The high quality development in the article refers to how these robots will be used to improve the standard of living. Does help to read the article before commenting.

I certainly will.

found the lib

and like 4 of them aren’t birds but venomous spiders trying to disguise themselves and murder you

Yeah, nobody learns Maxwell’s equations anymore, they’re so 19th century. 🤡

These books are fairly accessible and touch on a lot of the same ideas you’d find in seminal works like Das Kapital

• Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies by Michael Parenti
• Understanding Marxism, Economics: Marxian Versus Neoclassical, and Understanding Socialism by Richard D. Wolff
• Super Imperialism and Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents by Michael Hudson
• Capitalism, Coronavirus and War by Radhika Desai

I feel like being able to run things locally is really valuable as well. This has been one of my biggest issues with stuff like aws where it’s very difficult to have an offline local environment. You have things like localstack, but it’s not perfect.

I, for one, welcome our cyberfungal overlords!

The books Marx wrote are the evidence. If you read them then you’d see why they are obviously relevant today. Of course, reading and understanding serious literature takes more effort than trolling on public forums.

It’s always hilarious when illiterates proceed to make clowns of themselves by discussing things they haven’t read.

the important part is that if ad companies can listen then three letter agencies almost certainly are

wow that’s terrible, would never happen in an enlightened western country like the UK https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/30/human-rights-activist-sarah-wilkinson-arrested-by-uk-police/

I’m all for abolishing copyright, but at that point I’d want the models to be completely open as well.

that’s basically all big tech nowadays

I think you’re on to something. Given how software is generally built to the lowest standard possible, there are more and more exploits piling on as a result. The details of any modern tech stack is far beyond human comprehension. It’s just not possible to meaningfully audit all the code and all the different interactions within it. The whole thing is just a giant house of cards.

This is the curse of working in tech. As long as things are working smoothly from customer perspective then the pleas to spend the time to deal with the tech debt are ignored. Yet, when enough debt piles up and things start breaking then it’s the people who’ve been warning about the problems the whole time who get blamed.

There are plenty of greenfield projects out there.

yup, that thing’s a nightmare alright

When a project is developed for a while, a lot of initial design decisions can become invalidated as business needs evolve. New features have to be added, and in many cases they go against original assumptions about how the project would be used. At that point you have to start making hacks and kludging new features in. This creates a lot of special cases and surprising behaviors making overall project brittle and hard to maintain. That’s what’s known as tech debt.

In an ideal world you would have time to do proper redesign to accommodate new features, clean up problems as you go, and so on. However, in reality there’s usually just not enough time to do any of that so people just pile on features at the cost of overall development becoming harder and more error prone. This is a great discussion on the subject incidentally https://medium.com/@wm/the-generation-ship-model-of-software-development-5ef89a74854b

That’s very likely the case. LLMs sucking up all the air in ML research right now, and we shouldn’t be using them as a hammer for every problem.