I guess the question is: how much is medium? DuckDB can handle quite a lot of data without breaking a sweat. Certainly if you prefer writing SQL for certain things, it's a no-brainer.

You make your slant against Wikipedia immediately obvious by attempting to smear it. You lazily link it with porn, but you're not making an actual point.

It's more to show that it doesn't matter much in the end where the project comes from, but rather where the project is going

This is so clumsily constructed and so transparently self-serving that my opinion of the whole enterprise, such as it is, is lowered.

This is a massive shift.

You really learn how bad everyone's taste is, just how low the bar can be when it comes to the written word. LLMs really can teach us something about ourselves!

In the interest of fairness, can you really say different about "mainstream" French culture?

Well I don't know much about French aside from the joke but Cannes obviously has way better taste than Hollywood.

The neat part is, with social media and global internet, culture are generally degenerating regardless of countries. If I were American citizen(gladly Im not) I might as well just let them in to get some tax money, and potentially see if the industry can be used as a soft propaganda machine. Just like Hollywood.

There are hundreds of small film festivals all over the United States each year. The biggest that I know is probably Sundance Film Festival. They have just as much "taste" (whatever that means) as Cannes (Film Festival). France also produces lots of shitty French language films that never leave the French-speaking world. Canal+ is the gold standard for French language film production.

film nerds gonna films nerds. What I mean was Plame vs Oscar since bro was asking mainstream sorry for the confusion. And just bcz French do shit movies too doesn't invalidate the statement sadly. Don't get me wrong. Nor do I think French is that superior.

I'll take this to mean that you think arbitrary access to a computer's capabilities will require licensure, in which case I think this is a bad metaphor.

The point of a driver's license is that driving a ton of steel around at >50mph presents risk of harm to others.

Not knowing how to use a computer - driving it "poorly" - does not risk harm to others. Why does it merit restriction, based on the topic of this post?

Your unpatched Wordpress install is someone else’s botnet host, forming part of the “distributed” in DDoS, which harms others.

It’s why Cloudflare exists, which in itself is another form of harm, in centralising a decentralised network.

The argument is self-defeating:

1. "Unpatched servers become botnet hosts" - true, but Tailscale does not prevent this. A compromised machine on your tailnet is still compromised. The botnet argument applies regardless of how you access your server.

2. Following this logic, you would need to license all internet-connected devices: phones, smart TVs, IoT. They get pwned and join botnets constantly. Are we licensing grandma's router?

3. The Cloudflare point undermines the argument: "botnets cause centralization (Cloudflare), which is harm", so the solution is... licensing, which would centralize infrastructure further? That is the same outcome being called harmful.

4. Corporate servers get compromised constantly. Should only "licensed" corporations run services? They already are, and they are not doing better.

Back to the topic: I have no clue what you think Tailscale is, but it does increase security, only convenience.

The comment I was replying to was claiming that using your computer 'poorly' does not harm others. I was simply refuting that. Having spent the last two decades null routing customer servers when they decide to join an attack, this isn't theoretical.

As an aside, I dislike tailscale, and use wireguard directly.

Back to the topic: Your connected device can harm others if used poorly. I am not proposing licensing requirements.

I meant: does not increase security.

I would detest living in a world where regulators assign liability in this way, it sounds completely ridiculous. On a level with "speech is violence".

> probably raising a family like me.

That he did, according to a surprisingly extensive 2014 interview: https://www.pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/aphex-...

After reading that article, I see at least one thing that Opus 4.5 is clearly not going to change.

There is no fixed truth regarding what an "app" is, does, or looks like. Let alone the device it runs on or the technology it uses.

But to an LLM, there are only fixed truths (and in my experience, only three or four possible families of design for an application).

Opus 4.5 produces correct code more often, but when the human at the keyboard is trying to avoid making any engineering decisions, the code will continue to be boring.

>the code will continue to be boring.

Why would you not want you code to be boring?

You're a bit late