It's easy to forget but pop-up ads originally created an entirely new OS-level window, not just a JS "popover" like we have these days.

> Do we, or our children, ever learn to farm, mine, chop wood, lay bricks, make operating systems, or program in assembly language?

Speak for your own childhood buddy

Guy that argument is still dumb: "Oh no we'll be stoopid if we don't do everything manually" like bruh when was the last time you sowed a frickin seed to grow the wheat in your McWhopper buns or whatever

This applies generally: How many comforts does everyone enjoy everyday that they have no clue how to make themselves?

Do you refine the fuel in your car from raw petroleum by yourself? The list can go forever.

No. We let prior technology make these things "solved" and forget about them so we can move on to the shit that's important to us.

Get in the pod, eat the bugs.

On the other side of it, I've been following Brilliant Labs' Halo smartglasses since they were announced last summer, with a shipping date of "November 2025"... which soon became "Q4 2025", then every two weeks since then has been another delay. As of October we finally confirmed that nearly a dozen people had received units.

So yeah, I don't think it's unwarranted to be skeptical when somebody shows an AI render and says "we'll ship this within 6 months".

Skepticism about shipping date is normal, especially for something novel and hard. Calling people fraud without evidence is just bad.

I've been on leave and since my work subscription would go to waste otherwise I've decided to go completely silly and vibecode (truly vibecode) a big project from scratch. Opus 5.5 with xhigh reasoning was repeated firing off hour-long test runs, of tests it had written itself from scratch on code it had written from scratch, until I finally noticed and said "hey, couldn't we run some of these in parallel?" and then the execution time dropped to under 10 minutes. So yes, even recent models do utterly stupid shit pretty frequently (this isn't the only example from this project, but it's the easiest to explain)

Hmm, what if we donate to the politicians and do it the other way around instead?

> Why can't we finally have a good container orchestrator that's not kubernetes for example?

Easy, we can't because the LLMs know a lot about kubernetes but wouldn't know anything about a new orchestrator, so they'll always suggest k8s, and the button-pushers will just say "yes, do it, no mistakes". Maybe if Anthropic decides they need to create a new orchestrator, they would bias Claude heavily enough for it to actually get used, but that's about the only way I see.

I own those, I would describe them as semi-hardcover, with fake leather wrapped around some stiff but still pretty flexible material. The text is also so small as to be difficult to read in all but ideal lighting.

Tbh I have a worn UK first edition of one volume (stored for now, I think it was TT). Beautiful fold out map, but the cover was cheap and flimsy. I think my latter US 2nd edition was better manufactured, not sure if that’s a postwar UK problem or not.

The first chapter was so simultaneously self-congratulatory and also poorly written that I just gave up.

So I guess I'm not exactly clear what you're saying here. A surface reading would be that you're equating somebody saying "It was stupid when Trump tried to rename Lake Ontario" with getting a swastika tattooed on themselves, but that's so stupid that you must mean something else.

Don't know how you could possibly reach that conclusion, it makes no sense.

I'm referring to the fact that the author self-identifies as a "communist, feminist, antifascist," which implies a strict adherence to the exact same kind of cult-like conformism to something "completely off the rails" that he criticizes in the article.

For example, to him, the statement "Lake Ontario is now called Lake America" is absurd, but what do you think his thoughts on the statement "men can get pregnant" are?