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Is that true? Windows 7 OS updates ended in 2020, while Chrome continued to update until M109 in 2023[1].

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/185534985/sunsettin....

You can join a Google Meet meeting without a Google account if the meeting creator enables the “Anyone with the link can join” setting, or if they accept you when you click the link.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENI...

Yes. https://chromestatus.com/feature/4592567062626304 links to the implementation bug at crbug.com/1026287 which had been closed as a duplicate of crbug.com/1333988 which has been fixed.

I'm unconvinced.

The author seems to be stating that because llms have generated "interesting" statements that all of Chomsky's approaches are invalidated. This seems to assume that the llm isn't somehow incorporating Chomsky's generative grammar system into the model, which would be a very hard thing to prove.

Also, the author's stated proof contains flaws. Take for example page 16:

Generate ten other sentences like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously": Purple fluffy clouds dream wildly. Blue glittery unicorns jump excitedly.

The author claims that the llm has completed this task successfully, completely ignoring the example's pairwise incompatible terms (colorless green, and sleep furiously), and accepting that "purple fluffy" is equivalently meaningless. It is not, and the model has clearly failed.

How much is "surprisingly inexpensive"?

Font sizes get scaled in the browser. So when you ask for a 9px font, the browser treats that as 9px in virtual pixels, then maps it into 18px physical pixels.

It mostly works, but gets weird when you have non-scaled content in the design.

Thanks for posting the bug links.

Also wanted to point out that the user feedback in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249645 is not the way we should treat browser developers. (Not blaming the parent - I assume this is some other user being..... cranky?)

It sounds like they've taken the existing Type-1 cgm plus self-adjusting pump and used it on type-2 diabetics. Solid medical study. Hardly a breakthrough, IMO.

Origin predates computer RPG's. It's from tabletop role playing games, and stands for "non player characters".

NPCs are the characters that the Dungeon Master (DM) creates to guide and influence the story, but the player characters (PCs) are the focus of the story. It's collaborative storytelling about the PCs adventure. An NPC is, by definition, not the hero.

Don't forget a music company... no wait, different Apple.

5 videos I’ve already watched

Are you signed in and/or using the same device?

The linked article doesn't give a lot of detail on the specific complaints or what you would need to do to make those sites accessible. Do you have any information on that?

I'm curious here and would love to hear thoughts on:

A) Youtube's terms of service clearly state "not for kids under 13"[1]

B) Youtube has produced a product for the younger age market [2]

C) folks in this thread are reasonably complaining that full youtube isn't appropriate for children.

Am I missing something here? (Like maybe your child was using youtubekids and still got the unacceptable content?)

[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/children-youtube/#:~:te.... "While we permit users between the ages of 13 and 17 to register for an account with parental permission, we do not allow children under the age of 13 to create an account"

[2] https://www.youtubekids.com/

Democracy has some intentional opacity though. Consider the impact of making your personal voting choice public.

AFAIK, nobody has ever tried that because of the dangers of vote buying and coercion. Essentially, gaming the system.

(I don't think this proves anything! Simply wanted to suggest that comparing search to democracy doesn't significantly change the analysis wrt opacity.)

As others have suggested, it's difficult to assess an organizations values against your own. That being said, it's well worth investing your time/energy/creativity into an effort that improves the world.

In my career, I've been fortunate to work for a variety of companies that have obvious and direct positive social impact. I don't want to start a flame war here, but my last ten years have been in FANG, which I've found to dramatically magnify my ability to have a positive social impact.

Yes, there is "still plenty of coal production" in Australia. Some references:

Coal accounts for about 75 per cent of Australia’s electricity generation, followed by gas (16 per cent), hydro (5 per cent) and wind around (2 per cent).[1]

About 92% of electricity in Ontario is produced from zero-carbon sources: 59% from nuclear, 24% from hydroelectricity, 8% from wind, and 1% from solar.

[1] https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/energy/overview#:~:t....

[2] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr....

Sorry to hear about hat - it must have added a huge amount of stress.

I had a similar experience thirty years ago, after being hospitalized for ketoacidosis. (Fun fact: As a DKA patient, I found myself next to an attempted suicide, and noticed that med staff treated us both with disdain. Seriously bad way of managing health outcomes. But I digress.)

The experience in question was a doctor-prescribed insulin injection that the nurse insisted on injecting. I objected, but was unable to be heard. I calmly demanded that the nurse return at 11PM with orange juice to counteract the reaction that was inevitably coming. She did, and the crisis was averted. The next day the doctor prescribed that I could manage my own dosage.

Diabetes management is remarkably complex, and few medical folks know how to do it.

I'm a T1D for 45 years, and since my first diagnosis there has always been a cure that would be available "within the decade". This is the way.

That being said, every decade has seen life-changing therapies introduced. The introduction of long-lasting insulins. At home testing for glucose and ketones in urine. Mixing insulin formulations together to reduce the number of injections at a time. Thinner needles greatly reduced pain from injections (this one happened almost every year.) Moving from urine tests to blood glucose tests! Introducing shorter-acting insulins that reduce onset time. GLUCOMETERS! Moving from needles to pens allowed crazy-simple and virtually painless injections. Moving from pork formulations to human formulations of insulin. Carb counting: previously we used fixed diet - eat the same thing at the same time every freaking day. INSULIN PUMPS!!! Crazy fast-acting insulin formulations cutting onset down to 15 minutes. CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING!!! Tracking and alerting for low glucose, overnight and remote. CUSTOM-BUILT CLOSED LOOPING!!! Reliable/medical grade CGM. Approved closed looping systems.

