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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Good for you. The point is that a lot of Firefox users actively didn't want these sorts of features enabled and pushed on them. That was clear and obvious to anyone paying attention to general reactions to unsolicited AI helper tools,
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
This attitude is exactly why Mozilla is failing. Total contempt and ignorance of the users that are the core of Firefox’s user base. If someone doesn’t want to use AI features, that’s not “living in a fantasy world”. And if Mozilla had any
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
It’s because they are themselves deluded by their marketing story about their own product.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
The more important question in both cases is where the water comes from.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
It makes her arguments highly suspect, yes.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
2024. I don’t think “our food is safer than ever before” is true anymore in the United States.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
But not all projects can be low stakes. None of the important ones are.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
The thing about AI-generated “solutions” is that they often go down bad rabbit holes and need to be re-run, or since they are so “cheap” to create they are often just thrown away and rebuilt when requirements evolve. Plus, just more stuff i
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
In the US, over and above salary, payroll taxes add 7.65%, pension contributions might be up to 5%, and employer healthcare and other insurance contributions can be in the thousands, plus other benefits, equity compensation, and per-employe
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Yes, but performance is not the only factor in whether a specific language is better than another for a specific project.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
To be fair, they ran out of ideas in 2010, if not before.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
I think you have the causation backwards: we have people thinking the world is flat because they can access the sum total of human knowledge, both true and false. There’s so much available, with similar production values, that going down
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Sounds like they were waiting for a good design.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with the article, which describes a query plan advice provider that solves lots of problems with typical hint systems, and does so in a manner good enough to be worthy of including in core,
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Yeah, this article explains the reasons why, and how this solution avoids them.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
“I’ve never run into it so it can’t be a problem for other people” is an interesting take.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
If it’s so easy, why use AI to do it?
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
It’s ludicrous to think that 10 million is the “maximum tolerable population” for Switzerland. This is a racist, isolationist move and an attempt to stir up hatred among the population.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
At the very least it’s an infringement of human rights.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Their neighbors were similarly restrictive back then, and the European economy was not as integrated.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Uh, I have some bad news for you about old flags.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Plus some WebDAV hacks via the MS Frontpage HTML editor! Truly great software engineering and design.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
What’s intriguing to me is that several American colleges end up becoming magnets for European and South American soccer players. My midwestern mid-tier alma mater’s soccer team is 95% non-American.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
I can’t speak to its actual popularity, but when I visit Europe and local folks hear I’m from the US, I’m surprised how often they are interested in talking about the NBA. Maybe it’s more pronounced in Eastern Europe where a lot of basketba
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
This is way off. You only need a ball to play American football. Or a ball and bat to play baseball. Yes, the organized competitive versions have more gear involved, but so does organized soccer/football.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
If the government is actively working against diabetes research, then there is no way to say that without “criticizing” the government.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Yes, but this detail is crucial to continuing to make progress on diabetes treatment and research. So it’s actually more fundamental than anything else.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Yes, and “I’m nearing retirement” is the opposite of the long run.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Ensuring Meta is responsible for its products would not need to assign liability to someone offering open source software.
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by skywhopper 4mo ago
Not the one in my living room.

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