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I refer to Exactitude quite often, but more often to highlight that the code isn't the documentation, to use the same analogy.

When we make a map, it is a purposeful abstraction. It disregards some things and exaggerates others. The map cannot explain everything – to do so it would need to be exactly the same size as the land beneath it.

When you make a map, document code, present or listen to an argument etc. you need to focus on what's important for this specific purpose. Otherwise your map will be useless. Either from being incomplete, of from being too complete.

You can use public transportation, bikes, car pooling, taxis and rentals for your rare-use needs, and its usually cheaper than owning and operating a vehicle.

Unnecessarily negative imo.

I like the video because I cant read a blog post in the background while doing other stuff, and I like Gadget Hackwrench narrating semi-obscure CS topics lol

It's easy to win an argument when you get to construct both sides. You can easily be direct and to the point without being brash.

You could, also, be wrong or misinformed, so I don't see the big deal about "Hey -- the latency numbers look pretty heavy. Should they be in the 400s?" or "I don't believe this is the best approach, we'll get issues with XYZ".

That doesnt necessarily track. He could have stolen the data, then reported it to clear his own name. He did access more data than he needed to prove that there is a likely breach.

Is it? if 10 people may have committed a crime, should we exonerate 1 of them because he reported it and promises he didnt do anything?

If you flip it, we have a dude here admitting to breaching a large number of accounts and gaining access to PII -- including PII about minors.

Are we and the Maltese government just going to trust this guy and assume he has actually deleted everything, with no investigation?

we should be worried about both. there is a real risk of this rendering human trust and the internet pretty much useless

eh, words are reality. insults are just changes in air pressure but they still hurt, and being constantly subjected to negativity and harsh language would be an unpleasant work environment

I'm not being factious, but is there any Linux distro with a desktop experience that matches Windows and macos?

Like, yes, I know there are many flaws with both. A lot of sound, technical issues with windows and macos. A slew of UX ones as well. But despite W11 carrying around remnants of Windows 98 still, both of those OSes _feel nice_.

Multiple desktops work well, nice gestures, simple installers and applications. Stuff often just works.

My experience with the distros and desktops Ive tried in Linux have felt like windows 98 with a janky web interface on top, or have missed a lot of features that commercial OSes have, installing programs is a mix of flatpaks, APKs, and building from source.

Often feels like a thin veil on top of a technically-inclined terminal OS.

Is ther eany OS/desktop where you dont pay the "linux tax" when it comes to how the GUI feels?

Spoiler: No, they dont. They never do. Reports will say "yeah, probably" and in 10-40 years will change to "oooh well they didnt".

not only does OP imagine a powerful customer base, theyre all aligned enough that one configuration fits all. im doubtful

Aren't you the one building on suppositions? We know that they don't have flight hours. We cannot conclude what condition they were in aside from that.

to jump from "they could be tired or hungover" to "yeah or aliens" is very dishonest. Especially for a very fresh matter where we know very little, all our assumptions are just that, and nothing we writes has any bearing on anything.

You, and the OP, are being unfair in your replies. Obviously, it's not worthless for all applications but when LLMs obviously fail in disastrous ways in some important areas, you can't refute that by going "actually it gives me codign advice and generates images".

Thats nice and impressive, but there are still important issues and shortcomings. Obligatory, semirelated xkcd: https://xkcd.com/937/

a wonderful thing to do in that case is to either ask, or present your concern as a concern. An expression of uncertainty and fear. Not as a statement, or counterclaim, or by trying to propose a solution to the problem you've invented.

The figurative "you", in this case

for given values of "smarter" and "dumber". i've yet to encounter a smart digital to-do system. most are terrible and pretty dumb. a paper todo is pretty much as smart as you make it.

What "is" JavaScript then? It's not the language specification (that's ECMAScript) and it's not the interpreters (that's Node, Deno, Bun, V8, Spidermonkey…), so what... is it?

And to follow up - how does Oracle use "JavaScript" in trade?

Roman-built roads and the spread of Latin were tremendously important. Noone said they were invented by them.

Personally I disagree. IMO, devtools were better when competing with firebug, but I haven't experienced much of a difference in the past... 8? years. Something like that.

It also doesn't work properly, since it sets cookies before you make a choice.

There are parallells to human complacency, and there have been military incidents due to it.

Not sure about "fix" but cooling the body via hot showers is a fairly common recommendation for anxiety relief, especially prior to sleep.

Supposedly, if you cool the body down externally (cold shower, cold environment) it will try to increase body temp, but if you take a hot shower or sauna, the body will instead try to lower its temperature.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of the times, the issues are 1) overestimating how much laundry detergent they need 2) not putting some extra detergent in the dishwasher

So you're supposing that Musk will use his influence with american politicians to threaten Sweden with revoked NATO membership?

ok

one idea could be to produce less chickens

TypeScript became so much more pleasant to use after we started using parsers regularly. We use Runtypes in some projects and a hand rolled lib I wrote in others, and being able to parse unknown data into a known shape is a life saver.

Glad to not have to write seemingly thousands of lines of interfaces and type guards any more.

I dont think it should be "instead". Suggesting that emergency brakes are inadequate due to one passenger failing to locate one is kinda cheap.

We could also easily construe your argument as "engineers would never design a flaw", which is demonstrably untrue. We should both work to minimize errors, and to provide a variety of corrective measures in case they happen.

IMO this list isn't specific enough with the causes and takeaways, and esp. not specific enough to highlight minor critical omissions.

Most of these feel like "They didnt act fast enough or do a good enough job. They should do a better job".

For a long stretch of time, carnivorous dinosaurs roamed the Earth. For a long time, it was molten rock.

Would you like dinosaurs or molten rock in your apartment? I wouldn't.

Famously, they tried to recreate it once. And slipped. And people died