At least on some of the rural roads, the trunks are right next to the road and the roads actually have the tree canopy covering the road itself. Roads where, from above, you wouldn't even see the roads.

But yes, absolutely suicidal deer are notorious for jumping in front of cars with no chance of realistic stopping distance.

That applies for the things you can reasonably see...

If something jumps into your path of travel randomly from a total blind spot, there's generally not much people can do.

Basically you'd have to drive at no more than 3 miles an hour if there are woods near the road or parallel parked cars or anything that could conceivably obscure someone that could jump out at you.

I don't think a skilled human can know confidently what DOM manipulation might result in interacting with a server in a non-reversible way.

I mean, a reputable site should probably be easy enough for LLM to know the DOM element not to touch to finalize a significant transaction, but there's enough anecdotes from people who chose to let LLMs run wild on their local projects with similar promises of 'safeguards' only for the LLM to be unexpectedly destructive..

Kind of beside the point, this is about Android starting to cater to larger displays, keyboards and mice.

Windows 10 Mobile I think was a thing, but I think everyone already knew it was dead by the time it happened.

That sounds actually really good, never actually tried it myself though. Sadly kwin doesn't go that far...

Mostly based on other ChromeOS and some Android desktop mode experience, and a big example is lack of tiling beyond just left-right split.

Oh their search works fine... for them, it's not really intended to work for the customer...

Part of it isn't, but part of it absolutely will be.

Usually I have been fairly dismissive that happenstance of economic swings one way or the other are blamed or credited to the current president. Good or bad, democrat or republican. There are policies with longer term implications that can set a broad tone, but the dramatic events tend to be associated with private sector happenings.

This time the administration chose to stomp on international trade, and that has real consequences. The dollar has taken a tumble, trading partners that once went along with US over China have warmed to China, prices of everything are up, our exports are impacted.

The tech bubble bursting admittedly will have relatively less to do with the administration, but the tech bubble from a financial perspective has largely provided cover for those fundamentals faltering.

In a world with very good window managers/compositors, they manage to have the crappiest freshman level window management.

Even Microsoft window management is better than Chrome's, and this seems to just carry forward that tradition of not even bothering to use a capable pre-existing solution and crap out a low quality one.

It doesn't lose credibility because their own lives are tied up in it, or even that their concerns are unfounded, it's low on credibility because the scale shifts in this pretty poor analogy.

In 1995, they moved the clock 3 minutes closer because they just generally thought not enough good stuff was happening. No particularly dire event, just a general malaise that warranted declaring 3 minutes closer to end times.

This time, they enumerate a number of specific concerns, escalating conflicts, nationalistic autocracies getting bigger, LLM induced misinformation and uncertainty, and a number of others. So now that they have more specific and more violent and more severe concerns, that suggests a more severe change, but instead, they have to move it 4 seconds.

I'm not saying they don't have a point behind the metaphor, but the metaphor itself undermines credibility. They have to budget the seconds to leave room for more bad to happen, so someone who has lived with 'a few minutes to doomsday' as the headline for decades is not inclined to regard it seriously.

I don't think anyone is arguing there are no real dangers, some may disagree with some of their concerns, but the metaphor just doesn't do the concerns justice.

Yes, it is analogous to procedural generation and I *hate* procedurally generated content too, same reason, it is mind numbingly boring. LLM adds that and also adds confusion when core elements are buried and mixed in with slop. Also, some demos I've seen have the LLM breaking immersion by essentially going out of character, since the models aren't precisely perfect at staying on the rails.

I'm not one for the genre you described in general, but while your scripted scenarios may be canned and thus limited, at least they sound like they should bring some creative intent that you yourself didn't bring. Like if you wanted to do a text-based life sim, you could probably plop down right this second and kick off that experience with an LLM by asking for it. The only creativity is what you bring yourself, so the experience would basically be what you could have imagined yourself, just more words. Initially I thought perhaps since I'm not a particularly creative guy that LLM would generate some interesting fleshing out of concepts that I might not have come up with, but in practice it just fell well short of those expectations.

If you think that LLM could bring the text based experience to 'life' with graphics, well, we aren't there... So whatever scenario the LLM could advance would need someone doing graphics work. So you are back on rails dictated not by script but by graphics assets. Then you have to somehow keep the LLM script on those rails or deal with the fact that the LLM will spout off stuff that won't advance the game state as described.

They might if someone wrote a 'book downloader' to automate the process of trying to extract the book and people say that the result covers the substance of the work.

But probably more in their worries are things like video/image generators that can rip off their characters.

Perhaps a better question is 'why is it newsworthy?'

All these companies push all sorts of mandatory training. It's only vaguely indicative of things they *might* think need to be taken seriously or need to show they care about stuff like legal compliance, harassment, discrimination, privacy, or security.

Hilarious on those trainings that have questions to check your knowledge that boil down to "what bad thing is *technically* ok for you to do?"

Well, more like it loses credibility as a metaphor. The 'best' ever was 17 minutes to midnight and generally it's been less than 10 minutes to midnight all our lives.

As they respond to ever escalating concerns, the time increments necessarily get smaller, because they can't hit 'midnight'.

It's like the trope of "I'm going to count to 3 and then you'll be in big trouble... 1... 2.... 2 and a half... 2 and three quarters... 2 and seven eighths....." An outright declaration of will to launch nukes in the next month will move the clock a few seconds whereas more mild events in the past moved it by minutes...

Oh cool, so if I posted the latest movie to youtube in one minute increments, I'm fine because it's the *viewer* choosing to watch them in the order of a film?