Yeah, I read the comment. The thesis of the title isn’t supported by the article, which makes for a confusing read.

That’s not based on the article is it? The article seems to attribute growth primarily to the war economy.

Which is doubly worse because those higher-level libraries are black boxes, and you can’t always fix things that arise inside of them easily.

If by “higher level” you mean something like Java libraries, I’d say the opposite is true - at least if you don’t have the source for a Java class it is trivial to decompile and have something immediately readable. Can’t say the same for something like a dll originally written in C++.

https://archive.is/vJlze

https://archive.ph/Iwvfl

• old webpages (like from the 2000s) are fast and snappy
• new webpages take much longer to load

Modern webpages are less like a page and more like a full blown application. If you’re not careful you’ll get an unoptimized mess, which is exacerbated when you put a bunch of ads on top.

That being said I don’t have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

Getting them to do anything other than spit up probabilistically correct information and sentences would require them to have comprehension, not just associations between strings of words.

I would argue that associations between pieces of information is the cornerstone of how you form comprehension. While I agree that the technology is somewhat overhyped, the fact that you can instruct models to perform arbitrary tasks that the model was not specifically trained to do is evidence of some level of “comprehension.”

While I appreciate his thoughts on MMT, I am generally wary of his analysis; 1Dime has previously defined “Petite Bourgeoisie” as “high income earners,” which is a red flag for me.

I’ve had to limit my interactions on both here and especially Hexbear because of this toxicity. Idealistic based bickering and hatred of individuals. Constantly wishing death on groups of people instead of understanding the material reasons they act the way they do.

I found memes like “To the wall with them!” amusing enough at first; but then I realized that more often than not the meme is being used seriously.

Playing devil’s advocate - it looks like the main advancement made by SpaceX is the reusable rockets. Do you think this has a material benefit to space travel going forward?

In terms of the real economy, I would think this is beneficial.

Devil advocacy aside, I’m skeptical that reusable rockets should take priority over other possible areas of advancement; and of course, the inefficiencies and waste of the private sector should go without saying.

Income is a different variable, a different kind of classification. YouTubers’ relation to how they make their income is basically always proletariat or petite bourgeoisie.

Whether they are “aristocratic” because of their income levels is another dimension or classification, one that intersects with the relationship to the means of production, but does not sit side by side with it. This is hinted at in your description “labour aristocrat” - it is a compound class, the combination of labour (working class) and wealthy (income class).

Yeah, I mean desktop environment when I say “UI.” It’s less about customizability and more about stability for me. Dolphin just crashes way too much for me in KDE Plasma. Like, anytime I do a search. I just go to the command line instead, which is unfortunate for a UI.

Compositing with X server is a mess with multiple monitors running with different refresh rates. Need to try Wayland and see if that’s any better.

Also the snap-to on the edges for organizing multiple windows isn’t quite as smooth. Still a million times better than Mac OSX.

But, it’s open, free, comparable to Windows DE, and yeah you’re right, much more customizable.

Also to be fair it’s been awhile since I’ve given Gnome or some other DE a shot.

It’s so good that even Windows has the Linux (optionally) embedded now.

Still like the Windows GUI the best, though KDE Plasma comes close.

Honestly I feel like it began with First Contact, but yeah Nu Trek is largely unfortunate.

Still kinda like Star Trek Beyond though. Probably most I enjoyed a Star Trek movie since The Undiscovered Country

I think you might want to rephrase that. The plan isn’t really to “release contaminated water,” but rather treated and diluted water.

Leftist spaces are also more likely to express backlash at anything that may contaminate the environment, with good reason. You need to consider your audience, and consequently, your rhetoric.

Plant the seeds. Don’t get dragged into a protracted argument if it doesn’t turn into a good faith conversation. Take a deep breath. It’s ok. Things take time.