Strong FB dedicated phone button vibes.

I honestly find this complain ridiculous.

I don’t see the issue in carrying an empty plastic bottle around. It weights nothing, and, when crushed, takes no space. There are countries like Japan where there aren’t many garbage bins on the streets and people carry their garbage around until they find one.

There are a bunch of societal rules that started like this. Thirty years ago, most people would still throw their used batteries into the regular garbage bin, would dispose of used oil anywhere, or would happily have a smoke while watching their children at the park. Nowadays no sane person would do either of those. Things change. Get on with the times.

I was finished with a bottle of water and threw it into a trash can. Had there been a recycle bin, I would have placed it there. I was being reprimanded and scolded by someone less than half my age that honestly expected me to carry it until I could find a recycle container.

I think you’re in the wrong here. Two reasons.

First, finding the proper trash bin for a bottle requires zero effort. You’d likely find one on your way anywhere.

Second, people “less than half your age” are right to be more concerned about the environment, since they will have to deal with the absolute clusterfuck previous generations are leaving them with.

I’m really curious about what’s precisely wrong with taking the bus, but even more, recycling. Because I would understand if schedules and bus stops are not at all convenient, but recycling takes no time or effort at all, and I doubt Seattle is doing anything that no other city had been doing for many years now.

I’ve never said that protests are illegal, but the law certainly made them way riskier for protesters.

But yes, if they can only get age verification in place it will all devolve into a corporate fascist state…

The new normal seems to be that one could be fined 600 euro for insulting the police, or be sentenced to 2 years for disrupting a political event.

It’s called a slippery slope. You may want to look that up.

Regardless, we’ll never agree on this because you are one of the “I don’t have anything to hide” kind of people, a PADEFO, naive to a fault.

I’m a born and raised Spaniard who lived there for over 35 years, and was beaten up by cops at least once. I think I know a thing or two about the system.

You said that in Spain people have the right to protest freely against the government, yet the ley mordaza proves that’s not all true, e.g. https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/blog/historia/articulo/ley-mordaza/

But regardless of all that, there’s an even more solid proof that removing anonymity on the internet is a bad idea in the current Spanish climate: La Liga has been threatening individuals and companies for well over a year now, with the help of the courts and the inaction of the government. Somehow, they had access to internet users’ personal data, and have been sending out letters requesting payment for alleged “pirated content distribution and consumption”. They have pressured ISPs to throttle and even block entire blocks of IP addresses. They have sued people for libel because of insults towards their current president.

My point here is that, if a sports corporation could do that when people are still able to be “anonymous” online, how can you guarantee that Spain wouldn’t devolve into a full fledged corporate fascist state, where those with money have the effective power to target dissidents for the pettiest reason, if anonymity were to go away?

I don’t see you using your real name here.

A bit hypocritical if you ask me.

Spain literally has a law commonly known as “ley mordaza”, which enabled law enforcement to impose massive fines to protesters, some of whom ended up spending months in prison.

AI companies are selling that “coding has been largely solved”.

It seems that it hasn’t.

You would be surprised to know how many managers still rely on this metric, even if it’s not part of their KPIs.

I don’t like GitHub, but this looks like they had someone using an authorized SSH key, but the git client was configured to post some unknown email address. Happens all the time.

Would be funny if they only find out once they have migrated off GitHub though.

The link you posted does not support your conclusion at all.

There have been rumors of Cook retiring for the past five years, at least, and I’m pretty sure that shareholders are quite happy with Apple market cap at almost $4 trillion.

It has nothing to do with AI.

AI is a non essential tool. Anything that a chatbot produces, can and should be achievable by a human with access to the same sources of information. Anyone hired to do a specialist job, who cannot perform without access to AI, should be summarily fired because their output would be indistinguishable from that of their LLM of choice.

In contrast, the Internet (as massive interconnected network), computers, even books, enable humans to deal with information in ways impossible to achieve without them, and help augment us. Reading feeds your brain. Computers are a window to creativity. AI does nothing of the sort, in fact I believe it does the opposite, pushing us to outsource our thinking processes while making us feel smart, undeservedly.

We aren’t comparing humans to code.

Except for the bit where LLM behaviors aren’t deterministic, but those of most compilers in most situations are.

And before anyone says that LLVM in version X produced wildly different assembly from version Y, it is not remotely comparable to what LLMs do, not even close.

I would need a citation for that “2x-5x faster” with the same quality, because that hasn’t been my experience at all. Most of my colleagues treat LLMs as “better Google”, and agentic coding in production has been downsized, to the point where it may help with the least critical paths only. And we aren’t particularly AI skeptic, at all.

Also, I feel like progress has stalled in the past couple of years, e.g. Opus latest version doesn’t seem to provide me with any noticeable advantages over the previous one. Are they getting better on paper? I suppose they do, but I couldn’t care less about that if they don’t give me better results.

The thing is, writing code was never the issue, engineering it is. If a machine helps me write code 10 times faster, that saves me maybe a couple hours, which isn’t really meaningful. On the other hand, it increases my workload by forcing me to thoroughly check the work of less experienced devs who rely on them, just to make sure that there aren’t errors that could cause serious harm.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that AI is giving inexperienced people confidence they shouldn’t have in the first place, and that’s not a good thing.

What does it mean? Because just yesterday I saw this guy live streaming a vibe coding session, and he sounded exactly like “Bill”.

There are no reputable sources for this.

Why?