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Comment Re:Ease of use v. Advertising (Score 1) 29

Yup. It's past comical how much bullshit nonsense (no doubt most of it AI slop these days) gets put before a recipe on most sites. I've started going to AllRecipes by default most of the time, just because it doesn't do that.

The Firefox extension Jump to Recipe automatically clicks a "Jump to Recipe" link on the page if one exists. It works pretty well for me.

Comment Re:I may be "old fashoned", but... (Score 1) 174

The Z80 and 6502 both teach something foundational: Fundamentally, this is all simple, a typical human being can fit the the fundamentals in their head

Agree and disagree. While I share an affection for the simpler hardware and instruction set and do see value in being able to fully understand the whole thing end to end, the simplicity and limitation also gives rise to complexity in the search for performance and capability.

You can "understand" the assembly code (or even machine code), but when a program is using esoteric or questionable techniques to eek every last clock cycle of performance out of these chips, you can end up with code that requires a larger breadth of knowledge - everything from binary math hacks (fast inverse square root) to processor quirks (16-bit loads in four clocks vs 8-bit in one) to undocumented ISA "features" like abusing obcodes with flag side effects that end up being faster than the operation you're really interested in.

Some people enjoy this kind of hacking (using the word in the best possible way) but it definitely requires an additional, different, and sometimes very broad mastery of the systems. I think this is both good and bad (but mostly bad once longjmp gets involved...).

Comment Re:So, it has had this much before w/o humans (Score 1) 135

we can also migrate to the moon or Mars and bring some of those other species with us

Astonishing. You're proposing MOVING TO A DIFFERENT PLANET that cannot support literally ANY FORM OF LIFE without a massive support infrastructure instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, moving away from burning fossil fuels, and making a few other relatively simple changes to keep the earth habitable for human civilization.

This sort of stupidity would be unbelievable if it wasn't parroted so often by clueless and/or paid-for oligarch mouthpieces.

Comment Re:Tabs or bookmarks? (Score 2) 29

At this point it seems people are using tabs as if they were bookmarks. What is an "unloaded tab" if not a glorified bookmark, in the end?

I'm certainly guilty of this, though I also use bookmarks. For me, an unloaded tab is much more "in your face" than a bookmark hidden away in a menu. I tend to use my list of tabs (about 30) as a todo list and bookmarks as "this might be useful again in the future".

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest problem with bookmarks is finding them again. Whether you try to organize them into 1000 folders (IMO a lost cause) or use the Gmail approach of just search everything (also a lost cause, because not enough metadata is associated with the bookmark), even if you know you bookmarked something in the past, unless you remember the title of the page you probably aren't going to find it again.

I'd really like to see a better system for keeping track of pages. Personally, I set Firefox to never, ever, forget my browser history, so I can search it going back years. That's helped me dig up a lot of old stuff that I couldn't quite remember where I found something.

Comment Amazon Slop (Score 1) 30

Great, so now there will be useless AI generated video slop next to the useless photoshopped product images - and I'm certain Amazon will heavily promote these trash AI videos to try and justify the expense. 90% of product videos on Amazon are already completely useless for learning anything about a product and this will just bring that up to 99%. Guess it's time to make a uBlock filter to hide all videos on Amazon.

I'm actually surprised they didn't go for AI-gen product photos first. Think of the thousands of man-hours that could be saved by having a computer create all those shitty counterfeit product photos.

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