Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said Google. "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Change the headline to read "Equivalent to thirteen Chevy Sparks!"

But I don't want to use Google Messages. Is there a decent alternative? I just use it for SMS, nothing else.

It's hard to do much with a single panel and only a few hundred pixels, but political cartoons? That's a pretty low bar... Usually you can at least draw silly caricatures of politicians, but this is just a mouse with some lame punditry. That's not even very impressive ANSI art.

Reminds me of this old fossil: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Be careful what you wish for, there end up being a pipeline from the great lakes to water lawns in Arizona.

Those scientists are always baffled, stunned, shocked, or bewildered. Can they get anything right?

Yes I'm still using the old Outlook but the "New" Outlook apparently has features I'd like to use, but I can't be bothered to adjust my muscle memory and learn a new UI.

However I just tried launching Outlook (new) and it directed me to stop using this and install the new Outlook app from the Microsoft Store, so there must be a newer new Outlook.

I think most people have at least two Microsoft Outlooks. A quick search of my start menu gives me:
Outlook
Outlook (new)
Plus a Microsoft Store suggestion to install Outlook for Windows, which seems to be a third Outlook.

Steam asks you if you'd like to participate via a pop-up window, so it depends on which OS you happen to be using when the survey goes out.

This means only results from active users who agreed to submit their system specs are counted. Installation alone doesn't factor into it. If you haven't seen that popup, you're not counted.

It makes it harder to write bad Javascript since it lets you catch errors earlier. Basically it's a safety net for your IDE.

The side effect of this is LLMs can generate compatible code more reliably, so you're going to see a lot more of it.

it involves fingers, so it's digital

Just apply the Formula. At a certain point, the opportunity cost of not selling your data exceeds the cost of getting caught and having to pay some paltry fines, so they effectively have a legal obligation to their shareholders to do so.

It is cognitively expensive to do this kind of task. Essentially you are expected to assume an alien thought process with no context or explanation. I don't think it's unique or novel form of cognitive load, though. I think it's very similar to what a therapist or psychoanalyst will do... you need a sort machine empathy to try to arrive at the same solution and judge whether it's appropriate. These people were trained as programmers but they're actually computer therapists now.

Clearly the solution is more AI.

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I really like this approach. The next step would be to put ads directly into the source code. Soon you'll see comments like

/**
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You could quickly monetize your open source projects this way.