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Note that the uploader apparently still retains control over labeling in most cases; uploaders that intentionally misrepresent AI-generated content might not be discouraged by this…

Create an image that displays two seven-pointed stars, two eight-pointed stars, and two nine-pointed stars. All stars are connected to each other, except for the ones with the same…

I think it's not at all a marshmellow test; quite the opposite - docs used to be written way, way in advance of their consumption. The problem that implies is twofold. Firstly, and…

Yep. Still, I think it's a pretty decent benchmark in the sense that it's fairly short, quite repeatable, does have a quite a few subtest, and it's horribly different from the nebu…

It's not trash - it's quite nice for its niche. It's just not very scalable with cores, so it's best interpreted as a benchmark of lightly threaded workloads - like lots of typical…

I mean, reliably tracking ownership and therefore knowing that e.g. an aliased write must complete before a read is surely helpful? It won't prevent all races, but it might help av…

There's also the alternative of announcing this breakage publicly to electron beforehand; and the alternative of having a hack and publicly announcing it will be removed in a year.…

Put it this way: if I were in charge of a major OS, and I having one of the major app frameworks used on my OS tested on for my annual upgrade, I'd feel pretty embarrassed, even if…

Hyper amusing, thanks for sharing! Doesn't really improve the analogy, but fun quirk of history :-D.

So on the one hand we have a product which isn't even remotely designed for the use case (hamsters), and during normal use shows obvious behaviour (cooking) that should imply risk …

The author's examples of rough edges are however no better when hosted on vercel. The architecture seems... overly clever, leading to all kinds of issues. I'm sure commercial incen…

If you care about absolute accuracy, I'm skeptical you want floats at all. I'm sure it depends on the use case. Whether it's the standards fault or the languages fault for followin…

I get the feeling that the real problem here are the IEEE specs themselves. They include a huge bunch of restrictions that each individually aren't relevant to something like 99.9%…

Yeah, before required properties/fields, C#'s nullability story was quite weak, it's a pretty critical part of making the annotations cover enough of a codebase to really matter. (…

I love building libraries, so having the chance to talk about the gotchas with things like this is a fun chance to reflect on what is and is not possible with the tools we have. I …

"Recovered" sounds so binary. I think it's pretty usuable now, but there is scarring. The solution would have been much nicer had it been around from day one; especially surroundin…

While I'm most familiar with C#, and haven't used Ruby professionally for almost a decade now, I think we'd be better off looking at typescript, for at least 3 reasons, probably mo…

Of course they had a choice: they could have stuck with google maps for longer, and they probably also could have invested more in data and UI beforehand. They could have launched …

While some of what you say is an interesting thought experiment, I think the second half of this argument has, as you'd put it, a low symbolic coherence and low plausibility. Recog…

Perhaps the solutions(s) needs to be less focusing on output quality, and more on having a solid process for dealing with errors. Think undo, containers, git, CRDTs or whatever rat…

Is the advantage over an enum not kind of small? We're seeing bugs here because people tried to do the right thing but the tooling has absolutely no way of helping anybody to do th…

While a humorous response by Milton and an interesting debating point, the argument he makes is pretty weak because it almost inevitably reduces to complete lawlessness, doesn't re…

I'm curious what you base that on. For instance, we've never really allowed literally cutthoat competition, nor things like fraud and we've generally not allowed misrepresentation.…

One race-to-the-bottom phenomenon that (to me at least) appears to aggravate the impact of "corporate greed" is the social loop that goes as follows: 1. company decides to push the…