I can get it. I can totally see something being fun if it's 2-10 hours a week, but not fun if it's 40-50 hours a week.
Also very different when you are in control of exactly when you're doing it, you can pause anytime you need to go grab laundry, etc.
Driving/train sims have pretty much zero appeal to me, but I enjoy flight sims a fair amount. I'd never want to make the sacrifices to my life that would be required to be a commercial pilot. Being a personal/hobby pilot is very expensive and quite a bit more dangerous.
> courtesy of modularization, separation of concerns, explicit APIs, and so on.
That's great, but a lot of that is knowledge you have to bring in. You need to be careful with the design of the API boundaries, the interfaces, etc.
Lots of people who are using AI to code projects... don't do that.
And once you get to the point that the AI is having trouble keeping up with the project... it's going to take a lot of work to discover what those module boundaries and interfaces should be.
> but is not outside the realm of something a well-funded police department could do
One officer would absolutely not be able to record on that piece of paper every single license plate that passed through a busy intersection. Not even close.
The number of officers that _would_ be required to do so would absolutely be "outside the realm of possibility" for even a well-funded police department.
That's why flock is different. It's a level of scale that was previously—despite your assertions—impossible.
Yea, I think a better option would be to make fines proportional to income, and then give a flat hourly rate that you can earn for fines from community service as an option
I agree with everything, other than the two caveats below:
> Strike pardon power;
I'd go slightly narrower. I think pardons and clemency are a good thing to have in the system. I think we can put reasonable guardrails around it
- Require pardons to be published to a public register to be effective
- Allow a 2/3 vote of both chambers of congress to veto a pardon within 90 days
- Disallow pardons in the final year of the term
- Explicitly affirm that Congress can make bribery and other forms of direct/indirect quid-pro-quos for a pardon illegal
> Congress may create independent agencies with charters of up to 25 years.
I think we should also create room for Congress to create rule-making agencies that exist within the Congressional branch.
Or, like in Larry Niven's Ringworld, these kinds of stochastic LLM tools will just help screen for candidates with the most luck. Maybe it's not such a bad thing to hire the luckiest candidate.
The reason I'm going to buy a Steam Machine instead of building a computer is the verified program.
I've absolutely loved being able to check a store listing page and immediately know if a game will run well on the Steam Deck. Having the same program for a higher end target would be really nice for me.
Also, getting the CEC right is really valuable for me. If I'm building a computer there's no chance I am going to be able to get it to play nice with the TV using just the controller.
If I saw a delivery robot blocking someone in a wheel-chair, I'm moving it off the sidewalk and I'm not particularly concerned if it's able to complete its trip after that.
> blacksky, last I heard they were still working on a major piece?
While that was true, I don't think it's true anymore. I think blacksky is fully independent. Eurosky is currently in the spot you're describing (partially independent, but moving towards also being fully independent).
I'm not sure that's totally right, though, because I (using the entirely default bsky stack) can and do regularly interact with people who are using different PDS and AppView's (like, I can interact with Eurosky and blacksky accounts).
I think the thing that is centralized by default is the bsky moderation layer.
> The advantages are more on the development side of those apps
I mean, I agree, but Microsoft of all companies really should be invested in building Windows native applications. If they can't be fucked to build Windows-native applications, why would anyone else?
Microsoft should be setting the example, and the high bar of what Windows-native quality software should be. It's frankly embarrassing for them that they can't or won't do it.
Also very different when you are in control of exactly when you're doing it, you can pause anytime you need to go grab laundry, etc.
Driving/train sims have pretty much zero appeal to me, but I enjoy flight sims a fair amount. I'd never want to make the sacrifices to my life that would be required to be a commercial pilot. Being a personal/hobby pilot is very expensive and quite a bit more dangerous.