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JavaScript is: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding

I remember having to write XF86Config by hand.

EDIT: of course there's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/963

> LLMs seem to be really good at reproducing the classic Ball of Mud, that can't really be refactored or understood.

This, but but only for code. I've seen "leaders" at work suggest that we "embrace" AI, even for handling production systems and managing their complexity. That's like saying: "We've built this obscure, inscrutable system, therefore we need another obscure, inscrutable system on top of it in order to understand it!". To me, this sounds deranged, but the amount of gaslighting that's going on also makes you think you're the only to believe that...

I forget the exact language, but I think it originally accounted for use of only public media in "marketing and promotional" material, so it didn't include private photos and ML training. This seems to be a step up (or, down, I guess) from that.

Perhaps. I scanned the list and most of them sound like interesting projects that I would like to tackle at some point (or that I have tackled in the past for "fun").

Honestly, I think I was in your same position until recently, then I had some time off work thanks to the newborn and decided to start a "simple" coding project. Since it was purely for fun and to challenge myself, I decided to try and avoid bringing in any dependencies and wrote everything from scratch. This made it much larger and more complex than I had initially anticipated, but despite that (or, maybe, because of that?) I longed for those few hours when I could tinker on my project. Coding suddenly became fun again.

Maybe you're just a bit burnt out?

I thought this was going to be a blog post about somebody using a terminal emulator they wrote.

I don't know of anyone who can't even operate a calculator, but is at the same buddies with ChatGPT.

Feels to me like if you can't even use a calculator you have bigger problems to worry about...

> They continue to use AI for math (asking LLMs to split bills, for example)

Ah, yes, high tech solutions for low tech problems. Let's use the word machine for this number problem!

You're right. Better to sell your soul away to a corporation that can fire you at will.

Was this announced at an all hands?

> When I worked at Google there was an internal link to test out "Meena", their predecessor to later LLM chatbot work.

The Julius Caesar personality which had sushi as its favorite dish (and claimed to have travelled to Japan after his assassination, somehow) was my favorite.

Haven't tried it, but it looks nice. Well done to the authors.

Reminds me of Flow Control (https://flow-control.dev/), which is really nice and comfortable to use! It looks and feels more mature than a 0.x release.

The distracting nature of ads is a problem here: on a computer or smartphone, it's merely an annoyance; behind the wheel of a massive and fast moving vehicle, it could lead to deaths.

IMHO ads in a car infotainment system should be outlawed. Let me focus on the road, and if I need to stare at the infotainment screen, let it be just for the GPS navigation.

I'm not really seeing what's noteworthy about this article.

Firefox was the last bastion of freedom on the internet and the replacements aren't ready.

> But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?

I'm now actually trying to use qutebrowser as a replacement... it's not easy due to the lack of extensions, but mitigating factors are:

1. it has integrated adblock (though no cosmetic filtering) 2. there are userscripts to integrate with the Bitwarden CLI or a running instance of KeepassXC.

The article does mention modules.

Use of weapons is only benign to you if you're not on the receiving end. Imagine your family being blown up by a rocket because an AI system hallucinated that they're part of a dangerous terror cell.

My point though is that this is the only use case for such systems. The common comparisons to things like knives are invalid for this reason.

The difference there is that a knife has some obvious, benign use cases. Smart weapons targeting has only one use case, and it's to do harm to others.

Some country leaders do think this. But they're very particular about having that one world government named "USA" or "Russia".

Other machines.

> They laid us all off.

I think you mean "they advanced their amazing bet".

https://fiber.google.com/blog/2016/10/advancing-our-amazing-...

"Everyone" worldwide? The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.

The most insulting case is that of the retroactively-adjusted OKR wording so that you can always meet 0.7+ scores.

I wonder if they used galvanized square steel and eco-friendly wood veneers.

Nonsense. The worst song of all time is "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney.

(Don't believe me? Listen for yourself: https://youtu.be/94Ye-3C1FC8)

Ah, the usual "if we don't do it, someone else will".

I had missed this news... However, this seems to be from January?

> Running downloaded executables considered harmful

Most executables are downloaded. :)

> Actually, Google Code was never trying to win.

Herein lies the tragedy. Google could've offered, even sold, its internal development experience (code hosting, indexing and searching, code reviews, build farms, etc...) which is and was amazing, but it decided that it wasn't worth doing and let GitHub eat its lunch.