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Comment · 3 days ago
The problem was that you would get points as an editor, so people would just rewrite everything even when it didn't it.
Comment · 12 days ago
Why is the rating for ATV Launcher Pro so bad?
Comment · 20 days ago
If I've already been using Arc for a long time, is there any benefit of moving to Zen? Active development, I suppose?
Comment · 1 month ago
We grant rights to some animals. Most domesticated animals have very few rights and suffer fates you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy.

Having rights should not be based upon being conscious/not conscious, but on the ability to suffer. AIs cannot suffer, as far as I'm aware.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not OP but I bought a pair of wide-toe trainers from Altra and I love them. They are the least ugly, properly wide shoes I have bought yet (and I've worn a good few).
Comment · 2 months ago
It honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
Comment · 2 months ago
Dart shipped in 2011, four years before Flutter started.

On the technical side, Flutter needed AOT compilation to native ARM for release builds and a JIT for development (that's what makes stateful hot reload possible). Dart does both from one codebase. TypeScript means shipping a JS VM, which is precisely the overhead Flutter was designed to avoid. (In contrast to RN). Dart's other big win is GC tuned for allocating and throwing away tons of short-lived objects which is what happens when you hot reload over and over.

Go has no JIT, so no hot reload, and no generics until 2022, Flutter has a big widget library so that would not have been possible.

And of course the Dart team was inside Google, and had just lost its original mission when Chrome declined to ship the Dart VM, and was willing to change the language to suit Flutter.

Comment · 3 months ago
I dunno, the people I've talked to about it (small sample) have said they don't mind because then they get more relevant ads. It's very hard to reason with that sort of thing!
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks!
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
The EU already has exactly that! The Charter of Fundamental Rights is binding constitutional law, and the Council's own lawyers said the CC2.0 would probably be annulled by the CJEU if passed. The problem isn't the absence of this constitutional right, it's that constitutional review is retrospective. Someone has to pass the law, it runs for years, harm accumulates, a case reaches the court, and then it gets struck down.
Comment · 4 months ago
Anecdotally, I've had Claude (Sonnet and Opus latest) consistently misread numbers from screenshots of my macro tracking app. Makes me skeptical of claims about its usefulness for anything requiring accurate image interpretation, let alone MRI analysis.
Comment · 4 months ago
Anecdata: I see this in the park next to my house. Two crows will repeatedly chase and tail-pull an Egyptian goose that has no food and nothing they could want. Hard to read it as anything other than play, which lines up with documented corvid tail-pulling of eagles, cats, etc.

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