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I wonder if this could be updated to use OpenRouter in a similar way to Emigo[1] was aiming to do. (I use the past tense, because Emigo has not been updated in a quarter of a year,…

Looking at other examples in sci-fi, perhaps to stop my body from pressing its off-switch?

If we're still calling Guile a Scheme (I'm out of the loop) then I don't know, it gets really bloody close. Not so much in image-based development (that I've usually found less goo…

Probably read the rest? I did not see Jensen's name on any of the patents that this key engineer discusses the detail and rationale of, and I feel that those names are listed fairl…

Growing up to Scottish and Irish Catholics in England, I remember talking to a bunch of Ulster protestants as a teenager when the topic turned to religion - I said "Well, I was rai…

> "the solution to bad speech is more speech" Yes, but when enough people who otherwise have little actual power get together to drown out "bad speech" with "more speech" it gets c…

There's a lot of it about, mate. The other day I had an American tell me with a straight face that we can get jail time for flying a Union Flag here in Blighty - I guess there's a …

If "I think we need to massively curtail people's liberty in order to remove our enemies and establish a white national ethnostate" vs "we need to stop those guys" is your idea of …

This caught me out when I was a teenager. Luckily, there was a chap in the Museum of Computing who was spending his Sunday working on the Colossus, and he was happy to let me in an…

I am also getting this in Firefox on Linux. Don't think I've ever seen this particular failure mode before!

Okay, I'll give you that. Let me rephrase: Industry-led regulation can work, in industries that won't kill anyone or even realistically lose anyone a bunch of money for non-complia…

Industry-led regulation has never worked in the entire history of the world.

Not as far as I can tell. You're right that China does seem to be in a fairly unique position to actually do this though - it is interesting to consider what would happen if they d…

Unless that smell is oil. Or gasoline. Or burning rubber. Or petrichor. Or just plain old smoke. Or the touch is the feeling of road surface changing, or the steering wheel getting…

Really? I think YAML perfectly fills the niche of a config format that is both hard for humans to write, and difficult for machines to read.

And then you realise that this also applies to pretty much every industry and its workers (hooray for lobbying!) and then you get sad.

I am disappointed that the "Irish goodbye" didn't happen at around number 82 with no items following it.

There's a relevant XKCD, of course https://xkcd.com/1172/

I feel you've missed my point - 'ergonomics' literally means 'efficiency and comfort', not 'future maintainability'. Regex does comfort. AWK does it. If you need to do a specific t…

> How does search quality really change my life? Ask this to someone who remembers when Google first appeared. I am not a Kagi user, but am seriously considering it after a number …

Odd choice of words. I'd say that perl, awk, regex etc are great ergonomic tools - if anything too ergonomic. The main problem with them - and the probable source of their bad repu…

This would have taken you less time to Google that than it did to type the question in this public forum (the answer is very obviously 'yes', by the way). "virtue signalling" indee…

Surprisingly there has not been a rush to go back and update multiple decades' worth of games to use newer rendering APIs.

I think I've seen "Madeleine Moment" most often in English.