I came to a conclusion that when you have an SPA with JSON-spitting backend where you cannot make the backend spit out chunks of HTML, htmx and similar libraries/frameworks are not suitable. They are suitable if you already have a multi-page application like we used to in 2006, or if you design it from the ground up.

Let’s then abolish all copyright on all software, what ever could go wrong?

Which is why I installed the "Consent-o-matic" extension which dutifully denies everything for me, and I have uBlock Origin for everything else.

It's another way of saying "dog ate my homework".

So this is another way how you can lose your job because of AI.

"Is transitioning to oligarchy"? Really? I don't see how present continuous is justified here.

It has always been an old boys club where connections and hand greasing decided it all. President Trump is the product of this system, not its creator or builder.

Once you stretch boundaries thin enough, you could argue that all art is about inducing pareidolia. After all, it’s all just cracks on glass/smears of paint on canvas and so on. It matters little whether there was artistic intent or not, if the result looks like a face, it looks like a face. ;-)

Figurative art is only part of the vast possibilities of art.

A conspiracy theory I’m entertaining right now is that hogging RAM manufacturing by AI companies is not so much because they _need_ the RAM, but because they want to cripple existing and potential competitors, and that includes on-device models.

One thing that might support this is the fact AI companies are purchasing uncut wafers of DRAM. One use might be to hoard and stockpile them somewhere in a cave, so that no one else gets to them.

Another thing that might support this is that precisely the same strategy had been in use by software companies during the COVID hiring fever. Companies used to hire people for ridiculous pay with little actual work to perform so that among other things, competitors wouldn’t whisk those people away and be at an advantage.

This, of course, ended with massive layoffs once the reckoning came about, and I’m wondering about what is going to happen when (there’s no “if”) the reckoning comes for big AI, too.

I tried using it in 2002. God, it was slow. It was so freaking slow I jokingly suspected it was calling out to LaTeX and rendered the resulting .dvi file at each keystroke. I knew it wasn’t so, but judging by how much churn every entered character was causing, it could have very well been the case.

I’m using it since 2006 and it is both quite stable and speedier than any alternative.

> Now someone may search old posts without a time cutoff and assume I'm an LLM.

I use em dashes, and I don't care whether or not someone assumes I'm an LLM. Typography exists for a reason.