Is this not Trump's usual negotiation strategy? Start with outrageous, totally unacceptable demands and then slowly dial back while everyone else runs around like headless chickens. Ends with him in a much better position than if he had approached things in a rational manner?
No. Just because you say that this is how it works does not make it so. That's total rubbish. Yes, advertising works. But it works on hope, that's all. If your hope costs you money, well that's on you.
The big win is using standard markdown. If they disappear, you still have your content.
The other big win is it's truly cross platform. I initially used syncthing to keep different systems in sync but switched to their sync service. Syncthing works fine but I found adding a new system and integrating was cumbersome if you haven't done it recently. With Obsidian's sync service setting up a new system was trivial.
Shortcoming - printing. Need to generate a pdf and use it's print feature.
Another shortcoming is merging a hierarchy of folders and notes into a composite document.
I did a double take when I saw the lettering on the news. I'm not a designer but am aware that the black art of kerning is a thing. It's bad and deserves to be called out. That said, I suspect that most are not going to notice until it's pointed out to them.
Now that the nyt has called them on it, I wonder if they are going to fix this...
In closed systems, e.g. bacteria in an agar medium petri dish, the classic population size goes through exponential growth, steady state, and finally the death phase as the medium is depleted and waste products accumulate.
If we map humanity on to a similar system with the earth as the closed system there are some high level similarities that would suggest a similar end result. Exactly where we are on that curve is something that we will only be able to determine with hindsight.
What's different with humanity is that we have opportunities and the ability to re-engineer the system. Opportunities that bacteria don't have, so they die.
What we lack is desire for a long term steady state. Maybe we'll need to mutate into something else to get there.
Really? Opinion, based on the fact that there are basic improvements that can be implemented on what we have now, using the skills that we have now. If you don't agree, that's ok.
Now, about your comprehension skills, where is there any mention on my part of there being 'no limit'? In fact I go as far as to speculate on at least one.
My, very limited experience with LLM assisted coding is that it depends...
For basic frameworks done in something like Python it is very good, but not perfect, yet. But the iteration cycle to get to where you want to be is still faster than doing the whole job manually and I see this as a big win.
For more esoteric fast changing languages/frameworks it has me chasing my tail in a chain of code updates where each fix breaks something in the n-1th, or n-2th version. Sometimes it's deprecated code, or it halucinates functions that would be valid if your were using a a different language of framework. And sometimes simple coding errors.
But it will get better, a lot better.
The main benefit is that it will let a invested non programmer client build a functional framework prototype and then combine that with a list missing features that a more skilled programmer can flesh out to a first cut solution.
For the first time we 'might' get better requirements with an actual working model instead of having the implementor doing most of the requirements as a first pass from a high level hand wavy requirement. I think we're going to see some amazing tools for this.
What I don't see it doing is creating original algorithms to solve things being done for the first time.
pretty much this, you go where they have setup camp. For instance, I have one tech group that uses telegram, the dumbest tool for a tech discussion that you could choose, but there they are, so that's where I checkin now and then.
I dislike discord because it's a clumsy UI. Usually you want to be able to research what you're interested in. Not a great experience on discord.
Discord tip - if ever you need to rewind to the first message, append /0. Used to be a pain to get there, maybe they've fixed it.
... unavoidable "human in the loop" - depends imo.
From the comments here, it certainly seems that for general OCR it's not up to snuff yet. Luckily, I don't have great ambitions.
I can see this working for me with just a little care upfront preprocessing now that I know where it falls over. It casually skips portions of the document, and misses certain lines consistently. Knowing that I can do a bit massaging, and feed it what I know it likes, and then reassemble.
I found in testing that it failed consistently at certain parts, but where it worked, it worked extremely well in contrast to other methods/services that I've been using.
I can live with that. By blocking Firefox they would self identify as user hostile in the same way that google has done with V3. I think this would a huge step forward, a massive shit filter.
I'm comforted by the thought that like me, most people with nothing to say are determined to let us know that.
So I was never really bothered by the belief that everything online is being stored somewhere, because I was certain that there was so much crap to wade through that no one could make any use of it. Not so sure about that any more...
I had an experience years ago, that might have qualified as a super pod. But as it was night time so no way to really do more than recount the experience.
South Atlantic, heading north in a motor yacht at 8 knots we were passed by a small group also heading north. Not possible to see much more than their reflections and hear the sounds as they crested. A couple of minutes later the main group caught up with us and passed us on both sides. No idea how wide the pod extended but it took at least fifteen minutes or so for the group to pass. A couple of minutes later another following group passed as well.
I worked on a project where the site uses HTTP. Initially I did a double take as using requires a login, thinking that's just wrong.
But after a bit of reflection I now think that in this specific case there's nothing bad about using http. Services are offered on a first come first serve basis to a large but closed group of valid users. Key is that there are a bunch of real world processes that follow the initial trigger with no practical way for any other party to benefit.
We have kernel level anti cheat systems for games. So how about kernel level anti tracking?
Browsers use system calls to provide the information used for fingerprinting the device, so why not intercept these calls and lie. Have all users present an identical fingerprints and we're back to pre google times. Yes, we lose some important functionality, but maybe it's a price worth paying?
Never mind the other elephants in the room that do worse than track your browsing habits...