jamiethompson

I suspect you're right there. Yet it forged ahead confidently giving answers anyway!

I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust its output. We of course have long standing trusted tools for diffing files.

I had a brainwave recently. I was tired and looking at two XML documents which looked identical to me and I thought hey, let's see what ChatGPT thinks. So I asked it to describe to me what the differences were between the two documents and it immediately just started talking about elements that it had completely made up. Every time I asked it why it was doing that it apologised but then doubled-down on making even more stuff up. Eventually I asked it to show me what its understanding was of the two documents I was asking it to compare and it showed me two completely unrelated XML documents

I definitely "cheated" some of these by throwing in something horribly verbose rather than whatever a more correct solution would be

Europe has entered the chat

Draw.io does this. When you export a diagram as a PNG. There is an option to embed the source file in the png. If you subsequently open one of those PNGs in Draw.io you can carry on editing it. I find it really handy.

Does anyone else remember "Web 2.0" being talked about as "The Semantic Web"? Because I sure do.

Is it 1998 again?

Is getting old mostly about watching people rediscover the same mistakes over and over again? I think I am getting old.

This is my exact takeaway. I can't decide whether this article and many of the commenters are deliberately missing this point or whether it's actually not understood.

This seems to miss the point. Of course these dithered images don't result in a saving in filesize when offered up as jpegs.

This feels like a bit of a strawman argument.

Some people here weren't web developers in the 90s and it shows :)

One of the things that gets to me while working from home is the lack of ambient noise. Where I live is fairly rural and the silence can be deafening

One benefit I can think of is that you might be willing to pay to sit somewhere but not actually want to purchase food or drinks. I put on weight very easily and whenever I go to a Cafe or even a quiet McDonalds to use the free wifi, I always end up consuming more calories than I should. I have very little will power and that coupled with feeling the obligation to buy something at least once per hour isn't necessarily a healthy combination of factors for me.

Not in England, no. But it is in Ireland or Scotland.

Yeah, i looked for something like that to keep next to the phone but couldn't find anything. I was sure they used to be a thing. What you _can_ get however are little kits you wire up inside the pulse dial phone which do an on the fly pulse to DTMF conversion.