The last time I was there, there were many layers of encap, including MPLS, GRE, PSP, with very tightly managed MTU. Traffic engineering was mostly SDN-managed L3, but holy hell was it complex. Considering that Google (at the time) carried more traffic than the rest of the Internet combined, maybe it was worth it.

> Plex is just sugar on top of file sharing.

right, like browsers are just sugar on top of curl

curl is just sugar on sockets ;)

SSH is just sugar on top of telnet and running your own encryption algorithms by hand on paper and typing in the results.

At least postman is :P

If Go had rust-style ADTs and pattern matching, and some parallel of "?" to short-circuit error handling, I'd be thrilled.

> Not everyone benefits from this tech-driven world.

Nobody is claiming that.

I think that the wax and wane of confidence is a natural (and healthy) cycle to preserve.

You start knowing nothing, and have no confidence, then learn stuff and your confidence builds, then you capitalize on that (learning x confidence) by doing productive things, then you hit barriers that create confusion and break down your confidence, at which point you realize you knew nothing and start learning like a beginner again.

Unhealthy confidence does not have this pattern, whether it's low or high. Even "medium" confidence, IMO, signals some kind of rut that one is stuck in, which tends to stifle creativity.

This is a good comment explains why discussions so often are so painful.

I quite often get explained to me the things I already know, in long monologues. Even things that I have created, only having people explain them to me years later, but using terms somewhat incorrectly etc.

And then I'm probably also doing that to other people.

This is very encouraging! As I said in another comment, lack of confidence in opinions due to realizing the limits of knowledge feels debilitating. Glad to hear maybe it’s just the start of learning like a beginner again!

jeez, this is a fun website, can't believe how quickly we're godwining here!

> And, you as the client can verify whether it works

How do you do that? Cookies are typically opaque (encrypted or hashed) bags of bits.

Just the presence or absence of the cookie.

I would assume most websites would still set cookies even if you reject the consent, because the consent is only about not technically necessary cookies. Just because the website sets cookies doesn't tell you whether it respects you selection. Only if it doesn't set any cookies can you be sure, and I would assume that's a small minority of websites.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. I have two Dyson vacuum cleaners, one purchased about 9 years ago, and the other two years ago. Both are excellent, and I still use the old one for my basement.

This really depends on the failure modes. In general, humans fail in predictable, and mostly safe, ways. AIs fail in highly unpredictable and potentially very dangerous ways. (A human might accidentally drop a knife, an AI might accidentally stab you with it.)

Or, if controlling a robot arm, it would stab itself through the conveyer belt at full torque.

I've never used LLMs for this, but as someone who's been through a lot of sports-related injuries, I find doctors more or less useless (except for prescribing painkillers and performing surgeries.)

No doctor or physio has ever been able to fix my chronic issues, and I've always had to figure them out myself through lots of self-study and experimentation.