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If you have a deadline for starting a fire you won't be happy looking at an unskilled person holding a lighter under a bunch of wet twigs.

The more we go in that direction we closer we get to reinventing frameworks in a more compute heavy way.

It just so happens that there's no framework (outside silos) for many specific tasks, and AI is the workaround to surface those patterns.

You really felt productive doing anything with Visual Basic 6, at least until things slowed to a crawl because it wasn't so performant or it was held back by the typical Access database. You didn't need 200 hours of YouTube tutorials about the front-ed UI framework du jour to get going.

A caveat is that in this case third parties have plenty logs of the bad behavior.

If classic companies were coming out with CCTV recordings of someone's employees breaking padlocks and rummaging warehouses any CEO would be in damage control mode, rather than silent.

But you may be still trying to teach kids that are going through a form of withdrawal for several hours because it's not managed outside school.

I'd say the main difference is that you couldn't take a device with good media capabilities, good and cheap-ish networking and lasting battery everywhere. Laptops, netbooks, tablets were a tad too bulky, lasted only a few hours unplugged and mainly wifi, and mobile internet was not all that great.

Templated code generation is ancient. It's just that the latest "template engine s" are very comprehensive.

LLM is spicy memoizing, so it can potentially be faster than a tool call. But people will spend a month tweaking and testing to ensure they have the level of determinism they need, which means it's more expensive, and that they should have used actual memoization in the first place.

I always wonder when do they stop considering the outer layers part of the star and not relatively dense solar wind soup. Nobody says Earth has 7000km radius, even tho there's traces of exosphere past 500km.

Not really, the actual issue is delta V, launching near the equator requires less fuel because you are getting all the benefit from Earth's rotation. Mass is almost everything for rocket launches.

Northern launches are done sometimes for high inclination orbits since they reduce the need to maneuver from an equatorial orbit.

I still remember the "Visual" craze of the 90s when everybody was going to be able to make applications without writing code.

Visual Basic 6 wasn't even too esoteric, it could have happened already if it was a thing.

Troubleshooting SCC captions in the digital era is quite an experience. Haven't gotten any request for them in a couple years though.

Blows my mind that several trillions in I still see so much LLM text with no stylistic awareness.

"There Will Be Blood" but it's 2026 and Plainview's child is AI.

After a decade and half we had to restrict our public side and reorganize our old TED content because scrappers were really hungry for assorted captioned videos. If you have anything of value for training you get eaten alive if you stick out, it's like wearing short pants in the summer tundra.

It's going to change a lot the internet we knew, unless somehow we managed to agree on a common high quality dataset repository.

Well 2010 PHP and the frameworks at the time were still going through the 5.x desert journey, and the prospects weren't entirely clear with the cancellation of PHP 6, so you wouldn't fault your 2010 self for not trying to push some Drupal/Joomla/Magento to that scale.

Kinda took until Facebook showing off Hacklang in 2014 for people to believe in getting more canonical programming features into PHP and make it more performant. So it would have been a good decision if one could predict 10 years into the future, but nobody can.

Some specialized models may end solving themselves by helping fit the problem with the appropriate regular algorithms/formulas, which are a million times more efficient. So they are probably less attractive to dump money on. As of currently they still benefit from expressing lots of patterns that nobody bothered formalizing.

I think it's partly because of where they come from to the problem.

I have education/experience in both literature and coding, I have a pragmatic starting point when approaching text while also being able to recognize stylistic oddities, so I get to be the guy editing out AIsms sometimes.

But I've helped other people copywrite where their environment was all org-speak and academic writing, and AIsms don't really stand out in that case. AI is effectively "doing the right thing" writing the way it does for those tasks. Even tho the right thing is often a bad thing.

A lot of what would be the top "reference" works aren't even that good either, they were a successful marketing phenomenon or had cultural or social relevance at their time. So, you can get a lot of bad prose going by a number of somewhat logical, externally measurable parameters.

Most places where people do their weekly groceries in Spain have at least a small book section if not a bookstore by the entrance. It's a typical thing to bring over to the beach or a weekend trip that doesn't matter if it gets damaged or lost.

Myself I have an e-ink reader but almost always take a paper book on the subway. It's still better quality print, not fragile in any way that matters, and I don't have to think about charge or aging electronics. I only bring the e-reader for manuals and such that change too often to be worth the paper cost, but still miss the old coding manuals with their ad-hoc page sizes, the spatial sense of where the information was in a book was part of the memory anchoring.

I'm going to say something that is a bit out there, but to this day web frontend still feels like a downgrade in some ways to basic things Visual Basic had in 1998.

Only if you would use this pelican picture in production.

Well, sort of. Solar wind does include oxygen ions, so it's exposed to a small extent.

That looks a bit bare minimum, not the use of regex but rather that it's a single line with a few dozen words. You'd think they'd have a more comprehensive list somewhere and assemble or iterate the regex checks as needed.

Solar pressure would be a small factor too, though I assume it's not a big deal compared with orbital speeds.

A lot of styling is done still in the old Advanced Substation subtitle format, which is nice in a whole number of ways but doesn't have any standards working group behind and so it's a bit ignored in software and operations.

People use either some flavor of W3C's Timed Text or WebVTT instead (and it was already a pain to get them to drag their feet into them and drop the old analog broadcast formats). Now, here's the thing. WebVTT isn't radically different in format and features to (A)SSA and it has plenty of styling options... but, once again, a lot of platforms and software are dragging their feet to support them.

So the industry has been sloooowly doing the right thing moving to the W3C standards (not a huge fan of Timed Text myself, but it exists for a reason), but only with the most basic and safe features. Which are also about as many features you get out of plain speech to text output, so it's even easier to make that decision.

The amount of calls on some pages displaying the simplest stuff is mind-boggling. 160 requests for a page just displaying a HTML5 video and a title, 360 requests for a Reddit page, it's nuts. We don't need to be like this.

Don't remind me, Front Page Express' generated HTML was the stuff of nightmares.

It's tablet cases with bluetooth keyboard now.

Even Citroen has an EV Berlingo and that model is the bread and butter of Southern Europe.