@georgetakei This is now making me wonder how many store sign size dwellings we can put on an acre of land. Of course, if we were building them for people to live in that would mean they would need plumbing and electricity rather than a long extension cord to a single outlet.... But maybe we've been making this all way too complicated for a long long time!
Someone actually built a Chrome extension to "Hide annoying Google AI Overviews". LOL. Right now it only has 2,000 users, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reaches millions in a few months when SGE (Search Generative Experience) will be rolled out globally. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn Duckduckgo is also releasing similar tech using AI .
The problem is never on the tech end, assuming you wanted to make a good platform. That's probably a 400-level CS class project, especially if you're only dealing with a single library system that doesn't have multi-million-user-scale and five-nines reliability needs.
The pitfalls are 99% about the business relationships and having to pre-enshittify the system to service them-- getting the publishers to trust the platform will enforce DRM and related random shitty deals (i. e. that ebooks have to be retired after n loans, as though they wear out like a paperback). I'd expect there's virtually no trust for a new player.
What's needed is mandatory licensing. The libraries and their software dev partners decide what terms they want, they get a standard price card, and the publishers have to eat it.
There are also hosting concerns and costs, but basically, yeah. This isn't a hard technical problem. There are even pre-written dev libraries for reading epub books, like this one for Flutter.
(Source: Am software developer. Could probably write a PoC for this in a few weeks.)
@rbreich Well, as good as it sounds, it won’t change the bottom line. Airlines will still make money, but will eliminate their unrealistic cheap fares that used extra fees to get the funds from passengers. Net cost probably won’t change but fares might go up.
Fuel and salaries still are the same so operating costs don’t change.
Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters. This is their story.
You should also be very clear that this did not start on October 7 — it is the result of decades of violence by the Israeli Occupation Forces perpetrating Israel's violent and illegal occupation and attacks on hundreds — thousands, really — of Palestinians every year. ###
@thisisskaly@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
3. In any event, crimes by Hamas—no matter how horrific—would be no excuse, legally or morally, for the massacre of civilians, for genocide. (Didn't we all lear when we were about seven years old that two wrongs don't make a right?) [2\3]
@lowqualityfacts they usually keep the biggest box for themselves, that's why sending a fistful of sand in a large package is a tradition in many places
Vielleicht sollte ich auch mal Heilungsgottesdienste anbieten. Es gäbe Musik und und Geschwätz zum Einstiegspreis von nur 66,66 Euro pro erwachsener Person.
@BinGanzBrav ich hatte mal überlegt Heilpraktiker zu werden. Leute finden Heilpraktiker toll weil die Zeit für Patienten haben. Ein Hausarzt hat 15 Minuten. Ein Heilpraktiker hat so viel Zeit wie der Patient Geld hat 😂
Wenn Patienten dann ihre Leidensgeschichte erzählen lernt man eben auch welcher Arzt wofür brauchbar ist und Patienten lassen sich dann sinnvoller vermitteln damit sie dann bessere Erfahrungen machen und der Schulmedizin nicht ganz verloren gehen.
Bleiben nur die Verzweifelten und Unheilbaren bei denen nichts mehr hilft. Da wär aber vielleicht Seelsorge nicht ganz falsch. Wär aber eben auch nicht ganz billig.
@ewolff Both hard-core OOP and hard-core FP can get pretty dense. But I would argue that with a lightweight variant of FP (let's not mention monads) you can easier write decent code than with limited upstanding of OOP.
@ewolff easier to understand when learning / writing or when reading? I guess you meant the latter.
I personally like functional code for it’s purity and testability and try to use it wherever I can also in languages that are mostly known for OOP.
When it’s about complete applications written only with pure FP, I find it harder to understand, TBH. But maybe my brain is already wired in an OOP style…
I just heard a 25-year-old on a podcast say “Growing up, we didn’t have a TV…” and after a brief pause he finished the sentence in a way that made me feel every bit of the twice his age that I am, “in the car, like the rich kids did, we just had one of those portable DVD players.”
@jessamyn@overholt my mom was SO into seatbelts because in like 1950 she got thrown into the front seat by a very hard stop (no accident, avoided an accident, but still could’ve seriously injured or killed her and she carried that memory)