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Well technically it also says that in Japan they only display "Sea of Japan" in the local language (Japanese), so displaying just "Gulf of America" in the local language follows. This blog never expected that the USA would be involved in this kind of dispute.

The moment the president of the US renamed those bodies of water, it became commonly used in all sort of publications since then. It fits their description, no matter how silly.

Some of these "kids" have already entered the job market, and their companies buy them laptops.

Feeling empathy for a machine is like using your car turn singles in an empty motorway. It's pointless, but better to built a habit out of doing it, than out of not doing it.

I do turn off all fake emotion in LLMs though. Fake machine emotion gives me the creeps.

The trains being sturdy doesn't help much. The (de)acceleration alone is enough to kill, as is smashing against the seat in front of you.

Normal publications rarely publish good news. At most, news are often neutral, but mostly bad. One has to go out of their way to read actual good news.

Nobody even attempted to create an equivalent yet. There have been several large proliferators of disinformation with huge followings on social media, youtube, podcasts. Lula's army is perhaps the biggest united front yet. But you can be sure something equivalent will appear on the right, following its success.

Clearly you don't work on anything on the Web in 2026, if you're complaining about a captcha.

Git does allow multiple contributors on each commit. Of course people can lie, but it's a matter of policy in the end. Make it a crime to not add all contributors to a diff.

Honestly a bit scary. But sadly the right has been using similar tactics for a while. As we head off to a post-truth society, where lying doesn't matter and crime has no consequences, you either play the game or you lose. You can expect politics to continue to get more polarized, more intense, more fake (disinformation is absolutely rampant) and more real at the same time (biggest gatherings ever in major cities).

Whoops, yes I meant 2 terms.

Not Brazillian, and I didn't know about the 2-turn system, but I definitely became a fan. It's simple to understand and to implement. Ranked voting is too complex to implement and for everyone to understand. Run-off lets you vote for you preferred party first, and for the realistic contender second. Sadly, almost no one did that in Brazil - >90% voted for the finalists in the first turn.

That's true, and indeed the fact checking they posted online sometimes lacked nuance. But they actually tried to tackle that exact problem by labeling several statements as "not quite right", and all facts had a description, it was not black and white. I also understand that in live TV that nuance would be lost. But some statements were 100% straight out lies. Those could be even flagged by the debate moderator.

Brazil also has limits. You can only be president for 2 years in a row.

LLMs still struggle with deciding what parts of a document or concept are more important. So documentation often trashes wildly around specificity, like "In this driving game the car moves forward and the glove compartment can be used to save the game". I think it's a big part of why reading unredacted and unedited LLM slop feel so much more tiring than reading human-written text.

> And humans have biases against change

Funnily enough, a lot of people who voted for Flávio only did it because they wanted a change from Lula.

It's not. Brazil has a good elections system with the 2 turns. But still on the first turn more than 90% voted for these 2 parties. The only party on "the left" is a Unionist president and a right wing vice president. There's no serious politics on the left, and people vote like they are cheering for football teams. Voting for Lula was the evident lesser evil (as in, proven track record, and no concrete evidence of corruption like his opponent), but half the country disagrees...

> Brazil has a worrying "anti fake news" law

Really? I couldn't tell. In the last debate alone, the main TV network conceded to Flavio's request to not use live fact checking systems on TV. Turns out 75% of his statements were not true. He's facing no consequences for that, nor is the network for hosting and broadcasting his fake facts.

You're right. Our CSS committee will get right to it :)

CSS isn't useless eyecandy. Everything we currently do in javascript that can be offloaded to CSS is a performance gain. Sadly datepickers are out of scope for CSS. Expecting this group to solve datepickers is the same as expecting them to work on solving world hunger (and almost as difficult :)

You're wrong. I can't wait for these to land in CSS.

Most of what you are saying about Germany is not true, misleading, or gross hyperbole. Do you have any sources whatsoever to back that up.

Depending how you pronounce bouba and kiki, they are actually very similar sounds. 2 syllables made with sudden stops of air - one by the lips, and the other by the throat. The attack and decay are very similar too. There's no obvious reason why we call one "sharp" and the other "soft".

Not everything in science needs to be surprising to be useful. Same as the meta study that confirms no link between vaccinations and autism - not surprising, but still immensely useful.

As of today we have no proof that all animals understand sounds and words the same way we do. Some closer primates likely do, because we share common ancestors that communicated similarly to us. But not dogs. We know dogs bark and can memorize words we say, but we don't know how they process those words. This is a step in that direction.

I wonder how much those operating costs would fall if you slashed salaries in half for all executives earning more than 4 million a year?

Not sure what greater access there is to have. Brazil is pretty much addicted to Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. But you can be sure that any plans of distancing themselves from these networks will be discarded if they end up going with Flávio.

I rather take that risk. I buy from all sorts of online retailers and haven't had an issue in years. Ok, no, I had some pushback trying to return a sofa, but the seller offered a 50% discount for me to keep it, which I ended up accepting. The same way that VISA and Mastercard offer a service to customers, I don't think the world comes out winning when these Amazon and other global players get to raise all prices and take a cut of global commerce.

Disclaimer: I mostly shop from German, Danish, and to a lesser extend other EU sellers.

But it is a design trade-off. The opposite case can be seem in the many websites asking to send you notifications, and the many flavours of cookie notices. When you have to ask the user permission to do anything and everything, the user gets annoyed and desensitized. They start allowing everything (my always collects dozens of notification-enabled websites if given the chance), and the point of asking for permission is lost.

That might sound good, but people already moan and groan about cookie notices. Imagine if each website that legitimately needs it would start asking for permission to each fingerprintable API. Although I do think we should have that option, just not as a default.

> AI didn't steal my work

...yet. AI has evolved greatly from basic image generation. It's already pretty capable at using tools to great SVGs and 3D scenes that are more reliable than plain images. Sure, experts won't lose their jobs, but how will juniors become new experts?