marcosdumay

> Why the fuck would anyone ever want that? What's so hard about simply changing the innerText or inserting elements or whatever?

It's so that you have the page reflecting your data at all times.

The browsers should have been written this way, instead of having byzantine update functions with all forms and a pair of *Text to rule them all. But creating it in Javascript is a really bad idea.

> Maybe humans have an instinct for water management like beavers do.

We absolutely do. For both water and fire management.

Tracking those things is important to grow food.

> you are so busy you never notice you are not making meaningful human connections

Until you slow down because you are sick, or you just get a slow day at work, and get time to do a bit of reflection.

Most of it is due to turbulence. But that doesn't mean that a different engine can't make the plane have a completely different noise profile.

Regular aircraft fly with enough fuel to change into at least one other airport in an emergency (ideally two).

That aircraft would need a very large battery to do that, and it's way more efficient to have some burnable fuel there that you'll never actually use.

It is (or was for a long time, IDK) a strongly recommended practice from ICANN. I imagine nearly all countries to do that.

It's very hard to explain the gravitational halo around the galaxies if your dark matter can interact with itself. If it interacted like normal matter, it would have a distribution similar to the gases, and not spread way into intergalactic space.

> LZ physicists estimate there’s about a one in 200 chance the event is a statistical fluke

That's more than 3σ.

Nah, they are pretty constrained data description. AFAIK, you can't even substitute environment variables.

They are also apparently very hard to use, to the point that many people can't and several web sites exist that will take your database server, username, and password and assemble a connection string for you. (I can see no issues with that! None!)

TOML is quite ridiculous. There are always an infinity of ways one can write the same values.

It should really define sections as something different from dot-separated identifier groups.

There's just no way deuterium is radioactive, unless hydrogen is radioactive too.

They were way above their main competition at the time Google decided to ignore the entire open web but they were still focused on searching it.

Since then, they decided to change focus into answering questions, and didn't maintain the quality of search results.

Granted, glass bottles are also the one good case for recycling glass. But keep in mind the article's energy number is for plastic bottles, glass uses more energy.

Returnable glass bottles are probably better than disposed plastic ones. Returnable plastic bottles (for food) probably aren't.

> Number one is that humanoid robots are probably a dead end.

Our shape is very flexible.

It's probably not the end-all most flexible format out there, but whatever format we end up with will probably be more similar to a human than to a 6df robotic arm mounted on a car. (It will probably have legs, for a start, not wheels.)

Your executives are completely unable to evaluate the products they decide to buy?

If so, yes, they are to blame, either for not being able to evaluate the stuff they buy or for deciding on questions they are not qualified for. Either one is incompetence.

You can also blame them to continue renting the thing (because it's not brought) after it's shown to be defective. And if they decide to do irreversible transformation to your business before verifying that the thing even works, than yes, that's bare incapacity of running a company.

Landfills control for that and usually dispose the methane on a less polluting form.

Returned bottles have a finite lifetime after what they have to be trashed. Glass bottles tend to be reused some (small) tens of times, plastic bottles certainly last a lot less.

Yes, since 2024 the improvement has happened only in a few contexts, and the most famous¹ LLMs have also regressed in many contexts.

1 - Their numbers have also exploded, so I have no idea of any general rule.

All those people were born rich, with no chance of losing their money.

Instead, the smarter rich people stay out of the press. And the only reason we hear about them is because they were always very stupid.

"Popular topic-expert" is a really cursed career to exist.

Ideally we would reward expert opinions on track-record, instead of how they make us feel. But we don't. Also ideally, the expert's conclusion wouldn't impact their ability to pay the rent (as long as it's correct), but again, that's not the world we live in.

> Luu is pretty specific about the predictions Zitron is making

He is not, though. He precisely points to imprecise predictions, decontextualize them so he misses the point of the ones this thread is focused on, analyzes them with even less precise rationales that don't really rebut the prediction, and points suggestively (enough that you seem to have got that suggestion) that this rebuttal destroys the main prediction of every Zitron piece, while saying otherwise several times at the end of the rationale.

Zitron's predictions aren't all very good, but this article isn't either.

The AGI that appeared mid 2023 and killed single every person in 8 months was neat!

I guess the GP is joking. But on the current climate, it's really hard to be sure.

Most phones have no problem detecting IR up to the wavelength of the cheap leds used in blasters.

I'll have to disagree here.

It was shit back then, it is shit today, but it improved a lot over time before it started to worsen.

So... The prediction is exactly what people have been doing since the turn of the century?

I put high odds on this one being correct.

Brazil has entire areas within the largest cities dominated by para-statal organizations that often are in shooting wars within themselves, with the government, or just decide to go on a terrorism spree against the civilian population.

> “what do you like about your job?”

For software development, normal people will just assume it's money and probably not even ask...

Are you expecting Italian banks to be classified as terrorist organizations?