I'm not familiar with Hetzner personally, but maybe they mean the uplink? I've found that with some smaller providers, advertising 10Gbit, but you rarely get close to that speed in reality.
A lot of mediocre devs sitting at corporations that migrated from PHP to Java and currently can’t write relatively good code in any language make jokes of PHP, because it was popular for some time.
They won’t admit the language gave them food, they have no idea how language looks today and are way too proud to admit any of that.
While it is true the rendering engine is the same. The functionality is different. I have 5 browsers installed on iOS. They are not the same.
- Brave. Has native adblocking
- Orion. Supports extensions from firefox and chrome extension store (not perfect compatibility, but still quite amazing).
- DuckDuckGo Browser. Offers nice privacy features.
- Firefox. Allows to sync tabs with desktop.
- Edge. IIRC I installed this when LLMs were early and it had built in bing chat for free llm chatting.
So while the rendering engine is the same, that is one of the least interesting things.
We could be late too, it hasn't even been 200 years since we're technologically capable.
The universe is physically big, which means we'd have a hard time finding life even if it was going on at the same time as us, but add time to the equation and it's game over. There could have been a star trek tier civilisation next door that died 1m years ago and we would probably never know
If a civilisation spreads to stars then logically it will continue to spread (no technology or resource problems) and no event - not even super novas - could stop it (as events could only travel at the speed of expansion)
At that point you don’t have a single civilisation , you have thousands of functionally independent civilisations, with numbers increasing all the time. Sure something could wipe out a civ in one star system, but it couldn’t spread to others quickly enough to affect those others.
The most successful civilisations would continue to expand independently over time to take up all the resources in a galaxy.
Unless they found a way to travel faster than light, which means events could spread fast enough to collapse the civilisations.
Early as in we may have developed before any other civilizations? That's interesting. We're speculating of course, but what would explain us being the first after so much time – 13.8 billion years?
The universe was very hot in the beginning. It took a while for stars to form. Even longer for planets to form. Even longer for planets to cool down. The early universe was a violent place. Full of destruction. After the protoplanetary disk finally coalesces to planets and when planets finally stopped getting bombarded by meteorites, they could start cooling. In the earlier days of the universe there might have been intelligent life supporting planets wiped out by the chaos of the early universe. We might not be the first. But we might be one of the first. We might be early. The universe might have a bright future ahead of itself in terms of intelligent life. This is all speculation of course.
Now you could still say that surely there have been enough time for some advanced civilizations to form. And I would argue that we don't know that. At least we have not detected them, either due our instruments or unwillingness of the intelligent life to communicate to us.
There are of course many other explanations of the Fermi Paradox. But since its all unknown, its basically pick and choose. I choose to pick the nice option. There are however other nice options :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...
Maybe we aren't the first living things to exist in the universe, but the first intelligent ones, and intelligent here meaning creatures with ability to ask these questions and make space probes to explore the universe.
Maybe intelligence isn't always a product of evolution. Even here on Earth, in the, what, 4 billion years history of the planet, humans are the only evolved creatures with intelligence as defined here. Maybe intelligence doesn't always occur.
A lengthy tangentially related post on my blog if you care -
> Even here on Earth, in the, what, 4 billion years history of the planet, humans are the only evolved creatures with intelligence as defined here. Maybe intelligence doesn't always occur.
It is unlikely that other beings becoming intelligent enough to rival us and deny us the supremacy over the planet would ever be allowed. Homo sapiens are believed to have "contributed to" the extinction of several other modern-human-like species (one of them being the Neanderthals). How many other times before could something similar have happened, perhaps far earlier in the evolutionary timeline?
The only way we would allow sufficiently highly intelligent life to develop and flourish is if it is completely subservient to us.
The more entertaining answer from a scifi book. Aliens that developed earlier decided to become isolationist and wanted to stop young civilizations from blasting radio waves at them, so once a civilization became semi-industrialized, they chucked a planet killing rock at them.
"Homebrew's insistence on leaving OSes behind that they deem to be "too old" is becoming a problem as the years click by"
Indeed! I have a VERY usable Macbook Pro from 2015. Even with the newest version supported macOS version (11) Big Sur (which is still quite modern) it doesn't have any binaries for apps, which means it has to compile every single app and dependency.
