Can confirm, my buddy who is someone I respect immensely, is an embedded programmer.
He will talk about OS events, or any low level concept and it makes me feel like I don’t know anything, but he acts like I’m a genius if I talk about JavaScript Runtimes, browser engines, anything frontend.
It’s cool he teaches me new things, I teach him some
You hit it on the money, third places won’t matter if it’s not accessible.
We need to promote density, walkability and time.
In America there is an idea that anyone who wants more that 4 hours to live outside of work is lazy or in some form selfish.
We do need to model university a little bit imo. Give me stuff to do that I can get to with fair ease, give people the time and energy to do it and everyone will be a lot more social
This is something that I care deeply about and have put a lot of thought into. I can only speak to what I think needs to be done in America.
Public transportation.
Removing or heavily rolling back zoning laws.
Government investment in child care.
Nature takes the path of least resistance. If we want people to actually meet people and have the energy to make meaningful connections, the government has to set up the infrastructure to make it possible.
I’m going to gloss over Europe because I went there for the first time, and it blew my mind.
People were at the park at 4 pm! I live in a city and hardly see people outside at 4. They have the time to go to these 3rd places.
People were visiting friends with kids, which blew my mind because everyone I know who has had a child instantly has dropped off the grid socially. I understand why, but we need to make it easier for those children and parents to continue to have social interaction.
In my hometown, everything is so spread out that visiting a friend could be a 30-min drive. I was conditioned to believe that isn’t a lot, but at the end of a workday, who has the energy? Personally, I think public transportation would help that also create a lot more interactions with strangers to maybe create new friendships.
Also, zoning laws would help that. If everything there is to do is 40 min away, it adds so much resistance that it’s not worth it for most people. If every neighborhood had a pub or restaurant, it would add a lot of meeting points for your neighbors and will create a lot more spontaneous, “let’s invite this stranger to eat with us.”
Lastly, we have to work less. This is the toughest to chew. I’m fully in the office now, but when I was hybrid, it was so much easier to see friends because I had some ownership of my time. We need to have the energy to be social.
I have a lot of friends but don’t have the time or energy to see them so I have felt lonely for the past couple of years.
I think it’s true walkable communities like Europe kinda feels like college, everyone is busy and have their own life but hanging out is so accessible that it’s a matter of why not hang out compared to why hang out
I've been gaming on Linux (CachyOS) for roughly a year now as well, and I love it. Better performance, faster loading, but I do admit there are drawbacks.
I'm a developer, so I'm techy enough how to look up what I don't know, but I would never recommend this to someone who struggles with technology.
Kernel antic heat is frustrating but usually its games where I feel like I won't lose anything if I don't play it.
Linus Torvald was in a recent Linus Tech Tips video and I think his take was good.
Why can't it be both a bubble and revolutionary?
I use it, I'm cautious with it, but it is useful, if it wasn't stack overflow wouldn't be where it is today.
Now, that doesn't mean that these crazy investments will bear fruit. Lately, money just doesn't feel real at all. Trillions are being invested and investors are hoping for returns within 5 years!?
I've been wanting to learn more embedded type projects, and I've been snacking too often so I've been building a box that will only open on the weekends.
I got all the components, tested it on a breadboard, learned to solder and now I'm working on the 3d Print to enclose everything.
I actually just did a test run to see if my current 3d design would fit my PICO board, and it fit, but not that secure yet.
Im a developer but never worked this close to metal, so I've been so happy with how it's been going so far, making me real proud of myself.
It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.
I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out
I did some surface-level research, but I couldn’t find any country that explicitly or publicly requested this from Google.
While I saw countries discussing the issue, none of them seemed to ask Google directly to only allow authorized third party apps.
That makes me think this is entirely a power move. If those countries had actually asked Google to step in and make phones safer, there are other ways to do that. And if they did explicitly request this particular solution, then why isn’t it being implemented only in those countries?
This is a software-based solution—just like Apple limits certain features to specific regions, Google could do the same and restrict it to the countries that require it.
I wish I could know if the people at OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and other leading AI companies truly believe this. Personally, I have not seen anything that points to AI taking Jobs. Useful yes, has the same competency as a person, not even close. "I know, really hot take"
So It's either worse case, they are actively lying to increase their investments rolling in, increasing their stock.
I also wonder if It's less evil than that, where they do believe it but are in the big tech sphere and are just so disconnected to how non-tech companies work.
