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> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of fewer bugs and better performance.

> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of more and better features in existing products.

After reading these two points, I had to scroll down to see if it was the opening of some elaborate joke, because I'm seeing more bugs, worse performance, and less and worse features.

You say tables, graphics, graphs, and colors, but I mean things that move when they don't need to move and interfere with expected UI behaviour, like arbitrarily staying in one position when I am using my mouse wheel to scroll downwards.

I should have been more precise than saying "just give me text", but it was what came in to mind when I wrote it, as I was thinking about what an article is meant to contain as its base element.

I take the opposite viewpoint. I think pages like these are horrible, and a demonstration that web designers have too many tools at their disposal.

But this is just a marketing page for some tech company, right? If only it stopped there. I have to deal with this nonsense in news "articles" as well on occasion, when some web designer intern is allowed to larp as a journalist for a day.

sigh Just give me text to read.

Oh my god yes, kill it, please.

This site desperately needs a light mode.

What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.

That's a shame. The "pref" is whatever the user has set on their device, and I wish more sites would respect that, rather than defaulting to their own "pref".

Can I turn off dark mode?

Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.

The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.

No. It's not just you.

I have nothing against dark mode in principle, but please don't make it the default. Respect the user's preference.

Or, at the very least, don't use white on black. Soften the contrast so that, if you force me to read it, it's not burned into my vision.

It's just a matter of time before one of these vulnerable individuals kills a whole bunch of people because the machine told them to.

I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."

I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.

I'm more annoyed by them. They're so small on my work monitor that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. They just look like smudges.

I don't get the need to use novel symbols like this when standard numerals would suffice.

The whole internet, really.

Is that really something people do? Really seems insincere and inappropriate to me. Is it a cultural thing?

No your writing is fine, and sorry if I'm being a negative nancy. It's just that light text on black backgrounds cause me eye strain so they're not really my cup of tea. The light grey font color does help a litte though. I often experience lines of text being burned into my vision with these themes, and that effect was not as noticeable here.

I am admittedly not a fan of dark themes in general, but I feel they are done right when the dark background is toned down a bit so you're not staring at a pitch black screen. And not just by a few shades.

As an aside, I didn't even know GitHub had a dark theme. I just tried it and it was horrible. Then I switched from dark default to dark dimmed and it was much more tolerable, although I still prefer light.

If readability is truly your pursuit, then it is my humble opinion that you should avoid high contrast white/lightgrey on pitch black colors when designing a dark theme for your app or website, or consider adding a toggle to switch to a light theme. I gave up at the end of the first section of this article because it was just too much.

This seems like a good way to shift the blame for climate change to individual people who are powerless to do anything to stop it.

Thanks, I hate it.

I remember how cool their stuff was ~10 years ago.

Won't miss what they became.

Please stop anthropomorphising language models.

Took two inputs for my session to devolve into the thing answering its own question and asking me if I would like to know more.

Then I asked it if I got the job and got the "As an AI language model bla bla".

It was at least entertaining.

I build fictional worlds as a hobby, and sometimes I need to make a map of a globe and find myself in need of a program that can draw vector shapes onto a globe and project it onto a 2D map afterwards. The simplest way I've found to do that which fits my workflow is a program called GPlates. A program that simulates plate tectonics. I've never touched the simulation part, although it might be useful in my worldbuilding at some point. All I use it for is drawing colored shapes.

This website doesn't let me use my browsers back button.

Took me way too long to realize that you can't die in stoicist snake.

Nice map, but the color palette causes some serious eye strain.

The thing is that there exists no universal frame of reference. There is no such thing as "space coordinates 0,0,0". Those coordinates would have to be relative to some object in space.