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This is really cute!

I have a special spot in my heart for tools that do a good job of explaining themselves using their own outputs.

I wonder how hard it would be to add the cute old PowerPoint style transitions using CSS

I'm sure it's a very small amount, but as well as making me personally happy*, (I feel) it would play into their image as the good guy.

"Do you want the most minimal stripped down version of FireFox? Well you can have it!"

*and after all, isn't that what's really important /s

People did used to have decent expectations for Google back when they at least pretended to care about the "Do no evil" tagline

I'm always surprised that stuff like the AI integration isn't done as a pre-installed extension.

If it's Mozilla signed then you could give it extra permissions so it still works the same, but then people who it offends can remove it.

Like how their tab containers system is a (not pre-installed) extension

What's the saying?

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

YouTube are already doing it! :(

> $THING isn't just $THIS, it's also $THAT!

Is pure marketing speak, which is also what I find a lot of LLM generated text sounds like

The difference I think, is that the libraries are open source, and you don't have to pay Facebook yearly to use React.

Countries can and do ban closed source paid products when they don't trust the provider (e.g. Huawei)

The top of a lot of the ARIA docs pages say "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA"

I think its the difference between outcome-based and KPI-based management.

One is a lot easier and requires a lot less thought and general understanding of one's own business

How have I never looked at the DVD cover close enough to notice that!?

I feel like I get ${local_country} politics* because I follow people from ${local_country} and most the other people I follow who do post about US politics tend to spoiler their posts with USPOL, so I can just scroll past if I'm not feeling it.

* Usually spoilered with "${local_country_code}POL"

The realistic right now worry is that you'll fall afoul of Cloudflare's bot checking and they just won't connect you through to your destination.

The potential future worry would be if cloudflare decide they don't like the article or you for some other reason, they can refuse to connect you.

These do both rely on your traffic being routed through Cloudflare's servers, but a LOT of traffic is

> the email wasn't that great

It was obviously good enough.

Snark aside, you only need to trick one person once and you've won.

> I can just imagine the roundtable

That's the best part!

The devs probably never thought of it, the support people who were complained to were probably either unable to reach the devs, or time crunched enough to not be able to, and who as a project manager would want to say they told their Devs to fix an issue that will lose the company money!

Doubly so if the person deciding what gets implemented doesn't really get what their staff actually do.

LLMs ability to give convincing sounding answers is like catnip for service desk managers who have never actually been on the desk itself

> funded by the union at $1200/day

Haha WHAT

That's an insane amount of money to come out of union dues

Wikipedia is on the list of sites that the government is trying to force age verification on[1].

This isn't about people being scared they're going to be outed for watching porn. Even if the government honestly have no intentions to further restrict people's access to information, this is a genuine step towards authoritarian censorship.

I'm (somewhat hypocritically) not against purging 4chan & other sites that ferment dangerous right wing hatred from the internet, I am against anything that tries to limit or restrict access to legal content

1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo

Most JS/TS runtimes have filesystem modules, at it's simplest/least secure you could implement it with client-side fetch and:

On get request - find matching .MD file and return

On put request - write to given location

> but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.

There's great news for the people who want to talk to other people and NOT exit emacs - you can get IRC built straight in.

https://github.com/emacs-circe/circe

I think you're right, but for a wonderful second I thought there was some weird fantasy reference going on

> Wouldn't it better to already use the target DB to cattch potential issues earlier?

The target DB can change as a project goes from something mildly fun to tinker with to something you think might actually be useful.

Also I personally find that SQLite is just nice to work with. No containers or extra programs, it just does what you ask it to, when you ask it to

> Actually a few people have asked me for something more enterprise friendly than Copilot

One of Microsoft's main selling points for enterprise copilot is that they pinky promise nothing said or given to copilot from org accounts will leave the org's domain. We're talking about Microsoft here... but they DID pinky promise

The AI angle aside, I spend a lot of time wishing that people and companies could be happy with a good thing.

You don't need to crush your competition and drink from their skulls while squeezing every ounce of money out of your customers. You could just do something, be good at it, and be sustainability making a month-to-month profit instead of chasing exponential growth at all costs

:(

> A recipe has a great chance of success, there are few such recipes.

My partner vibe-cooks and it's almost always great.

I follow recipes I know will work because if I deviate the food will be BAD

This sort of thing seriously is dependent on the person

Not the person you asked, but in my experience one or multiple of the following happen:

- I just don't notice I'm hungry (this one happens most to me)

- I notice I'm hungry but get distracted and forget

- I notice I'm hungry but I don't have the energy to devote to making/finding food

- I notice I'm hungry and I straight up don't care even though I'm aware I should

What's the saying?

> All sciences are just highly abstracted physics

> How do you solve the risk of AI writting and executing unit tests with something like `rm -rf /` and wiping your files?

The same way you stop any person or program or third party from doing something dumb or nefarious with your files. Don't give them any access to important files.

Upfront: I think AI is borderline useless for many of the tasks we give it. But:

1. Do our neurons not just react the same way every time to the same input? A brain is larger than the sum of its parts.

2. They don't reason, but you can somewhat emulate (or pretend to be) reasoning if you feed something back into itself enough times and it pinky promises reasoning is happening

People are making new GameBoy games[0]! Even new carts[1]!

Though I imagine the rise of systems like the Pico8 and tic80 are siphoning people away because they can be run anywhere.

0 - https://archive.org/details/grimaces-birthday

1 - https://orangegb.com/orangefm/