Ursa Ag is funny. Maybe we can have a device that runs programs the user selects.

(Acepable would be something like 1TB worth of gamedemos)

Imagine archives with static content and user friendly file selection. Like those old world printed product catalogs mixed with content more like books and magazine. One can still have interactive headless websites/api and checkout pages.(Updated) torrents can share folder and file names but you have to force re-check. Could automate that too.

They can be many TBs large, no need to download the entite thing.

Each with different aproval requirements. A public cam would require 100%. Fake cams req only one vote. etc

One could even argue communicating over the phone or internet lacks the destructive component. Irl behavior is heavily modified by it.

Verbal communication is a work in progress. We really want it to work. Sometimes you have to make people listen. Get them back in the program :)

Nothing will improve until things get bad enough. You need enough greedy yes men doing quailty control on airplanes to escalate.

It took me decades to understand the use of and need for escalation in big organisations.

I didnt understand seemingly unproductive strict job descriptions either. Hilarious situations with 10 people doing nothing at all their entire shift (really nothing) while i had work todo on my own that really required 5 people. A few days later someone showed up to tell me the qualty was below average. LOL

Now i know i should do only half a shift worth of work. When they come complaint about it i say: very good, write it down, make the official report.

Then i hear nothing and a year later its two people with work for 5 scheduled. I tell them to slow down but we still do 2.5 shifts because they dont understand how escalation works.

The nummers now show we are 5 times as productive which isnt good for the company. The beurocracy is slow to adapt and all it has is numbers.

For many years i tried to do all of the work but that means nothing is wrong. The numbers say all is fine most of the time. Someone grinning at how much work i did isnt going to get recorded or processed.

If it looks like an unattended LLM can do a better job it means you dont know what you are talking about. If you fire everyone who noticed you might buy time but reality will catch up.

It reminds me of when they first put computers in trains in NL, they ran on windows 3.11 and no one trusted it to do anything. The solution was to give it all the data so that it could display a nice overview but it didnt control anything. Lots of trains drove around with a blue screen of death or a boot error. If there was a problem it was slightly harder to diagnose but it wouldnt drive if [say] a door was open. If the gui said a door was open you could just ignore it. On its own it means someone has to replace a sensor. If it also didnt move anymore the message is a real issue.

I imagine LLMs are wonderful for that kind of thing.

Also a wonderful formula was to promote your own website in a signature on blogs and forums. If your comment isnt worth having it is just deleted. You had to work for it and the reward was good. If your sig is a giant banner more effort is expected.

Also oddly interesting was moderation depending on how much money you sunk into the product.

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Is the new nervous system really you?

I recall the moaning long ago that one should never construct sql queries client side.

But it seems you get a luxorious api for free?

I recall people wanting access to order history.

With a bit of code the user could even create their own order process?

It seems if a user has 12 company accounts they could also have an overview db account with read access.

Maybe you can even get rid of the front end entirely :)

So, i make of it that alternative medicine and homeopathy doesnt work because you may not talk about it(!?)

Or as Brian Josephson put it, The idea that water can have a memory can be readily disproved by any one of a number of easily understood, invalid arguments

Yours shall be filed under homeopathy :)