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Just don't have a feed. YouTube etc is good when you go and search for stuff yourself. It's bad when it starts recommending what to watch next.

Wow, I didn't know this either. I find it a bit crazy. It must make no sense without syntax highlighting. But I suppose who writes code without highlighting any more?

You're right. I misread it. I'd hate to lose my ability to type and jump at the chance to be able to use a computer again.

Sure, but my point was more that if enough customers found it ridiculous and complained rather than resorting to magic converters you'd think the banks would be forced to up their …

They didn't say anything about chronic pain, but with that extra context I do understand now.

If anyone sent me data in PDF format I would immediately reject it and ask for a more suitable format. This isn't because I know anything about PDF, it's just intuition. Why don't …

I just have to hope none of my equipment fails in the next few years, I guess. I don't need or want to upgrade, but some of it is getting a bit old. I have spinning rust at the 6 y…

You can not use it. You spent your life minus a couple of years not using it. You could totally get back into coding but LLMs have you trapped like a tethered elephant.

I would expect local settings and caches to remain. They are your files. Caches I would expect to be cleaned up by some operating system service. This, of course, relies on the app…

It doesn't look cool. We should use less energy. But the turbines make the cost of the energy too obvious, we'd rather keep pretending there is no cost.

Also the Roman culture towards the end was increasingly concerned with recycling old works and turning them into ever more ridiculous and derivative new works. Sound familiar?

That's brilliant. Sometimes talking to real humans is great. It reminds me of two things. When I was a child I was given a postage stamp and wrote a letter to "Wallace and Gromit L…

Like I said, you can ask an LLM about wood all day but if you don't pick up a saw you won't learn to make anything. I do, of course, use LLMs for research and learning, but I'm spe…

Normal caps are for in-text use too. A really good typeface will have different versions for all kinds of different display conditions. Sometimes several levels of display for head…

I don't think anyone is learning to code by using LLMs. We learn a craft in two ways: by watching other people do something, and by doing it ourselves. I've learnt many crafts in m…

Possibly, but not necessarily. Your argument is that it's just more attractive. That might be true. That would also mean there's an underlying reason for females finding this attra…

It's still broken. It seems to use JS to scroll when outside the white area, but this has a different effect from native browser scrolling. On my device the native scroll is smooth…

Now explain how someone with no expertise would even know about the Dinitz conjecture, or even a conjecture at all for that matter, and how that would be useful to them.

You need to define what "one-shotting" is. Some examples would help too.

Who cycles at less than 9mph? According to your link the average cycling speed in Copenhagen is 9.6mph so, according to your numbers, people are putting in more energy than they wo…

Took 36 years to go from computers being a "bicycle for the mind" to manually copy/pasting to prevent brain rot.

LLMs are addictive, no doubt about it. We've found the cigarette of our time.

Hmm... I guess I don't think saving time is laziness. I think that's clever. Laziness is a quality I don't like. It's not clever, it often ends up creating more problems down the l…

Well, I should say I live somewhere very flat. I'm certainly not talking about Tour de France style mountain stages. I'm not used to that at all. Also, for 5 hours most people will…

I did not say anything about distance. I said cycling enables you to go faster than you could possibly travel without it (ie. faster than you can sprint). What you do with that spe…