Once prices settle down it doesn’t seem unreasonable that everyone who wants modern conveniences plops down $3k for a home computer.
It’s still cheaper than during the “home computer revolution” 80s/90s when normies were buying these at Sears and Radio Shack.
If this kind of thing holds true for humans we now may understand synesthesia, perhaps we find ourselves with a large enough study pool to map out clever tricks to influence each other.
A million times this. There is “private” as a corporate-legality licensing perspective. There is “private” as a human concept. The two are seemingly opposite, yet as all the money is focused on the former there’s no airtime left for the latter.
Right. But at their core they are math formulas devised by a process designed to produce mimicry of task completion. The math formulas themselves aren’t fully effable. We’re sure studying the heck out of how they complete the tasks!
Bet they converged on how we do it, since it’s our language, but who knows.
This future is here already, policy makers have it locked up. Any person who remembers what microfiche is understands the magnitude of this problem of not having a trustworthy public record.
If we extended public policy from the library era, the library of congress itself would be the Internet Archive.
From an internal perspective, thoughts are both the witness and the witnessed.
The problem only comes when trying to apply our language which is firmly rooted in this artificial dualism.
They’re avoiding editorializing. PBS news has the same dry “facts only” flavor. Legitimate reporting takes the high road; corpo-media too often take the low road.
Unfortunately human information consumers tend to gravitate toward sources of maximum opinion.
Check out Don Lancaster’s tinaja archive, if it’s still around. He was quite enamored with NeXT style universal postscript and wrote at length about it.
I’m more of a dabbler dev/script guy than a dev but Every. single. thing I ever write in javascript ends up being incredibly fast. It forces me to think in callbacks and events and promises.
Python and C (or async!) seem easy and sorta lazy in comparison.
Personally as a teenager I’ve been met with a group of cops all pointing guns at me when I was just walking around at night with no weapons whatsoever. They got a call from a paranoid homeowner nearby.
They’re trained to shoot first and ask questions later.