the game's uncommon method of generating galaxies of incomprehensible scale on device consistently for all players from a single-seed happening on a phone is remarkable for those of us who remember phones performing far behind consoles or desktop PCs.

No it isn't. Your phone is a supercomputer by 1980s standards, and seeded generation (whether from a PRNG or hashing coordinates or whatever) goes back to at least then (and probably '60s/'70s). I'm not slamming the game, and seeded generation is often a good idea, but the idea that you can do it on handheld supercomputers is not remarkable, even the tiniest little bit.

You wanna see something super-fucking-impressive on an iPhone? Go back to the very first model and behold that it runs a truly-remarkably decent web browser. That was way more futuristic than this.

Of course people should beware. Anyone who has a problem with Flock is surely aware that they are only a fraction of "the problem," though among the more visible.

I'm concerned that some Flock haters might take us down a slippery slope to where you can't have a camera in your house if it looks out onto the street, or that you shouldn't be allowed to record cops, or that I shouldn't be allowed to have a camera attachment on my Manhattan apartment balcony telescope that I normally just use to furiously goon to the good people of NYC who don't close their curtains. (Oops, forget that third example.)

I can't say I'm a fan of Flock but if their rights are infringed in a way that might possibly expand to everyone else, then they will need to be defended.

That said, I have a modest proposal for the law-enforcement-related problems of surveillance vendors. Require non-warrant sharing with LE to be unreliable. For every geo search, remove a random half of the applicable results and replace them with deliberate, randomized false positives, so that LE will know the data shouldn't be taken too seriously on its own. If cops act without confirmation while KNOWING it's _at least_ 50% likely to be wrong, that'll help with the civil suits for false arrests.

Perhaps you should try using an LLM.

Or simply join some news groups / mailing lists.

Most modern coding LLMs can code from random Jira (inert your issue tracker) tickets, better or on par with a human.

I guess once long ago you learned how to use a compiler, it is time to learn how to use an LLM, or stay using a compiler.

Well, perhaps the parent was thinking about green houses :D

Processors, does not matter what kind: do not need/use cheap labour.

They need sophisticated factories and PhDs.

I am talking about optical processors.
The processor China uses to crank out a new LLM in a day.

Google it, it is not complicated.

No idea why you think Europe, or its politicians, are afraid about or are against the internet.

That does not make any sense.

It is exactly the same.

Just one technology lost and the other one won.

Similar to VHS versus .... well, don't remember how it was called.

I do not know much about the protocols of Gopher, but instead of HTML they used TeX/LaTeX.

Not sure about what you want to argue.

The processors will soon all be optical.

Anyway, *using* an LLM does not cost much.

So, I do not what your point is. I would assume that people/companies that spent the money to try that, know what they are doing.

Tim Berners-Lee invented hypertext while working at CERN.
Which has nothing to do with internet, but is a protocol and mark up language that runs

on top of the internet.

He invented the world wide web. And that is actually only a reinvention: as we had gopher already, and wide area information services (WAIS/WISE?)

The internet is DARPA and the follow ups: TCP/IP and the surrounding infra structure protocols like DNS.

But humans won't thrive when this ice age ends.
Most of them will perish.

Nope.
The artic stays the artic.
Much to short growth time to grow anything meaningful.
And: the soil there is not fertile at all. It is frozen swamps and moors.

To click where the troops should go, for everything else you use the keyboard.

Radiation hardening is only a extra thick extra layer of silicon on top of the chip.

Also keep in mind: the idea is to answer AI questions, not to train ANNs.

HEIC is worthless because it's illegal to implement unless you get permission. Maybe in 20 years it'll be usable.

Don't like that fact? Then we need to find and support (oh no, and be?) political candidates who oppose software patents.

You shouldn't need anyone's permission to write a computer program. It's infuriating.