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Not at all. I for one welcome our new overlords.

Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.

I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introduction of let / const, modules, async, .?, template strings, etc. transformed it from an ugly kludge to a really capable language.

Of course, if you use old syntax you still deal with weird scoping and casting, but you don't have to any more.

Also, I think the framework churn has slowed considerably in the last 5 years.

Ah. I was expecting some technical jargon. You do you, man...

Ok, I'll bite. What's "foxwork"?

Interesting, the linked article does say that.

Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would have read that. Maybe I just misunderstood, or thinking has changed.

edit: reading now I see I was wrong about this. Thanks for the correction!

EDIT: ignore this; I was confused / misinformed

It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you need to breathe. So with high CO2, your respiration rate slows down, and that can lead to low oxygen levels.

Note that the physiology and biochemistry of this is complicated (e.g. blood is a very good pH buffer and it's actively regulated by kidneys etc) and it's very much a nascent field of research, so I think AI will be overconfident and hallucination-prone.

Source: I worked in high-co2 caves for my PhD so have read about this a lot. I always carried a CO2 monitor. Our rule was to get out if we saw 20,000 ppm or greater. I spent thousands of hours above 10,000ppm.

Aaand now OP has fixed it in the HN post title. Still wrong in the linked article.

Argh, autocorrect got me. Thanks, fixed.

It's "Galapagos" or "Galápagos," not "Galapogos."

"This article is ... spellchecked with AI" ???

Why on Earth world you use an LLM for that instead of a spell checker???

There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but due to a technical glitch and disinterest, they aren't.

I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device.

It had changed from the English edition to the German translation!

Amazon eventually admitted that this was some kind of glitch, but they were uninterested in fixing it. I got a refund, but there was no way for me to read the book.

Except actually real whereas Frank Abagnale fabricated all of his supposed cons (read The Greatest Hoax).

Contains unwarned spoilers for The Good Place.

I don't think this reductionist view of colleagues (dividing them into categories rather than discerning individual strengths and weaknesses, team-building, empowering) is very success-oriented.

"good riddance"? What went away?

Actually, what I usually do in Github is set the PR branches to delete when you squash-merge the PR, but then the PR always has an "undelete branch" button you can use forver in case you want to look at the details of the branch and don't have a local copy of the branch.

Take me to your reader

Github default squash commit template & merge strategy makes it easy to go from the squash commit to the feature branch. So you get best of both worlds -- clean master and granular history on the branch. Bisect on master tells you which branch broke it, and then bisect on the branch if you want to find the original commit. Same with blame.

IMO squash 4 the win. Github squash defaults work well. Gitlab squash defaults don't.

You'd probably be interested in Curiosity's AEGIS system if you aren't already aware of it.

I think you can't tell the difference until the "art" shows details of something you know well -- a place you've been, out a hobby or sport you do.

I'm thinking of this awful slop "art" I saw on Wayfair yesterday. As a surfer, it's hilarious. That's not how you stand on a board. It's not even a board. And the wave is terrible-- nobody wants to surf shorebreak like that! https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/design-art-4-hawai...

I guess it could be a useful signal-- if you meet someone and they have it up in their home, you know they don't surf.

More generally, I think anything AI produces that's dense with factual details is inherently trash.

Yeah. I guess the redelegation of thinking from people to machines has been going on since before LLMs.

Today I got a haircut. At the cash register:

Hairstylist (early 20s): "That's $34. Would you like to leave a tip?"

Me: "Yes, please put an extra 20% on there"

Hairstylist: "Uuuhhhh... sorry, I don't have my phone. Can you google what 20% of $34 is for me?"

I just mean that the image input probably didn't affect the output at all. Could have just told it "I'm an amateur doing bulbs and batteries and it doesn't work" and it would give the #1 search result on forums for that which is "did you strip your wire."

I feel like I'm in the audience at a magician show, except most of the audience is breathlessly amazed and doesn't understand how easily tricked they are.

What's the difference (stochastic vs probabilistic)?

Or... were you illustrating?

Neat, but I'd bet it was "guessing" that rather than actually seeing it.

ugh. That douchebag doesn't even surf.

Yeah I only used it a little bit so couldn't remember if it had the "hold alt to see shortcuts" thing

Only works for like 20% of the menus though. I remember alt shortcuts reliably being on every single menu in early Windows (95? ME? XP?)

Wow, I was always amazed by Andrew Tridgill's prolific contributions to ardupilot / mavlink when I did some minor work on those. Had no idea he was behind rsync and samba.