Every single mainstream operating system has metadata and index stores associated with its files and applications.

Linux has locatedb and .desktop files, and many other files that determine how content is presented to you in a desktop environment.

Windows has NTFS alternate data streams, the registry, multiple appdata folders, and a bunch of other kludges.

A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse.

Per the article:

According to the BTRON3 specification, the first two halfwords of an application ID are the data type it applies to, and only the third distinguishes rival handlers for the same type. When a document contained writing, a table, and a figure, opening those parts made the system launch each one’s registered handler to draw its own content inside the parent document’s window. If no handler exists, or the handler fails to draw, the system strikes a diagonal line through the region where the content should have been.

That’s a window manager with application/file associations, with the ‘window’ that the application draws to being embedded within a hypertext document. So, you’d be able to attach arbitrary hypertext to a file and when you open it the window manager presents that information along with the application window. That’s not any less flexible or more limited than any other desktop OS.

I’m gonna need someone to empathize with me after I get brain damage from reading these replies.

you don’t appear to be thinking critically about the implications of LLMs/generative AI

You don’t appear to have a functioning brain.

Then you’re not critically trying to think and examine the implications of this new technology.

I’ve been examining and thinking about artificial neural networks since ~2010.

It is pretty fucking simple to not use an LLM.

The GDPR is flagrantly disregarded constantly. It really needs more enforcement.

An LLM is a type of artificial neural network, but not every ANN is an LLM. So its a lot more like saying that not every red thing is a firetruck.

That is an extremely simple concept that even toddlers can understand.

Try seeing how long you can suck on a car exhaust and live? My point stands.

And you’d sink and down pretty quickly if the world were made of pudding.

Everyday a single vehicles emits enough pollution to kill countless people.

Considering that since there are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide, I think if each one killed more than one person per day there would soon be none of us left.

Collectively they do cause some 246,000 deaths each year, from pollution alone, with several times that figure being attributable to motor vehicle collisions. So I do think the regular use of fossil fuel vehicles needs to be phased out, along with a drastic reduction in personal vehicle use in general in urban areas and the implementation of systematic safety principles in road design.

If you’re familiar with this kind of stuff, do you think this could lead to cheaper and smaller hyperspectral cameras?

AI image in header. Didn’t read.

That guy in the comic saying “roofs are impossible” is every American about every single topic.

IMO you’re much too charitable. I think these are the reasons (at least for American conservatives), roughly in order of what I consider to be the most to least sympathetic:

• A fondness and nostalgia for fossil power. To be clear I think if this is the reason you’re supporting fossil fuel use when lives are on the line you’re crazy, especially when museums and motorsport categories for older engine technologies can (and already do) exist, but I can at least understand it.
• Anxiety about change. While there are lots of reasons to think that renewables will put us in a better position than fossil fuels (they’re cheaper, can be less centralized, and better insulated against geopolitical instability) a lot of people are very anxious about things like EV range and grid instability. If they’re a “low information voter” or have been fed a steady diet of oil industry propaganda then they probably have a very exaggerated view of these issues and a very poor understanding of how the world works.
• The entire idea of anthropogenic climate change and things like a circular economy directly contradicts the Christian worldview they’re operating under. For one they don’t believe in climate change for the same reason they don’t believe in herd immunity from vaccines or systemic racism. Cumulative effects, dynamic systems, and tipping points aren’t part of how they think the world works. Secondly, they view the world as something their god gave to humanity to conquer, dominate, and exploit. Telling them that they can’t suck the world dry and throw away the husk come judgment day is tantamount to telling them their religion is fake.
• For a portion of the population the above three attitudes have metastasized into conspiracy theories and fascist ideologies. Things like a belief that “15 minute cities” means they will be put into open air prisons, or that wanting to reduce resource consumption means that they will be subjected to population control so that black people can replace white people. I don’t feel like writing a giant comment examining the core of the reactionary mind, but suffice it to say that things like language and truth are very fluid for them. If something makes them feel bad then it must be bad, literally and physically. The conspiracy theories are created to justify the feelings.
• In addition to the above plenty of people want to hurt others. The fact that large powerful vehicles kill people, the fact that they’re loud, inconvenient for others, and spew black smoke, makes them more appealing. The fact that oil use creates wars that kill children is a bonus. All of this is tough and manly. It makes them feel good.

It’s the wrong frequency to cook anything.

The idea that microwave ovens use some specific frequency that’s good for cooking is a myth.

Dielectric heating occurs over a very broad range of frequencies. What actually matters is the energy density of the EM field. A microwave oven cooks food because its putting more than 1000 watts into a small confined space, your cellphone doesn’t because its transmitter is shooting less than 1 watt into the open air (where the energy density quickly diminishes by the square cube law).

Maybe they could be synced using RF over fiber. This has been proposed as candidate technology for 6g wireless networks, to enable cell free massive MIMO.

That would mean that you would need to run optical fiber to each of them, though we’ve already seen fiber drones spool out kilometers of the stuff as they fly.

EDIT: I just remembered this interesting article about doing radio interferometry over a fiber network using cheap quartz oscillators instead of atomic clocks. My (layman’s) understanding is that the quartz oscillators are good enough over a few milliseconds, but will fall out of sync with each other over longer time spans. Meanwhile the fiber optic reference signal (distributed from a central atomic clock) can be kept correct on average by reflecting the reference back down the fiber and doing active correction of the changing path length (caused by thermal fluctuations and vibrations along the fiber) but will be incorrect on a millisecond-to-miliscond basis because of light speed lag and the path length being a moving target. So they use the quartz oscillators over small time scales and use the fiber reference signal to keep them synced over long time scales. Surprisingly the article says they actually get a better sync this way than with using multiple atomic clocks.

So perhaps something like that is possible.

UK is US-lite.

Some sodium ion batteries use an aqueous electrolyte, meaning they’re full of water.

The usage rates in Japanese cities are among the highest in the world, as are the punctuality and reliability of the intercity trains.

Could the system be less convoluted? Absolutely. But IMO most European countries aren’t in much of a position to criticize given that they aren’t even willing to step up to the plate to anywhere near the same degree, to say nothing of North America.

Now, one might argue that this has more to do with city form than it does with the quality of the PT infrastructure, but that is infrastructure too, and those two types of infra are two sides of the same coin. And yeah, the city form isn’t completely perfect either, but when it comes to moving a greater proportion of people in the safest and most energy and space efficient way, the numbers are just higher than most other places.

Their public transportation and a lot of their other infrastructure is advanced, their IT infrastructure is not.

Linux didn’t exist until 1991. Though there may have been some people in the 80s who were used to Unixes running on workstations that thought that MS DOS and the Windows software was stupid. But who knows.