What if this is true mid or long term but by not participating to the AI race one gets poor or killed in the short term? The only way out would be that all parties agree to stop. There are previous examples (e.g. nuclear proliferation treaties) but it gets hard to do it with hundreds or thousands of parties.

I don't think it requires the agreement of that many parties. How many organizations/physical sites can create chips capable of training and running frontier models? That is your bottleneck. It is equivalent to targeting uranium enichment in nuclear arms control.

That did not work well enough for Kim Dotcom.

Apparently the only exception is, if your website is only used for piracy and you can see it and you do nothing about it when asked to. That's why mega, megaupload's successor, has encryption, so that the company can plausibly deny involvement with piracy, because they can't see anything on their servers.

That was practically a different era.

Same thing in Firefox on Android but I used uBO element picker to select the header and nuke it. There is a link to the home page on the HTML below it and links in the footer. There is little to gain from that sticky header and much to lose.

I confirm that. Then I opened the page in Chrome on Android and it scrolls nicely there too. So maybe they broke only desktop browsers.

I noticed

> The modes are the load-bearing piece:

Why do people write like LLMs? Maybe they delegate all the work to a LLM and don't have the time or the will to edit the copy. How about telling another LLMs to replace at least the most common LLM patterns with something human looking?

I don't feel like this was a piece by someone who has used LLMs too much.

I'm fairly confident this is just LLM writing the majority, possibly tweaked by a human.

Opening line is a form of, "It's not X, it's Y": ".. isn't thinking. It's I/O".

Then the start of the second paragraph is that weird breathless kind of writing:

> Reading five files to answer a question about one method. Generating a test file that follows the exact same pattern as the twenty test files next to it.

More "It's not X, it's Y": The seat license isn't what hurts, it's the tokens.

The softly pressed insistence that AI is worth it, really: "The tooling pays for itself but only if..."

By the way that is exactly what humans do when playing with white in high stone handicap games. They place their stones all around the board, start little fights everywhere and wait for the weaker player to misread or misevaluate something. Suddenly two or three fights merge in a one sided larger one and part of the handicap is gone.

We were hand writing PostScript code that drew pelicans at job interviews in the 90s, then they sent it to a printer a stored the page in a file drawer /s

Of course you can tar the original tar.gz files in one pass without extracting anything. You keep the boundaries between the source tar.gz but maybe that's not important. You probably won't gzip the output because there is very little to gain anymore.

But if you want to merge those tar.gz, yes, you have to ungzip them and gzip the final tar. More CPU.

Depending on the effort you’re willing to put in, you don’t have to: gzip has a specific provision for concatenated files and tar is a flat array of (file) records each followed by file data, terminated by a sentinel record, so what you need to do is to trim the sentinel off the first tar.gz and then append the second one as is. I don’t know of a ready-made tool that would be able to chop off a gzip file’s last 512 uncompressed bytes without recompressing it in full, but it ought to be possible.

That thing exists in Italy too. Primary residence is exempt, you pay on the other houses or parts of them (heirs, etc)

I guess that it can be rented or built upon. It's easy to imagine renting a field to a farmer but money is money, so why not letting somebody else build flats over one's land?