> I'd like to think that we have captured most of (english speaking) personal blogs

I think that's naive.

But maybe thats just because my blog wasn't on the list :)

Neither is mine, But that's fine with me.

That is about to change :)

> It's also very likely that Cloudflare and the like are sharing what they see as they MITM 80% of your connections.

Maybe, I suspect not, but even so if we reduce the number of men in the middle that's pretty nice.

Between what Snowden told us, and the CLOUD Act, it seems quite likely.

Good sites do exist. It's just that they drown.

True, these ad heavy cooking sites also dabble extensively in SEOmaxxing their way to the top.

I remember browsing the web in 1993-1994. It was literally a list of webpages. Yahoo was there, though, so presumably they've fallen farthest?

Yeah, communicating what you want can be hard.

I'm doing a simple single line text editor, and designing some frame options. Which has a start end markers.

This was really hard to get the LLM to do right.. until just took a pen and paper, drew what I wanted, took a photo and gave it to the llm

It's hard to imagine chip supply chain could be commercially viable without globalization.

One could probably argue that giving up globalization means fewer and less capable products.

Good, we agree :)

> but then you cut the potential revenues too and have the same problem.

How many starlink clones are there really customers for?

Many people have fiber, and in an urban area you'll probably prefer 5G, if you can't get fiber or wired internet.

Starlink is great if you live in the middle of nowhere, but few people do.

Even if you could do a competitive launch cost, the number of customers is limited.

All the airlines, all the trains, and other government-supported entities may have a strategic interest to use a local version of Starlink. But everyone else? I don't think anyone will buy a service that will be 10x more expensive, 10x slower and 10x more energy hungry than Starlink -- this first mover advantage may be hard to beat.

Starlink is equally great no matter where you live :)

But you’re right, in urban areas it should be possible to do better. If you can get 1Gbps symmetric fiber then get the fiber. Sadly in the US it is not always possible to do better than Starlink, even in urban areas. It’s gotten better in the last decade, but many cities are still stuck with really bad options due to bad choices in the past.

I think people sometimes forget how backwards the US is, when lived in SF 7 years ago, you couldn't do wire transfers online. Maybe some banks, maybe some people.

But I constantly had issues with debit cards being rejected, wire transfers having to be done on a branch, etc. I doubt there is a modern bill payment system yet.

Where as in Denmark, I've bought house, mortgage, wired >100k, bought stonks, none of it required me going to a branch.

I pay a manual bill maybe once or twice per year. I do it online or in an app, I hate the process. But automatic bill payment takes care of 99% of my bills!

An American colleague once said the following: if something is stupidly inefficient or done in an illogical way in the US, it's because someone makes money on it.

> AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

> Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

You're right. There is technically a category of work that relies on neither our ability to do physical labor nor excessive thinking. It just relies on being a human.

The conclusion is thus obvious: AI is going to push us all into careers as photo models, OF-creators, and social media influencers! /s

I love it when gitignore prevents the LLM from reading an file. And it the promptly asks for permission to cat the file :)

Edit was rejected: cat - << EOF.. > file

There will probably be some yolo startups that deploy write-only code to production with unreviewed terraform plans -- who knows this could be disruptive -- but I'm also certain this won't be the last such story.

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All that being said: it's kind of sad because terraform is fairly declarative and the plans are fairly high-level.

Hence, terraform files and plans are the stuff you should review.

Where as a bunch of imperative code implementing CRUD with fancy UI might be the kind of spaghetti code that's hard to review.