you can prompt it to stop doing that, and to behave exactly how you need it. my prompts say "no flattery, no follow up questions, PhD level discourse, concise and succinct responses, include grounding, etc"
When apps were expensive to build , developers at least had the excuse that they were too busy to build something appealing. Now they can cope by pretending to be an artisanal hand-built software engineer, and still fail at making anything appealing.
If you want to build something beautiful, nothing is stopping you, except your own cynicism.
"AI doesn't build anything original". Then why aren't you proving everyone wrong? Go out there and have it build whatever you want.
AI has not yet rejected any of my prompts by saying I was being too creative. In fact, because I'm spending way less time on mundane tasks, I can focus way more time on creativity , performance, security and the areas that I am embarrassed to have overlooked on previous projects.
This can have pros and cons. They will get much more vcpu / dollar on bare metal. And they can develop great operational discipline if they do it right.
On the downside, I don’t see them yet taking ops seriously. They are getting a lot of attention, but not yet establishing SLAs (at least not publicly). And their donations don’t seem to be scaling to the continued and expected demand.
More power to them. But donations can’t possibly scale to the demand. They are already having significant capacity issues as evidenced to response time spikes throughout the week.
It’s a great hobby app, and the forgejo software seems well assembled, but Codeberg needs to be a bit more forthcoming about their capacity before more large projects move over.
I want to see larger projects like Gentoo migrate, but everything will come grinding to a halt if codeberg doesn’t come up with scalable resourcing (money & capacity)
they have a lot of options for sales. they can sell their service and run a not-for-profit enterprise.
surviving on online donations is extremely rare. In their case, they are not getting that many impressions, so $1-$5 donations won't cover their expenses. Think of how expensive even a single customer like Gentoo would be if they fully migrated -- how many Gentoo contributors would have to contribute money to cover Gentoo hosting.
I'm sure they have a sales pipeline planned, and similar to Facebook, they don't want to kill the buzz with sales before they build their audience.
All true, but I remember several articles in the Economist in the first year warning that no collapse was imminent, and basically that the Russian central bank had plenty of options to recalibrate the economy in the medium term. They made comparisons with other countries that have been subject to similar, or even much more severe sanctions.
Overall I think they’ve been the best source of analysis on this I’ve found. They were explaining what CDOs and such were, and why they were a systemic risk years before the collapse in 2008.
I agree the Economist may still be the best major finance / news publication. I trust it over nearly all the others though it’s gone downhill since McElthwaite left for Bloomberg
They are killing off their last and best generation of men, so yes the economy will suffer. I'm not questioning that part -- it's the repeated "russia will collapse any minute" propaganda, going on for 12+ years, that is very easy to see through.
I'm actually in awe. I wish I had lists like these for other "hot-button" issues where the common narrative is that things are constantly on the brink of some kind of catastrophe or resolution. Really puts things into perspective.
i recommend writing prompts for Gemini / ChatGPT along the lines of "as a history professor put X in perspective. Compare the evidence for / against. Be sure to include grounding on each fact ..."
So glad we don't have propaganda, only independent journalists who just coincidentally parrot the same think-tank talking points. See the wealth of articles that are even more obviously wrong predicting China's collapse.
Yes, it seems like that’s the propaganda. The free speech democratic West, instead of reporting about the objective truth, tells us half truths for their own benefit.
Western news resources aren’t controlled by government, unlike Russia. So they have incentive to post what generates clicks, not necessarily what reflects reality.
if they published anything for clicks they would have immediately published the Hunter Biden laptop story. The most salacious click-baity story in 20+ years and it was shelved. There's more to influence than "money"
90% of the media in the US is owned by 6 companies [1]. We, the people of the western civilization, are not those 6 companies. Most of us don't trust the media [2]. With that freedom of speech, these "news" agencies can be as biased as they want, lie in all sorts of ways (omission, etc), they mostly just can't slander/defame. Almost all are strongly aligned to the republican party or democratic, and all of them are aligned to common goals like oil and Israel. It's best to watch the news knowing that there's an attempt at manipulation. Luckily, with the anti-alignment of the news agencies, the "other side" will often loudly point out flaws.
The only hope for reasonable context/nuance over here is through independent journalists.
Don't just the world through the lens of a few billionaires.
i agree it's really cynical about the contributors. Instead of being positive about the tremendous contribution to knowledge, it's resentful that the contributors weren't "diverse" enough
The surveillance protects the regime, which mostly involves the US Federal government. Street crime, unless it’s organized by Cartels, is not a political threat.
You can see the counter example during the 40s-70s when the FBI targeted the mafia and local political corruption to take out the remaining organized crime strongholds .
Today organized crime doesn’t have much political influence. A sort of truce. So there’s no longer incentive for the feds to pursue street crime. Street crime yields no longer funnel into influence.
In fact, most political corruption today is coming from entitlements , which further bolsters political control.
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