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The article already notes that

privacy-focused users who don’t want “AI” in their search are more likely to use DuckDuckGo

But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.

What do you mean by “change standards”? Python is older than all the other languages you mentioned other than C.

It’s also a French word that means video conference (as a shortened form of visioconférence).

You don’t have to be the first person. I joined a startup a long time ago as a regular engineer and they made me team lead within a year. Startups generally move a bit faster and a lot more chaotically. Especially when they’re growing fast. You do have to be good but having a vision also helps.

I stuck with them through acquisitions etc. and everything slowed down a lot. Should have gotten out of the large corporation life earlier tbh.

The bubble thing is more the financial aspect. None of these AI companies are profitable and they also don’t have a clear path to profit. For some time the business plan of Open AI was literally develop advanced AI and then let the AI figure out how to make money. Yet, these companies attract huge amounts of investment and are responsible for basically all of the economic growth in the US.

Nobody thinks there are no uses at all for LLMs or image generation etc. or that people in general hate all AI. It’s a bubble because a lot of money is being invested in something that nobody managed to make profitable yet, so if the investment stops, then these companies will all implode.

Dictators are more efficient and agile than democratic governments. That’s why the Romans originally had them. In the early Roman republic dictators were appointed to fix a specific problem and given significant power to do specifically and only that. So for example you could have a “fix gerrymandering dictator” that would be able to sidestep normal processes to fix gerrymandering, and then disappear.

I don’t have ai psychosis myself but man did Claude Code make it easy to see how people could develop it. I guess it makes sense too considering humans thought ELIZA was intelligent. My employer does some AI stuff and I think it just took me a while to understand how these LLMs appear to people outside that sphere.

In some countries, if you hire artists for an event, you are responsible for withholding taxes that are due on the artist’s income. Regular employment often works like this too. Taxes that are withheld at the source are called withholding taxes.

For example if I were to host an artist from the UK for an event here in Germany, I would have to deduct ~15% of their pay and pay it directly to the German tax authority. Basically in the same way that if I hired an employee in Germany I would have to estimate the income tax on their salary and withhold it too.

You can’t generally get these taxes back because they are normal taxes that are just paid in a specific way. But foreign artists from a country that both taxes foreign income and has some kind of double taxation agreement with the country they’re performing in would be able to get some of their tax payments back. There may be other reasons too, I’m not familiar with regulations regarding artists.

For normal employees it’s not uncommon either for the final tax to be different from what was withheld and then the difference is paid/reimbursed when they file their taxes.

Wait, you’re saying we didn’t already think that?

There were some last year specifically for games on SteamOS vs Windows, like this: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/

Even that is just confusing. I sometimes use Perplexity (because Pro comes with my bank account - neobanks have zero focus). And by default it remembers things you say. So when I ask a question sometimes it will randomly decide to bring in something else I asked about before. E.g. I sometimes use it to look up programming related stuff, and then when I ask something else it will randomly research whatever language it thinks I like now in that context too and do things like suggest an anime based on my recent interest in Rust for no good reason.

Tbh I think the Sun Ray thin terminals were pretty cool at the time. Not really cloud because it was an enterprise product 20 years ago, so they used servers hosted by the enterprise. But at the time this idea of taking my entire desktop session with me via my employee badge felt pretty cool. Of course only supporting X11 sessions on Solaris meant that nobody outside Sun wanted it though but that’s not really a problem with the concept as such.