If the password manager server is hacked and compromised, then syncing your passwords with the compromised server will lead to compromised passwords (duh)

What do you mean “duh”? The password managers claim that the exact opposite is true.

Most service providers therefore promote their products with the promise of “zero-knowledge encryption”. This means they assure users that their stored passwords are encrypted and even the providers themselves have “zero knowledge” of them and no access to what has been stored. “The promise is that even if someone is able to access the server, this does not pose a security risk to customers because the data is encrypted and therefore unreadable. We have now shown that this is not the case”, explains Matilda Backendal.

This would be true for a properly implemented end-to-end encryption scheme.

As far as I can understand, that number refers to current electricity usage. So the actual energy cost is significantly higher and it’s currently growing at a rapid pace.

Also what’s with the whataboutism? Aviation emissions are a huge problem. We don’t use it as a bar for whether something is significant or not.

Third, Musk deflects from accusations he’s a Nazi (“that’s a crazy thing to say”) but he never responds by saying “What Hitler did was horrible and I’m not a Nazi and detest their ideology” which is what someone would say if not a Nazi.

This is the most important point, IMO. Fascists who want mainstream acceptance know not to have swastika tattoos and not to openly say they love Hitler. They will always try to have some plausible deniability. Don’t get dragged into their bullshit arguments. There’s no point in debating whether the nazi salute was some other motion that was misinterpreted. Even if it was, the first thing a non-nazi would do would be to clarify that they are not a nazi and don’t want nazis to think they’re their allies. Even if Musk had completely inadvertently stumbled upon the love and support of the nazis via a series of misunderstandings (lol), at this point in time he is deliberately choosing to be part of them.

Here is Musk at 3:08:01 saying he’s not a nazi… and then going on to say you’re not a nazi unless you’re literally invading Poland and doing the holocaust. That is literally the only objectionable thing about the nazis. Not their “fashion sense or mannerisms”. Yes that was a direct quote. There is really only one type of person that would not mention as objectionable the nazi ideology or all the acts of violence that are not at the same scale as the holocaust.

There are indirect benefits to visitors, though. Yes, most people are a drain on resources because they visit strictly to read and never to contribute. The minority that do contribute, though, are presumably people who used Wikipedia and liked it, or people who enjoy knowing that other people are benefiting from their contributions. I’m not sure people will donate or edit on Wikipedia if they believe no one is using it.

Nobody can have proof of that, because no such proof can ever exist. How would you ever have a proven correct number of cheaters not detected?

I agree with you that the one liner isn’t a good example, but I do prefer the “left to right” syntax shown in the article. My brain just really likes getting the information in this order: “Iterate over Collection, and for each object do Operation(object)”.

The cost of writing member functions for each class is a valid concern. I’m really interested in the concept of uniform function call syntax for this reason, though I haven’t played around with a language that has it to get a feeling of what its downsides might be.

globally trivial

Please share your trivial solution then.

Multicast wouldn’t really replace any of the sites you mention because people want and are used to on-demand curated content.

It’s also not as practical as you make it sound to implement it for the entire internet. You claim that this would be efficient because you only have to send the packets out once regardless of the number of subscribers. But how would the packets be routed to your subscribers? Does every networking device on the internet hold a list of all subscriptions to correctly route the packets? Or would you blindly flood the entire internet with these packets?

The crawlers for LLM are not themselves LLMs.

Your examples where an LLM is defending a position you chose for it while producing obviously conflicting arguments actually proves what the others have been telling you. This is meaningless slop. It clearly has no connection to any position an LLM might have appeared to have on a subject. If it did, you would not be able to make it defend the opposite side without objections.