> There are multiple open source AI models far beyond what SOTA was just 1 year ago.

There are many models that call themselves open source, but the source is nowhere to be found, only the weights.

Note that Mapy is built by a spyware company, just like Google Maps.

I’m disappointed that it requires the plugins to have a specific scheme for naming branches, so it won’t be compatible with all plugins.

Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean for versioning requiring `vX.Y.Z` tags? That's quite standard (linux kernel does this). Otherwise it defaults to main/master branch which is also basically standard depending on when the repo was made...

I tried it a few months ago and it generally worked fine, although it had rough edges.

You think Meta would pass up an opportunity to harvest data from users?

> Online shopping just needs a credit card, no apps required.

The app is required for two-factor authentication.

I'm not aware of your circumstances, but at least here in Finland I was able to get (and the bank was required to provide at my request) a cheap 2FA token generator device that can be used instead of the app (Danske ID). It works whether I am confirming an online transaction or signing into a service that uses the Suomi.fi centralized login system.

I requested it after they updated their Android app to have a check for pin-code enablement. Sailfish OS doesn't report it via the Android AppSupport system, so it was blocked before I grabbed an older build via Aurora and disabled it from updating. If it ever stops working, I'll only use the token. Once that stops working, I will switch banks.

Let's not over correct, of course O-notation has something do with algorithms for the working programmer.

> Ask yourself why. The usual answer is that top experts either can't be bothered to create better content, or they actively gatekeep, believing that their field must remain hard to learn and the riff-raff must be kept out.

Before asking why, ask if. There are good articles about complex topics, they just get drowned out by bad articles.

This is not about the programming language. Arbitrary-size integers make complexity analysis much more nuanced because arithmetic operations are no longer constant time.

It turns out that if you use a fancy search engine to search instead of pretending that it’s intelligent, it will actually be good at its job. Who would have guessed?