But if I tell an LLM "Thanks that suggestion worked" that feedback is lost to the void. There's no upvoting, no storage that I know of applying to all other questions people ask to let the system know "yes that answer worked particularly well". So all the LLMs can go on giving out the same answers forever not really knowing they are flawed... unless someone publishes an article about it.

There's no reason why LLMs can't have feedback mechanisms. In fact they do. ChatGPT has thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. It almost definitely tracks usage of download and copy to clipboard buttons.

I mean on the low end.

Like formerly a small business would pay for the valuable HTML and FTP knowledge, but today many will just use Wix instead.

And more complex things are more proper webdev and not just knowing some HTML tags.

I remember there was a short time when the web was new and "webmaster" was a profitable occupation. Then a combination of improved web design software, CMSes, frameworks and the like quickly ate the low end, and the higher end just got rolled into software development.

I'm not sure why anyone thought that knowing what keywords a specific model recognizes best could ever be an enduring form of employment. To me it was always clearly extremely temporary.

Amazingly, ISA disappeared much later than I thought. It seems there's a Skylake motherboard with an ISA slot out there. That architecture was only discontinued by intel 6 years ago.

Also, I believe the bus still internally survives in many boards that don't have a physical connector, and the LPC bus is ISA in a slightly newer form.

They keep saying that XXX will eliminate the need for people to code. Code generates, Dan Brikline demo to convert demos to code, Microsoft Visual C, now AI.

In 1982, I was working for someone who insisted on flow charts, which practically was code-level. But even then, you had coders also doing programming and system design. You can have systems pump out code from designs, but the code would be essential template-level code. But you still need the system to be designed, the code needs to be checked, and designs need to be checked.

He didn't really build a teleporter, he just put together the pieces.

We had to melt sand using a magnifying glass to make our own chips

My high school partnered with MIT in the late 70s because of busing in Boston.

As a result, we had 16 LA 36 decwriters,, 1 VT52, and a 2 Tektronix terminals hooked up to a PDP 11/34 running RSTS/e with 128k of ram. They also had a SOL 20.

I'm not the person you replied to, but the Fairphone 5 meets their specification list.

As a side note, everything the parent asked for is common on older phones. Asking for them all together is not like asking for unrealistic / unicorn options.

No, this countermeasure isn't going to do anything useful. Any web spider is going to run into thousands of these, and therefore already is going to be coded to tolerate it fine.

These countermeasures were made to trip up worms and naively coded Perl scripts used by mom and pop spamming operations. That is useful to an extent, but isn't going to do absolutely anything against the bigger players.

All you have to do is to keep track of stats like depth and performance, notice that a branch is doing badly, and prune it off.

Eesh.

This is an ancient idea. Probably discussed at length right here in the 2000s. No crawler worth its salt is going to even notice this.

Like oh, this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F...

or this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.or...

The problem is not the facial recognition software. The problem is between the keyboard and the chair.

I think the police should use facial recognition software, if needed, as STEP 1 OF MANY!

Then, compare photos and physical characteristics. Then do something called detective work.

I really liked the older XPS 13. Light, powerful, great Linux support. Smashed the screen on that, figured okay, I'll get the new one, the XPS 13 Plus. I want more RAM anyway.

It's gone downhill. Two USB C ports instead of 3. Worse touchpad (previous was clicky, this one seems to have some sort of embedded haptic device that one day just stopped working and no physical mouse button keys). Function keys and most importantly ESC key are now a touch surface instead of physical keys.

Hardware-wise it's still nice to use, but otherwise a disappointment. I'll be way more careful with picking the next one.