Found the meta PM that thought of this idea

One can memorize a piano piece, write out the notes on a grand staff and tell you all the different musical patterns in it, but if they never put there hands on the keys they won’t be able to play it. Rote learning is part of learning. This trope that’s gotten popular that if you teach concepts the rest will follow is just false. You need both.

No it’s absolutely the correct term. What are you a BBC anchor?

I first used GPT 2.5 many years ago through a google colab notebook. These newer models aren’t all that much better. I’m sure they do better on their tests because they’re trained to beat them but really the biggest “innovation” was a UI and API.

I wonder how free hosting services like netlify and vercel handle this? If a free tier user gets spammed do they just pass the cost on? I can't imagine that is the case so they must have some protections built in.

If a free tier user goes over the included usage on Vercel, their site gets automatically paused. There isn't a credit card required to be put down.

That's bold of you to assume. Vercel has horror stories even for the paid tier.

What do you use that blocks ads from streaming services? I’ve had no luck.

Right now, I use adGuard. Any adblocker such as uBlock origin should do this. However they tend to ban uBlock origin, because it's widely known. Or at least when they go after adblock, they go after that one first.

Oh on a browser client - yes that makes sense. I made a bad assumption that you managed to block them on streaming devices like roku or apple tv.

Not yet, lol! I like to use my computer for everything still, hah.

Interesting thought, but significant technologic “break throughs” almost never come from the private sector. A “break through” is just luck, and countless years working on a problem incrementally. That doesn’t typically return profits.

Except uv doesn’t support conda so there goes many of the niche scientific packages required for many users like me. Someone please prove me wrong because I do love uv when I can use it. I’ve found pixi to be an ok alternative but not nearly as fast.

You know at first glance I thought the Shell Oil Company was asking for volunteers.

So the "real" solution is market competition right to make a healthy market- how do we get that? History has repeatedly shown that large corporations hate competition because it means they have to do something to make money. Anyone who comes up with a new idea is just copied or consumed. Sounds to me like the idea that a "free market" is a healthy market is only healthy for the owners of large corporations.

It's a complex topic but a popular answer is requiring the owner of the last-mile infrastructure to make it available to competitors at cost. I think that is (roughly) what places with good/cheap broadband do, e.g. South Korea.