How does the LLM know that the HTML and the API are the same? If an LLM wants to link to a user to a section of a page how does it know how to do that from the API alone?
You introduce a whole host of potential problems, assuming those are all solved, you then have a new 'standard' that you need to hope everyone adopts. Sure WP might have a plugin to make it easy, but most people wouldn't even know this plugin exists.
> Arch Linux is an independently developed, x86-64 general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling release model.
> This page complements the Installation guide with instructions specific to Apple Macs. The Arch installation image supports Apple Macs with Intel processors, but neither PowerPC nor Apple Silicon processors.
(FWIW, I understand that there is benefit to good coverage of a narrower scope, but I do wish Arch would fold https://archlinuxarm.org/ into the main project and be officially multi-arch, but that is not the world we live in.)
Arch package manager here, there is ongoing work behind the scenes to support multiple architectures (aarch64, riscv, etc), but as our volunteers (myself included) are doing this in our free time, progress is up in the air.
First they moved away from this in 4o because it led to more sycophancy, AI psychosis and ultimately deaths by suicide[1].
Then growth slowed[2], and so now they rush this out the door even though it's likely not 'healthy' for users.
Just like social media these platforms have a growth dial which is directly linked to a mental health dial because addiction is good for business. Yes, people should take personal responsibility for this kind of thing, but in cases where these tools become addicting, and they are not well understood this seems to be a tragedy of the commons.
You lay out an impossible challenge for Canva, there is no way they can prove that they will never add a subscription service or different charges in the future.
What exactly do you expect from them? Would you prefer they just kept charging you for the product? That still isn't a guarantee that they wouldn't move towards more paid features and subscriptions in the future.
> Would you prefer they just kept charging you for the product?
Yes, exactly. Knowing that my interests, my consumer spending choices, are the direct feedback path to their profitability is one of the only ways to provide some concrete assurances that they'll be building for the customer's needs and not for data collection, AI shovelware, or some other play.
People complain about Adobe's subscription model but it's superior to free-to-play consumer software because it still keeps an alignment between the consumer interest and the company's income. Despite its other faults, you could even argue that a consumer subscription model can be better aligned than single purchase software because the customer needs to continually choose to pay the company for its use and it incentivizes continually improvement and competition.
There's a weird thing happening in the US where all the restaurant suppliers have consolidated. What that means is you likely won't see competitive prices anywhere else not due to scale but due to the input price being fixed regardless of who you are.
I believe McDonalds is still somewhat independent in it's sourcing. IDK about wendy's. But Burger King is absolutely just another Sysco reseller at this point.
That means a lot of the smaller burger stands end up just selling the same stuff as every other burger stand. Food that tastes a lot like my high school cafeteria did (hint, also Sysco).
The only real lever any food business can pull is in facilities and staffing. The price of the food is fixed and there's no real competition to be had.
Yup, and I really hate it. Monopolies and oligopolies are really terrible in just about every way imaginable. Everyone that isn't an oligopoly gets screwed.
This is also simply the natural end state of free market capitalism. Every one of these giant businesses knows that by swallowing up smaller competitors they can ultimately improve their revenue without improving quality or actually innovating/competing.
Companies like sysco should have never been allowed to merge with other distributors and they should absolutely be broken up.
Internally, these huge corporations behave exactly the same as a good old fashioned USSR bureaucracy:
endless meetings where no work gets done
a huge class of bureaucrats (manager, senior manager, VP, senior VP, director, senior director ... what's next? commissar? secretary?) who don't actually do any of the line work and instead exist only to perpetuate a process
huge amount of process that does nothing for the bottom line or indeed for anyone at all
random party lines that you must accept or be fired (new director came in. Now we're doing a 30 minute velocity retrospective every week. you must attend, comrade!)
party language determined from on high, that changes once every 5 years (blockchain is our five year plan! huh? blockchain? no no, AI is our five year plan!)
party princelings who rise not on merit but purely on positional signifiers alone (Comrade, I know you've been a party loyalist for 25 years, but your senior director position is being given to a new princeling. He's 26 years old. He came from Stanford, and was on the forbes 30 under 30. They say he was a protege of Peter Thiel!)
and, most importantly: everyone at the bottom, who pays for all of it, and must take it completely seriously.
The difference is that unlike USSR bureaucracy, these corporations' continued operations depend completely on the decisions (buy or not) of customers who they cannot coerce -- so their feet are far more held to the fire of market reality than totalitarian regime leaders. They do not have the power to force people not to vote with their wallets (not to mention with their feet).
As frustrating and corrupt as our market economy is, the oppression under regimes like the USSR and East Germany was unimaginably worse.