Many folks have worked very hard to make my life more livable, and I thank them for it. Today is, without a doubt, the best time to be a diabetic.

That being said, I still wouldn't recommend it;)

To put it more directly, the same document states (on page 36):

In the last week from 08 January 2022 to 14 January 2022, in an age-standardised population, the COVID-19 related death rate in individuals that received a booster or third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine was between 3.2 to 9.4 times lower than individuals who are unvaccinated or have only received one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine

Perhaps because of the web's deployment model? Quickly getting from "interested in" to "running the game" might be a game-changer. (apologies for the unintentional pun)

Love it!

If the author's here, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the upcoming scroll-linked animation api[1]

[1] https://drafts.csswg.org/scroll-animations-1/EXPLAINER.md

Glad to see more folks supporting efforts like this. I've been using a similar DIY approach[1] to manage my diabetes for four+ years, and it's been surprisingly effective and impactful.

Happy to take any questions about how closed loop works, technologies+processes, comparison to other therapies, etc.

Background: SW Dev + Type 1 diabetic for 47 years;

[1] https://openaps.org/

This is on my "SW Dev songlist" ever since my CS professors (Robin Dawes and James Cordy) ran a singalong event in CISC 200/210.

Others include "Under the wings of a transistor"[1] and "The Privacy Song"[2]. Also "The System Administrator Song"[3]

Also codemonkey, but others have mentioned that one already.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpYgts-18o [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIUOUfhoJ8 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIhKBYjTXA

There's debate on the left-brain/right-brain model, which I think has been somewhat debunked[1][2]

That being said, brains are weird and if you find you can multitask then go for it. I've gathered data on my own attempts to multitask and established that I cannot.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130814190513.h... [2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/right-brainleft-brain-ri...

| no one uses Chromebooks except Google employees

There were ~30M Chromebooks sold in 2020[1]. I think many of those were sold to non-googlers.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/749890/worldwide-chromeb...

Hi there Matt - this looks like an amazing library - thanks for posting.

I’m part of the Blink Animations team that work on WAAPI (along with a bunch of folks from other browsers), and wanted to touch base on a few of the issues you raised.

First, I agree that fill behavior[1] is messy, and should probably be considered to be a spec bug. Moving web specifications forward often involves “compromises” to ensure that new functionality works alongside existing work, and this is a good example of that. There’s a discussion on this at github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5394.

You raise a few issues with the current implementation/compliance/interop. Getting compliant and consistent implementations of the spec is critically important, so appreciate your feedback on this. I’m seeing two items that (might) relate to chromium here: individual transforms[2] - agree that this is important - currently working on it - see crbug.com/696374. Note: You can already get some of this working using composite:add. .finished Promise[3] - mostly working in chromium AFAIK, with one minor glitch - crbug.com/1141935 If there are other chromium issues we’d love for you to file them (use Blink>Animation component so they land on our triage). Other browsers look for feedback as well - there’s a good guide/walkthrough at https://web.dev/how-to-file-a-good-bug/

On the topic of browser compliance, you cited caniuse.com, which is a good starting point. More detailed tracking can be found at https://wpt.fyi/results/web-animations - might be more detailed than you’re looking for, but this is what our team measures against.

Some of your suggestions relate to the spec. Durations as seconds[4], and Simplifying cubic bezier definitions seem fairly straightforward, while others like cancelling and interrupting might be a little more complicated. In any case you can file issues against the spec if you want to move those forward - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues, tag with [web-animations-2].

To reduce the challenges of adopting the new API, there’s a published polyfill that you seem to be using already. You noted that there’s some inconsistency with keyframing across browsers - perhaps you could file an issue against the polyfill?

Cheers!

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/web-animations-1/#fill-behavior [2] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#individual-tran... [3] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#finished-promis... [4] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#durations-as-se... - this might already be addressed through CSSOM? [5] https://github.com/web-animations/web-animations-js [6] https://github.com/web-animations/web-animations-js/issues

The fundamental question is: would anyone choose to implement a messenger app as a PWA on a platform that doesn't support reliable notifications.

"Nobody wants...." is probably best interpreted as "No developers want to build..."

AIUI, you're allowed to experiment on yourself. My home-made closed loop insulin pump is a good example.

Selling and importing involve a whole different level of permission though. Don't expect that's going to be allowed.

Odd. When I try that search[1] I'm seeing good results. There's a onebox telling me how thick a suit I need for different temperatures, followed by a bunch of articles on the topic.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=diving+suit+thickness&rlz=1C...

"Heads should probably roll here..."

Google has a blameless post-mortem process (see https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/) which essentially boils down to:

0) We want to fix the situation. By the time the post-mortem happens, that should already be done.

1) We want to make sure this never happens again. In order to do that we need to understand as much as we can about what happened.

2) We want everyone to share everything they know about the event. If the participants worry about fallout, they will be compelled to cover up.

3) Most failures happen at a number of points, so you need to dig in deeply if you want to get full value out of the "event".

4) Good post-mortems lead to process fixes to reduce (or eliminate?) the chance of similar events, or to make fixes throughout the code base.

The other thing is that after the post-mortem, all of the folks involved have learned from it. Usually they're better engineers because of that expensive lesson you've just paid for.

Disclaimer: Googler, participant in several post-mortems, opinions my own.