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ethics and morality are not interchangeable are they?

anyway individuals willingly give to teh state some autonomy in return for the safety of governance... that's the social contract free people have with government

"doxxing" a Russian ransomware group is the kind thing to do. bombing them out of existence is within the remit of the range of ideas a government could resort to...


Not disagreeing with your preface but I was under the impression that while it took governments some time to figure things out, kinetic bombing in retaliation for cyberwarfare was pretty much ruled out unless the cyberwarfare results in direct mass casualties (for example cyber sabotaging a refinery results in an explosion which results in casualties.). Else we’d have bombed North Korea, China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, etc.

Yeah bombing as a counter to cyber attacks is a last ditch Pandora’s box thing

Good. I’m glad. It’s a great editor but the whole electron backend is so bloated.

What are you glad about exactly? This seems to be another big bang rewrite with LLMs. Fun but extremely unlikely to go anywhere.

I want a vscode port to native. think zed but with the rich ecosystem.

Not op but there is a lot of details about VS code including electron that could have been done better.

VS Code is one of the most performant electron apps ever written. Extensions and plugins are always the culprit of poor performance.

That can be said about any project.

And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.


I think the exact opposite, this why alternatives like Zed is taking off.

Did Zed fix font rendering on low dpi resolution yet? I figured if they couldn't fix such a basic functionality for any editor, for over a year, while pushing AI to please stakeholders, they weren't worth my time. And I question their priorities even if they finally fixed it.

And did they implement debugger support?

When I need a barebones editor I reach for Sublime which doesn't market themselves as something else.

As for Zed taking off, I see a lot of vocals in some niche communities but they barely register, if at all, in large annual surveys.


This has been my experience as well, Qwen via Ollama locally has been very very impressive.

what a well written article.

makes me very much consider moving to Switzerland. I'd be happy with symmetric 5Gbit internet. Anything more would be overkill imo.

I hated working with ISPs in the states. Ever try cancelling Comcast? You literally get routed to a department whose sole reason for being is to talk you out of it.

I really like the idea, share the lines compete on execution.

One thing the article doesn't mention is in Germany the electricity and gas lines are more or less this approach. I can switch electricity providers like the article author can switch ISPs. It's a common practice to do so about 1x a year to take advantage of customer acquisition incentives.


good. just like the Claude model. getting the pricing to be in line with costs is the only way this remains sustainable.

I would prefer if it actually explodes sooner rather than later

> I would prefer if it actually explodes sooner rather than later

The idea, as far as I can tell from all the pro-AI developers, was that it will never explode, and the performance will continue increasing so the slop they write today doesn't need maintenance, because when that time comes around there will be smarter models that can clean it up.

If the providers are tightening the screws now (and they are all doing it at the same time), it tells me that either:

1. They are out of runway and need to run inference at a profit.

or

2. They think that this is as good as it is going to get, so the best time to tighten the screws is right now.


They could also do a plan 3 where they discourage others so they can use it to, say, rapidly build many new products but competitors would have to pay a fortune for the same luxury

Just spitballing.


> They could also do a plan 3 where they discourage others so they can use it to, say, rapidly build many new products but competitors would have to pay a fortune for the same luxury

Unlikely that they all decided to do this within weeks of each other. Still, like you said, you were spit-balling, not asserting :-)


every *Overflow site other than the main one for asking coding questions has been very good to me. StackOverflow was a terrible experience. What LLMs got right was when asking seemingly stupid questions, or simple questions, or RTFM-answerable questions didn't get responses of "RTFM", or "Duplicate", or the like.

If for want of the Astronomy overflow and math overflow and others to remain I will not wish that StackOverflow go the route of Ask Jeeves (and wither away into irrelevance) but I'm hoping they take a look inside and see why they failed.


They destroyed this experience years ago because they couldn't monetize or own 3rd party networks, and when they shut them down and stole those with any traction, people who cared stopped participating, and the community left or more commonly just evaporated. The parenting one is a good example.

hahah use it with headphones, it's cute!

I didn't create this but I found it randomly and it's hilarious. I love its whimsy.

go to about 28 seconds in here to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHZw284thA


As if I couldn’t admire the man more and now I do!

Vim bindings I’m in!

I have been trying https://github.com/hat0uma/csvview.nvim

Its rather neat.



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