9/11 - and the US response to it - is still very much remembered by people outside of US as an example of how US foreign policy works in practice.

Humans aren't magic either. LLMs don't need to be magic to be useful, or to replace humans for that matter.

It is also very much a moving target. A year ago I tried those tools and they were very meh at the kinds of stuff I do. Today, they are much better.

Math makes sense, CSS doesn't.

There are no reliable AI detection services. At best they can reliably detect output from popular chatbots running with their default prompts. Beyond that reliability deteriorates rapidly so they either err on the side of many false positives, or on the side of many false negatives.

There's already been several scandals where students were accused of AI use on the basis of these services and successfully fought back.

While true in general, they do know many things verbatim. For instance, GPT-4 can reproduce the Navy SEAL copypasta word for word with all the misspellings.

I'd imagine more than a few basement dwellers could as well.

This has already described much of pop culture for decades, though. Turns out that humans actually like slop.

"Turns out humans actually like heroin." -- antisocial scumbag justifying being an antisocial scumbag.

What I'm saying is that if you want to make that analogy, be consistent and take it all the way. We are already on heroin, have been for a long time, this is just the age when it's cheap and abundant like never before.

> Turns out that humans actually like slop...

... more than being bored.

Not really? For the past few decades even truly exotic and unusual preferences could be accommodated, but people still prefer certain things which we identify as "pop culture" - and it's mostly slop.

It works, but it's incredibly exhausting and not fun at all, so why bother?

It is exhausting, but it can be fun. My motivation was to network during conferences. I ended up meeting interesting people, having good conversations, and enjoying myself more.

Yes, thats a win but use it casually when needed because it depletes you. You can’t change your nature, but you can oscilate it here and there. A drink helps too

Because the alternative is you hide at home and get depressed and then go off and kill yourself because life isn't worth living anymore.

If you're genuinely an introvert, the alternative is you "hide at home" and have fun doing so. And socialize infrequently with few very close friends (basically, quality over quantity).

Yep; this.

I'm pretty good at socializing when I need to. I'll still most likely be wishing throughout that I was out eating dinner or having a beer at a brewery by myself with a good book or HN on my eInk tablet. Being by myself is extremely restorative and makes me happy.

I think this is what having an introverted personality is like.

The difference is between gaining a skill vs loving what you do. Introverted person practice socializing is more of a skill development than actually loving every moment of it. True introverts are happy being alone (they are not lonely as in a negative sense).

I think it is easier for introvertes to gain extrovertion skill (clear benefits) than extroverts to gain introversion skills (benefits of being alone is not that obvious)

Pigs were domesticated (specifically for their meat) for several thousand years already by the time the earliest Jewish dietary restrictions took shape.

There are many theories that try to tie it specifically to the conditions in the Middle East, but none that I'm aware of are particularly convincing.

People do realize that, which is why such frameworks have first appeared decades ago. It's just that you can't fully paper over the network gap and pretend that it doesn't exist; eventually, the abstraction leaks.

Have they? I assume you are talking about PHP, which is not that kind of framework, because you would still have to write JavaScript. It lacks type safety too.

I'm talking about stuff like GWT from 2006.

Wow, I had no idea that existed. It looks like it is a Java library that abstracts over the web, and generates JavaScript under the hood? I never touched GWT, but it does sound like there would be issues if you wanted to do something that's not supported by the framework. But still, I don't think this is the same as modern full stack frameworks.

If I remember correctly, it was the first whatever-to-JS transpiler. But it opened the floodgates and "do everything in one language, bridge the gap transparently" has been tried several times since then.

And even before that, actually! Before web apps were even a thing, we had DCOM and CORBA and some other similar but less-known frameworks that tried to make OOP in general network-transparent. It worked in principle - you could have distributed object graphs in pretty much arbitrary configurations, going back and forth as needed to capture the semantics. It failed in practice because every time you have a network gap you get a slew of potential issues that just don't exist without it (simply put, your connection and/or the other party may suddenly go away).

FWIW I'm not saying that single-language specifically is a bad idea. It's specifically the notion that you can treat a distributed app as a monolithic thing without clearly marked internal boundaries where the network gap is, that fails in real world. But if you expose the gap then you still need to deal with impedance mismatch - e.g. nice your object oriented API no longer works because the object graph can't span the gap, so you need a more procedural (read: REST-style) API with serialization etc.

So, this is the point where you basically want a language designed from grounds up with message passing in mind. Blazor, but for something like Erlang or Elixir, perhaps?