So the system responded that it was an already claimed serial number and not an invalid serial number? Who the fuck would do that?
Let's say someone put in a claim.
Well what is to stop them from trying consecutive serial numbers to see if they can get even more?
Not next generation. And people did notice.
... my government has spent on shitty proprietary software is patently absurd. This being Germany were people should know better but deciders and their digital culture are still stuck in the steam age. Maddening. Germany and Europe as a whole is way to slow in appointing FOSS as it's primary source of software.
Yes great to mention the linking aspect, that was key to the whole thing being really useful.
Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue.
You have it partially right here.
But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news... so the sites that will remain, and keep earring revenue are more right leaning sites since people would have to go to them directly anyway to seek out news Google will never give them.
Of course that merely delays the full effect of what you lay out, when most for-profit left wing news sites fold the AI starved for information will in the end actually make use of right leaning sites as well.
What it does mean is that left wing news sites that remain in the next year or so will only be hyper-partisan info funded by some external source.
... significance if all goes well. That's a good thing, by and large. It's called post-scarcity-economy and in a perfect world it's capitalisms end game.
I could see an alternative design approach that beats Apple's focused on simplicity and ergonomics. Even all black and white only.
When I look at something, I don't want to be distracted by the things that might linger underneath, I'd like the system to support my attempt to focus.
I switched on transparency on my GF's (KDE) computer and for the first time she started to understand the concept of multi tasking.
Before she would shut down whatever she was doing before starting up something else.
There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.
Mosquitoes are a core part of the ecosystem and a critical part of the food chain. It is also obvious that they are likely a critical part of ongoing mammalian herd immunisation. For obvious reasons.
Yes, they transfer some really bad diseases like Malaria or that recently arisen nightmare Zika (holy cow, creepy stuff), but we have no idea of how much good they actually do and I don't want to find out the hard way when they're all dead.
Regular protection and heightened awareness in areas where Dengue, Malaria, Zika & Co. are prevalent are the ways to deal with the downsides of these pesky bloodsuckers. Simply wiping them out with no further regard however is very likely to be a very stupid idea.
Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?
What did HyperCard even do?
It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.
But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.
Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.
In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!
A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).
You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.
The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe. -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy
