When we say someone is the "life of the party" this is what we mean.
The usual perception of that phrase is that the person is wild and exciting - and they might be - but the real meaning is they get the conversation going and keep everyone engaged and interacting, and with them in the room there's never a dull moment.
I do hope that projects such as Sodium or similar still have a future, though.
The performance aspects won't be as needed, but I appreciate getting a lot of control over the rendering to customise it for personal preference.
Similarly for shaders. Vibrant Visuals is one thing but some of the shaders people have developed are even better looking, such as Complimentary. - and come with a lot more knobs to twiddle.
The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.
Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.
But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.
So many books and movies and games I'd love to delete and experience again.
But then, it gets kinda complicated, doesn't it.
If I delete something I love there's chance I might not love it again even when I see it, because I'm a different person at a different point in my life.
Even worse, if I delete something that had big influence on the person I became, shaped my thoughts and feelings, continues even now to do so, does that change who I am?
As much as I don't want to use any Google services, Maps is unfortunately not easily replaced, because it all comes down to user-submitted content.
If you want to look up a restaurant and see photos of the venue and the food, Maps is where that content is.
Google absolutely know how valuable this is and how much leverage they can get with it by the manner they've implemented the change.
I use FOSS wherever I can, but we don't get to choose where other members of the public put their content. Most of the time I can choose to opt out. I consciously don't have Facebook or Insta for example, which leaves me at a disadvantage at times because an increasing number of businesses think it's fine for their only web presence to be a Facebook page - with no actual website of their own.
And it's in those times especially I find myself being pushed to Google maps just to find a user-submitted picture of the menu so I can even see what they've got.
"Accenture attempts to justify their massive investment and hype in AI by forcing employees to use it, regardless of whether they find it useful or not"
You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It's not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.
If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.
uBlock filters use a modified form of CSS selectors to determine what parts of a page to hide.
If you know vaguely how CSS selectors work you can infer that the filter definition is matching on youtube.com and is finding an element whose title property is shorts - so it seems to be doing an appropriate thing.
The important part is that uBlock filters are not executable; you can't inject a malicious executable through one, as they are simply patterns which describe what parts of a page should be hidden, and hiding content is all they can do.
The worst that a filter could do is hide something that shouldn't be hidden.
Because they want you to watch shorts. They know that people who watch shorts are the most brainrotted on the platform, and the ones who will keep scrolling and watching video after video, and seeing ad after ad, and those are the users YouTube wants all other users to be like.
And so they will push shorts in your face again and again no matter how much you say no, because they think eventually they'll break you.
The close button is just a temporary placebo to make it feel like you're the one in control.
This is gonna be like the Gros Michel banana thing again isn't it - where decades from now almost none of the world's coffee will taste as good as it used to, and nobody quite knows why.
LLMs are fundamentally hallucination machines, but this truth utterly conflicts with almost every purpose that AI is being marketed and pushed and sold for, which depends on them being able to analyse data 'truthfully' and accurately.
So it's no wonder that none of the big tech companies have decided to consider or accept hallucinations as a problem, because accepting that truth means also admitting that LLMs are fundamentally unfit for purpose - which is the one thing they simply cannot and will not do with so much money riding on it.
The real meaning of 'serverless' isn't that there's no server, but that the server is outside the scope of what you have to think about.
The least abstracted level is bare metal. You provision the server, install an operating system, and manage system level dependencies and security updates and all of it yourself.
Then virtual machines, where you manage the VM but not the host it runs on.
Then containerisation where you manage the container and dependencies, but no longer have to think about the OS or the OS security updates.
Then finally serverless, where you as an engineer concern yourself primarily with only the code, and the platform takes care of the rest.
So it sounds kinda weird as a name, but the intent is right, because it's all about where the boundary of responsibility is drawn.
Someone always has to think about the server, but in serverless that someone isn't you.
Airports are strange and liminal places where the perception of time itself starts to break down. Flying long-haul is the only time you can somehow eat five meals in the same 'day', and airport bars are the only places that serve beer at 7AM and nobody thinks anything of it, because 7AM to one person might feel like 7 at night to the guy waiting for his layover from Singapore. It's weird but kinda fascinating.
Developing a taste for black coffee is where it's at.
All the caffeine, none of the calories.