This is reminding me - I need to pay the bill from my psychiatrist. But they’re closed right now… Can someone repost this tomorrow during business hours, maybe I’ll see it then?

I’ll take the mail. 50/50 shot I can address it now and toss it. All others are impossible.

Technical debt aside of course the development process looks like that - what’s the alternative? Infinite feature growth? No one benefits from that.

As an example, I’ve got signal on my phone- it started with texting features, added images, calls, video calling, but at some point there’s a limit on the number of useful ways to communicate.

I don’t need it to be another social network.

I don’t need it to tell me my horoscope, order a pizza, or organize my photos.

I don’t need it to track my health, play games, read my work emails, or drive my car.

It doesn’t need to integrate with VR, or AI, or whatever 2-letter buzz acronym comes up next week.

It’s a secure messaging platform, I need it to send messages. Sure, there’s always a cat and mouse game of encryption to keep ahead of, but infinite feature growth? It’s not practical or necessary. Things can exist to do one thing reliably and well.

Wait, so you’re telling me that “health” bar with 30g of sugar actually was secretly concealing 30g of sugar? Who could have seen this coming??

You could do PR with the ballot of potential Reps distributed by district. When the election is settled the district Reps are assigned starting with the highest-skewed district. E.g.:

Overall vote: 60:40 (red:blue)

D1: 80:20
D2: 40:60
D3: 70:30
D4: 45:55
D5: 30:70

You can go randomly, round Robin, or winner-first to divvy up the districts, but essentially you would expect D1, D3, and D4 to be assigned their local red Rep (even though red “lost” in the close D4 race) and D2 & D5 to go blue

With more parties, random or round robin are a little more “fair” for the third party - winner first allocation could result in 3rd party getting the “whatever’s left” district where they didn’t actually get any votes.

It’s not perfect, but neither is the current system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

Windows Vista would like a word.

In terms of utility for the average person, statistics >>>>> calculus.

I work in an engineering field, and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to do an integral in the last year. But I run into glorified statistics problems virtually every day both in personal and professional situations.

Having to constantly remind people of error bars, statistical significance, and the difference between correlation and causation, it would have been nice if those things were hammered home more thoroughly in school.

The only AI feature of theirs that I’ve used is their Translate tool and I’ve been pretty satisfied with the results in comparison to others.

In theory you could lease your server capacity to the big AI players, but then they would have to trust you -a noted crypto grifter - with their data.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

When you enable Privacy Pass, instead of logging in with your Kagi account for each search, you use special cryptographic tokens. These tokens prove you have the right to use Kagi’s services without revealing who you are. This means your searches can’t be linked back to your account or to each other, providing an additional layer of privacy.

Obviously you lose some of the customization, but otherwise still a great service.

I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I’m after so much quicker.

Then I have great news for you! Kagi accept bitcoin, does not validate email addresses (so you can register as fhhdsbgwg@hrjesbgwgw.com if that appeals to you), and they implemented privacy pass tokens that fully anonymize your searches. They also allows searching through tor!

You are paying for search, just differently.

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth

https://wallethub.com/blog/bad-google-results-for-0-apr/157511

Ahh, the 'ol 1-day-old account here to troll in the comments.

Also YSK:

Generally speaking you aren’t limited to just what’s at your nearest library. Other nearby libraries (or even those you pass by on travel) may have better/different offerings and will generally welcome folks with open arms.

If they do start adding AI slop it’ll all be cloud hosted, of that I’m certain.

Not sure I have much hope for Nvidia holding back on AI “features” in the long run

Maybe? Hopefully? This makes people ask why its so important to Microsoft for Edge, a “free” service, to be your default browser…

Probably not, but still…

“Quantum emulation” all the hype, 1/1000th the efficiency, 1000X the excuses to sell hardware