We’re talking about hypothetical changes, obviously it would require more funding. The point being, if you’re going to do a system change, more funding will always work better than trying to make citations cost money.

Yeah I don’t have the mental energy to decrypt your messages, you’re just saying a bunch on nonsense and I’m not really wanting to spend so long trying to see what a slopbro is trying to say.

Have a nice day

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

For a book, there are per-unit costs of the materials, ink, paper, manufacturing, etc.

For an ebook, these are void. So the cost should be, at the very least, much lower than a physical book. Even if you take into account the effort of writing the book and such, it’s an initial cost, so it doesn’t justify a high price.

The point being, physical items have costs related to their physicality, digital items don’t, so they shouldn’t cost as much. It’s pretty straightforward.

And to loop back to my initial comment: that’s why it’s absurd to compare AIs, which are just bullshit for lazy sloppy people, and manufacturing processes, which come from the need to reduce the manufacturing costs of physical items. There is no manufacturing cost of software, so there is no need to mass-produce as fast as possible, and so there is just no reason to let devs throw up slop garbage to go “faster”

Also, on a side note: programming with AIs don’t make you code faster, it just increases the amount of bugs and problems with your code. Obviously, since you’re just using a nonsense generator to try to produce a complex piece of digital machinery.

What? How do you even reach such a conclusion?

It’s not a tool, it’s a chaos generator.

Don’t let people who build houses do it with cardboard boxes instead of bricks, even if it looks like a house in the end.

They cost nothing to duplicate, yes, which is why you wouldn’t pay as much as a physical book for it.

What’s your point?

What about them?

Yes, by government funding.

Comparing software that can be copied for free, with physical items, is stupid.

“Just like books cost more ink with a big font, webpages cost more data with a big font”

Nope, that doesn’t work, it’s absurd. Which is not surprising from a stupid article trying to argue that slop software is the future.

Or just stop this stupid research capitalism and just fund research enough so that it can be fully free.

Your system isn’t useful, it will just change what bullshit research aims for, and will prevent underfunded researchers from publishing papers that rely on others.

Now that I think about it, your system feels worse than what is currently in place.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4xej8n7wxo

You can call it a stretch because he wasn’t directly talking about colonies, but for me it’s no secret that he loves the concept of colonies. The guy wants to be an emperor, thinks France is superior to everything, and considers other countries as inferior and deserving to be controlled.

Also, yes he did call it a crime against humanity, but also clearly said that there would be no apologies, going as far as talking about the “happy stories” of colonization.

“While visiting Algeria during this year’s presidential election, he called the French colonisation of Algeria a crime against humanity but added that there had been “some great things and some happy stories” in that period of history.”

(https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20171204-macron-rules-out-reparations-colonialism)

Macron is a fake bitch, that’s how he got elected in the first place, but once thing is certain: he doesn’t think badly of colonization.

Yeah well Macron dreams of being the supreme emperor of the world.

Let’s not forget that he complained that former colonies never thanked France for colonizing them.

And that he admires Napoleon and De Gaulle, who loved the idea of empires and colonies.

So nothing so surprising here.

People need to start hanging the church*

Here, I fixed it

The PDF standard is so complex that it makes it implicitly not really open, as it’s basically impossible to implement it fully

I mean, if you have a royal family, you’re asking for this shit

I mean, when you see most programmers, you want to believe it :)

Perceived complexity*

The question is more “considering the state of the world and the reality of computer programming job, should I consider becoming programmer” and the answer is no.

How do you expect mail privacy while using gmail?

This is absurd.

This is like saying that if nazi propaganda becomes the main selling point of web browsers, then firefox should add it just to stay relevant.

The advantage of firefox is (was) that it takes a stance instead of blindly following market trends. Following AI, no matter how immoral and damaging it is, just to avoid a hypothetical loss, is absolute bullshit.

They are doing it because they lost the will to take a stance, and this is what is killing them. Straying away from the opensouce, privacy centric stance is costing them their user base, and people who weren’t wanting such a stance are not going to move away from their usual browser with AI and whatever.

It’s exactly the thing that leftist parties do when they try to appeal to the nazis, they just get buried in their own stupidity.

Why do you think firefox-based browsers are getting more and more popular? It’s because they bring back firefox where it should be, because no one with enough brain to want to use firefox, wants a firefox with data collection and AI slop.