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Comment · 3 hours ago
The self-driving bus factor.
Comment · 1 day ago
Camera security use to be a guy looking at 20 TV's. Then came motion detection. Today we can do much more of course. You would have a set of certainly not good situations, a set of certainly good and a set of things a human should look at.

It's of course fine to automatically shut down a few trains per year if it doesn't create a dangerous situation in it self.

Comment · 2 days ago
Just pay for it? Look, the camera here works just fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuyLs_0C0I

If you can prevent just one of those (and if we ignore injury, trauma and death) it should cover expenses for quite some time.

Comment · 2 days ago
This question has already been asked?

Pages bloated like myspace make me reluctant to click the search result and I wont browse around if a website doesn't load instantly. Search some exotic kind of bad. That they haven't implemented an LLM is quite untechnological.

It should have an LLM assist with constructing the questions and it should have answers from all providers willing to donate tokens. Upvotes should generate wonderful data on how to construct an answer.

Comment · 3 days ago
There are all kinds of isolated systems that trigger warnings but the thing that seems to be missing everywhere is a centralized simulation with all the data in it. Or perhaps a series of simulations each slightly further in the future. If any variable changes run it again until it reaches its time stamp.

For example, it shouldn't be possible in 2026 for a vehicle to get stuck on the crossing (with cameras) without the train driver getting a notification. You can even power down an entire track if it's obstructed. You might not want self driving, self breaking seems quite desirable.

Comment · 4 days ago
Oh, but it's very simple. You have elections, you collectively don't vote for the uniparty, you raise the minimum wage and then they will pay.

One can pretend it is very very complicated and invent many excuses. One can pretend not to notice only the uniparty is promoted on the Tee Vee and in the old media. One can pretend it doesn't cost many millions to pull the wool over your eyes.

Surely if increasing the minimum wage was impossible they wouldn't need to do all that? They would keep the money in their pocket. Apparently those with absolute control over everything experience it quite differently? They seem to still believe you can change things.

Comment · 5 days ago
Electrolytes
Comment · 6 days ago
I always go with: It is your job to answer. The extended version: If you don't like it you can search for a different job where you won't get questions from me.... but there probably will be others with similar questions or even harder ones. etc basically go on endlessly about the hypothetical them working someplace else. Next time it happens I return to the subject.

Then a coworker showed an even more sophisticated version of the same joke. He created a nearly identical relationship but he would look for job offers matching their resume and pitch them. Look, this is closer to where you live and the pay is better!

Comment · 6 days ago
If anything it got worse. We've been looking at those icons for so long now that if you change it I'm not going to be happy.
Comment · 6 days ago
Should even be possible to have an AI operate the computer, screen record the application and build a document that looks identical. Build them on demand with a cache.
Comment · 6 days ago
Excel xlsx, xlsm, xlsb, xls, xltx, xltm, xlt, xlam, xla, xlw, xml, csv, txt, prn, dif, slk, ods, xps, dbf

https://www.onlyoffice.com XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV, TXT

https://www.libreoffice.org ods, ots, fods, xlsx, xlsm, xls, xlt, xml, csv, dif, dbf, slk

But I'm much to impressed by Modern CSV

https://www.moderncsv.com CSV, JSON, XML

I like CSV for not trying to be an incompetent version of SQL

Comment · 6 days ago
This is exactly what I've been thinking for decades.

I once made a proof of concept. Wikipedia use to have static menu entries. I had a greasemonkey script that hides some of them them.

For entries that shouldn't be hidden the line that hides them is commented out.

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/170442

Then I had a form that let you pick which ones you want. It spit out a gm script with all entries commented out except from the ones you wanted to keep.

https://go-here.nl/gm/wikipedia-clean-up.php

I also wrote this as a joke.

https://neanderthal.go-here.nl

When a link or button is clicked the server return a js file that contain one function. Then it executes the function.

To borrow your example, when you've picked the functionality you want in your note taking app a version number like 1.0.0.unixtime can be generated and stored so that you can later populate the config form with the chosen configuration and add or remove things.

Or you could do something with a config file to populate the form again.

An LLM can also modify a config file. Before execution it can be validated, as it is so simple it can show which mandatory entries are missing, which ones are spelled incorrectly.

If you provide the LLM with the html form or the config file (+docs) it shouldn't have much difficulty generating exactly what you wanted.

As the application has now been turned into ravioli it also addresses the ancient puzzle of separating feature updates from security updates.

You can still introduce a new gui that confuses the hell out of users. Then if no one checks the box you can take your learnings from it without 1000 people having to tell you in 500 different places.

[] Icons? [] Text? [] Icons AND Text?

Comment · 8 days ago
In this case you can just let it fail. I suspect people on archaic browsers are much more likely to prefer it that way.
Comment · 8 days ago
The joke is that those who react have no idea and those who don't have no idea either. I never use react so I'm going to have to go with: Those other companies are also just bad. (joking) If everyone can work with/without it should be fine? As long as you don't try to do both.
Comment · 10 days ago
For this specifically I would have the "you have upvotes" banner in the dom already with a class display:none.

I consider it a huge advantage to have the code for both the counter and the banner in the same place. thisCounter++; thisBanner.className = "shown";

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