Readit NewsNo other auto maker uses similar language. Ford and GM use BlueCruise and SuperCruise, clearly implying an improved kind of cruise control.
To steal a few examples from a convenient summary list someone[1] made:
1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
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10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
Open to other definitions. But I look at that list, written in 1995, and it feels like you can check off a lot of these items in things that are rapidly being normalised.
1. https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the...
Back then we didn't have this particular modern meme of "extremely dangerous" for something like a syntactically inaccurate file so I suppose no one said it was "extremely dangerous" for people to copy-paste code from searches. SQL injection was fairly novel at the time but as that came up people would mock copy-paste scripters rather than act as if man's extinction was at hand from a vibe-coded single-page app that tells you which Pokemon you are.
Yes, yes, it's different now. But it was different then too. Search engines changed the stuff you could find from carefully curated Usenet channels to any rando with a blog. I suppose if we had modern sensibilities we'd say that was "extremely dangerous" too.
I've been writing code for decades, and it's true that I've seen nothing like this technology. It's true that it's a game changer and that with slightly different rates of change could have already lead to human extinction. But that doesn't mean that I have to lay any more credence to the guys who have, since time immemorial, said "this new thing makes something easier; it will make us worse because we do not slog as much".
Have you recently watched a civilian perform a basic task? Their first approach is to use Google and pick the top result - ad or otherwise. I think websearch /has/ ruined everyone's minds, and it is being exacerbated on a daily basis by AI.
But it was only ever a short term strategy; if they had persisted they would have had to reconsider.
It sounds like it can potentially replace way more than PowerShell. I mean, why would a .NET shop even bother with Python or any form of shell scripts if they can attach a shebang on top of an ad-hoc snippet? And does anyone need to crank out express.js for a test service if they can simply put together a ASP.NET minimal API in a script?
I notice another poster said it's a bit slow but for many common use cases even half a second startup time is probably a small price to pay to be able to write in the language you're familiar with, use your standard libraries, etc.
I have DIY’d an addition onto my house with professionally architected blueprints and engineering seal. During various stages, I would call the City who would send code inspection officials to incrementally sign off on my project’s progress. Other than pouring a new slab of concrete and electrical, I built it all myself to code. I followed YouTube tutorials.
My point is that DIY isn’t the issue - lack of oversight is. With standards, expert input, and review processes, even non-experts can safely build. AI-assisted coding needs the same approach.
This is not a popular opinion on software development circles - unless you're already in one of those regulated fields, like where a software engineer (a literal accredited engineer) is required.
But it's been an increasingly common talking point from a lot of experts. Bruce Schneier writes about it a lot - he convinced me long ago that our industry is pretty pathetic when it comes to holding corporations liable for massive security failures, for example.
Yeh I think there's this weird stigma that stuck after Windows 8 was a bit iffy but 8.1 was fine.
I preferred Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 (and MUCH preferred it to 11) because at least it still had all the old core Windows control panel stuff under the hood. Windows 10 feels like a way more awkward mismash of things because they seem to have simply just taken a bunch of stuff away.
The zillions of different UI paradigms smooshed together started in Win8 but Win10 is where they really seemed to pile it on.
Anyway, I'm not a Mac user. But I absolutely see why they want to keep touch interface separate from keyboard & mouse. It's hard.
The performance is just unacceptable, it's already 50%+ slower than a snapdragon 8 elite flagship released in the same year.
This affects everything, pixels just don't last nor have great battery life for this reason.And the big issue is they aren't even much cheaper anymore.
I like GrapheneOS, but my pixel just randomly stopped working after being laggy and having the worst battery life on cellular (less than 2h SOT with a 5000mah battery)
It's hard justifying buying another pixel after such a horrible experience, were it not for GrapheneOS I would never consider buying a pixel in the first place.
Heck even the camera isn't that good anymore, most photos are just gray, and the hardware is also very lacking.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-image-processi...
I found Mrwhosetheboss overview really good, he explains how the pixel just comes short in every way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRegbipwCsc
I got a 9a to replace them just because I didn't want to have to deal with learning iPhone, but I'm fully expecting the 9a to fail with a similar issue so looking at buying an iPhone soon as a backup so I can get up to speed.