Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars.
If there’s no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there’s no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.
Sounds like your average resident of TERF island.
Those two are in the same party though
Anyone know if someone has ever put together a checklist or routine to perform when migrating from one email service to another?
I’d love to get off of Gmail, but trying to wrestle with 20 years of account signups, purchases, subscriptions, etc. is a Herculean effort I’m struggling to put into practice.
If even one company opts to keep paying the license, that makes up for over 50 cancellations. They need less than 1/50 of their current licensees to continue paying to break even.
It’s shitty, but it’s basically a company taking themselves out of an entry-level market to extract more money from the types of clients where $20,500 is a rounding error.
Articles I’ve read mention that it tends to taste pretty bad, basically an earthy, watered down type of taste.
Just make sure the steam d*ck is inserted into the right port.
It’s an international assessment of academic performance. They test students around the same age range and compare their results to other countries and to performance of previous years.
The graph shows that performance is dropping relative to previous years (presumably a global trend, I don’t see a specific country listed), but whether the metrics are meaningful is something I’m not qualified to say. Assessments like this are always debatable.
The parents would be mostly Gen X in this graph, I think. Gen Z are kids born in the late 90’s through early 2010’s. So early Gen Z started graduating from high school around 2012, with the last of Gen Z graduating right about now.
This graph ending at 2022 would place that last cohort around the testing age rage still, I think (Wikipedia says that the test is intended for 15-year-olds, so in 2022 that would be kids born in 2007).
Might be a bit optimistic, given Europe’s continuing slide into fascism.
It does indeed look very tasty, I love a rich broth.
Isn’t Tonkatsu a fried pork cutlet?
And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.
It wasn’t defederation, just migration. But they never asked the community whether they agreed with that or not.
It was a disagreement between a couple moderators and an instance admin, with the users caught in the middle left wondering “wtf is going on?”
The part that was most abrasive to the users, I think, was that they initially closed the 196 community on Blahaj, ostensibly to not confuse people about which community was now in use, but causing the exact opposite reaction (since again, they never consulted the users before making this move).
I’m sure they’ll keep milking it. I can imagine:
Stranger Things: Origins - a 1960’s or 70’s prequel movie where strange things also happen at that same lab in this small Indiana town.
Stranger Things: The Animation - a side story featuring the same cast as the original series, but now animated so no one finds it weird that these high schoolers are beginning to get crow’s feet.
Stranger Things: Sequel Series - a new series that takes place in the 90’s to capitalize on Millennial nostalgia instead of Gen X nostalgia. Features a cameo by at least one member of the original cast of kids, who is somehow still too old because there’s only 10 years between the 80’s and 90’s and it took longer than that just to finish the original series. Canceled after 1.5 seasons.
Weirder Events - Amazon/Disney/Paramount/whoever throws a bagillon dollars at the Duffer Brothers to make a new original series for them. They can’t reuse the IP of Stranger Things, but the series they make is basically a spiritual successor that does nothing but tread all the same ground. Canceled after 2 seasons.
Season 2 has weird moments but a good plot for the Empire side of things.
Season 3 is just better all around in my opinion.
It seems like this is more for third-party agents users install that will need to request access to permissions in order to have that functionality.
I’d say I think it’s dumb, will never use it, and would also prefer it not exist, but I’m not going to lose sleep over functionality that users have to go out of their way to turn on…
But that’s just the slippery slope argument that will inevitably precede apps everywhere making AI access to your data mandatory to work. Just like when phone permissions became granular and now a recipes app refuses to work if you don’t give it access to your contacts.
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.
Let’s frame it this way. English is not the world’s best language. It’s pretty bad, honestly. It makes little logical sense, pronunciation is all over the place, and it’s inconsistent even between native speakers. Yet like 2 billion people speak it, even in places where it’s not the native language, because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse long enough to make it the most convenient common tongue. And so English becomes the most commonly used language for international discourse in the EU, despite the EU having just one member state (Ireland) where English is the majority, because it’s too inconvenient to switch to anything else.
Programming languages can fall into the same trap. LLMs today can have the majority of their code trained on a small set of popular languages. They’ll be likelier to produce that kind of code reliably, which in turn motivates vibe coders to prioritize those languages over other options that may be more purpose-built or appropriate for the need.
A new programming language that is massively better, more efficient, and easier to use can come about, but an LLM might never excel at it. Basically, a new language precludes itself from success with LLMs. The LLM will suck at it because there is substantially less training data to reliably model from. There will never be enough training data because fewer people are using it. Fewer people are using it because shitty vibe coders just rely on what the LLM can do well. The cycle repeats.