That being said, yes -- we badly need another round of legislative reform like the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and all the regulatory actions that followed.
In this day and age, that feels like something that is true in principle but not in reality. For food, the grocery store shelves are almost entirely stocked with brands owned by 10 companies, that have a combined revenue of $375 billion a year [1]. If you have a bad experience with DiGiorno pizza and boycott them, would you know you also needed to boycott Tombstone Pizza, California Pizza Kitchen, Cheerios, Tidy Cat, and on and on. If you wanted to actually boycott Nestle, how difficult would it be to maintain a spreadsheet of the literal thousands of brands they own [2]? Any issue with any brand is just absorbed by a thousand others. Any regional effort is absorbed by their global market. It isn't the USSR, but the idea that consumers can vote with their wallet just isn't the reality we live in anymore.
If the market is a consumer need then yeah, these companies can coerce simply by being the only (or one of a few) options in town. Food, healthcare, and housing are all markets that appear to be narrowing which means increasing in their coercive abilities.
It's true that the USSR and East Germany were worse, but that had a lot more to do with the concentration of power into a strongman leader rather than the people. And, in fact, a major part of why West germany did so well wasn't really due to market forces, but rather due to the US spending ungodly amounts of money on rebuilding them (and Japan). The USSR was always pretty cash strapped. Especially since the only nations they could really interact with were nations under the USSR umbrella. Even other communist nations like China had pretty tense and often not friendly relations with the USSR.
In today's money, we dumped about $120B on West Germany. Just to put things in context.
Sysco isn't the only one, but it is one of the few.
If you start looking at the distribution centers of these companies and the competitors, you get a pretty clear picture of how concentrated things are.
The drop off for the distribution centers of the top 3 is stark. [1]
The city I live in has number of locally owned restaurants that easily compete against McDonalds and Wendys price point. I find the quality of food to be better.
Lack of communication to outsiders and visitors about those that compete against such establishments is key. The larger organizations have more capital to advertise and help capture that economic arena.
Personally, when I travel, I go out of my way to find local establishments over large franchises because the former slowly siphons out the local economy to some CEO that gets paid millions. The latter helps keep the competition local economy health. I haven't given Starbucks a penny in over 7 years and plan to never fund their organization ever again.
Not even just the battery (although that probably is the biggest one), but maintenance in general.
If I buy a 5 year old Corolla with 50k miles on the clock, I have a pretty good idea of what maintenance is going to like for the next decade, and I know a mechanic who can do the work.
I have no idea at all what will happen with a comparable Tesla over 10 years.
Everyone likes to focus on the battery, but in my experience with Ford, Honda and Nissan, there's more frequent expensive surprises in gas engine sedans.
Replacing the passenger occupant detection sensor for the airbag system in my 2007 Ford Fusion cost $2K. After a series of other issues with things like the transmission and fuel injector, I ultimately traded it in for $500.
I got a used Nissan Leaf with low mileage for $18K a few years ago and haven't taken it in for anything yet. Battery health is still at 90%, and I could get that replaced for around $6K if I needed to.
I feel a palpable sense of relief that the surprise maintenance bills have stopped.
I don't understand the 'Nextjs is good for SEO' hype. I think it's better to frame it as Nextjs isn't bad for SEO. Whether a site loads without client side rendering is a pretty binary thing.
If you're using Nextjs to get a high level of rich interactivity then your SEO issues aren't about CSR vs SSR anyway though. As you point it it's just bundle size and site speed, and URL structure that end up causing a negative impact. Nextjs doesn't fix that.
I don't think the NYSE had any DEI requirements, but the NASDAQ created a rule where boards needed some minority representation in order to be listed. That rule was challenged and overturned in court though.
> On August 6, 2021, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s proposed diversity rule for companies listed on its exchange. The rule required Nasdaq-listed companies to (1) publicly disclose board-level demographic data annually and (2) have, or explain why they do not have, a certain number of diverse directors on their boards. Companies with more than five board members were required to have two members from an underrepresented group, including one female and one person who self-identifies as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, biracial, or LGBTQ+.
> You pay for instagram with your personal data, which is used to target you with high value ads.
It's not quite that simple though. The problem is that they are not simply showing you relevant ads, they actively attempt to deliver an outcome the ad is trying to achieve.
On the surface this is relatively benign, Nike wants to sell shoes, they run ads and optimise towards shoe sales, and Meta makes that happen.
But what happens when people run political advertising? What happens when crypto companies promote scams?
You introduce a whole host of potential problems, assuming those are all solved, you then have a new 'standard' that you need to hope everyone adopts. Sure WP might have a plugin to make it easy, but most people wouldn't even know this plugin exists.