Acko.net remains the best website on the internet.

Still one of the best, by far.

I agree with this article completely.

I've had three long and very memorable conversations on internaltional plane flights in the past, with three extremely interesting and intelligent people. I don't tend to take those flights anymore, they were for work and the novelty of international travel for work wore off. Now I get out of it whenever I can.

But those three conversations have stayed with me.

Well, it looks like AI will destroy the internet. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Fun, even.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the internet is of no real value. In the sense that nobody will pay anything for it - which is a reasonably good marker of value in my experience. So, given that, let the AI psychotics have their fun. Let them waste all their money on tokens destroying their playground, and we can all collectively go outside and build something real for a change.

I applied for my passport online. If it's secure enough for that, then it's secure enough for voting.

Different use cases with different requirements.

I love the phrase "Subtly wide of the mark."

"Power Users", whatever that might really mean use MacOS because it works. They use a Mac laptop because it always and instantly wakes from sleep. Because the audio always works, and is always low latency. Because they have work to do, and the OS is extremely reliable. Also because it is light, and the battery lasts for a very long time indeed.

My laptop has been up for 43 days, not very long in a server world, but excellent for a personal device that I use for development, hardware design and audio production. The last time it restarted was probably for an OS upgrade, but I can't recall.

My work linux laptop is also pretty reliable, but this is only because I never upgrade anything on it and only use it for development. Its battery life is terrible, so I only use it plugged into the wall. My work linux desktop has issues with bluetooth audio and graphics, neither of which I can be bothered to fix.

> My laptop has been up for 43 days

You made me check mine...40 days. Last reboot was likely for a macOS system update.

This is entirely false, Apple allows the use of threads in their applications.

Oh I found a better explanation

>iOS doesn’t allow apps to fork subprocesses. While on the desktop Tor is running as a separate process, on iOS Tor is hacked to run as a thread inside the app itself. Therefore, you can’t have a system-wide Tor process like desktop and Android. If Tor is running in one app, and you open a different one, it’s not automagically going to start using Tor.

https://www.quora.com/How-effective-is-the-Tor-app-for-iPad-...

It also doesn't make any sense. It's like self-driving cars that require you to pay attention at all times anyway.

This is absolutely going to kill people. In a country that had even a modicum of regulation around providing healthcare this would be illegal.

Completely agree. It is deeply irresponsible for OpenAI to release this product.

They should held liable for malpractice for every incorrect statement and advice provided by it.

It's also absolutely going to save people. The question is what the acceptable (and the actual) ratio is.

The Sacklers said the same about OxyContin.

I'm certain it will kill people, but medical error already kills a huge number of people - the exact number is heavily disputed, but in the US the lower bound is in the tens of thousands annually.

You know what else kills people?

Cars, planes, food, scooters, sports, cold, heat, electricity, medication, ...

Incredible. Not a whiff of AI (I mean, obviously I see now because it's from 2020). Just fantastic to see clear and elegant writing again.