You'd think if intelligence were that interesting we'd be able to agree on, like, any attribute of it. The best we can do is IQ and let me assure you there's enough high iq morons that intelligence not a difficult myth to dispel.
Now stupidity—that's something that really sets us apart from animals.
> Now stupidity—that's something that really sets us apart from animals
Having seen e.g. a small dog angrily bark at a flat steel silhouette of a wolf 10 cm from its nose, while other dogs manage to drive cars*, I'm not so sure about that.
* a stunt for a dog shelter, teaching old dogs new ticks
> So OSS aside (which has its own complicated economics)
Assuming you're actually referring to free software and not open source software, it really doesn't, though. It's straight up better in every way than service-oriented software and commercial software in every way... except actually compensating developers. I'd work for a pittance writing free software if there were any institutional support for it. But who wants to kill the golden goose, even if it means our lives would all be greatly improved?
That's not "complicated", this is the opportunity to make a shit ton of money by charging people for software despite insignificant marginal costs. Even if it means humanity writes the same goddamn software over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, mostly shittier than the last iteration.
I highly recommend this movie if only because it's a hilarious combination of excellent production value, terrible acting, and some of the most boring and openly delusional film you'll ever witness.
Thanks! The acting/direction does incorporate sort of a plastic style. Perhaps they meant to really convey that this is all fictionalized history. I agree that it's a transparent hagiography. But American history is replete with hagiographies, and no patriot is repulsed by stories of President Washington and the cherry tree, or Paul Revere's heroicism, Betsy Ross's project, Susan B. Anthony's defense of women and children, or Abe Lincoln's bold proclamations. I mean, today we're not. In the moment, there were certainly plenty of dissenters and grumblers, but bro, history is written by winners, and President Reagan won many elections and established a library. There's nothing delusional about winning!
By the way, I read a compilation of letters, I believe the title was, "I Love You, Ronnie" and it became clear that Mrs. Nancy was the driving force in his White House. She cared for him in many ways despite his profound incapacity (perhaps like Dr. Jill Biden today) and First Ladies have been ever more emboldened to use very real influence and femininity to complement the Executive branch. Nancy's role was quite downplayed in the film, but any admirer of Jackie or Michele would need to acknowledge the First Lady's accomplishments.
Eh, it depends on the situation in question. Social acceptance (if this is even possible) will cost some people far more than it can benefit them. Any behavior, principle, or value will inherently make some portion of the population not want to be around you. This is why I recommend always starting with values and building up social acceptance from there.
This might be the first positive thing I've ever heard someone say about at&t. Mad props for distributing phones though! If you wrote up even a brief guide as to how to do this and common pitfalls I'd do the same in my area.
A metaphor with another physical object will always fall short. Why not just state the number of bits a particle represents? It's much easier to describe going through each dimension (colloqiual, I hate string theory for the same reason of unnecessarily using a physical analogy) and describing how it interacts with other particles. Sure you'll lose a lot of your audience but those that remain will have a much clearer picture than via a comparison to a billiard ball. This also makes the more advanced topics like singularities, entanglement, teleportation, the lack of true vacuum, etc much easier to manage.
(I'm aware we don't have an understanding of how quantum physics interacts with singularities, but the whole billiard ball metaphor certainly is incoherent with it)
Is this really still relevant? I've been using only python3 for well over a decade now and I can't remember the last time anyone even suggested I use python2. the rest of your critiques ring true though.
Maybe you're right and it's not, but Python is definitely a Rube Goldberg machine of tutorials, libraries, and people who will tell you with a straight face that it's reasonable and expected to have 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12 installed alongside each other because reasons.
I say this as someone who writes a fair amount of python and whose package manager decided to install 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12 as dependencies.
Anyway, try explaining that to a bunch of business school people who are accustomed to just doing everything in the latest version of Excel, whatever that happens to be.
> try explaining that to a bunch of business school people
Never mind them! I have been programming for decades and have been defeated twice by Python and its disrespect for semantic versioning
Those version 3s often introduce breaking changes.
I continue to be amazed and astounded that it is so popular. A poster child for "do not choose software based principally on popularity". Being unpopular is a handicap, but being popular - just look at Python. The Python ecosystem is a *nightmare*
Looking forward to searching for tutorials explaining the difference between Python .NET Core, Python ASP.NET Core, Python .NET for Business, and Excel .NET Core
> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google.
It's been more than a decade since google results were distinguishable from bing results. Both spam you with commercial crap.
> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google.
Kagi is much better than google. I have no clue what their baseline search quality is like, but I don't care because I can customize it enough to far outstrip quality that google can provide as google refuses to provide (or has actively disabled) the tools necessary to make search useful, like allowing the user to blacklist domains against all their searches or prioritize certain domains. Which is dumb, because how could they know what sort of results i value if they refuse to ask?
What we really need is an engine that excludes all commercial results, and an option to exclude sites with ads. That'd be a goldmine.
> how could they know what sort of results i value if they refuse to ask?
The tracking javascript, if you have it enabled, undoubtedly looks at the links on the search results page you clicked. If you search, go to the first result, and immediately bounce back to the page and try the second result, the first result gets down-ranked.
> how could [Google] know what sort of results i value if they refuse to ask?
They don’t care about the end-user of their search engines. You are not the client – advertisers are. All Google care about is to present search results that maximize revenue for sponsored results.
Kagi is better at searching internationally or maybe nationally, but local search is still dominated by Google. Looking for bars, restaurants, corner shops, grocerers and such is Google territory in my experience.
We must live in a different world because for me, Bing's results have always been completely unusable. As a consequence, DuckDuckGo's results as well, although I understand that it must work for certain types of users located in certain countries; otherwise I can't understand how anyone would use it.
I just logged into Kagi, and searched for “restaurants”. Kagi can see my country because their UI says so, yet it gave me “top 10 restaurants in Groningen Province” (Netherlands), as the first result and the second result was “top 10 restaurants in Barcelona”. And I don't live in the Netherlands or Spain.
I also searched for a programming question, an issue I recently had, with the query “slick breaks binary compatibility”. Google gave me fresh discussions describing the issue, whereas Kagi gave me a GitHub issue from 2021 that described issues with the previous major version.
I did not cherry-pick these searches.
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Speaking of, Kagi doesn't have their own index, they just use Bing's API, enhanced with results from other sources, much like what DuckDuckGo does; and like DDG they tend to be disingenuous about it.
Conversely, I often find Google's local focus to be counter-productive when I want to search for the most relevant sources in the world (for physical things) or on the internet (for virtual things) and Google insists on giving me local examples of the physical thing or local providers of the virtual thing, neither of which I have interest in.
Their end-users are advertisizers spending millions. For them Google is probably very responsive. The rest of us are users of pet projects at best and product at worst
The term end-user does not refer to advertisers by definition. Typically most people use the term "user" to refer to humans.
You're not wrong, but advertisers are a cancer on society that not only do not contribute any value but actively destroy the world around us. it's difficult to assign anything but deeply negative value to their needs and concerns.
Now stupidity—that's something that really sets us apart from animals.