Man, I’m getting tired of everyone and their cat saying shit like “AI will…”.

With how loosely defined “AI” is, it probably will at some point. But that statement is also completely worthless.

I don’t know a thing about cats, but I would’ve expected there to be more diseases in the city, with all the humans, car exhaust, trash etc…

I guess, it depends on what we’re referring to as “it”. If we’re talking about the LLM-based ChatGPT, that’s true pretty much by definition. But if we’re talking about “AI”, which is a word that has been used for everything from calculators to Skynet, then yeah, at some point AI will be AGI.

Well, if humanity doesn’t obliterate itself in the coming decades, which isn’t looking too good.

Yeah, vibraphones is where it’s at!

Yep, that is precisely what my terminal does out of the box…

Hmm, good idea.

I’ve been using the “Black on White” theme in Konsole, because that’s the only real light theme it has, apart from Solarized.
Well, and apparently for some reason it uses brighter colors for what should be intense colors. Just setting the yellow to a normal yellow already improves it quite a bit.

I guess, my point still kind of stands, like why is there no better light theme included out of the box, but yeah, I should probably look into theming a bit more…

I wish, light mode worked better in terminals. Every so often, it’ll throw some yellow text at me, and it’s just like, cool, I literally cannot read that.

Sounds like it, yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

Oh man, for a moment I thought they’re still producing the Nintendo 3DS, but no, “New” is part of the console name…

I feel like there’s just too much competition. They would’ve needed some hefty marketing budget to get across why people should play this instead of Overwatch et al.

Yes? Again, I’m not saying there’s not going to be disagreements or politics, I’m just saying that it’s going to be less loaded than Linux kernel politics.

Without having read the article yet or knowing anything about this game: You gotta take some losses with investment. I once heard that 1 out of 20 projects in the IT sector pay off on investments, which also matches my experience working as a software engineer.

In particular, the EU is also somewhat behind in this industry. Investing into dev studios, so they can gain experience, that’s what this tax money is for.
Might not be my personal highest priority, as I find AAA games boring anyways, but from a finance perspective and a social perspective, i.e. enabling people to pursue this career path, I can get behind investments like this.

Yeah, I did read that, admittedly after making my comment, but thanks for pointing it out anyways. 🙂

You don’t need to always be of the same opinion for it to be much less loaded than Linux politics…

There’s Redox OS already headed in that general direction.

There’s also this tutorial: https://os.phil-opp.com

I once considered implementing a CI/CD configuration management tool in Prolog (in my free time).

Cause, you know, you’ve got certain conditions that you want to be met, so from an API perspective, it’s actually kind of reasonable.

Problem is, at some point you need to actually do things on the target machine. And you can’t really tell it to run a few instructions in order. Not as reasonable for that part…

I’m rather guessing the other way around. Because they can’t directly extract money from this, they can’t justify to their shareholders to sit down full-time devs. Instead, this is a project solely run by interns and student.

Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn’t itself open-source, by the way.

They say of themselves that “for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit”. I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/

I mean, it was rather physics that was worse in this regard.

Mathematicians do define their variable quite rigorously. Everything is so abstract, at some point you do just need to write down “this thing is a number”. Problem with maths folks is rather that they get more creative with their other symbols. So, “this thing is a number” is actually written as “∃x, x ∈ ℝ”.

But yeah, in the school/university physics I experienced, it was assumed that you knew that U is voltage, ρ (rho) is density, ω (omega) is angular velocity etc…
At one point, I had to memorize six pages of formulas and it felt like every letter (Latin, Greek, uppercase, lowercase, some Fraktur for good measure) was a shorthand for something.

I don’t know what to tell you. They obliterate readability for me.
I also genuinely believe these shorthands hinder access to research for the 99.9% of humanity who are not experts in the given field. Obviously, you do need to understand the context to use a formula correctly, but that also becomes harder when everything is written with hieroglyphs.
In university, I had to assess this paper. It took me 3 weeks to decipher that alien language, and it doesn’t even say anything particularly riveting.

To address your points:

• I’m hoping that at least published math can be typed out with full names.
• I’m not opposed to local aliases. E.g. if the point is that some values in the matrix are negative and others not, then absolutely write “with air_resistance as ‘a’, the catapultation matrix is { a, -a, -a, … }”.
• I don’t actually want to introduce spaces into variable names, that’s just an example I randomly found online. I was rather thinking e.g. sine(euler^velocity_b).
  Bonus point: You can reasonably type it on a computer, because you don’t need Greek letters and subscripts anymore.