I managed to update to macOS 14 (with the help of OpenCore Legacy Patcher).
But this just buys me one year to use Homebrew. Next year they will retire macOS 14.
And my machine is still very usable, but it will become junk from a developer perspective unless I have homebrew (or something similar).
It annoys me because I think this problem is fixable. Either community repos or more donations to homebrew to compile apps for older macs.
It's too bad that homebrew adopted the "Apple Attitude" around dealing with legacy OS versions. I don't recall ever seeing a message while working in Linux saying "Oh, you're using an OLD version of Linux, that's unsupported! You're a Tier-3 Loser and we don't guarantee this is going to work!"
Even developer tools on Windows tend to be fairly graceful about you running Windows 7 or whatever.
Somehow Apple and their entire ecosystem has adopted this "Latest Version Or GTFO" attitude towards users and developers.
How much are you willing to donate before concluding it's more efficient to just buy a new MacBook? Even the cheapest models now are faster, more energy efficient and more secure.
You don't have to throw the old one away if you can find a use case for running old software but I don't think there are many people running 'power user / developer' like tasks on old hardware, especially if their jobs depend on it.
They removed the "ICE" app and if the US government has an issue with other Apps they bend over and do it.
Switzerland is currently dealing with a 39% and Brazil with a 50% tariff because Trump has a personal problem with them. It would not be far fetched for an administration to have another states app removed.
I just want to preface that I am not in support of Apple or Google in their closed ecosystem.
I was specifically referring to you saying "Switzerland is implementing a digital ID[1]. It will be made available to the most common devices and is open source. However Google and Apple can just remove it, what then?"
It seemed like you were saying that because it is open source, it will be removed. I simply disagreed with that. Plenty of opensource software exists in the app store.
I'm not disagreeing that they have the ability to remove software from their app stores. They have done that before as you mention. That is a fact.
> It seemed like you were saying that because it is open source, it will be removed. I simply disagreed with that. Plenty of opensource software exists in the app store.
Sorry if it came across that way. It is not what I meant, I just mentioned that it is open source. ESL...
I don't this is true. If this was true people in poor countries would have the least kids. You could argue that it is access to birth control + economic factors.
But even this doesn't seem to be true. I would say the most common reason is cultural. Average age of first pregnancy is nowadays very old. Definitely driven by culture. If you are to have your first child at over 30 it is very likely you will only be having 1. Which is below replacement levels. Also it creates a society of single child households, no siblings, and in my opinion too much focus on 1 child. Another cultural aspect I would say is the view of the importance of family.
I myself come from a very poor family in a developed nation. I am glad my mother didn't explain me out of existence due to economic factors.
Tangent/rant: And no, I'm not a right-winger. People's single opinion's on topics shouldn't dictate their view on all matters. This is such a weird US-centric phenomenon that is creeping to other countries...
Grok Code Fast 1 is quite usable for small simple coding tasks. And quite a bit cheaper than say: Claude Sonnet 4.5
Personal experience when using it OpenRouter.
That said, I prefer bigger models even if they cost more. But I do this through GitHub Copilot at a steady 10 dollars per month. I can do way more request with it than I can with 10 dollars worth of credits at OpenRouter. I don't think Copilot is making any money, on the contrary.
I do want to mention when I said: "surprisingly little training "
I realize now what this sounds like. I want to mention that I did other races to build up my condition to be able to this one (the longest one I ever did).
I also want to mention that it was probably the physically hardest (but most rewarding) thing I've ever done.
I second this. As a previous AI skeptic. VS Code with Agent Mode is amazing. Perfect amount of control over what the AI is doing. For me its been a game-changer. I would describe it as letting the AI do lots of the work and me being the guiding hand.
I will say, it is extremely important to have a good AGENTS.md file and other .md files that the agent can refer to when it needs to. Also having tests is more important than ever.
And when you notice common hiccups, document it in the AGENTS.md.
+1 this approach. One recurring issue I've ran into is the agents producing a lot of unused methods and files. Have you ran into this as well? We're working on a pure Typescript system, and found the package Knip helpful. Knip will report these deadfiles/methods. I ask Sonnet to run Knip before opening a merge request and have it clean up it's own mess.
