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Is the gambler the victim of the casino?

Is the alcoholic the victim of the liquor manufacturers?


Are companies like MailChimp, SendGrid, etc affected the same way?

Opus 5.5 is incredibly verbose compared to GPT 6.1. I mean substantially. They are both great generating the code I need. But I wonder how much more this extra vebosity costs me with Opus.

Picture of the bunker where the ants live: https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/9096/zoom/fig/11/

It’s historic because no else has done it in the last 40+ years. Doesn’t make it a big deal, but it’s still a big change.

It is a big deal if you fly :)

The inability to keep the air traffic control system effective and maintainable is far more embarrassing than the inability to update the IRS software or build a high-speed rail.


> ColdFusion, CGI, ASPX ... it was not exactly a beautiful world back then.

You’re missing the point. Those are all dead. The implication is that PHP should have had the same fate.


PHP had a super power - it was pretty stateless before that was cool. Thus, it is easy to understand and it's easy to scale. And a lot of it is basically transforming SQL columns into JSON or XML text. I used to laugh at it but now I just shrug. There's much worse things in Node-land.

This is incredibly interesting. Thanks for mentioning it. Unfortunately it’s not yet ready:

https://phprust.com/status/

I’ll keep checking


It runs everything that any software I've ever written needs - and I've been doing PHP since dates began with `19`.

But since php isn’t complied, how would I know if something is broken until every code path is exercised? Genuine question

You exercise every code path with a unit or integration test.

I tend to write integration tests for the paths users take through the application (website), and fill in the holes with unit tests. I'll also write unit tests for methods that change often or are critical, such as business logic.



Through an HDMI connection?

Through Windows automatic driver downloads.

The problem here is Microsoft as much as LG. The same monitor on Linux wouldn't download anything. This would require root anyway.

JellyFin or Plex. Personally i just use a Linux Mint desktop connected to the TV instead. Web browser for streaming and VLC for downloaded videos.

But JellyFin and Plex exist for people who don’t want that.


What the parent is saying is that the desktop versions of those programs are not remote friendly and the interface is not ideally scaled for 10-foot use. What you want are the Android TV versions, running on Waydroid or an x86 build of Android TV. See my other reply.

I just run stock ubuntu with an airmouse, freetube, a browser, and kodi. Works just fine on my projectors and tvs around my house for me and even non technical guests.

Yes, and I have done the same for a long time. It works, and the browser is key when you don't have native apps. But I recently spent some tokens on an Android x86_64 TV build with ARM support and it is far better than a Linux DE with the scaling cranked up. It's all scaled correctly, the UI can be navigated with the D-Pad alone, and all the apps are also designed that way. It's a massive improvement over a UI primarily designed for keyboards and mice.

Jellyfin and Plex cannot stream from major streaming providers. Yes, I know the answer is pirating content but that’s a complete paradigm shift compared to what most people are used to. It’s an absolutely enormous extra requirement when you’re suggesting someone switch their TV to Linux.

Kind of simpler in a way wouldn't it be? One provider vs 8 different streaming providers.

No one seems to have a problem dealing with multiple streaming providers. They’re essentially just different submenus on the TV app.

Compare that to setting up a home server with a ton of storage, setting up torrenting/newsgroups, software to check for new releases and automatically download them, probably a VPN too… it’s a whole different world.


When you tell people they can save a couple thousand dollars a year and never be tracked or watch an ad again on their tv if they learn how to setup a VPN and a seed box, a lot of people are quite happy to learn.

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