I agree with your sentiment, but I do find it amazing that the underlying techniques of inference can emit code that is as apparently coherent as it is. (This does not imply actual coherence.)
I wrote an entire multiplayer game in XNA that I've tried repeatedly to get LLMs to translate to javascript
it's just utterly hopeless how bad they are at doing it
even if I break it down into parts once you get into the stuff that actually matters i.e. the physics, event handling, and game logic induced by events, it just completely falls apart 100% of the time
I felt this the other day. I wouldn't even consider my example exotic, p2p systems using electron? It just couldn't figure out how to work with YJS correctly.
These things aren't hard if you're familiar with the documentation and have made them before, but what there is is an extreme dearth of information about it compared to web dev tutorials.
I have a BMW PHEV. There's a 3 cyl turbo engine with an auto box at the front and a 90hp electric motor and 7.6kwh battery at the back. Most of the new ones just have a more traditional layout with an electric motor built into the autobox.
You get more elec range than a hybrid but less than a full EV.
Now that it's cold I start my commute on engine to get the car warmed up with 'free' heat then switch to EV later. If I want to beat someone off the lights I use both together.
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. It's the most complex drivetrain you can possibly buy with a full gas engine and transmission mated to a full EV with external charging support.
I can't speak for other PHEV drivetrains but the Toyota PHEV design isn't that complex. It uses an ingenious planetary CVT with a small gas engine instead of a full gas engine and regular transmission.
Also, because the gas engine mostly runs at its most efficient RPM, there is little stress on it so it runs very reliably.
Websites have to be held responsible for ADs they serve. Otherwise they tend to make unfounded excuses we cant care less about. Like scam ADs on youtube.
Ads on Youtube are user-generated. If I were to upload a picture of you with your phone number as a youtube ad, offering sexual services, Youtube will likely be accountable in the same way.
Doesn't the site make user pay to show their ads? I thought it was the deal, you pay the platform to host your advertising, and that was one of the justification for the CJEU.
Nice. I dunno what is Notion but I suppose - I tried Obsidian and some other sw i dont recall anymore, never liked it. Then I found org-mode in emacs and gave it a try. I did not look back except for one feature - mind maps or 2D note taking. For this I've tried mind maps but it just wasnt really what i needed or wanted. I probably dont really know what I want or mean by 2d note taking, I just have some vague idea.
I do ask for that and generally refuse to use closed source sw.
But... something being opensource doesnt always mean you can change stuff. Like signal-desktop that has build process so badly convoluted that even gentoo doesnt build it itself. (has it improved already?)
1) Modern 2010s era "OSI Approved open source" is a meme built by hyperscalers to get free work, poach the efforts of others (Amazon makes hundreds of millions on Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.) and eliminate the threat of smaller players.
There are great things like Linux and Blender and ffmpeg. But there is also a concerted battle waged by trillion dollar companies against us using "open" to salt the field of any kind of economic growth salient.
By being completely open and not keeping some leverage, you ensure you cannot make the same revenues the big companies can. And they will outspend and outgrow you. They will encircle and even find a way to grow off of your labor while you don't see so much as a dime.
2) You wouldn't be on the internet right now if you really refused to use closed source. The binary blobs in your hardware, your ISP, your wifi. Not even Stallman can do it.
I love open source. But I hate how difficult it is to make money. And I hate how the big players have used it to enrich and entrench themselves by making it just the crust of their closed source empires.
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