Odd how it doesn't address the replicability crisis in the first paragraph. If half of the "knowledge" produced is fiction, the knowledge mill needs to end...
And doesn't even question the root cause of this decline in "knowledge".
This collapse of knowledge is akin to when engineering leadership pushes for faster and faster product releases, with less and less time for thinking about code, and then blames the team because the product shipped in a broken state.
You can pretty tie the replicability crisis to the funding centered pushed for greater and greater amounts of peer review. Economic pressure to prove knowledge's "worth" has lead to increasingly faulty knowledge.
I would expect this worldview from the WSJ, but it's a bit surprising coming form Aeon... oh they have book to sell about it, what an interesting coincidence. Further highlighting that our late capitalist world, knowledge that cannot be commodified should be eliminated.
This sounds like an Apple fanboy comment, tbh. Most people are used to windows and if they want an alternative, they'll reach for Linux. MacOS is more of a con rather than a pro since you're effectively locked in with no chance of switching.
This sounds like a comment from someone who thinks of Apple hate as a personality trait.
There's no lock-in in MacOS, which is easily demonstrated on any front you like. Of course, if you actually investigate such claims before making them, it'll put you in the awkward position of having to decide if you'd rather be ignorantly disingenuous our outright dishonest, so it's a tough spot for you.
That sounds more like a lack of perspective. Most people are actually locked in to Windows on non-apple computers due to a lack of knowledge (or motivation to change up their workflow), and even more people are locked in to mobile operating systems for the same reason.
Also, Asahi is a very polished distro with a lot of original work going into it, arguably one of the best Linux experiences around, so I have no idea what you mean by "no chance of switching".
Asahi doesn't even support all the hardware on the few machines it supports. The only people who consider it "polished" are people who don't use Linux.
The hardware bring up they have done is amazing work, but it's a long way from daily driving. It's not the developers' fault apple uses bizarre webcams etc, but "best Linux experience" is not even close.
You are no more and no less locked into MacOS than you are under Windows or under Linux.
I'm not sympathetic to them, but there definitely ARE substantive arguments a FOSS devotee could make about MacOS that make sense, or which are at least grounded in fact. This is not one of them.
The adoption of Tailwind is its own phenomenon. The whole point was to come at CSS at a different angle that circumvented the pain points of regular CSS, not really aimed at being a crutch for those who don't know CSS. You still gotta know that p-8 adds padding and what it does within the box model, and using the grid or flexbox doesn't really make anything simpler.
> I really would rather use Vue/React/whatever that is "stuck", stable
I wouldn't call Vue stable. It's actually one of the points of the article (not necessarily agreeing); the frameworks tend to make breaking changes, especially Vue.
This would be a great service if it was a more robust translation tool. From what other comments are saying, this is the chatGPT API with some prompting for translation but I could see this working and providing much more value with a model specifically trained like what Iceland is doing to help preserve its language. https://openai.com/customer-stories/government-of-iceland
