Calling DotA just a custom map is a bit of a stretch. That was merely the packaging. These "custom maps" had various scripting capabilities that made them more than just some terrain.

Also custom maps are mods by definitions anyways, with the exception of games where the creation of maps is a component of gameplay.

I mean, to those who played them, 'custom map' is basically just a term of art indicating the things you said. In the parlance of the mid-2000s WC3 scene, you would call them custom games or custom maps.

Or, if you were slightly older, you might call them UMS, as they were in Starcraft. Short for "Use Map Settings", indicating that the game logic should come from the scripts and triggers in the map file rather than the built-in logic for ladder games.

> Somebody is making all those faked videos and photos.

Yeah. Bored 15 year olds for laughs.

We had a great time putting the most ridiculous stuff out there.

Having a classmate who was actively buying into tons of conspiracy theories (9/11, cold sun, hollow earth, ...) was just the cherry on top and probably what got us into it in the first place.

I can call my ISP and someone will pick up within 5-10 minutes. Sometimes instantly. For a 40 euro/month contract.

These guys have millions of customers. At least in this country fast and competent customer service is the main factor that differentiates them from their competition, which is cheaper but can be a pain in the butt. This seems to be worth the extra 5-10 bucks to millions of people.

You just have to want to.

> Is it private?

> 100% local. Nothing leaves your machine. Ever.

Except for the part where it gets added to the context window and sent to anthropic's servers?

This is a bit strange to point out explicitly, since that ship sailed anyways.

Boastful lies like this are a telltale sign of vibe-coded projects. Approximately, an AI is making word-association guesses from its context window, and arranging those guesses into grammatical forms that human RLHF reviewers find impactful. Frequently the lies are obvious if you have a mental model of the project, which the AI doesn't have.

There's also no reason to learn to read and write! First graders could just point their phone at some text and have it read to them, or dictate to their phone to achieve the reverse. Why learn to swim, walk, run? Machines can do that for you too!

For now there's plenty of people who are significantly more capable than AI models. Someone who fully outscources to machines will never join that club.

You have to evaluate students on their own skills before you continue their education, because at some point AI models won't be able to help them. Anyone can use some LLM to pass the first few months of undergraduate engineering disciplines, but if you got through that and haven't learned a thing, you're completely fucked. Worse, you won't even notice the point at which AI starts to fail until you get your test results.

Once the above is not true anymore, education is pointless anyways. However for now AI can at best replace the worst performers and only in some areas.

>You have to evaluate students on their own skills before you continue their education, because at some point AI models won't be able to help them.

If at some point AI models won't be able to help them, then give them assignments that reach the point where AI alone isn't enough, so they'll only be able to solve them if they learn whatever is necessary. This is what's meant by "making assignments harder". Students who learn to solve harder problems with AI will be more competitive in the workforce than students who only learn to solve easier problems by themselves. Because AI already allows people to solve harder problems than they could unassisted, but it's a skill that needs to be learned.

As an example, with AI, it'd be a reasonable assignment to ask students to write a working C compiler from scratch. Without AI that'd be completely beyond the reach of the vast majority of students.

That's great for autodidacts, but most students will be stumped by a complicated problem if you don't slowly walk them up an incline first.

Also what do you think is an appropriate assignment for first graders where "AI is not enough"? Are we supposed to give them problems meant for engineering majors?

The things you are saying at best apply to a few select areas of education and you are hyperfocusing on them. What you are neglecting is that a lot of education focuses on teaching tool use: reading and writing is a tool, CAD software is a tool, AI is a tool, even language is a tool. For many people the best way to learn to use tools is being taught by another human being. That human being has to evaluate their progress somehow. If a first grader uses their phone to have text read to them, this tells me very little, except maybe that they can at least understand spoken language to a degree.

Using LLMs effectively, especially without essentially becoming the LLMs meat-puppet, requires a set of skills many 10th graders still struggle with. Skills like putting what you mean into words, extracting meaning from text, and thinking critically about the information you are fed.

Finally there's the matter of philosophy, ethics, and politics, which also happen to be on the curriculum in some places. Are you going to let a LLM argue for you? If you have never learned to evaluate your own beliefs and turn them into something coherent that you can communicate to others, and instead let the LLM argue on your behalf, then congratulations: you have just un-personed yourself because you refused to let others help you become an actual individual in society. You're a sack of meat hooked up to a machine. ... It's probably obvious I feel strongly about this in particular.

At the end of the day, we can at least agree that people should learn to read and write? For now?

Not really the same thing. They're much larger already than most stores you'd see in urban Japan.

Think more in terms of small convenience stores ("Spätis" with daily necessities) everywhere. Typical distance to a store is maybe 500-1000m in Germany. In dense areas of Japanese cities it's closer to one store every 100m-200m.

So in Germany it'd be a 10 minute walk, while in Japan most of your "walk" would be getting downstairs.

The flipside of that is that selection is going to be limited compared to what you'd find in Germany.

I see. What you describe does seem to match what I experienced in NYC, Portugal, and Spain? Small supermarkets everywhere with a bit of a random selection of items

For example the great pyramids were already a popular "tourist" destination hundreds of years before christ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Historio...

Not a big deal then either. Just don't do it daily.

Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!

Opus 4.7 seems to reach ChatGPT levels of verbosity in code and loves to overcomplicate the most simple things.

This is something it spit out just now (trimmed a 9 line comment though):

        let keepSize = 0;
        let overBudget = false;

        await this.items.orderBy('[priority+dateUpdated+size]')
            .reverse()
            .eachPrimaryKey((primaryKey, cursor) => {
                if (overBudget) {
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                    return;
                }

                const key = cursor.key as [number, number, number];
                const itemSize = key[2];
                const contribution = itemSize > 0 ? itemSize : 0;

                if (keepSize + contribution > maxSize) {
                    overBudget = true;
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                    return;
                }

                keepSize += contribution;
            });

Come on now... what? For a start that entire thing with its boolean flag, two branches, and two early returns could be replaced with:

        let totalSize = 0;

        await this.items.orderBy('[priority+dateUpdated+size]')
            .reverse()
            .eachPrimaryKey((primaryKey, cursor) => {
                const key = cursor.key as [number, number, number];
                const itemSize = key[2];
                const contribution = itemSize > 0 ? itemSize : 0;

                totalSize += contribution;

                if (totalSize > maxSize) {
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                }
            });

I'm back to 4.6 for now. Seems to require a lot less manual cleanup.