It is a relief that there are no continental drift deniers.

Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.

The flagship communities are quite alive, but the niche communities have not really taken off. I am talking from both the absence of such communities, and my experience trying to migrate !fluidmechanics. The subreddit has around 10k humans (or bots).

G.P.U.

We are free to learn, but learning is not free.

Freedom vs cost. One cannot pickup a skill without time, effort and more importantly access to guidance and a vast library of content. Same applies to man or machine. The difference is how corporations have essentially reinvented piracy to facilitate their selfish ends after decades of dictating what’s right with DMCA, DRM and what not.

While you cannot uninstall it, you should be able to disable Google Assistant and the Google app. That should cripple its access to such features.

This will be the headline a month later:

Cara’s monthly active users down to a few thousands. Here’s why.

Strange argument… how does that prevent checks versus Windows 7, 8 and 1* all of which would be less than 9.

And I don’t like how sparse the data points are but they went with a wobbly interpolated curve anyway.

Seems like this can be done in the browser using a user agent switcher.

For now.

Accessible for everyone.

If the desktop UX has very good screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice to text etc., I believe its benefits would automatically spill over to all.

Also it would retain the UI / UX experts who become forced to abandon Linux for macOS which maintains a niche in this.

Good point, and Łukasz Langa mentioned this in his talk (check it out). He names it the robustness principle, in his words (around 22:20 mark:

“Vague in what you accept, concrete in what you return”

But he also mentions some gotchas like how Iterable[str] can backfire, because str is also an Iterable[str] and it might be better to use list[str].

It is important to recall of IPCC’s mission to be “policy neutral while being policy relevant and never policy prescriptive”. They try their best to be scientifically accurate, discuss the state and suggest solutions. One can wonder why IPCC won’t take sides and but that’s the way it has always been. The burden of what to do with their message is always upon the commons.

This statement is on a similar vein. While it was possibly guided at consoling common people from climate grief, it has all the risks of being misquoted.