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Well, yes. Hence my comment.

Or are you saying old fridges didn't have a bang-bang controller and hence could have an honest thermometer built in?

> they want to be able to display the current temperature

Do they really? When replacing my 20 year old fridge (that had an actual mechanical temperature gauge) with a new one I specifically bought one that had a (now digital, of course) display for the current temperature.

It turned out that the temperature display is completely faked. It always shows exactly the set temperature, from the moment you power it on. I guess because of (actual or imagined) customers complaining why their fridge shows e.g. 7°C when they set it to 4°C.

Incidentally, my new smart AC does exactly the same thing. Subjectively it's worse than the old one at keeping the place not too cold and not too warm, but it makes damn sure to never show the actual measured temperature anywhere.

Everything is getting dumber.

How weird. It's almost as if 90% of amateur anything Youtube channels are actually advertisement businesses pushing the sponsored product of the day on their audiences. So weird.

I love how the "read this before you start" safety warning is about two pagedowns from the shiny "Get started" button.

It is provably impossible to write code manually.

It takes an agent on the order of 100 billion operations to produce a single token. A person (generously) taking just a second for a single mental addition or multiplication would take tens of thousands of years to write just a single line of code.

> DMARC: adopted everywhere, enforced nowhere in particular

Unfortunately this only talks about what DMARC policies are published by domains. I was hoping they will go into some analysis of how many mailboxes actually hard-enforce DMARC rules on ingress (as in, respect the DMARC policy as published by the sender's domain, p=reject or whatever else it might be)

I have been hesitant to enforce DMARC rules on my server. Partly because maintaining it was a pain (see opendmarc - maybe better with rspamd now), but also because on my test runs I saw plenty of legitimate incoming mail that simply would get rejected if I were to enforce DMARC on ingress.

I suspect big players like gmail have some kind of soft enforcement/reputation/machine learning approach to DMARC, but this is way too much work for a small time admin like me.

How times change.

I remember when Gmail came around and everyone was more than happy to hand off their email to Google. No spam and ability to send and receive huge (for the time) attachments I think were the main things people wanted.

Not sure if that was before or after everyone was happy to hand off their web browser to Google.

There's a laser treatment for floaters now (laser vitreolysis). It's not always applicable and it has its own risks and side effects.

> You know, if it hit you in the arm, it's not going to do anything serious.

Yeah, the arm is definitely the part of the human body that is most sensitive to a laser that can make insects go up in a puff of smoke...

I am thinking how this would split the web.

You would have the "new web" consisting of the top n major websites paying this fee.

And then you would have the "old web", accessible only to people still owning their own PCs with unrestricted browsers. And probably heavily scrapped by AI companies to reguritate to the masses through the new web.

Maybe someone that has seen this first hand can chime in but I strongly suspect the real-life effect viewed with naked eye is much more disappointing compared to what is shown in this video. Real physics ain't need to get them likes and subscribes.

Each time I see beauty in old machinery I think about the recent IEEE article that started with something like "AI designs aren't limited by outdated concepts like simplicity and aesthetics." and remember that there is someone that goes to a museum and sees inefficiences and time wasted on unnecessary detail instead of inspiration.

In related news, Imgur seems to be a/b testing a website that just pushes you to the mobile app and doesn't allow you do anything in browser beyond viewing the one picture you clicked the link for.

> Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster

I like this headline. In other words, AI will suck out every last bit that makes engineering fun.

I know, I know. The job is to make money for your employer not have fun. AI makes money faster so shut up and do your job.

But fuck, I took this career because I found joy in understanding things and making things that look and work well.