This might be controversial but hear me out:

The idea of an international independent currency that can be made use of anonymously and therefore not controlled by anyone is a great idea.

Most smaller coins are just scams, reimplementing the same protocols that earlier schemes did and eventually adopting a clear pump & dump characteristic.

However, I personally believe that bigger coins like etherium that don’t fold as quickly and stick around are genuinely a good idea.

Moreover, there’s use cases where transactions are tracked for different systems, for example tracking an interconnected energy grid and usage of households.

And then you also have to consider that block-chains themselves can just be used to keep a fulsome record of something, with the main goal of decentralizing control over that record. I’m sure there will be quite a few use cases for it that make more sense and it’s quite a shame the stigma of crypto got attached to it.

If you wanna learn more about how block chains are actually researched, you have to dive into academic publications, but then you will find out scientists have a very different vision for this technology which is way more useful. And for the sake of actual science, I hope they don’t get buried under the stigma of crypto, because oftentimes these are just very smart people with lots of passion for something that they genuinely see value in.

It exists to identify if whoever is visiting is a human or a bot.

Why?

Because if it’s a bit it’s likely automated and there’s a variety of reasons to not want automated requests to come through. Some of them are:

• because lots of “hackers” try to hack systems by automatically trying to find security vulnerabilities in a server, service etc.
• because automated requests can be done faster, so they can happen more commonly, and they use resources, and if there’s too many this genuinely affects server performance budget
• bunch more reasons

Why are these companies allowed to create their own private definition of “trusted developer”?

Lots of reasons. The reason these platforms will give will be something along the lines of “to make sure that the developer is trusted we need to verify them and that costs money”. I personally believe it’s just that they want your money, and I personally believe this is monopolistic behavior. In a working system that’s for the FTC to investigate.

Wouldn’t it even help to just do the basics like MFA or maybe OTP?

The issue is not that they’re not meeting special authentication requirements, they aren’t even meeting basic safety standards for any web app.

Python nerd here, willing to fight.

Easy language, simple script, faster learning, faster writing, better person, superior language.

Also currently trying to write english as concise as Python to ration my brainpower, you can thank my huge brain later when I do epic things like saving the world with whitespace delimiters.

They will call you a tiger toucher

I also think there’s a non-zero chance to get into trouble but there’s also a non-zero chance to get hit by lightning soooo…

Oh God quickly disperse before gimp gang pulls up

Lots of people chimed in regarding battery, which is a legitimate issue.

Another thing though is ARM. Phones usually have a different processor architecture and this architecture used to be incompatible with lots of server software. I remember being pissed at because I couldn’t even host a TeamSpeak Server on it because it wasn’t compatible. Now this was a while back and I’ve heard compatibility has gotten better but still, do some research beforehand.

Canadian special forces are scary af

I don’t think so.

First of all, let’s put ethics aside, that’s a whole different underlying can of worms.

Now the models themselves. AIs have gotten very good at producing things we already do a lot, so “write me a bubble sort in language x”. AIs are ok in medium-sized projects: e.g. “a webserver, with authentication and these sides with different UI elements etc.”. But AIs are pretty bad at more complex, advanced or niche projects, e.g. “this software needs to create a VPN mesh with these other hosts, implemented control messages and dashboard, …”. Because this is not standard practice, the AI will struggle hard.

Not to go into detail on this but inherently AIs are trained in a statistical way that always introduces such asymmetric knowledge deficits.

On top of that AIs are extremely bottlenecked by lack of coherence. There’s basically a window of coherence within a given conversation or project but that window always closes at some point. And the result is the AI writing mismatched code, unstructured patchwork projects and hallucinating code snippets or files. So you will get pretty far with your projects at some point but AI will always break down when you’re far enough into the project. And that’s when you have to have someone on board who genuinely knows the codebase.

What I’m saying is, unless we get some more fundamental changes, I have a hard time believing we get either actual AGI (and not something imitating AGI) or AI that is good enough to genuinely replace broad swaths of human jobs in any sector.

WSL?

That’s the way I do it. My dad started distrusting most of academic science, so every time he is telling me something outlandish about spiritual things I just say that I view those things differently and then tell him how and why.

Just a soft disagreement, not more not less. I want him to know how I think, I wanna understand why he feels that way.