see, we cant live in this house anymore because AI in Notepad was just too much".
I'll dial up my ethical and moral stance on software up to 11 when I see a proper social safety net in this country, with free healthcare and free education.
And if we cant all agree on having even those vital things for free, then relying on collective agreement on software issues will never work in practice so my sacrifice would be for nothing. I would just end up being the dumb idealist.
I don't think you should make any change you don't want to, I'm not arguing for collective agreement on anything, and I'm not convinced there's a big ethical case for or against AI, even in Notepad.exe. If you can make $1M, go nuts, I just think it's not a great example of dealing with ethics & tradeoffs.
I was more just reacting to your the contrast between ideas early in this thread, and your implication of a $1M comp. Early in the thread there was implication that poor/exploited/low-level workers with few other options were either being blamed for AI in notepad, or should not be blamed. Then you casually drop the $1M comp line. Maybe that's real, maybe it's not but regardless, it felt silly to compare the earlier population with people who can or have made $1M. Of course we all face challenges, and the hedonic treadmill calls for us equally at $1K/year and $1M/year, I just think people in the latter have objectively more options, even if the wife complains, than people in the former, and it's tough to take the latter seriously when they talk about lifestyle adjustments.
You were homeless and didn't have a choice, so now obviously you're qualified to give assurances that essentially, "it is unlikely that your family will starve", right? /s
And if you're wrong, and shit hits the fan for whatever reason, who's going to fix that? You? No, he's going to have to fix that, because nobody else is going to step in.
It's easy to tell others that it's going to be OK, but put your money where your mouth is. Put $1M in a fund that he can access should he no longer be able to find employment. Then he'll have absolute certainty that it's going to be OK.
Something tells me you're not going to do that. Something tells me that what you would do if shit hits the fan, is you're going to tell him that he should find solace in the fact that while he's working for 1/5th of his former total comp, putting in more hours at the same time, seeing his kids less, not putting his kids through private school to give them the best chance at the best education, that, at least, some kid out there isn't watching 6-7 videos on the tablet that their parents use to do less parenting.
> You were homeless and didn't have a choice, so now obviously you're qualified to give assurances that essentially, "it is unlikely that your family will starve", right? /s
Yes, again the context is software engineering, the floor of what we earn as software engineers is above what other careers has as their maximum, and if you've been a developer since 2018 (almost ten years of experience) you're not having a tough time finding a new job, especially if you were at Google.
People get comfortable with their new living standards, that's natural. But they said they were able to get out, just took time, I'm guessing that's about vesting something, not because it's hard to find new opportunities.
Nothing to do with vesting. I didn't want to leave Google, I wanted to leave ads, and I did. I got into Chrome org and was happy that my patience paid off
Fellow D fan - high five! This is seriously impressive for a 17 year old!
I'll note a few things:
1. 'fast' without benchmarks is just marketing speak. I keep seing "fast", "super fast" on the GitHub page but nothing to substantiate the claims. How fast is it compared to using D, or even C?
2. 'Download glang' link is broken
3. Why would I use G and not D directly? D generates small binaries as well.
4. What does the 'std' library include? You're mentioning 'println' and 'newline', while people expect data structures and components they can reuse. Is the D standard library accessible?
5. I couldn't find a documentation page easily, but I see you plan on overhauling the documentation
9. If I thought my language is worthy of a single letter name, I'd swing for the fences and name the compiler executable 'g', not 'glang'. You're already using the .g file extension for G Lang source code, so might as well go big with the command too.
10. Speaking of glang, it's super close to golang by Google
11. Your Fuchsia shell's name conflicts with the Fuchsia OS (fuchsia.dev) by Google
I'm not a big fan of the syntax, but I wish you good luck. I hope to keep hearing about your language in the future.
> because one is hooked on and dependent on the genie, the natural circumstances that otherwise would allow for foundational and fundamental skills and understanding to develop, never arise, to the point of cognitive decline.
After using AI to code, I came to the same conclusion myself. Interns and juniors are fully cooked:
- Companies will replace them with AI, telling seniors to use AI instead of juniors
- As a junior, AI is a click away, so why would you spend sleepless nights painstakingly acquiring those fundamentals?
Their only hope is to use AI to accelerate their own _learning_, not their performance. Performance will come after the learning phase.
If you're young, use AI as a personal TA, don't use it to write the code for you.
as someone who is sort of a medior programmer it is very hard to balance, trying to keep up with the advancements in AI while not shooting myself in the foot by robbing myself of learning experiences
I've been using vim for 20 years as well, for everything other than Java code. I type my .vimrc by hand on each new machine to set a half dozen options.
Of the intermediate features, I use tabs and, more recently, split windows.
My favorite 'advanced' feature is visual block selection and replacement over multiple lines - super convenient.
I think a "Just A Browser" approach would be better for people like me, who don't really want to patch configuration files for their existing browsers - sounds messy.
I would however download a new browser that promises to not have all these bad features and has stripped them straight from the source code. For example, I switched from Chrome to Brave because it blocks ads.
From Wikipedia: "End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a method of implementing a secure communication system where only the sender and intended recipient can read the messages."
Both ends do not need to be under your control for E2EE.
I personally found the text hard to read (both because of the typeface and the small size), the animations distracting during scrolling (while I'm trying to skim the content), and the background colors too dark for dark text on them with jarring full white (#FFF) colored text.
I understand they're trying to go for a whimsical and fun feeling, but imo as implemented it is far from "really well made".
I just found reading it fun, but I didn't skim it so I can imagine its a bit much when skimming, I am not much of a designer. I like the style of whimsy, but I think its just a matter of preference.
There is always someone who will take advantage of the prisoners dilemma.
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