I work in the insurance industry, and to remove people means every task they do would need an "AI layer to it" because as we know there is no LLM that is great at every task. More AI layers mean more points for error.
And there is no job here where It's okay to be confidently incorrect 1-5% of the time.
I'm in my mid 20s and semi grew up on the old internet, what was the point where tech companies become so James Bond villianish. I got into it because of the passionate people in the industry. I know they're still there, but I feel like old tech companies oozed enthusiasm and passion.
If that's the case, then why is that, why would OpenAI not want to release their best models when the AI race is still close? I would assume it's due to energy constraints, and if that's true, the opinion that this can't replace people remains valid.
Thermodynamics is the law of laws, unless they invent some kind of ultra-efficient, almost magical computers to run these systems, it's simply not economical yet.
The comments here kinda surprise me. We should encourage people to talk to their community, their fellow citizen, neighbor, that's what the human experience is.
I have a different opinion than most of my friends on this topic. They claim that it's just like the calculator, everyone said that if we offset our math work on a calculator it will make us all dumb. So logically the same applies for AI, but it just feels different to me.
LLMs are not perfect, but they can do a lot of the boring work, but this removes any ability for critical thinking, research, honestly English.
Which is why I think this issue is different, especially for students. Think about it if someone was writing a paper and used AI to adjust their writing, they still had to critically think about their stance, the argument behind it but most people use it like, "I have a problem, solve problem", completely skipping all mental strain from the problem.
I know I'm not an expert, so I try not to shake my fist at the clouds, but this is honestly worrying to me.
I was overweight my entire life up to when I was 21. In less than 2 years I went from 300lb to 198lb (136kg to 89kg). I'm 6'4 so 198 personally was not maintainable, but I was working out, and I felt my best at 205, which I sat at for 3ish years. Recently I hit 240, I got an office job, so working out and just life in general is harder to do right now but I'm actually doing pretty well about eating again.
I agree with what he is saying, but I think the trap starts earlier than that. I think a huge aspect is your eating habits as a child. I feel like my hunger is not normal, I can have a giant meal and still feel the need to continue eating, my brain just loves it. It is frustrating to feel the need to eat 24/7, I believe my family has some form of ADHD because we all have addictive personalities, mine and my sisters were eating. My eating habits as a child is something that I ALWAYS have to fight against, it can get pretty tiring.
What I can tell you though is losing weight is also a feedback loop, I'm not saying positive or negative because I believe it depends on who you ask. When I was losing weight, it was so much easier once the ball was rolling, I'm less hungry, I have more energy, but you also start thinking about everything you eat. I was refusing to have dinner with college roommates because it didn't fit my daily caloric intake, and I never truly felt like I looked better, I was never satisfied. At my skinniest you could see my ribs and my arms were twigs.
The inverse is true, I truly believe that most American food is designed to make you eat more than to provide enjoyable nutrition. I visited Europe once, and it was crazy how much weight I was losing because I could have a great meal and feel content, something that I rarely feel here.
The weird thing is I wouldn't change a thing, maybe I did overcorrect, but it taught me a ton about nutrition, and seeing my weight go down made me feel more passionate to keep going, I'm not sure if I had stuck with it if I did the healthier slow and steady approach.
I'm back on the grind and have been working out more, it sucks that I don't have the time to dedicate to my health that I used to during covid, but that's something I'll have to figure out.
This was one of the few things I was hoping for AI to help with. Cobol is so clunky, and no one wants to work with it and to my Surprise, Cobol jobs don't pay as much as people think.
It's not our problem to fix, but I'm surprised the alarm bell isn't ringing at some of these financial institutes. Eventually there won't be people to teach the next round of employees that inherit these tools.
It's not just about avoiding the US out of anger; it's more about preventing US companies from having too much control over their citizens and daily lives. By focusing on open-source solutions, whether American or not, it should serves their purpose. They can move all packages to a EU server, and manage it more directly this way
Thats what I belive but im no expert especially on the law, but I dont see an issue with US opensource unless the EU straight up penalizing any technology thats developed in the US, which Id doubt they would do.
I understand this isn't an official EU project, but with the ongoing trade war and Europe's desire to distance itself from US big tech, I'm excited to see what they develop.
Americans might appreciate this too, as the internet today is dominated by a handful of companies, leading to excessive polarization. The first thing that needs competition imo is Youtube, there is nothing like it.