World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror in the aftermath persisted as late as 2079.
The war was preceded by the Eugenics Wars and the Second Civil War, all of which were sometimes regarded as parts of a single escalating conflict. It resulted in the deaths of some 30% of the Human population, at least six hundred million people, and the extinction of six hundred thousand species of animals and plants. By the end, most of the major cities had been destroyed and there were few governments left.
I learned a little bit of logo, when I joined our school's computer club in 4th grade. A few years later, when I got my first own computer I was sad that it didn't have logo on it and no one I knew knew what logo was, let alone where to get it. So instead I turned to QBasic and other Basic dialects. I only got hold of a working logo much later again. I sometimes wonder what impact an earlier prolonged exposure to a lisp-like language would have had on my later programming career.
No I know, I was in the GUI as I wrote that lol. As the other person said: if they vary this much in quality, not including that way above updtime and performance is absurd. What would you use a fast, always-up, broken endpoint for?
> Typically, the latest exercices introduced recursion which is immediately visible as fractals.
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.
> They also shouldn't be allowed to openly stir fear in the public by saying there is a 70% chance we're going to be extinct in two years without STRONG substantiation. Baseless clout-chasing social media posts like this are doing unheard of amounts of damage right now.
Yeah, man, we should just make it illegal to express our opinions in public. Also we should apply social pressure to prevent employees from saying things that would be inconvenient for their employer, that's highly pro-social.
Word of mouth. Make things that work well, people want, and stand out - and they will spread by themselves. I block 100% of advertising on all platforms I use, yet somehow never have difficulty finding things when I want to find them. And that often includes stuff from very small providers. Search + reviews, and so on are a million times more useful than advertising. And getting a hundred or so early users/testers/etc to seed those reviews/etc is trivial in modern digital times.
The world itself would almost certainly be a much better place without large scale/centralized advertising. I think the argument about it providing product discovery for hidden gems is nonsense. In reality it's mostly just crap, artificial demand creation, and behemoths trying to maintain brand image.
Aside from the privacy concerns and inconveniences this brings to Google users, it matters for users (of services) that rely on SerpApi too. Kagi for example has started showing these goto URLs in search results.
Both efforts, instead of trying to avoid threads because they are expensive, simply asked why they have to be expensive and then made them not expensive.
They will not get as safe as cars. They are inherently dangerous, it's like taking a car and removing every safety feature. Removing doors, windows and belts. There's a reason that there is a legal requirement in many countries to wear a helmet.
I spent some time in Vietnam back in 2005, after getting a few lifts on the the back of mopeds in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, I decided to look up some road traffic accident stats for those cities: I never took another lift like that again.
Definitely. Especially since those standards are fairly aligned across lots of tools. The other cool thing is a lot of desktop clients like Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Desktop also speak plugins, so hooking up marketplaces help with further distribution outside of technical teams.
FWIW I work on AI enablement in my day job for both our build org and the broader company and we’ve found success with using marketplaces for distribution.
I also built a free tool that diffs a lot of agent configs to help me keep current on changes.
Here’s the main page, but you can checkout the marketplace and plugin entries if you’re interested!
I've had closed-eye hallucinations my entire life. When I was a little kid, I used to be able to see geometric patterns or just sparkles. If I pressed my palm gently over my eyes, I'd be able to change those patterns or make them pulsate. I would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly I was seeing, and then end up falling asleep.
Nowadays I still have them, but they're less vivid and mostly appear as colorful specks or just as lights. It's kind of hard to put into words.
That's more true in some locations than in others. There are places where the reported quality of life is quite a bit higher than others. I see comments like yours a lot on HN, and I'm starting to suspect that the average HN commenter is more likely to be living in some of the poorly-run big cities than in the better-run small-to-medium-sized towns. (Specifics can, and will vary. But on average I've found I'm much happier living in a medium-sized town than in a megacity, and I've also found the city governments of medium-sized towns to be more likely to be competent. Perhaps I've just been lucky in the medium towns I've lived in, though; I'd need far more data before I was certain of the thesis).
Point is, if you're miserable in the place where you are, consider whether moving to a different town is feasible for you. It's not always an option for many people, for many varied reasons. But it's definitely something to consider. If it turns out you can do it, sometimes taking that risk can pay off in the long run.
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