"you fly over smoothly like a pilot" (so, with my view limited by the cockpit, and constrained to mandatory airways?)

"Everything comes from freely available geodata, straight from its publishers" (as opposed to using "freely available geodata" through mediators?)

"joined by thousands of open maps from the Library" (what Library? Of Congress?)

"Kugelblitz instances in the same network share it with each other if you wish" (yeah "if you wish" sure is how a human would phrase an optional setting)

"Kugelblitz speaks German and English and uses the units of your choice" (same)

and many more

It's slop writing.

No, it's not. It sounds exactly like Tim Pritlove when he speaks German. Not everyone is a native speaker, you know?

In one of his recent podcasts he explained that he wanted to create a mixture of Google Earth and a libray. So "Library" is specifically meant as a name for the mixed data source aggregation.

To be clear: The entire software is vibecoded in a language Pritlove doesn't even have worked with prior to that. But when it comes to talking about his ideas Pritlove surely does not need a LLM. This guy basically started the German podcast scene and has been talking about software for at least 30 years.

>No, it's not. It sounds exactly like Tim Pritlove when he speaks German

Germans are still LLM, just in human form.

Yeah, nothing like e.g. watching a video or drawing something and changing settings by asking AI.

There's a lot of thought in Blender's UI, and a lot of improvements over the years.

Fundamentally all 3d modelers have inherent degree of complexity. The ones that give a "simple" facade with fewer options make other things harder or having to look into obscure places.

All of that are beside the point however: people will use this as a GUI library, not as a Blender's UX design.

Why would they change their decade long standing "scam ads are accepted since they're good for profits" policy, just because AI emerged?

>Actually, you do see ads for those things there

At a very smaller rate.

Typical HN top comment negativity :)

That UI is fine to be on many more places than Blender, given that many libraries people use are way worse. Imgui for one example.

>The vast majority of what was lost were "beat" reporters - foreign bureaus, Washington bureaus from regional publications, statehouse reporters, or regional specialty beats (science, law, etc).

People doing actual useful news work, in other terms.

I wish would stop using "journalist" and "reporter" interchangeably.

Reporters are people who actually get out into the world, collect facts, collect opinions from real people (some of them experts at something, some of them not), try to actually see "newsworthy events" in person.

Journalists write essays based on the work reporters do.

I'm not saying I want less journalists, but I do want more reporters.

The profession is journalism. Reporting is a form of journalism. Non-reporter journalists are not just pundits who pontificate. Analysis (based on someone else's reporting) is a form of journalism. Editing and sub-editing are forms of journalism.

Disagree, it’d be more accurate to say reporters are a subset of journalists. Reporters are journalists, journalists is just more general.

You might be thinking of ‘columnists’?

"The vast majority of what was lost were journalists." Fixed it for both of you!

(I'm joking, but then again, if demagogues can remove specifics to make statements punchier, why can't I?)

Only in the trivial sense that they also cost.

But those are an offer and are used to advertise and get more users. Not to mention, as the "50/100" says, they're capped.

> Only in the trivial sense that they also cost.

I don't get it, what other sense is there? Seems like 50 daily API queries would be lighter weight than 50 browser queries. And with an API you can require a key (aka subscriber).

> But those are an offer and are used to advertise and get more users.

"Try our search engine from your browser" / "Try our search engine from your agent setup" These both seem like user acquisition pitches. The real difference with programmatic access is that you'll likely get users hitting the cap and paying for more usage if they like the product.

> as the "50/100" says, they're capped.

... which is exactly what I was suggesting for API use.

Why would API searches be lighter? The searches are expensive, not the rendering.

I guess because a web-based search is fundamentally one or more API calls so everything before and after it is expense. Maybe it's very near zero.

>I don't get it, what other sense is there?

Obvioulsy the TYPE and RETURNS of some cost.

>These both seem like user acquisition pitches. The real difference with programmatic access is that you'll likely get users hitting the cap and paying for more usage if they like the product.

50 searches from the web feel way more generous to a user than using the agent (most wont even hit them), hitting the 50 cap in like 10 minutes, and being negative about the whole experience.

>... which is exactly what I was suggesting for API use.

Which is exactly why it wouldn't work well for API use with such cap.

>You're advocating central planning.

So? Nothing wrong with that.

What is your definition of "central planning" that you think it is good ??

Do some bunch of government clerks decide EVERY single _factory_ input and output in whole country is nothing wrong ? Starting with impossibility to do it right - is doing it by necessity wrong is not wrong ?

Do "central" setting prices for whole country, let say for next quarter - no matter reality - is possible ? I lived it and tell you: it's always wrong because it's impossible to do.

How you plan problems in production ? How you out-plan so someone stepped on something fragile ?

How you out-plan someone steal something ? Because "central planning" is sign that it's not good in your country so there is stealing and corruption on every step starting from "planners" to plans distributor to workers to packers to sellers.

How you like that reality now ?

Communism fall for a reason: stupidity of the imagined aka planned system. Because in all despotic systems on top of all of what needs to be done to live and work planned good life you have grafted parasitic structure of peoples which single occupation is just to spy on and terrorize their own peoples - and that costs a lot both in money and society quality.

Lack of freedom do this.

You are attacking a straw man here. No-one here is advocating the total central planning of everything, that's been tried in Soviet-style communism and shown to be disastrous. I also agree with you on the basic principle that society should have as few centrally imposed rules as possible.

But some degree of central planning for at least some of society's operations has always been essential to make a civilized society work. Laws, regulations, taxes and subsidies, and natural monopolies such as armed forces, police forces, fire services and wide area road networks, are all centrally planned in modern societies.

Just as communist-style total regulation of everything has always failed, total deregulation has also been shown to fail everywhere it has been tried, as someone will always step into the resulting power vacuum and take control. If you disagree with me on this, please give me an example of a stable anarchist society that does not ride of top of someone else's regulated society.

The only question is where you put the boundaries.

For example: we prevent companies from producing bread with arsenic in it, even if producing it would be more economically efficient for that company. Is this something you would advocate?

everything wrong with that. it simply doesn't work!

>Gee, I sure hope the politician I voted for isn’t all talk and no action this time around.

Why wouldn't he be, since the population of his country is all vote (at best) and no action?