Clayton Christensen [1] says (paraphrasing) it's a good idea to spin-off (or invest) in a startup that you've a say on, before the ecosystem sprouts a seemingly-non-entity and gently disrupts your market.

Interestingly (diff strategies i guess) Apple tends to acquire (Q.ai) rather than invest/venture (as google in OP).

[1] The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

Of course, immutable means as-is, but since you're not dealing with ordering etc (that's pretty big), I might as well use existing tech (JSON with a schema) and a policy (simple/naive: hash and compare lowercased data).

[1] From their spec: 2.2.1 Identity and Content Addressing - https://tson.io/2026/32/tson-part1-data/#

he's quiet possibly referring to happiness as a relationship (with family, friends, colleagues, citizens etc) rather than just by oneself / isolation / individual. he famously said "man by nature is a political animal" (or social if you prefer)

how come lines of code (or expressions) by an engineer aren't a good way to measure progress (Gates point etc) but GenAI tokens must count and be paid for?

Detecting the difference between window.innerWidth (viewport) and window.outterWidth (window with bar etc) in JS, can be powerful to the browser user via an Extension. However, not so if the site/page uses (e.g a JS Lib).

Personally, i like the viewport vs window separation that the browser provides. I don't want an Element to not budge or care about my sidebar/window dressings, thank you very much.

Ads rely on cleaver imagery to hook the viewer. So when a media org (bbc) reports the image without a mask (and even enlarged it, high-res), they're in effect pushing the ad to millions of viewers.

PR companies very cleverly use traditional media (often outdated) to do their work — for free/close to nothing! Great hack.

Smoking ads are banned by the govs in many countries, including the UK (article) therefore, it's highly unlikely that the PR firm didn't expect it would be banned... yet, the bbc took their bait, in my opinion.

BBC could've have blurred the cigarette, or pixelated the image and then provide a 'Click to see the Original' feature for viewers that want more proof.

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has anyone used/seen em dashes in file/dir names? just wondered — I have't.

It's certainly easier to read than a hyphen/minus...but i guess it may become problematic cross-platform (on windows/linux it isn't as straight forward as on macos).

My take: If ai generated the code, let ai pay for it, unless it has been proved worth it's upkeep. Basically, show me some sort of: AI code-gen proof of work (or proof of worth, some mechanism), then you're in.

Automation at ai-scale are very expensive, just look at the trillions of USD being spent by ai companies. And let's not forget, that the rest of us don't have those levels of funding. And neither do non-profits like Codeberg i'm guessing.

And some more, i'm not even considering security issues, where for instance ai code-gen turns on hosting/platform providers (similar to chapgpt incident on hugginfaces). even if the sandbox proves resilient, the code is parasitic in nature or behaves like a virus.

It’s not a Hello World equivalent.

So much around generative ai seems to be around “look how unrealistic you can be for not-cheap! Ai - cocaine for your machine!!”

No wonder there’s very little uptake by businesses (MIT state of ai 2025, etc)

What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;)

Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and planning? How about use what you need, hedge your risks (mix providers, products), be more proactive than reactive to demands for consumption?

Who says the thing is done? there is a massive danger now, with the sheer amount of complexity & speed brought by ai, in that it's increasingly harder to verify / do proof-of-work.

>> AI allows me to realize my ideas

sure for a personal/pet project. however, when working for a customer/client, they've ideas, needs, wants and usually have their own users and shareholders to satisfy - need proof.

>> lighting up the gas-powered street lights

ok, no this metaphor may well be loved by ai companies, but doesn't actual work in so many levels. For one, ai (as actually provided) is not electricity or a physical system, a brain, or a mind, it's software (I use it v-selectively). Second, the job being done (lighting, or coding) is ultimately to produce / output the desired outcome for whoever ordered it - a solution to a problem - failing that it's just work and wages for the worker but no effective solution (lighting the dark side of the moon, kinda).

I agree with the OP, as system complexity went up, so does the ability to keep up.

However, a screenshot acts like a print-out / pdf, and very handy for sharing in other platforms e.g social media, mobile devices.

Like many others I like the use of ai for OCR in imagery. Won't be long before ai tool can copy the style + content from an image, or video.

In high-tech warfare we're seeing these days your metaphor is reversed. These artisans (potters etc) are tech engineers, mathematicians, chemists. They are quick to mobilize and become effective (operate drones, robots, cyber, complex machines).

I cannot comment on your opinion of Canada, it's too vague in my opinion.

Generally, western Armed Forces (CAF included) reduced their personnel and spending when the Cold War ended (90s). Rightly so. Since then, war is fought very differently and AF are now very quickly adapting.

Recent conflicts in near/along Levant and near/along the Black Sea, show how effective certain types of warfare are in the current climate.

In a high-tech modern warfare, the countries with a fighting force that has higher academic education, higher tech literacy are relatively quick to mobilize and become effective militarily.