The problem with saying LLMs are AI - let alone a step towards AGI - is that they cannot create.

I’m not sure if there’s an intrinsic difference between humans and LLMs here. What we, including children, do is just re-hashing, re-combinating what they’ve seen / heard. I think it would be very difficult to prove that people come up with completely brand-new ideas without any external inspiration (= training input).

The examples are not really convincing of your point. The GPT output is pretty good given the ask, I’m not sure if my daughter would fare better.

I’m not a fan of discussing such terms since it devolves into arguing vague definitions.

Assuming LLMs are not intelligent, they prove that you can do heck of a lot without even being intelligent.

GPT might not be a step towards AGI, but it proves that even non-general AI can be pretty strong and have a very wide range of applications.

Outside of UK, Coventry is mainly known for the bombing, is there some connection to its current bad state?

DarkTable

GIMP

KDE

Kdenlive

It will make a difference if you don’t get enough of it. But having enough of it will just feel normal.

Some, like tschüß, servus or ciao are informally used by some Czechs, others like guten tag, bon jour, dobro došli are understood, but not used unless in some joke way. It would be pretty weird to encounter any of them when talking to e. g. hotel staff, though, unless there’s an expectation you speak that language.

Post-scarcity society still has to be backed by something. In the novel, it’s 3d printers. If you have more 3d printers than others, you can use it to produce weapons to capture even more 3d printers from other people, making them scarce, and thus introducing scarcity again.

You (intentionally?) leave out the important detail that the main orchestrator of the attack bin Laden / al-Qaeda were based in Afghanistan and Taliban refused to extradite him/them.

In a post scarcity society, you walk away. Let them have your shit. You can build new shit, better shit

How do you do that if they take all your 3d printers (the technology which sustains the post-scarcity world in this novel)?

So far they didn’t complain. My manager is all praise too ;-) It’s kinda weird that I’m supposed to be the asshole for not being hateful of a technology. But you the hater are the nice guy?

The things is, I don’t diss on technologies without arguments. I’ve grown to recognize that they are tools, not a subject of passion, at least in a professional context.

Sure, but part of the claim was “without any compilation”. But bun/deno do compile TS into JS.

Lol, so angry :-D jQuery hating must be a real passion for ya.

Looking at your other comments it’s clear you are taking comments like boomers personally against your parents. You shouldn’t.

They were boomers, and boomers are all these negative stereotypes, so how not to take it personally?

You say something like “women can’t drive, but don’t take it personally if you’re a good female driver”. Honestly I can’t fathom how people can’t see that it might be wrong to negatively stereotype groups of the population by something they did not choose. We’ve grown to recognise sexism, racism etc. but apparently we’re still in the 1950s of ageism.

She’s a huge proponent of these systems being continued for the next generation.

Too bad she’s a boomer, though.

Just fluff, no real arguments, ok.

Rewrite this with “black” instead of “boomer” and see how it looks like.

Your code reads like it’s from 1992 mainly

Lol. You write a lot of text to mask the fact there’s no good reason why getElementById should be bad. It’s the same groupthink as with the jQuery, you’re told it’s bad, so you just follow the crowd.

jQuery was created as a way to account for browser support challenges

That was one of the reasons. The other was that DOM API was and still is crap. There were many such libraries to abstract away browser differences back in late 00s (Dojo, script.aculo.us, Prototype.js, MooTools), and the main reason jQuery “won” was that it provided the nicest API.

Which is why I think it’s opinionated in a bad way to arbitrarily pick one of them as the defacto.

You’re missing the fact that jQuery does not prevent you from hiding the element in other ways. It’s just optimizing for the most common case, which is one of the principles of good API.

What you’re missing is that the hidden class can contain anything you want. Animations or whatever else.

Sure, and when I just want to … hide it, without any animations? Then this hidden class is boilerplate only.

If no, they aren’t the problem and shouldn’t feel it’s directed to them.

“boomers” is a name of a generation, not of political affiliation or attitude to youngsters. People don’t choose their year of birth.

It’s not much different from e.g. gender or racial stereotyping and what you’re saying is pretty similar to “if you’re not lazy, don’t feel offended, you can think of yourself as honorary white”.

boomers have been blaming us millennials

Which boomers? All of them? I don’t think so…

They grew up with the countries best safety net and support and then proceeded to pull up the ladder after them.

Well, my parents didn’t have any such benefits (and generally had much harder life than my generation), and didn’t pull any ladder, yet they are “guilty” by the virtue of being born in the wrong years.

Doesn’t seem right to me.

And it’s only when they complain about younger people when it really comes up.

Nah, it comes up all the time on social media on its own.