"There use to be news, with editors that would filter out the wrongthink"
FTFY

Wading through the garbage, one does find a few gems from time to time. Not unfounded rumours, but verified stories with links to sources that the regular newspapers do not print for some reason, or discussions and opinions outside of your own bubble. And it becomes clear how much of a bubble mainstream publications have become. Or maybe they always were...

MS Windows 95b was ok for the time.

There's the average rise, and then there's the rise at any one location. The aren't the same. I've heard (one source) that the ocean level near Greenland is actually lower. This was attributed to the loss of ice leading to less gravitational attraction. And the straits of Magellan have fierce tides, because of differing ocean heights.

The moon is fake! The woke commie Dims turned the rigged puck-lamp too high!

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

burn down institutions that actually work; they are too stupid to understand how they work.

Khrushchev would love that our government is full of people who disagree with the principle of Chesterton's Fence. It's appalling that "conservatives" have become so far to the left of "The Left."

Vote conservative: vote Democrat.

The trouble with benchmarks is that they are often gamed. So while this is interesting, one should remain a bit reserved, awaiting assessments more reflecting the way people use it.

In fact just yesterday I was complaining about this very thing to a guy who happened to be a vibe coder. He suggested I implement a Captcha.

On my API requests.

This is the kind of âoedevelopersâ who are consuming 90% of the worlds computing resources.

(Typo: the software is about ten years old.)

The problem is ai vibe coded apps. I run a small piece of software with an open API that is about 20 years old. In the last 3 years, my appâ(TM)s user base has grown tenfold. API usage has grown by a factor of about 100,000, even with custom rate-limiters in place. Itâ(TM)s absolutely absurd and frankly, untenable. AI is single-handedly killing any remote possibility of an open web. I donâ(TM)t use AI in my software, but merely because of the existence of AI, the resources my app consumes has expanded by many thousands of times. Itâ(TM)s a repugnant cancer.

Its reply to me:

"Yes, in large part."

But that is mostly caused by NVidia's lackluster driver support in Linux.

Uh, sure.

IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.

Something fishy is going on.

Probably the next code that it outputs will be:

A very slight rounding is useful, as it makes the distinction between one tab and another easier to spot. Currently on my Firefox it's done by highlighting the active tab and putting a small icon at the start of the tab...which also wastes space, but differentiates tabs. (OTOH, the tab labels are already slightly rounded, but the "not currently selected tabs" are so greyed out that the tab margins are invisible. Not ideal. And if they do the same thing with the rounded tabs, there will be absolutely no advantage.)