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An LLM can absolutely center a div and then use a browser MCP or playwright to visually validate that it was centered.

I think that is how the smarter agents do things? Just like Claude/ChatGPT sometimes does a web search they can do other tool calls instead of just making a statistical guess. Of c…

Whereas modern English only distinguishes grammatical number by singular/plural (and Old English had dual), some languages even have trial (three). Russian distinguishes paucal (fe…

I thought courts martial and secretaries general (and Knights Templar/Hospitaller, et al) were Anglo-Norman/French borrowings. Do you have any examples of native English phrases fo…

Most tools do, yes.

Probably “more”

There are plenty of unvaccinated people this side of the border and it seems to be a growing trend. If the government is going to intern people in close quarters then they should p…

If they paid for themselves then the DoT wouldn’t have a multibillion dollar highway budget, and that’s not even including all the state funding.

To preserve backwards compatibility and not require all those old sites to update, the legacy behavior would have to be the default, with opt-in for the new behavior.

I seem to recall a scene from the book where a man is smoking a cigar in an office and prints out his computer output rather than reading from a screen. It was delightfully retrofu…

Why stop there? It’s in meat, water, mother’s milk, and newborns are even born with microplastics already in them.

The problem is other people/teams making PRs to your code that you then have to maintain or fix later. It’s in your interest not to half-ass the review, creating an asymmetric amou…

What is the use case? It’s hard for me to think of a reason you’d want to wrap a link in a button. If you want to navigate, use an anchor. If you want to trigger JS logic, use a bu…

Hey, leave us humanities majors out of it. Most of us have studied critical thinking skills and ethics, which could have easily been used to avoid the various geopolitical messes w…

The Stack Exchange link is incorrect about -ite being etymologically derived from lithos, as one of the commenters there noted. Maybe a misunderstanding of this wiktionary note or …

“Developed countries have reduced population growth” is a far cry from “looming human extinction”.

Originally there was no minuscule/majuscule (uppercase/lowercase) distinction in Greek writing (or Latin for that matter). They did have handwritten forms designed to be written fa…

This is, I think, a learned distinction and not universally observed. I only learned this distinction in university.

Of course, if your relatives uploaded their data then a lot of info about your DNA is exposed regardless of whether you uploaded yours personally.

Homeless are not common at any of these places. They’re mostly downtown or close to public transit and tourist spots (Downtown, Castro, Mission). They aren’t known for climbing big…

Technically the British Iron and Bronze Ages are prehistoric since British recorded history begins with the Roman conquest in 43 AC.

Supposedly it was very finicky and could only be grown in a small region of eastern Libya.

This reminds me of a story of my friend who had two cats who were brother and sister. One time when my friend went on a trip and left his roommate in charge of catsitting, the male…

This might be a regional thing, but I have done probably around 100 technical interviews in my career (both enterprise and startups) mostly in the Bay Area and the vast majority of…