We have shitty unrepairable phones and computers with patronising interfaces, sports most people can’t afford to attend because the tickets get scalped, and someone who openly brags about having blue eyes (she promises it’s not in that way though). China is quaking I’m sure.

“Lower prices or draw 25”

This is why the more I think about it, the less I’m afraid of AGI. I mean, if the super basic non-thinking AI we have now, developed by capitalists and programmed to be loyal to the bourgeoisie, ends up like this.

Also, Chinese cities don’t give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.

Literally kind of term the Ferengi from Star Trek would use.

Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.

Minimalism in GUIs, maybe (still, give me CLI any day). But minimalism in housing and infrastructure is absolutely critical and they are absolutely not equal to software. We need to be as efficient as we can because I don’t know if the author has noticed the state of housing in the world. How many more “boring, dull” buildings could be built for the same price? How many more if we copy pasted the same designs instead of demanding everything be unique? (But god forbid they be too different from the existing style or else the NIMBYs protesting minimalist buildings complain about that too.) The people who “prefer” the visually complex building have never been homeless in the back alley of that building before, nor have they ever been priced out of their neighbourhood by gentrification when their boring gray building gets torn down to build the pretty building.

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Sound, not radio, though.

This is where commit based version control can help mitigate the damage or detect it early. The golden rule in AI assistance in programming (if you’re going to use it) is to check the changes to make sure you understand everything before you commit it. If documents had a git-like version control system it would be easier to detect corruption early.

Or just use Markdown files in a git repo IDK

Rebar under the road suggests this is a raised platform. Terrifying.

So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS?

This would be the ideal end TBH. No warning, no dread, no pain, no suffering, just one instant you’re biology and the next instant you’re physics.

Not really. Proprietary software have just as many if not more vulnerabilities. Linux is just more honest and open about reporting them so it seems like they have more.

You’re welcome 😊

“We’re going back to the four humours theory. George Washington would still be alive if they just bloodlet him some more.”

no u

Very small sample size, but the interiors of the ones near me just look like old buildings assuming they haven’t been renovated. Kind of dated in a cozy nostalgic way, with the occasional bare concrete component. Sometimes has functional limitations compared to brand new interiors (lack of electrical outlets is a common issue), but not due to the brutalism.

Don’t @ me I like brutalism, especially in the middle of the day when the sun’s the brightest. A nice rest for the eyes in a city of flashy reflective shit.