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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • I don’t know if that is the reason but I wonder if the recent ruling that made Firefox loose on the cash income from Google as a default search engine has them doing a similar type of deal with AI companies, even Google, like, Firefox has a built-in interface for AI and the backend you can choose but the default one is one that some AI company pay a fee to be.

    If that is the case I think it is fine, it is like a wink-wink situation, you have to have it enabled by default and with a default provider for it to be worth something for someone to pay for the privilege, and then the users can simply change it be gone with it without affecting the payout. (Unless the pay or renew pay has some metric like use statistics)



  • How parsing (as in programming languages and commands) works is so interesting and is so hard for people to grasp and is really interesting to see how what you think is obvious is not for most people. I saw it all the time when teaching cs102. It is so hard to explain the difference that a blank space makes and why sometimes it is necessary and why sometimes it is not.

    That is all to say I find it really interesting and funny when OP says double pipe, because of course it looks like double pipe, you gonna tell me That || is something completely different than a single | ?



  • Also there is this far too common thing that experts in one field suddenly think they are experts in everything. I saw some of the most absurd takes from engineers, how this person can be so smart and so dumb at the same time? I think they get hyper confident in their own “gut feeling” which in their field is supported by years of experience and all the knowledge in the world but in other fields it is just their anecdotal experience and bias.







  • I love this type of bonding with friends and used to do it a lot. The problem is you have to live or be kinda close by, but I guess that is true for any less formal meetup. I guess the furthest away you are the more “a thing” the meetup must be and the duration longer.

    In any case I love do errands with friends and even go help out with something. Even though I don’t have time and energy for my stuff I feel like energy for hanging out with friends doing errands como from a different bucket.



  • He has a number of good movies. I guess because the most popular means visible movies are his slop comides for the whole family his “real” movies kinda goes under the radar.

    Uncut gems is a masterpiece but I wanna mention Spaceman because it is fantastic. It is kinda the opposite of Uncut gems, if the first is like fast pace on the edge of you seat that you spend the whole movie holding your breath that shit is about to hit the fan, Spaceman is super slow and introspective, big great nonetheless.