So ironic that I had to start Chromium just to read his blog post, because my Firefox 151.0.3 was unable to render the font on his blog...
To some extent, I share the view that forms should be simple (e.g., at one point I built a reservation system that worked in Links2 (the CLI browser)), but having a blog that can't be read in a modern Firefox seems a bit weird when preaching such messages.
I think it is part of Web 2.0 with its user-generated content, but I think it lacks most of the central aspects of Social Media:
- contacts/friends
- personalisation
- followers
I think some central feeds + comments are not enough, especially with the weak user profile concept (I mean, there are not even profile pictures). But I think some people consider HN Social Media.
Same here. And I had some pretty f**ed up file systems.
At one point, I had one where the directory structure was completely broken and had circles in it (broken SSD). To be fair, in that particular case, I did not look for lost+found and just wrote a tool to extract the data manually that I was looking for.
The irony is that LLMs can make it much easier to learn new skills. You just have to use them in the right way, and obviously most people take the easy path and don't learn...
I have been using it for a while as well (started with OpenOffice). However, not all apps can keep up the pace.
As a word processor, I like Writer even more than MS Word, but Calc, for example, is just much slower than MS Excel when you build a bit larger spreadsheets.
So from an ideological perspective, I agree, but you should know that there are some drawbacks / the products have different strengths.
is just wrong, and I don't think that the SQLite fans are that crowd. Taking a database server for everything is probably possible, but often unnecessary. With experience, one can properly judge when SQLite is sufficient and when it is not.
So arguing that the SQLite crowd is inexperienced feels weird, because inexperienced people have a much harder time judging when to use what and can just use the database server all the time (even when it is overkill).
Yes, the data protection people are always blamed for the banners when, in fact, the marketing people are responsible.
If you build a website without all that tracking stuff and without 'free' services from the data collection companies Google and Facebook, then you have a pretty good chance of not requiring a banner at all, because for logins, etc., you are allowed to use cookies et al. without requiring an opt-in.
But I never saw anybody at the OMR being proud about the state of cookie banners they created...
Maybe the problem is not the artificial intelligence, but the thing we call copyright, and AI training is just showing us how weird the concept of copyright is.
I mean, it seems to be okay to replicate information if it has been remixed with other information enough, but not okay if the remix was too little. But then again, there does not seem to be a clearly executable definition of where this line is.
There are good reasons why we have copyright (like protecting/fostering artists/education/entertainment in our modern society), but the concept itself is a bit weird and artificial after all.
To some extent, I share the view that forms should be simple (e.g., at one point I built a reservation system that worked in Links2 (the CLI browser)), but having a blog that can't be read in a modern Firefox seems a bit weird when preaching such messages.
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