The same was presumably true of proto-cuneiform and early Egyptian hieroglyphs, which means the real surprise isn’t that proto-Elamite failed, but that the other two writing systems succeeded. Perhaps, says Dahl, they did so because the elites who benefited from writing lost power in ancient Iran, but maintained control in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
was looking at phone options recently and, honestly, fairphone has become the only choice as a daily driver. I am now absolutely fine with the limited fairphone specs as a trade-off for a device I control as my own.
will keep older phones for any corp BS that I am forced to deal with. hopefully we can legislatively minimize the interactions.
but isn't that just using tooling to de-obfuscate code that should be clear to begin with?
passing structs, dicts, whatever keeps the code clear, expressive and extensible. if I can bake-in flexibility and clarity without being overly focused on performance, I am choosing the former every time.
The AARP’s existence warns of a creaky but powerful behemoth that only a fool would rouse from slumber, lest it wreak havoc. The group cannot be held responsible for American policy stasis, nor for the excesses of elder self-protection, but it epitomizes both issues. Where the NRA’s guns kill people, the AARP reflects, like a mirror, a country dying by conservative sclerosis.
V1 (current, open-source): Ship it. An LLM looks at HTML and draws what it thinks a browser would show. Technically a browser. Legally, probably also a browser. Morally, questionable.
V2: (oversubscribed $200m pre-seed, enterprise) The LLM writes a brand new browser engine from scratch every time you load a page. No bloat -- the engine only supports exactly the features that page needs. Extremely efficient.
after 2024 I finally accepted that the majority of voters around me will accept almost anything as long as their "comfy" little suburban lives are maintained for them by their overlords.
indeed. permanently off by 1.