A world there python ran in the browser instead of javacript would probably be a whole lot better.

I love this idea. Do you mind if I promote it with some queer folks I know?

Myself I’m pretty straight and don’t have a website, but maybe one day.

If a feature is useful people will use it, be it AI or not AI.

People will also use it if it’s not useful, if it’s the default.

A friend of mine did a search the other day to find the hour of something, and google’s AI lied to her. Top of the page, just completely wrong.

Luckily I said, “That doesn’t sound right” and checked the official site, where we found the truth.

Google is definitely forcing this out, even when it’s inferior to other products. Hell, it’s inferior to their own, existing product.

But people will keep using AI, because it’s there, and it’s right most of the time.

Google sucks. They should be broken up, and their leadership barred from working in tech. We could have had a better future. Instead we have this hallucinatory hellhole.

Reminded me of classic tacocat song “hey girl” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXt5n9Ni5p0

I saw the early reporting come in and I was sitting here like Ronin in Endgame going “don’t give me hope…”

There’s still a chance for this to turn into a nightmare but I hope it’s for real

Conservative means “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s it. They are childish assholes that only care about power for their group, and keeping other people out of power. They are the worst sort of people.

I’ve been saying for years that focusing on self driving cars is solving the wrong problem. The problem is so many people need their own personal car at all.

My monthly food bill is typically around $120.

• A lot of beans or other canned vegetables: $30
• Bread: $5
• Peanut butter, $8
• bananas: $10
• rice: $10
• Other fruit that’s on sale: $10
• Some fresh vegetables (usually onions, broccoli, peppers): $10
• Flour: $10 (may last more than a month)
• yeast: $5
• Seasonings: $5 (also lasts more than a month)
• Cheese: $5
• Tomato sauce: $5
• Pasta: $5

I got laid off a while ago so I’m trying to make my dollars go farther. When I had a well paying job, I’d also buy more stuff, but nothing too crazy. I miss hummus the most, I think. I never buy soda.

The other day I was with someone and we decided to order food like old times, and it was like $40 for two of us. I was like, fuck, that’s a third of my whole month’s budget right there. But I don’t want to live like a monk all the time.

Republicans are an existential threat. No republican should be allowed to hold office. They should be ashamed to show their faces in public. Someone revealing they’re a republican should get the same reception as someone saying “I kick puppies”. (Though, given some high ranking republican is out and proud about shooting a puppy, maybe I should find a new metaphor)

I feel pretty confident musk doesn’t know or understand semantic versioning

Conservatives don’t want to solve real problems. They’re like toddlers that are angry without understanding anything, but they want to scream and throw things. Broken people.

At one of my past jobs I wanted to institute a “put a dollar in the jar” rule every time someone made a useless bug report.

“The site is down” -> dollar in the jar.

“I’m trying to access the site via the public internet in firefox 136.0.3, and I’m getting a 500 on [request], and then the whole page is blank. Here’s a screenshot.” -> good

Sometimes people don’t know. Sometimes they don’t care. But if there’s no consequences, people aren’t going to change. And if they’re not going to change, at least we can do a team lunch every week with the jar full of money.

We should name them in ways that lay the blame on the rich and polluting. “Exxon’s Disgrace”, “Elon’s Deceit”, whatever.

And when I expand the attached image and read the tiny print, I see you already went down this road. Well done.

Unless Israel is going to be a new borough of new york city, I don’t see why it should be a top concern for the mayor.

“Do we have bike lanes?”, contrary wise, would be.

• Mods
• fan patches
• backwards compatibility stretching back ~50 years
• indie games aren’t always on consoles
• fewer subscription fees
• hardware can be cheaper over time depending on details
• games, especially older games, can go on sale for deep discounts
• piracy
• can avoid supporting megacorps like Microsoft and Sony

Just off the top of my head

It’s kind of baffling to me. All of my friends are to some degree engaged in politics. But there are probably whole chunks of society that just brain rot through the day looking at memes and don’t really think about anything.

I think I kind of radicalized one of the guys I worked with just by talking to him about broad strokes of history and labor. If instead of me they had hired some bland “don’t talk about anything” standard guy, he might not have learned much. Talking to people can help.

You’re being weirdly aggressive, but okay.

Most people know the symbols for addition subtraction multiplication and division. Far fewer people know the established order of operations. That’s what powers those “only 3% of people solve this problem correctly!” math memes.

But okay. Communicate badly (ie: by failing to acknowledge your audience’s context) and be smug if you want.

Naively, not natively. Someone who wasn’t a good math student, or just doesn’t remember, might read it left to right and come to the wrong conclusion. The rules for order-of-operations are, so far as I know, arbitrary, and different people coming at it without instruction (ie: naively) could arrive at different conclusions. Knowing that you’re supposed to do division first isn’t obvious.

You could read 25 - 5 ÷ 5 as “25 - 5 is 20. 20 divided by 5 is 4” or you could read it (correct, per the standard rules) as “25 minus… hold on… 5 divided by 5 is one. Now 25 subtract that from the 25 sitting over there, and get 24.” This isn’t the same kind of error as, like, “5 divided by 5 is 0”

I haven’t thought through all the scenarios and edge cases, but generally spying on the public seems dicey and ripe for abuse. Especially if it’s just like “the public, all the time, whenever we feel like it,” instead of “ok we got a warrant signed by a judge to investigate Joe Bombguy”.

25 - 5 ÷ 5 when read naively left to right looks like it would be “25 - 5 = 20. Then take that and divide by 5, for an answer of 4”. It would be clearer to write it as (25 - 5) ÷ 5 or 25 - (5 ÷ 5) depending on what’s intended.

You see those kind of “gotcha!” posts online sometimes, where someone posts a problem that tempts you into doing order of operations wrong.

Someone who sees how to do it correctly immediately and thinks everyone knows that is invited to view https://xkcd.com/2501/ as well.