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Why are the additional 200km much longer then the initial 1000km. Looking beyond the slop this is just dishonest. Also what is even being measured here??

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a bunch of guys being paid to do this to keep the hype train rolling 😅

Saw this on Instagram. Saw it’s a Bluesky post. Followed @astrokatie.com and tracked down the post just to publicly complain about the fact that I lack people in my group of friends who would understand both sides of the joke. I only have friends for either.

Thanks for having me!

Id honestly be worried if the fixed to these obscure bugs might actually be causing less obscure bugs.

CSS is the mind-killer.
CSS is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

All modern software development is people who should have not listing to Bret Victor.

If you think about, a lot of CLI programs could be abstracted away into simple GUIs. If there was any standardization and it wasn't just "here is string. have fun with it. maybe you want to pretend it is structured. i dont care"

This problem will only become funnier as more and more people loos their skills or never gain them

Screen shot of the "No server is currently available" page of GitHub.

Finally companies have started dogfooding their own products and it seem to be with the worst possible product.

Want to unhide an element? You better know which type it is supposed to be so you can overwrite display: none

Want a flex layout inside a table cell? Guess you need a wrapper element.

There is rarely a day where I’m not upset with whoever decided that CSS‘s `display` should handle three things at the same time:
- visibility (none)
- outer display type + semantic meaning (block/inline/list and table things)
- inner display type (flex/grid)

This is just horrible for composability.

Typescript ist fine too.

HTML is absolutely cursed. The way it handles white spaces is a nightmare.

I felt like all of them quietly went away in the early 2010s. I guess that’s my call to take another look.

Honest question: what tool even consumes RSS these days?

All of it is triggered by something deep within us, put there by evolution eons ago. And the priests will tell us:

“This time the gods are real! We have created them! Build them temples and bring them sacrifices, and they shall transform this mortal world into a paradise!”

We prayed to gods who never answer, smiled at paintings that aren’t alive, cry for characters in a story we know are made up, and now assume we are conversing with intelligence even when it can’t count the R’s in “strawberry.”

People sitting in front of a computer. The screen displays an AI voice interface.

Unlike gods and stories, we now have machines that talk back to us. That possess all of our knowledge and skills. Machines that use our language like they are one of us. The forest has become better at deceiving us that spirits live in it, because we build it that way.

An old TV showing an animated cartoon with two characters. One of them is laughing, the other one is crying.

The thing with seeing a face where there is none: even if you know about this illusion, even if you are aware your brain is tricking you — you still can’t shake this feeling of there being „someone“. That is why even animated movies can make us cry.

Someone holding a phone, talking to ChatGPT.

Then came LLMs and we seemed to have cracked something. Sure, they made mistakes (probably more often than not), but they talked back to us. They understood us. They surprised us. And the errors would surely go away, if we just fed them more data. More compute.

Screenshot of a fictional 3d shooter from the early 90s.

We could put faces on things and make them model human behavior so we could fool ourselves a little into thinking we were interacting with intelligence. But behavior was repetitive and easy to see through. Clearly a face and some reactive behavior wasn't enough to trick us.

Group of man working on a steam machine.

For most of human history, machines were dumb and deterministic. We built them, and we knew how they worked. There was no spirit in them. Even with early computers, as they were able to solve problems, we understood their mechanical nature. They were impressive but not surprising or engaging.

An ancient city destroyed by a volcano

We anthropomorphized a thunderstorm, but denied agency to animals. A cow in a pasture was dismissed as a mindless beast, because it didn't affect us. But a volcano destroying a city or a drought ruining our fields was read as caused by higher power — one with agency.

A group of stone age people staring into the forrest, seeing something that resembles a face between the trees.

Evolution gave us this bug as a feature. We are social animals, and taking care of things that might have agency was usually smarter than ignoring them. That made us interact with each other, protected us from tigers, but also made us see spirits in the woods.

A simple graphic of a smile face. Two small dots and an upward band line.

Our brain looks for faces. Two dots and a line are enough to make us see a face. The urge is so strong that we don’t even see it as an illusion. The face might not be real, but it is there. Seeing just two dots and a line instead of a face almost takes effort. A thread 🧵👇

Lookup survivorship bias.

AI will replace everything in area X, which I can prove by this example of an AI actually solving a problem in that area (to a certain degree)

Unfortunately that doesn’t solve the issue of the landlord raising the price as much as possible as soon as the tenant move out. A law that only holds back tenants from making a profit but not landlords isn’t exactly a net positive. The apartment will still be expensive.

@bsky.app please allow setting the time format independently from the app language. I want English but 24 time. Like a normal person.