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Inspired by recent law proposal to tax dataflow per GB in France

> surely the danger is much much lower

It depends on what chemicals the plastic reacts with. Its more of class of pollutants like aromatic hydrocarbons, randomly forming when the plastic reacts with something in environment, the paper has this explained:plastic is "conditionally inert" material until it gets some electric charge. Then it suddenly a chemical factory floor.

Its going to be next few decades version of asbestos x100, The difference with asbestos is plastic is basically everywhere, industrial plastic coatings in many "non-plastic" surface to reduce wear or damage, since plastic resists acids/chemicals better "allegedly". This paper is going to upend most dogmatic ideas on "non-reactive plastic" soon. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11141-y

i've tried various options, Firefox prefers ` for (let i = n; i--;) out[i] = a[i] * b[i] + 0.25;` Its already at peak optimization so no form is significantly better.

IIRC in weird corner cases, JS code can outperform wasm/C/C++ because JIT optimizes with escape analysis/inlining.

>where it doesn't optimise to SIMD even when beyond obvious What was that code?

Any "central payment system"(like e.g. obsession with Paypal) is a single-point-of-failure vulnerability. Cash is decentralized and independent of any technology failing. people find this the hard way during electric blackouts, that credit cards are useless without electricity, but somehow still think "electronic payment" is worth completely switching over.

Yes, according to Socrates all writing is brainrot and libraries are essentially TikTok bingewatch.

It reduces tolerance for dealing with bullshit. Who wants to start a stackoverflow humiliation ritual and breadcrumb following random websites to find reliable stuff(90% of which is AI generated), when prompting gets you directly to the answer? Before that, the "Google rots your brain" articles prophesied the fall of humanity to search engines: now its mark of intellect to able to manually curate and search within websites for relevant info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F

Actually, its just inertia and lack of reliable forum hosting, the actual "killer app" that replaced volatile and unarchivable chat content, but no one learned from it and people flocked to Discord, which is even more hostile to archiving/scanning chat history.

The problem is scale. Trying to replace something big like Reddit/Browser/some-huge-library requires enormous resource investment which is inviting the same forces that enshittified the original. The original reddit was a link list with voting, no comments/media/etc it was cheap, and as it grown into social media giant with insane complexity, it became much more expensive and slower to process(both on client and server). But the users loved it, they now don't need to host the video/image/comments elsewhere, its all included inside the walled garden, and reddit which was 100% links to outside resources is now mostly self-contained media with pictures, videos, blog posts(self.subreddit) being most of content and hyperlinks to "outside" being mostly mainstream "big websites" with social clout.

"Cheap-to-generate" mediocre content forces the floor expectation to rise, becoming the "minimum", which raises expectations of "current mediocre" further. Its largely invisible, slow process, where you can't gauge past "floor-level" expectation for content, because it implicitly assumed the 'current year' standard is the norm(while its evolution of expectations). In a few years, expectation for "mediocre slop" would likely include stuff that considered top-level today, but has some minor deficiencies and the "slop of years past" would be relegated to unusable/useless junk, like\ e.g. Stable Diffusion 1.5 images and GPT2 texts.

Wikipedia.org :270 cookies, 110MB used. Never cleared or disabled any.

Okay, lets imagine it get enforced and every project is scanned for compliance, with some false positives and inability to prevent people from sneaking in AI code.\ Do you agree with it now?

The copyright/Anti-ai angle is likely an excuse and they're running out of money for hosting, hence errors and anti-scraping blocks. Its completely absurd to think they somehow waited years to ban AI for copyright, while deleting anything they deem as copyright infringing. Looks like those vibe-powered opensource projects will mighrate to somewhere else.

IKEA beds are underestimated: these flimsy POS planks and their insertion is entire artform that was likely engineered to cause pain. The idea here is they are huge, finicky and depend on precise positioning in multiple areas, there is no "easy shortcut" for their structural integrity, everything has to be perfectly assembled.

The neglected part here is latency, speed itself can be masked by progress bars/animations, but having visible lag ruins the idea of speed and users treat it as slow vs animated loading bar.

Ok, suppose you have a "trash/low quality" article and "this article has been deleted", the article with some info will win over the audience as they search for it. Like "Worse is Better", the quality will improve over time and the "deleted article" will stay at 0 recognition. An average internet user will not complain about the Wikipedia article, they just switch to Grokipedia and whatever AI-generated content it has, since they now have it.

Don't know why you get downvoted, but this is how AI-based projects win over time: they don't randomly decide to delete valuable data. Grokipedia might be trash in terms of its quality, but at least it it doesn't have omnipresent moral busybodies loitering in to "purify" it from knowledge.

Majestic reports strange spike in domain ranks in .at(the greens) Thousands of .at domains suddenly advanced hundreds of places all over the index. https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million?tld=at&majesti...

GCC already solved it: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html The operations behave like C++ valarrays. Addition is defined as the addition of the corresponding elements of the operands. For example, in the code below, each of the 4 elements in a is added to the corresponding 4 elements in b and the resulting vector is stored in c.

Here and on reddit, AI debugging is viewed as some weird shallow pattern-matching that obviously fails to spot real stuff and overload the maintainers. Instead of getting to "spotless record" of zero flaws, the people start rationalizing that "X is not a real bug" and inventing justifications for their(obviously bad) code, which is critique they can't accept from AI, only through human debate that they can't close with a WONTFIX. Once the bug is actually usable, the tune changes completely.

What is the 181M$ mysterious "Project Support" in the graph means? Linux is labeled separately, so it cannot be the "Project".

IFUNC should be implemented by software itself, like switching functions on runtime/compile checks. Why bother having a slower, insecure version that is less flexible than a function pointer? I have to agree with author. Glibc is filled with even more nasty hacks ripe for new exploits.

That a media push to make "it more secure" i.e. closer to Chinese Internet ID.

Try to listen to music in language you don't understand. The effects of having lyrics don't appear unless you focus on them to repeat the memory of song. Of course instrumentals are better, but lyrics lift the mood by virtue of having some "virtual social context" simulation.

Sure, is there anyone nostalgic for debugging bash files by hand? Any sense of grief for writing C++ template headers, with all boilerplate? Hmm, does anyone like manually re-writing makefiles these days? I suspect the enthusiasts of coding craft will struggle to maintain their wonder after ~4h deep in any of these magical adventures, which surely involve inventing ad-hoc duct tape and novel, never-before-seen algorithms.