It may just be a hype but I’m upvoting it.

exactly.

programming and Linux

I’m seeing almost daily the fuck-ups resulting from somebody trying to fix something with ChatGPT, then coming to the forums because it didn’t work.

Thankfully Google is not the only search provider.

the search results have slowly yet noticeably degraded

You mean Google.

It’s funny how many people ruffle their feathers over this. Same type of comments as when somebody first shared this poll here: you can’t expect this to be representative, it’s not a yes/no question etc.

Let’s put it like this: I do not want AI pushed on me in almost every online situation. That is a yes/no question to me.

Why? Because it’s not ready, wastes the planet, and is the USA’s big gamble.

It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.

I hope they learn their lesson from their own poll.

🎶 What if I bake you a coconut cake?
With lots of nuts, the kind that you hate?
What if I threw your car keys in the lake?

What if I took you to the edge?
What if I pushed you off a ledge?
What if I scratched all your Sister Sledge?

Would you still love me? 🎶

Neither mom nor dad or brother makes sense here. The whole cartoon is a fail really. Posted by another of those less-than-1h-old accounts.

deleted by creator

Cheesus.

First reaction is “social media really isn’t safe for teenagers” - but then I think again: the worst stuff always comes from the USA, usually the platform formerly known as Twitter. We really should ban that shit.

…and obviously I can’t see any of it because their posts are gone, too?
Can you put some numbers on this?
Can anybody confirm?

It could be some sort of Streisand effect brought on by people complaining about “bot accounts” for days/weeks now.
People thinking something like “You scared of trolls? Lol, let’s troll you some more!”

Also, some of those accused seem like very normal people to me who also comment in other communities and do not, in fact, delete their account.

edit: somebody created an account 1h ago, only to downvote every single comment in this thread. No content.

Children of Time is the trilogy that awaits my attention.

I love Le Guin! I just started re-reading her opus; but since this is a (short) story I might have skipped it the first time. I also aded some Tschaikowski to my e-reader, if I like that I will try to remember this.

full-blown examinations of the concepts of utterly alien intelligence.

In this context I will always recommend Stanislaw Lem’s “Eden”, although it has little to do with differences in speed.

Reminds me of the idea that intelligence might express itself in ways that we cannot perceive, because it’s so slow. Like Rock trolls taking a year to speak a sentence and a century to have this little conversation. Ents are a little faster I guess.

I never understood why people would say JSON is superior, and why XML seemed to be getting rarer, but the author explains it:

XML was not abandoned because it was inadequate; it was abandoned because JavaScript won.

I’ve been using it ever since I started using Linux because my favorite window manager uses it, and because of a long-running pet project that is almost just as old: first I used XML tools to parse web pages, later I switched to dedicated data providers that offered both XML and JSON formats, and stuck to what I knew.

I’m guessing that another reason devs - especially web devs - prefer JSON over XML is that the latter uses more bytes to transport the same amount of raw data. One XML file will be somewhat larger than one JSON file with the same content. That advantage is of course dwarved by all the other media and helper scripts - nay, frameworks, devs use to develop websites.

BTW, XML is very readable with syntax highlighting and easily editable if your code editor has some very basic completion for it. And it has comments!

Yes. Arguably, HTML is a form of XML. Also, the ML means the same in both. XML tools can often also be used to query HTML documents.

This should be a fun little detail in a movie or something like that, but booting is just loading data, and doing that from analog media is nothing new.

edit: tbf, the author points that out, too. It’s just a little joke.

I’ve never heard any adult saying a dad is fun because they feed their kids fast food. Kids will love it of course (up to a certain point) but they’ll love it from mom, too.

There’d be more to open up here.