It's basically ungoogled-chromium with manifest v2 support. Chromium is just technically superior than Firefox. It's a simple fact. The problem is the telemetry and AI features they added in it, which Helium or ungoogled-chromium doesn't have.
In fact, the current state of M3 support is about where M1 support was when we released the first Arch
Linux ARM based beta; keyboard, touchpad, WiFi, NVMe and USB3 are all working, albeit with some local
patches to m1n1 and the Asahi kernel (yet to make their way into a pull request) required. So that
must mean we will have a release ready soon, right?
Ha ha. I suppose an inverted j curve technology would offer short term productivity but yield long term slow-downs. I can see aspects of that - perhaps using agents people write code that quickly adds the next feature but overall is not maintainable. Or they quickly write a project plan but in the long term it doesn’t result in good payoffs. I’ve already observed both of these.
I think the hardest part to figure out will be delineating the illusion of productivity from actual productivity.
In the other hand - we do have empirical research (from the economist in this article) even from 2023 showing LLMs ability to offer real productivity in certain tasks : https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161. And the models have become much more better since then.
So it’s probably a question of if we can use them for what they are good for without being lulled by the sirens song of fake productivity.
Rayleigh scattering is elastic (only the direction changes), whereas Raman scattering is inelastic (energy, that is color changes in addition to direction) scattering.
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